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Elena Kagan ( / ˈkeɪɡən / KAY-guhn; born April 28, 1960) is an American lawyer who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama and is the fourth woman to serve on the Court. Kagan was born and raised in New York City.
Apr 2, 2014 · Elena Kagan is a Supreme Court justice and the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States of America.
May 9, 2024 · Elena Kagan (born April 28, 1960, New York, New York, U.S.) associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 2010. She also was the first woman to serve as U.S. solicitor general (2009–10).
Jun 28, 2024 · Justice Elena Kagan’s dissent, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson, is a masterwork of alarm and despair. “A rule of judicial humility,” she wrote, “gives way to a ...
Sep 18, 2023 · Elena Kagan was confirmed as the 45th Solicitor General of the United States in March 2009. Prior to her confirmation, Elena Kagan was the Charles Hamilton Houston Professor of Law and the 11th Dean of Harvard Law School.
Jun 29, 2024 · As the conservative Supreme Court majority has won case after case in recent days, liberal dissenters are having their moment in the courtroom. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji ...
5 days ago · Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan laid out grim visions of U.S. democracy in their joint written dissents to the court’s Monday decision on former ...
Jun 28, 2024 · “With regret, I dissent for myself, Justice Sotomayor, and Justice Jackson in one of the cases,” Kagan says. (Jackson was recused from Loper Bright.) As the opinion announcements have stretched past the half-hour mark, some in the public gallery exhibit a bit of languor, but they perk up when Kagan begins discussing western gray squirrels.
Kagan published her first dissent in her first term as a justice. Her dissents have classic purposes: to provide a fairer, more trustworthy reading of the law, and to elucidate the majority’s misguided use of power—a guide, perhaps, to correction by some future Court.
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The Eighth Amendment forbids a sentencing scheme that mandates life in prison without possibility of parole for juvenile homicide offenders. Read about how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan got to the Court, including her education, career, and confirmation process.
