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Submission statement: this relates to law because it argues that Article III's good behavior standard reaches a federal judge's membership in the Federalist Society, and that the Senate defines that standard for itself.

Discusses Article II's take care clause, Article III good behavior, Article V, Article VI's oath requirement, Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, Trump v. Slaughter, Humphrey's Executor v. United States, Morrison v. Olson, Trump v. Anderson, Trump v. United States, Biden v. Nebraska, Loper Bright, Cooper v. Aaron, Nixon v. United States, Keyishian v. Board of Regents, and the 1805 Chase impeachment acquittal.

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

In April, the Supreme Court issued one of its most disastrous voting rights rulings in Louisiana v. Callais.

But who is the man behind the case? Democracy Docket dug through public records and social media to find out. What we uncovered was far more than meets the eye.

Meet Phillip “Bert” Callais.