{"id":4123,"date":"2026-07-24T15:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4123"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:41:53","slug":"elena-kagan-denies-that-supreme-court-is-trumps-puppet-claiming-theyve-checked-him-on-some-big-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4123","title":{"rendered":"Elena Kagan denies that Supreme Court is Trump\u2019s \u2018puppet,\u2019 claiming they\u2019ve checked him \u2018on some big issues\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kagan, one of the court\u2019s three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit in Bellevue, Washington, that at significant times, on some big issues, \u201cthe court has checked the executive branch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4121\">EU says TikTok failed to shield minors\u2019 accounts from adults, exposing kids to predators<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The court has sided with the Trump administration in the vast majority of cases to come before it so far, including largely\u00a0upholding his immigration crackdown\u00a0and expanding Trump\u2019s authority\u00a0over federal regulatory agencies. But Kagan pointed to key rulings where the president did not get what he sought, such as decisions\u00a0rejecting Trump\u2019s sweeping tariffs\u00a0and his efforts to\u00a0strip birthright citizenship\u00a0from the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIs this court very conservative? Does it do a bunch of things that are out of the playbook of the conservative legal movement that I think are deeply wrong? You know, yes,\u201d Kagan said. \u201cBut is this court the kind of puppet for the current administration? I think definitely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polling has found public trust in the Supreme Court at historic lows in recent years, and a number of critics of the current court have suggested political motivations on the part of its justices. Trump has personally assailed justices who rule against him\u00a0in stark terms. One liberal justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson,\u00a0said in May\u00a0after the court\u00a0struck down a majority-Black district\u00a0in Louisiana and weakened the Voting Rights Act that the institution risked being seen as political.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Justice John Roberts, who was among those joining the court\u2019s liberal justices on some key cases such as birthright citizenship and tariffs, has\u00a0fought back\u00a0against the perception that the justices are \u201cpolitical actors,\u201d calling it a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan, often seen as a bridge-builder, echoed that approach in her comments Thursday, which followed her\u00a0testimony before Congress\u00a0alongside conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett last week on security threats and other issues facing the court.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kagan reiterated her support for appointing a committee of retired judges to enforce the Supreme Court\u2019s first code of ethics,\u00a0adopted in 2023\u00a0during a storm of criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices. While the justices are taking the ethics code seriously, opinions differ on the court about how or whether it might be enforced, and no conclusions have been reached, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=4119\">OpenAI President says the HuggingFace security beach \u2018is indicative of the times we are in\u2019 as the company continues to investigate how its models went rogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kagan also offered a view from the bench of a historic moment from the court\u2019s past term, when Trump himself\u00a0took a front-row seat\u00a0for arguments over his birthright citizenship order. He was the first sitting president to attend oral arguments.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was largely a \u201cnon-event\u201d for the justices, Kagan said. Trump took a seat off to the side, in an area relatively far from the bench typically reserved for members of Congress, and the court made no announcement of his presence. Many in the audience couldn\u2019t see him, she noted.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe was just like a person who came in and sat down and then had to listen to an argument,\u201d Kagan said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The president remained for about half of the lengthy arguments, leaving when the other side began making its case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou really did kind of think, he probably has other things to do, you know?\u201d said Kagan, who served as solicitor general during the Obama administration. \u201cI was sort of thinking, I worked for a president, and when a president walks into the room, you get the whole \u2018Hail to the Chief\u2019 stuff. And there was like none of that. 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