Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration
Supreme Court Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Justice Kagan rejects the conventional liberal narrative about the Supreme Court. Adler | 7.23.2026 8:16 PM Some legal and political commentators claim that the Supreme Court has bent over backwards to appease or affirm the Trump Administration. In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as reported by Politico, Justice Elena Kagan rejected this common narrative.
- ▪Supreme Court Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Justice Kagan rejects the conventional liberal narrative about the Supr
- ▪Adler | 7.23.2026 8:16 PM Some legal and political commentators claim that the Supreme Court has bent over backwards to appease or affirm the Trump Administration.
- ▪In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as reported by Politico, Justice Elena Kagan rejected this common narrative.
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Supreme Court Justice Kagan Rejects Charge that Supreme Court Is "Rubber Stamp" for Trump Administration In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, Justice Kagan rejects the conventional liberal narrative about the Supreme Court. Jonathan H. Adler | 7.23.2026 8:16 PM Some legal and political commentators claim that the Supreme Court has bent over backwards to appease or affirm the Trump Administration. In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as reported by Politico, Justice Elena Kagan rejected this common narrative. From Politico: "I don't see this as a court that is just like, 'We're just going to rubber stamp what the current administration does.' You know, quite the opposite," Kagan said to a judicial conference here Thursday.
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