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- Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives—she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society—some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court’s liberal minority, though she was a passionate advocate of civil rights, including gay rights.
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2 days ago · In the Florida case, three conservative justices — John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted with liberal Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson to ...
May 9, 2024 · Because of her reputation for reaching out to conservatives—she had recruited several conservative professors at Harvard, hosted a dinner honouring conservative justice Antonin Scalia, and received a standing ovation from the conservative Federalist Society—some liberals feared that she might not be a reliable vote for the court’s liberal ...
May 24, 2024 · Liberals have been bluntly exposing their differences with the conservative majority and asserting that it is changing the law in America simply because, with new justices, it can....
6 days ago · Justice Elena Kagan wrote a concurring opinion to say that while the old history was enlightening and adequate to support the agency’s constitutionality, modern practice supported it as well....
May 23, 2024 · The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority Thursday to allow South Carolina to proceed with its gerrymandered map of congressional districts led to a blistering dissent by Justice Elena Kagan, who argued that the redistricting was designed to weaken Black voters’ influence.
May 24, 2024 · Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the three liberals, said her conservative colleagues ignored the work of the lower court that found the district had been gerrymandered by race. “Perhaps most dispiriting,” Kagan wrote, the court adopted “special rules to specially disadvantage suits to remedy race-based redistricting.”
May 23, 2024 · Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the three liberals, said her conservative colleagues ignored the work of the lower court that found the district had been gerrymandered by race, reported...
