Some legal and political commentators claim that the Supreme Court has bent over backwards to appease or affirm the Trump Administration. In recent remarks before the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, as reported by Politico, Justice Elena Kagan rejected this common narrative.
From Politico:
"I don't see this as a court that is just like, 'We're just going to rubber stamp what the current administration does.' You know, quite the opposite," Kagan said to a judicial conference here Thursday. "I think that that is a bad rap." . . .
Kagan, a liberal justice and Obama appointee, said the 6-3 decision scuttling Trump's tariffs was extraordinary.
"Tariffs is probably the key policy issue for this president. I mean, something he campaigned on, he ran on, he cared an enormous amount about," she said. "I don't think that there are all that many decisions in the recent times, where a court strikes down such an important policy to a a sitting president."
