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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 468

Elena Kagan

Steam billows from a coal-fired power plant, November 18, 2021, in Craig, Colorado. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
June 30, 2022, 6:02 pm
US Supreme Court limits government’s power to cut greenhouse gas emissions
Justices say Clean Air Act doesn’t give Environmental Protection Agency broad authority to regulate power plants that contribute to global warming, decision belongs to Congress
By Mark Sherman
Stephen Breyer during in his office in Washington, D.C., in August 2021. (Bill O'Leary/The Washington Post via JTA)
January 26, 2022, 10:09 pm
Jewish US Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reportedly set to retire
Judge has been under pressure to step down and enable Biden to appoint a liberal replacement before mid-term elections in November, when Democrats may lose Senate majority
By Ron Kampeas
US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan arrives for a discussion on pro bono service, Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2018, at Georgetown Law University in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
February 8, 2019, 11:23 pm
Kagan in Supreme Court says condemned Jews and Muslims need choice of clergy
In dissent to ruling that allowed Alabama to execute a Muslim without an imam by his side, justice says denial violated constitutional ban on establishing a state religion
By JTA
US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (r) waits to begin a discussion at the University of California, Los Angeles, with UCLA Law School Dean Jennifer Mnookin, September 27, 2018. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
September 28, 2018, 3:58 pm
US Supreme Court Justice Kagan won’t discuss Kavanaugh after fiery hearing
Jewish judge speaks of the importance of seeking consensus on the court and having it be above politics, especially ‘in a time of acrimony and partisanship’
By brian melley
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, left, speaking with journalist Dahlia Lithwick at the Hannah Senesh Community Day School in Brooklyn, September 12, 2018. (Matthew Sussman for Hannah Senesh Community Day School via JTA)
September 14, 2018, 12:10 am
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan talks of her ‘very strange Jewish upbringing’
Speaking at day school, top judge says she had a bat mitzvah at a modern Orthodox synagogue but did not grow up in a religiously observant home
By Josefin Dolsten
Poster sized enlargements of passports marked as "rejected" by United States Immigration are on display during an anti-Muslim ban rally as the Supreme Court hears arguments about whether US President Donald Trump's ban on travelers from several mostly Muslim countries violates immigration law or the Constitution, April 25, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
June 26, 2018, 7:33 pm
Court upholds Trump travel ban, rejects discrimination claim
Ruling passes on a 5-4 decision, with majority opinion noting US presidents have substantial power to regulate immigration, while rejecting allegation of anti-Muslim bias
By Mark Sherman
US Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at the George Washington University Law School, September 13, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images via JTA)
April 26, 2018, 3:05 am
US Jewish justice: Imagine if a travel ban targeted Israelis
In hypothetical challenge during oral arguments, Elena Kagan raises example of a US president who is a ‘vehement anti-Semite’
By JTA
The eight Jewish Supreme Court Justices, clockwise from top left: Ruth Bader Ginsburg; Stephen Breyer; Abe Fortas; Louis Brandeis; Benjamin Cardozo; Felix Frankfurter; Arthur Goldberg; Elena Kagan. (Photos of Ginsburg, Breyer and Kagan by Steve Petteway, others by Harris & Ewing/ all from the Collection of the Supreme Court of the US)
July 31, 2017, 3:01 am
The 8 Jewish justices who made the US Supreme Court jump
Author David Dalin’s new book explores the inner lives of trailblazing Members of the Tribe who helped mold the nation’s highest court
By Rich Tenorio
Ivanka Trump attending a bill signing in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House in Washington DC, June 2, 2017. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
June 3, 2017, 4:42 am
Is Ivanka America’s most powerful Jewish woman?
CNN says ‘yes’ but social media counters with a resounding ‘no,’ favoring Fed chair Janet Yellen and even Israeli ‘Wonder Woman’ star Gal Gadot
By Gabe Friedman
US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaking at an annual Women's History Month reception hosted by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., March 18, 2015. (Allison Shelley/Getty Images/via JTA)
March 1, 2017, 1:30 pm
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s crazy hard workout
Supporters are also begging the aging US Supreme Court justice to eat more kale
By Gabe Friedman
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, January 28, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)
October 6, 2016, 10:05 am
US Supreme Court opens without Jewish justices
3 justices skip starting session due to Rosh Hashanah, missing all of 5 minutes of action
By AP
Maia Weinstock's "Legal Justice League: Women of the Supreme Court in LEGO." (YouTube screenshot)
April 12, 2015, 7:30 pm
Ginsburg, Kagan immortalized in LEGO?
‘Legal Justice League’ set features real-life wonder women of US Supreme Court
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jerry Silverman, CEO of the Jewish Federations of North America, speaking at the umbrella group's General Assembly in Jerusalem, Nov. 7, 2013. (Flash90/via JTA)
November 7, 2014, 6:01 pm
Are the Jewish Federations delivering on their promises?
Ahead of Sunday’s General Assembly, a point-by-point look at some of JFNA’s stated goals — and whether it is meeting them
By Uriel Heilman
Menachem Zivotofsky, left, and his father Ari posing in front of the Supreme Court with their attorney Alyza Lewin and Lewin’s father Nathan, November 3, 2014 (Rikki Gordon Lewin)
November 5, 2014, 4:41 am
In Jerusalem passport case, congressional role in foreign policy questioned
Lawyers of 12-year-old Menachem Zivotofsky want Supreme Court hearing to focus on their request, but justices see larger issues at stake
By Ron Kampeas
US Vice President Joe Biden (AP/Markus Schreiber/File)
October 28, 2014, 6:21 pm
Joe Biden to address US Jewish federations
Vice president headlines list of dignitaries slated to attend Jewish umbrella group’s annual General Assembly
By JTA
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