Elena Kagan
The liberal justice said the court has “a real responsibility that I think we didn’t recognize when we first started down this road.”
The Supreme Court justice suggested that constitutional protections around contraception, interracial marriage and gay marriage might all be rescinded.
The mild-mannered liberal justice slammed the majority for "grasp[ing] for power."
The liberal justice smacked down her conservative colleague's take on abortion as emergency health care.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The Supreme Court is "not supposed to be so fearful of telling discriminators, including States, to stop discriminating,” the liberal justice wrote of the 6-3 ruling.
Democratic institutions in D.C. are literally crumbling, apparently.
“We’re not imperial," the liberal Supreme Court justice said.
“This case is about dog toys and whiskey, two items seldom appearing in the same sentence,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote in an opinion for the court.
The case has the potential to upend the internet as we know it, but the justices did not seem keen to do so.
“If you rewrite history, it’s easy to do.” Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan knocked down a legal theory on elections.