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Kagan Provides Peek into Court’s Everyday Workings

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 8, 2014
News Type: U.S. Supreme Court

In an entertaining talk at Harvard Law School last week, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan “pulled back the curtain a little on the nation’s highest court,” Harvard Law Today reports. Among the secrets she revealed is that it is her job, as the most junior justice, to answer the conference room door when clerks drop off items for another justice. “They will knock on the outer door, and then I have to hop up and open the inner door,” Kagan said. “If I don’t do it, nobody will.” Kagan also delved into topics that ranged from her most difficult court decision, to which justice gets the most laughs during oral arguments, to how she prepares for a case. She credits her previous job as solicitor general as a great training ground for the court and says she tries to remember what it was like on the firing line and “to at least be polite” when asking questions.

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