Elena Kagan: “If the idea is to reassure the markets, a simpler — and more judicial — approach would have been to deny the President’s…”

For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again materialize.

The leaks "dramatically change the way we do business internally or at least has the potential to do so. The way we relate to each other depends so much on honest communication among the nine of us. And if the nine of us do not have trust…

When political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like, rather than the things that they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed the line.

I call it the emergency docket.