Elena Kagan

“What we can decide, we can undecide. But stare decisis teaches that we should exercise that authority sparingly.”

“if ever has the Court overruled a decision—let alone one of this import—with so little regard for the usual principles of stare decisis.”

“that didn’t take long. Now one may wonder yet again.”

“It is a court. It speaks best when it speaks as a court, rather than a place when nine people get together and write individually.”

“Courts are supposed to explain things, to litigants, to the public generally,”

“I don’t enjoy that. I find it frustrating.I find it disappointing. I find it sometimes maddening.”

“A casual observer might think we said the president has the authority to dismantle [the agency]…. That [question] wasn’t even before us,”

“As we have done more and more on the emergency docket, there becomes a real responsibility to explain things better.”

“would, I think, go far in persuading other people that we were adhering to the highest standards of conduct.”

“I didn’t really pull [any] punches about the importance that I thought that decision had about our political system and the way we govern ourselves…”

“At the same time, he had a real passion for justice…,”

“was a brilliant lawyer in the technical and craft aspect of the job,”

“Somebody said that Justice Jackson served on the Court for barely longer than I have now, and it made me feel so deflated,”

“This is a long process. It's a process that in no country is over. We can all improve,”