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...Only six of the nine justices were in attendance on Thursday evening: chief justice John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch of the conservative wing, while all three liberals — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena...
...Elena Kagan asked, citing the constitution. Amy Coney Barrett, a member of the court’s conservative wing and a Trump appointee, also appeared sceptical....
...In one concurring opinion, the three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — wrote: “These musings are as inadequately supported as they are gratuitous.”...
...“The question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the United States,” said liberal justice Elena Kagan. “It sounds awfully national to me.”...
...It is also what occurred in Poland in 2015 when Jarosław Kaczyński’s Law and Justice party regained power....
...In a dissent joined by the court’s two other liberal justices, Justice Elena Kagan wrote the court’s decision went beyond its authority....
...Elena Ferrante’s Ischia: Follow in the footsteps of the mysterious author of My Brilliant Friend with Rebecca Watson....
...Elena Kagan, joined by two fellow liberal justices, wrote there was “a thumb on the scale for property owners”....
...Justice Elena Kagan said there was “a lot of uncertainty” in adopting the petitioner’s argument “just because of the difficulty of drawing lines in this area”....
...And a little romance to cheer you up: At 92 years of age, media mogul Rupert Murdoch is getting engaged — for the sixth time in his life — with retired molecular biologist Elena Zhukova....
...It is unlikely to be easy, however, in a country where critics say justice serves the needs and wishes of the state....
...Justice Elena Kagan, who was nominated by former president Barack Obama, asked why the court should not adhere to “the ancient legal principle” of “‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’”, while Ketanji Brown...
...Lord Philip Sales, Supreme Court justice, handing down the ruling, said: “The funding agreements fall within the definition of a ‘damages based agreement’ and are therefore made unenforceable.”...
...While “everybody would rather achieve all our racial diversity goals through race neutral means”, Elena Kagan noted, the question was whether schools could “go race conscious” when needed....
...Elena Kagan said the lawmakers’ proposal would have “big consequences” and get “rid of the normal checks and balances on the way big governmental decisions are made in this country . . . at exactly the time...
...An especially interesting case is that of Poland, where the rightwing Law and Justice (PiS) party came to power in 2015 and quickly launched its most popular initiative — a child benefit scheme known as...
...Liberal justice Elena Kagan questioned the scope of the argument against the FTC, which “seem[s] to extend way beyond the constitutional claims at issue”....
...It was only after he requested documents under the Freedom of Information Act in 2019, and sued the US justice department the following year, that highly redacted documents were released....
...The Retrofit, Deering Estate Theater Emmy-winning filmmaker Marlon Johnson, is presents a five-part multimedia and live-performance work that looks at where the arts, the natural environment and social justice...
...The dissenting opinion, authored by Justice Elena Kagan and supported by the court’s other two liberal justices, said the EPA had the authority to regulate “stationary sources” of polluting substances that...
...Conservative justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch voted against blocking the law, as did one member of the court’s liberal wing, Elena Kagan....
...All [Warhol] did was take somebody else’s photograph and put some colour into it,” observed Elena Kagan as she and her fellow justices discussed the point....
...The dissenting opinion authored by Sonia Sotomayor and joined by Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, the two other liberal justices, said the court’s decision “elevates one individual’s interest in personal...
...Elena D’Alessandro, a law professor at the University of Turin, says if the “only way” to bring big environmental and climate cases is by turning to professional litigation funders, and if the remuneration...
...The court’s three liberal justices — Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor and Stephen Breyer — dissented....
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