Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan said on July 23 that while the court is “very conservative,” it’s not a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump.
“Is this court very conservative? Does it do a bunch of things that are out of the playbook of the conservative legal movement that I think are deeply wrong? You know, yes,” Kagan told lawyers and judges during the Ninth Circuit Conference in Bellevue, Washington. “But is this court the kind of puppet for the current administration? I think definitely not.”
Her comments came weeks after the court issued a landmark decision allowing Trump to fire a member of the Federal Trade Commission. The decision, which Trump described as one of the most important rulings “ever,” overruled a major precedent limiting executive power….
Kagan Disputes Idea Supreme Court is Rubber-Stamping Trump’s Agenda
