"Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And……" — Elena Kagan
"Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends. Such activity is not necessarily wrong or invalid."
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Elena Kagan
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23 Quotes by Elena Kagan
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Suppose a state said that, Because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we are…
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Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant!
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American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
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If there is an ‘overabundance' of an idea in the absence of direct governmental action -- which there well might…
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There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
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When the Senate ceases to engage nominees in meaningful discussion of legal issues, the confirmation process takes on an air…
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I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the…
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I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion…
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And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will…
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I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.
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