The Latest Breaking News from Elena Kagan

WASHINGTON — An empowered conservative majority of the Supreme Court begins a new term next week replete with cases that could reshape how the country considers social issues such as race in elections and higher education, after decisions from the last term brought the justices to the forefront of the…

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The high court begins a new term with cases that could reshape how the country considers race in elections and higher education.

Now retired, former justice said he did ‘everything I could’ to persuade court against revoking constitutional right to abortion

Speaking at Northwestern Law School, Kagan said the Supreme Court’s legitimacy can be questioned if it is seen as “spoiling for trouble.”

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is cautioning that courts look political and forfeit legitimacy when they needlessly overturn precedent and decide more than they have to

WASHINGTON — The seeds of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent rulings on guns and abortion lie in the legal theories of a justice who died six years ago.

The three justices may be in the minority, but their opinions are sounding an alarm that equal rights are under threat by the new rightwing supermajority of the supreme court

The Supreme Court has taken a step that will allow new Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman on the court, to take part in a case that could lead to the end of the use of race in college admissions

‘If over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy’

“Without full briefing and argument,” Kagan objects, the Court is quietly resolving major disputes.