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Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Justice Kagan throws Supreme Court under the bus

By Mike Davis

Supreme Court precedents illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

For Supreme Court liberals, some precedents are more equal than others

By Peter Parisi

The Supreme Court building is seen on June 27, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Supreme Court ducks ruling on red states’ social media censorship laws

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., questions Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on March 16, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Biden administration announced nearly $60 million in grants to help schools and day care centers remove lead from drinking water during an event in Boston on Monday, July 24. Warren said the grant money will help create "lasting, resilient water systems." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Supreme Court grapples with constitutionality of Elizabeth Warren’s consumer watchdog agency

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, left, sits onstage for a panel at the 9th Circuit Judicial Conference on Thursday, August 3, 2023, in Portland, Ore., with Misty Perry Isaacson, a bankruptcy lawyer and chair for the 9th Circuit Lawyer Representatives Coordinating Committee. While speaking at the conference, Kagan publicly declared her support for an ethics code for the Supreme Court but said there was no consensus among the justices on how to proceed. (AP Photo/Claire Rush)

Justice Kagan supports ethics code but says Supreme Court divided on how to proceed

By Claire Rush - Associated Press

Associate Justice Clarence Thomas sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021. On Monday, Feb. 7, 2022, Georgia’s state Senate voted to erect a monument to U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Georgia native Thomas. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Supreme Court takes on the administrative state and power-hungry bureaucrats

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden talks with retired Justice Anthony Kennedy after the State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. Retired Justice Stephen Breyer is at center. (Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

Retired Justices Breyer, Kennedy attend Biden’s State of the Union

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas testifies during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on threats to the homeland on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Supreme Court asked to block Mayorkas deportation policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Harvard students Shruthi Kumar, left, and Muskaan Arshad, join a rally with other activists as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court eyes end of race-based preferences in school admissions

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 18, 2020, photo, Kelli Ward, chair of the Arizona Republican Party, holds a new conference in Phoenix. The House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection has subpoenaed six individuals over efforts to falsely declare Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 election in several swing states. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Supreme Court temporarily delays subpoena for Arizona official’s phone records

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Elena Kagan stands during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to. Speaking on Sept. 12, 2022, less than three months after a five-justice conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade's constitutional guarantee of abortion access, Kagan says the public's view of the court can be damaged especially when changes in its membership lead to big changes in the law. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Justice Kagan suggests Supreme Court leak update coming by end of month

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Constitutional Supreme Court Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Once revered, the Supreme Court is now reviled

By Don Feder

The Supreme Court shown Friday, Jan. 7, 2022, in Washington. The Supreme Court is taking up two major Biden administration efforts to bump up the nation's vaccination rate against COVID-19 at a time of spiking coronavirus cases because of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Supreme Court justices challenge Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on businesses

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Justice Kagan: High court must avoid partisan perceptions

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan attends an event at Georgetown Law, Thursday, July 18, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Elena Kagan, Supreme Court justice, encourages gerrymandering protesters

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

The Supreme Court building is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Alaska moose-hunter can ‘rev up’ his hovercraft, court rules

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan waits to begin a discussion at the University of California, Los Angeles, with UCLA Law School Dean Jennifer Mnookin, not shown, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018. Kagan won’t talk about Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation process but she’s sure about one thing: the nation’s highest court hates deadlocks. Kagan told law students at UCLA on Thursday that the justices worked “super hard” to find consensus after Antonin Scalia’s death in 2016 left the panel with only eight judges. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)

Supreme Court Justice Kagan on how split court can function

By BRIAN MELLEY - Associated Press

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh arrives for a meeting with Sen. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Brett Kavanaugh recusals likely to disappoint conservatives

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participates in a question and answer program about her time sitting on the high court at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

Kagan: Not having to get door 1 plus of new status

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The Latest: Kagan: Scalia’s death forced compromises

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