One task of Supreme Court clerks was to write brief memorandums evaluating the thousands of cases appealed to the Supreme Court. Ms. Kagan analyzed one case in which a judge dismissed an immigrant ...

As it happens, Kagan was a law clerk for Marshall when he signed his name to the Cohill opinion. It’s possible that she drafted the sloppy passage. But probably not: I’d think that she was as ...

More Kagan, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh stand ahead of President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. The Supreme Court said Monday it would not take up ...