Elena Kagan: “For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again…”

You just have to deal with the fact that there's a conservative court doing things that conservative jurists have long thought it appropriate to do, and I can really dislike that.

I don't see this as a court that is just like, 'We're just going to rubber stamp what the current administration does.' You know, quite the opposite.

There are definitely questions about how it is appropriate to use that docket, when it's appropriate to use that docket, the standards to be applied.

It was sort of like….from the court's point of view, a non-event.