Political Quotes

Elena Kagan

Judge / Justice

39Quotes on record
2023–2026On the record
Quotes by year · 2023202639 total · peak 2026 (22)
2023: 2 quotes2025: 15 quotes2026: 22 quotes
Jul 3, 2025

I do not see how a district court can compel compliance with an order that this court has stayed.

nbcnews.com
Jul 2, 2025

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

motherjones.com
Jul 2, 2025

If we want gun manufacturers to pay for gun violence abroad, we need to tell members of Congress to write a different law.

msnbc.com
Jun 30, 2025

If the idea is to reassure the markets, a simpler — and more judicial — approach would have been to deny the President’s application for a stay.

msnbc.com
Jun 27, 2025

No one doubts that the distribution of sexually explicit speech to children, of the sort involved here, can cause great harm.

commondreams.org
Jun 27, 2025

You relax strict scrutiny in one place, and all of a sudden, strict scrutiny gets relaxed in other places.

commondreams.org
Jun 27, 2025

An untold number of people currently entitled to U.S. citizenship would be without lawful status to remain in the country.

msnbc.com
Jun 27, 2025

It is turning over information about yourself and your viewing habits—respecting speech many find repulsive—to a website operator, and then to… who knows?

commondreams.org
Jun 20, 2025

There is simply nothing in the law to support today's result.

newsweek.com
Jun 20, 2025

Today's holding undermines the certainty and finality Congress sought in designing a mechanism for judicial review; it subjects all administrative schemes, and the many businesses and individuals relying on them, to the ever-present risk…

newsweek.com
Jun 20, 2025

The majority today is wrong as a matter of text: The Hobbs Act gives the courts of appeals exclusive jurisdiction to determine the validity of agency action, meaning that district courts have no jurisdiction to do so.

newsweek.com
Jun 20, 2025

The majority today is wrong as a matter of precedent: This Court has held that the Hobbs Act, like its precursors, sets up a single judicial review mechanism for agency rules and orders, and prevents later collateral attacks on them in…

newsweek.com