Congress Can Regulate Supreme Court, Justice Says

Elena Kagan supports Congress regulating the nation’s top court, rebutting comments from Justice Samuel Alito.

Associate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan poses for the official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, on Oct. 7, 2022. Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images

Congress has the power to impose regulations on the U.S. Supreme Court, a justice said on Aug. 3.

“It just can’t be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances from anybody else. We’re not imperial,” Justice Elena Kagan told a judicial conference in Oregon.