Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a crowd Thursday she believes Congress possesses authority to regulate select aspects of the Supreme Court. See potential bias and similarities in coverage from NRO, thehill, and AP:
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a crowd Thursday she believes Congress possesses authority to regulate select aspects of the Supreme Court. “Can Congress do various things to regulate the Supreme Court? I think the answer is yes,” Kagan said, indirectly refuting the, where he said, “No provision in the Constitution gives [Congress] the authority to regulate the Supreme Court—period.
” Kagan told the crowd that the Justices “have been discussing this issue” and hold a “variety of views” on the matter. Kagan advocated the court create its own ethics code without Congress, but argued Congress does have the constitutional authority to impose a code on the court, stating, “It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to any checks and balances from anybody else.
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