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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

People protest, Monday, July 1, 2024, outside the Supreme Court in Washington, as decisions are announced. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Did the Supreme Court OK a presidential assassination order? Justices break new legal ground

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Supreme Court and Justice Sonia Sotomayor illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Unpacking the court: The left wants Sotomayor gone

By Peter Parisi

Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor listens during an event Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at Washington University in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Beat it: Democratic senator says Justice Sotomayor should consider retiring

By Staff - The Washington Times

FILE - Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, left, and Sonia Sotomayor speak with retired U.S. Appeals Court Judge Thomas Griffith, not shown, during a panel discussion at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association, Feb. 23, 2024 in Washington. In joint appearances less than three weeks apart, ideologically opposite Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Sonia Sotomayor said a Supreme Court where voices don’t get raised in anger can be a model for the rest of the country in these polarized times. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Supreme Court Justices Barrett and Sotomayor, ideological opposites, unite to promote civility

By Mark Sherman and Lindsay Whitehurst - Associated Press

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, and Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Sotomayor’s lack of ‘respect’: Justices stew as high court opens new term

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Senate Judiciary Oversight Committee Chair Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-Ill., speaks during a hearing June 13, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman on Wednesday accused Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. of disregarding the separation of powers in Washington by intervening in legislative activity. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Senate Judiciary panel will consider ethics rules for the Supreme Court

By Mary Clare Jalonick - Associated Press

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch speaks to an audience as a guest of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., at the University of Louisville, Sept. 21, 2017, in Louisville, Ky. Records obtained by The Associated Press show that Supreme Court justices have attended publicly funded events at colleges and universities that allowed the schools to put the justices in the room with influential donors, including some whose industries have had interests before the court. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)

Supreme Court justices and donors mingle at campus visits. These documents show the ethical dilemmas

By Brian Slodysko and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

In this image provided by the Supreme Court, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan in the Justices’ Conference Room prior to the formal investiture ceremony for Jackson at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (Fred Schilling/U.S. Supreme Court via AP) **FILE**

Jackson, Sotomayor neck and neck for label of most left-leaning justice

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson stands as she and members of the Supreme Court pose for a new group portrait following her addition, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Jackson has written her first majority opinion for the Supreme Court. The opinion released Tuesday in a dispute between states over unclaimed money is one of roughly a half dozen she is expected to write by the time the court finishes its work for the summer, usually in late June. The decision was unanimous, though all the justices didn’t join the whole opinion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson spoke more than any other justice this term

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

FILE - This June 8, 2021 file photo shows the Supreme Court building in Washington. The future of abortion rights is in the hands of a conservative Supreme Court that is beginning a new term Monday, Oct. 4, that also includes major cases on gun rights and religion. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Progressives panicked over Supreme Court rulings forget their history on ‘church and state’

By Billy Hallowell

Illustration on the threat to freedom of conscience by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

Founding Fathers never intended U.S. to be secular or hostile to religion

By Everett Piper

In this April 23, 2021, photo, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool) **FILE**

Justice Sotomayor sees crisis in politicians, media questioning legitimacy of the Supreme Court

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, left, and Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, gather with other justices of the U.S. Supreme Court for an official group portrait, June 1, 2017, at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Both justices deny an earlier media report that they were at odds over the wearing of masks in court during the recent surge in coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) **FILE**

Supreme Court rebuts claims that maskless Gorsuch chased Sotomayor from the bench

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Justice Sotomayor refusing to enter Supreme Court because Justice Gorsuch won’t wear mask: Report

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington. Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Sotomayor on Wednesday, Sept. 29, encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

Supreme Court Justice letting fear cloud her judgment

By Tim Constantine

In this Sept. 25, 2019, file photo Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks during a panel discussion celebrating Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to be a Supreme Court Justice at the Library of Congress in Washington. Acknowledging the limits of her own influence on the law as a member of the Supreme Court's liberal minority, Sotomayor on Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021, encouraged citizens to work to change laws they may disagree with, like a recent Texas law that limits access to abortions. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Sotomayor boosts Biden’s ‘vax’ campaign

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

In this March 19, 2021, file photo Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky testifies during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to examine the FY 2022 budget request for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Washington. In a White House COVID-19 briefing on Oct. 22, Dr. Walensky that that for now the CDC would not alter the definition of what it means to be "fully vaccinated" against COVID-19 but that the agency "will continue to look at this." (Greg Nash/Pool via AP, File) **FILE**

CDC director disputes Justice Sotomayor’s claim about kids seriously ill with COVID-19

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Anti-abortion and Abortion rights advocates demonstrate in front of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, in Washington, as the court hears arguments in a case from Mississippi, where a 2018 law would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, well before viability. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Pro-life advocates urge liberal justices to ‘follow the science’ on abortion

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, Friday, April 23, 2021. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool) ** FILE **

Supreme Court won’t block New York City’s school vaccine mandate

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times