Princeton University will present its top awards for alumni to Elena Kagan ’81, associate justice of the Supreme Court of the ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — It was an unexpected headline in an otherwise relatively mundane U.S. Supreme Court confirmation process: Bork tries to Bork Barak’s Elena Kagan ... United for Life in an ...

“Never in my life did I imagine that a month later ... All three of the court’s liberal justices—Justices Sonia Sotamayor, ...

including during the Elena Kagan nomination hearings. The question of judicial activism gets at the heart of how judges should interpret and apply the law. To what extent should there be a human, ...

In a third, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said ... admit to the wrongs he had done throughout his life, he never wavered in asserting his innocence of the crime ...

Justice Elena Kagan, a Barack Obama appointee ... “The harm is not ingesting the drugs,” Sotomayor said. “That's the personal injury. The harm is from being fired.” But others on the bench sided with ...

The court’s four female justices also emphasized the personal impact of O’Connor ... the world and made history.” Justice Elena Kagan recalled how “as a young woman looking forward ...

At least 1,600 people could be removed from the rolls, even though lower courts said the governor’s effort was not legal.

Barnett would go on to publish numerous scholarly books and articles about both the theory and practice of originalism.

If Donald Trump wins a second term, the Supreme Court could shift even further to the conservative right and stay that way ...

If you asked high-school civics students, “Who makes America’s laws at the federal level?” they would probably answer, “Congress.” After all, the Constitution gives the lawmaking power to Congress.