{"id":351,"date":"2026-07-08T12:10:46","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:10:46","slug":"kagan-and-barrett-to-testify-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=351","title":{"rendered":"Kagan and Barrett to testify before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>Today is our term-in-review event at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center. The event, titled Executive Power and its Limits, will feature a fireside chat with the ACLU\u2019s Cecillia Wang, who argued the birthright citizenship case before the Supreme Court; a discussion of the historical framework of birthright citizenship from Johns Hopkins professor Martha S. Jones; and a live taping of the Advisory Opinions podcast. Tomorrow\u2019s newsletter will include a brief overview of the discussion.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=348\">The Supreme Court\u2019s disturbing approach to federal spending<\/a><\/p><div><h2>Morning Reads<\/h2><div><div><h3>Justices Kagan and Barrett on tap to testify on Capitol Hill next week<\/h3><p>Jordain Carney and Katherine Tully-McManus, Politico<\/p><div><p>Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are expected to \u201ctestify on Capitol Hill next week, marking the first time since 2019 that members of the high court will testify on their annual budget request to Congress,\u201d according to Politico. They \u201cwill appear July 14 before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, which has jurisdiction over the annual spending measure that funds the Supreme Court.\u201d \u201cThey will also give testimony that same day to members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, according to a person granted anonymity to disclose scheduling not yet made public.\u201d Kagan and Barrett will address a requested boost in security funding.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Trump Again Asks Supreme Court to Toss Out Carroll Award<\/h3><p>Greg Stohr, Bloomberg<span><svg><\/svg><\/span><\/p><div><p>On Monday, President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court \u201cto take the unusual step of reconsidering its June 29 rejection of\u201d his appeal of a $5 million jury verdict entered against him in a sexual abuse and defamation case filed by E. Jean Carroll. Bloomberg noted that the court \u201calmost never reconsiders its decisions not to hear an appeal. Under the court\u2019s rules, rehearing petitions are appropriate only to address \u2018intervening circumstances of a substantial or controlling effect\u2019 or \u2018to other substantial grounds not previously presented.\u2019\u201d \u201cIn his new , Trump says the jury\u2019s finding was tainted by discussion at trial of statements he made while he was president. Trump\u2019s lawyers contend those are official acts, for which he is immune under the 2024 Supreme Court ruling that derailed criminal charges against him for trying to overturn his 2020 election loss.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Half of Americans disapprove of the way the Supreme Court is handling its job<\/h3><p>Alexander Rossell Hayes, YouGov<\/p><div><p>A new \u201cEconomist\/YouGov Poll finds that half (50%) of Americans somewhat or strongly disapprove of the way the court is handling its job. Only 36% approve of the Supreme Court\u2019s job handling.\u201d \u201cOne source of disapproval &#8230; may be the view of many Americans that the court\u2019s recent decisions have given too much power to the president. Nearly half (45%) of Americans think the court\u2019s decisions have given the president too much power, more than the 38% who think recent decisions either have been about right (29%) or have given the president too little power (9%).\u201d The survey showed that Republicans are generally much more supportive of the court and its rulings than Democrats.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Former EEOC commissioner drops lawsuit challenging dismissal after Supreme Court ruling<\/h3><p>Sophie Brams, The Hill<\/p><div><p>Following the June 29 ruling in <em>Trump v. Slaughter<\/em>, in which the court cleared the way for the president to more freely remove the heads of independent agencies, Jocelyn Samuels, \u201c[a] former Democratic appointee to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,\u201d has dropped her challenge to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to fire her last year, according to The Hill. \u201cI strongly disagree with the Supreme Court\u2019s legal analysis in Trump v. Slaughter, which overturned an almost century-old precedent and undermined Congress\u2019s authority to limit the President\u2019s removal power over commissioners of independent agencies,\u201d Samuels said in a Monday statement. \u201cThe Court\u2019s opinion, however, leaves me without a viable path forward to continue contesting my termination.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>AP\u2019s long-time Supreme Court reporter Mark Sherman reflects on front row seat to legal history<\/h3><p>Mark Sherman, Associated Press<\/p><div><p>After covering the court for 20 years, Associated Press reporter Mark Sherman retired at the end of the 2025-26 term. He wrote an essay for the AP about how the court changed during his tenure, which overlapped with the emergence of the court\u2019s current conservative supermajority. Among other shifts, he noted that \u201c[s]ecurity concerns have grown exponentially over the years.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s remarkable how unobtrusively justices used to move around town,\u201d Sherman wrote. \u201cIt was not uncommon to run into Ginsburg and her family at a movie or a play, see Thomas making his way to and from Mass most mornings, bump into Kagan at a supermarket or get in line behind Sotomayor at a weekend farmer\u2019s market on Capitol Hill.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>On Site<\/h2><div><div><div><div><span>Contributor Corner<\/span><h3>Is Chief Justice Roberts moderating from the front?<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Richard Re<\/p><p>In his Controlling Opinions column, Richard Re reflected on claims that Chief Justice John Roberts is not a \u201ctrue institutionalist.\u201d \u201cThere is something right about this view,\u201d he wrote, \u201cbut it misses that institutionalism must adjust to changing conditions.\u201d<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-349\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/adcb2daa2c1235687733a414c475044c.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div><span>Contributor Corner<\/span><h3>Justice Jackson reignites the interpretation wars, adding to textualism\u2019s emerging cracks<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Abbe R. Gluck<\/p><p>In her Clear Statements column, Abbe R. Gluck considered whether Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is \u201cstarting a statutory-interpretation revolution.\u201d Gluck pointed out that several of Jackson\u2019s separate opinions this term \u201cwere written specifically to protest the majority\u2019s refusal to consult legislative history in statutory cases.\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=347\">Justice Jackson reignites the interpretation wars, adding to textualism\u2019s emerging cracks<\/a><\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-350\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/d9c8489f674a34d2a593a21341292152.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div><span>Contributor Corner<\/span><h3>The Supreme Court\u2019s disturbing approach to federal spending <\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Erwin Chemerinsky<\/p><p>In his Courtly Observations column, Erwin Chemerinsky revisited Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections, in which the court on June 23 \u201cheld that there cannot be suits against individual government officials\u201d under the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act \u201cunless they consent to being sued.\u201d He contended that the decision \u201cis based on a premise with troubling, and massive, implications: federal spending programs should be treated as contracts.\u201d<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-202\" height=\"677\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb-1024x677.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb-1024x677.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb-1536x1015.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/d150fe77e78db9a0b31782d4085c4abb.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>Podcasts<\/h2><div><div><div><div><span>Advisory Opinions<\/span><h3>Complicating the Polarization Narrative<\/h3><p>Sarah Isgur and David French discuss SCOTUSblog\u2019s Stat Pack, look at the dissents in the birthright citizenship case, and answer listeners\u2019 questions about everything from the 14th Amendment being sex-blind to whether independent agencies could be recreated with the legislative branch.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><h3>Ask Amy<\/h3><\/div><div><p><strong><em>Given all of the recent buzz about the possibility that Justice Samuel Alito might retire this summer, when do justices typically announce their retirement? Is there a standard protocol?<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>There is no standard protocol. And although many people associate late June or early July \u2013 when the\u00a0justices finish issuing opinions in argued cases and head out for their summer recess \u2013 with retirement announcements, there have only been three such announcements during the past 35 years: Justice Thurgood Marshall on June 27, 1991; Justice Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor on July 1, 2005, and Justice Anthony Kennedy on June 27, 2018.<\/p><p>Five other justices in that period have announced their retirements earlier in the\u00a0court&#8217;s term, between January and early May: Justice Byron White on March 19, 1993; Justice Harry Blackmun on April 6, 1994; Justice David Souter on May 1, 2009; Justice John Paul Stevens on April 9, 2010; and Justice Stephen Breyer on Jan. 27, 2022.<\/p><p>Finally, three justices have died while in office during that stretch: Chief Justice William Rehnquist on Sept. 3, 2005; Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13, 2016; and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h2>SCOTUS Quote<\/h2><div><div><p>JUSTICE SCALIA: \u201cMr. Waxman, you have a habit of not pausing between sentences. You pause in the middle of the sentence, and you end a sentence and go right on to the next. So I apologize for interrupting, but \u2013\u201d<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=345\">Is Chief Justice Roberts moderating from the front?<\/a><\/p><p>MR. WAXMAN: \u201cNot at all.\u201d<\/p><p>JUSTICE SCALIA: \u201c\u2013 but you leave me no alternative.\u201d<\/p><p>(Laughter.)<\/p><p>MR. WAXMAN: \u201cIt&#8217;s the red light.\u201d<\/p><p>JUSTICE SCALIA: \u201cYes, I understand.\u201d<\/p><p>MR. WAXMAN: \u201cThe tyranny.\u201d<\/p><p>\u2014   (2012)<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plus, Trump has asked the court to reconsider his appeal of a $5 million jury award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advisory-opinions","category-contributor-corner","category-newsletter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kagan and Barrett to testify before Congress - American Service Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=351\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kagan and Barrett to testify before Congress - 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