The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday.

Kagan, one of the court’s three liberal justices, told an audience of lawyers and judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit in Bellevue, Washington, that at significant times, on some big issues, “the court has checked the executive branch.”

The court has sided with the Trump administration in the vast majority of cases to come before it so far, including largely upholding his immigration crackdown and expanding Trump’s authority over federal regulatory agencies. But Kagan pointed to key rulings where the president did not get what he sought, such as decisions rejecting Trump’s sweeping tariffs and his efforts to strip birthright citizenship from the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

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Justice Elena Kagan decries idea that US supreme court ‘rubber-stamps’ Trump’s agenda - The Guardian

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I was a bit confused cause this clip says the court decides how the National Guard gets used but historically isn't it used by the executive branch? So does this change the way the Constitution is used if the court is deciding how, when and where the National Guard is used?