{"id":3151,"date":"2026-07-23T22:37:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:37:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:37:51","slug":"liberal-justice-elena-kagan-says-the-supreme-court-is-not-a-rubber-stamp-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=3151","title":{"rendered":"Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

BELLEVUE, Wash. \u2014 The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday.<\/p>

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Kagan, one of the court\u2019s three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit in Bellevue, Washington, that at significant times, on some big issues, \u201cthe court has checked the executive branch.\u201d<\/p>

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The court has sided with the Trump administration in the vast majority of cases to come before it so far, including largely upholding his immigration crackdown and expanding Trump\u2019s authority over federal regulatory agencies. But Kagan pointed to key rulings where the president did not get what he sought, such as decisions rejecting Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs and his efforts to strip birthright citizenship from the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>

\u201cIs 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,\u201d Kagan said. \u201cBut is this court the kind of puppet for the current administration? I think definitely not.\u201d<\/p>

Polling has found public trust in the Supreme Court at historic lows in recent years, and a number of critics of the current court have suggested political motivations on the part of its justices. Trump has personally assailed justices who rule against him in stark terms. One liberal justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson, said in May after the court struck down a majority-Black district in Louisiana and weakened the Voting Rights Act that the institution risked being seen as political.<\/p>

Chief Justice John Roberts, who was among those joining the court\u2019s liberal justices on some key cases such as birthright citizenship and tariffs, has fought back against the perception that the justices are \u201cpolitical actors,\u201d calling it a misunderstanding.<\/p>

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Kagan, often seen as a bridge-builder, echoed that approach in her comments Thursday, which followed her testimony before Congress alongside conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett last week on security threats and other issues facing the court.<\/p>

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