As I have explained, Kagan’s statement seemed designed to fool the reader into thinking that Kagan was expressing her view that the Constitution does not confer a right to same-sex marriage.

I don’t think Elena Kagan owns every sentence in the brief; she stopped acting as Solicitor General on May 17, and this brief was presumably filed on May 28, when it was released.

Recently I wrote an editorial in Slate arguing that Elena Kagan should recuse herself in the upcoming challenge to President Obama’s health-care plan. Because I am a “self-avowed” liberal ...

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Some of the reactions to Elena Kagan’s ascent toward the Supreme Court reflect a shameful prejudice and an entrenched partisanship that say less about her qualifications than about the ...

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, subtitled “Even an excellent teacher can do only so much with a dim pupil.” An excerpt: In 1993, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Joe ...

“It really is a pleasure. I forgot my orange — I’m so sorry,” U.S. Supreme Court associate justice Elena Kagan ’81 joked as she addressed a crowd of approximately 900 attendees in a packed Richardson ...

SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein has offered his analysis of the recusal obligations that Elena Kagan, if appointed to the Supreme Court, would face as a result of her service as Solicitor General.

Elena Kagan is the 45th Solicitor General of the United States, confirmed in March 2009. Prior to her confirmation, she was the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School. Among her previous positions is a ...

Justice Elena Kagan has garnered headlines for what can best be described as an attack on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy. She said at the Northwestern School of Law last week, “When courts ...

Liberal-leaning justice Elena Kagan said on Monday that a panel of lower-court judges could enforce the Supreme Court’s new ethics code that was adopted last November. Kagan first endorsed the ...

I’ve run across a badly confused exchange over Justice Kagan’s non-recusal from the first Obamacare case (NFIB v. Sebelius). Let me try to sort out the confusion. 1. Let’s start by laying ...