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Kagan's Harvard colleagues and friends have characterized her as a good conversationalist, warm, with a good sense of humor. [156] Before joining the Supreme Court, she was known to play poker and smoke cigars. [156] [157] Early in her tenure as a justice, Kagan began socializing with several of her new colleagues. [158]
Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday became the first member of the U.S. Supreme Court to call publicly for beefing up its new ethics code by adding a way to enforce it. In her first public remarks ...
Kagan's swearing-in ceremony as Associate Justice took place on August 7, 2010, at the White House. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the prescribed constitutional and judicial oaths of office, at which time she became the 112th justice (100th associate justice) of the Supreme Court.
Kagan, a member of the court's liberal minority, has called for creating a panel of lower court judges appointed by Chief Justice John Roberts to handle allegations made against the justices.
Justice Elena Kagan tried to help the Justice Department make a case for states taking a more measured approach to the issue. She asked U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar if the court must ...
This is the fourteenth term of Associate Justice Elena Kagan's tenure on the Court. Elena Kagan 2023 term statistics (in progress) 7 Majority or Plurality: 3
Kagan, a justice since 2010 and part of the court's three-member liberal wing, said the court issues decisions in only about 60 cases a year, fewer than half the norm in the 1980s when she clerked ...
For example, Chief Justice John Roberts was the principal deputy solicitor general during the George H. W. Bush administration and Associate Justice Samuel Alito was an assistant to the solicitor general. The last former solicitor general to be successfully nominated to the court was Justice Elena Kagan. [5]