Elena Kagan: “Honestly, the vibes in the courtroom were the vibes in the courtroom on any other day.”

Our emergency docket, while fit for some things, should not be used to overrule or revise existing law.

I think as we have done more and more on this emergency docket, there becomes a real responsibility that I think we didn't recognize when we first started down this road, to explain things better.

These statements are really unhelpful, they are dangerous in terms of individual justices’ security and they’re not appropriate in the way to treat a coordinate branch of government.

I think that, as we have gotten more experienced in these constant requests that are coming to us about requests for emergency relief, that we better recognize that at least sometimes there is a need for additional information.