Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan
Elena Kagan is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is the Court's 112th justice and fourth female justice...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSupreme Court Justice
Date of Birth28 April 1960
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
jobs knows values
And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
jobs people balance
It's not that there are no masters, but that there are many. And the job of the solicitor general is to balance those masters and to accommodate them all, each in their proper places, wisely and well and in so doing to represent the people of the United States.
views political matter
What my political views or my constitutional views are just doesn't matter.
past greatness movement
In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalism's glories than of socialism's greatness.
lying worst-enemy unity
American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
thinking law justice
I think people are great in many different ways. So, I think some justices are great because they have extraordinary wisdom, they have an understanding of how to apply the law in their times ... in a way that's completely consistent with ... the text of the law and the purposes of the law, and in a way that's completely right for the times in which they live in.
self law done
In fact, corporate and union moneys go overwhelmingly to incumbents, so limiting that money, as Congress did in the campaign finance law, may be the single most self-denying thing that Congress has ever done.
thinking justice clerks
I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
girl growing-up smart
It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
chinese restaurants jew
Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!
sex
There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
couple gay thinking
Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are not going to give marriage licenses anymore to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. Would that be constitutional?
regret believe achieve
I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.
school law political
I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.