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On the recordJuly 14, 2026
I will say that that’s an extremely difficult question for a pretty obvious reason, I think, which is that I don’t think that you would want an enforcement system that was controlled by the executive branch or by the legislature.
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Elena Kagan

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On enforcing the court's ethics policy.

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