Justice Elena Kagan decries idea that US supreme court ‘rubber-stamps’ Trump’s agenda

Justice Elena Kagan rejected the notion that the Supreme Court has become a rubber stamp for President Trump, pointing to rulings against the administration on issues like tariffs. The liberal justice made the remarks Thursday at a legal conference in Bellevue, Washington, even as the court's conservative majority has authorized some of the president's most controversial actions. Per The Guardian, Kagan defended the court's independence—though she remains one of only three liberals on a bench increasingly shaped by six conservative justices.

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