{"id":377,"date":"2026-07-14T13:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:10:14","slug":"a-history-of-justices-testifying-before-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"A history of justices testifying before Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><p>Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will appear before House and Senate subcommittees today to address the Supreme Court\u2019s budget request. Keep reading to learn more about that request and the history of such congressional testimonies.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=375\">The Supreme Court and the opinion-assignment guessing game<\/a><\/p><p>Plus, don\u2019t forget to register for Thursday\u2019s LinkedIn Live event on the 2025-26 term\u2019s most consequential cases, featuring SCOTUSblog\u2019s Amy Howe and Briefly\u2019s Adam Stofsky. The event is scheduled to start at noon EDT.<\/p><div><h2>Morning Reads<\/h2><div><div><h3>With Threats Rising, Supreme Court Asks Congress to Increase Security Funds<\/h3><p>Ann E. Marimow, The New York Times<span><svg><\/svg><\/span><\/p><div><p>During their appearance on Tuesday before House and Senate subcommittees, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will discuss the court\u2019s \u201c$228 million request for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, an increase of about $20 million,\u201d according to The New York Times. Part of the increase stems from the goal of creating \u201ca new facility to screen visitors outside the court\u2019s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against the justices mount.\u201d The court has also asked for \u201can increase of $14.6 million to continue the expansion of the court\u2019s in-house police force and for security when the justices travel outside the Washington area.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>\u2018Colorblind Constitution\u2019 concept underlies key Supreme Court rulings<\/h3><p>Julian Mark, The Washington Post<\/p><div><p>As a young attorney serving in the Justice Department during the Reagan administration, John Roberts \u201crepeatedly invoked the view that the Constitution is \u2018color-blind\u2019 and forbids the government to make decisions based on race, even to combat the effects of discrimination,\u201d according to The Washington Post. \u201cMore than four decades later, the \u2018color-blind principle\u2019 is rapidly becoming a pillar of the law, ushered in by the Roberts-led Supreme Court, particularly over the past few months.\u201d \u201cLegal analysts say the Supreme Court\u2019s growing embrace of the phrase could hasten the end of race-conscious policies in education, housing, employment, redistricting and other areas.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Conservative groups say Justice Kagan cannot be impartial in upcoming Supreme Court climate litigation<\/h3><p>Elaine Mallon, Fox News<\/p><div><p>On Monday, \u201ca coalition of conservative legal organizations\u201d urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to investigate whether Justice Elena Kagan must recuse herself from <em>Suncor Energy v. Boulder County<\/em>, \u201ca major climate change case expected to be argued before the high court next term,\u201d according to Fox News. The groups contend that \u201cKagan compromised her impartiality by writing the foreword to the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which included a climate science chapter that was later criticized by Congress and Republican attorneys general as biased and was eventually removed.\u201d <em>Suncor Energy<\/em> \u201casks whether Colorado local governments can use state law to hold oil and gas companies financially liable for their alleged contributions to climate change.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Conservatives urge Congress to pass constitutional amendment keeping Supreme Court at nine justices<\/h3><p>Jack Birle, Washington Examiner<\/p><div><p>In a Monday letter to Congress, \u201cconservatives and legal groups\u201d asked \u201clawmakers to pass the \u2018Keep 9\u2019 constitutional amendment to curb Democrats\u2019 threats of adding additional justices to the Supreme Court,\u201d according to the Washington Examiner. \u201cFor over 150 years, the Supreme Court has consisted of one chief justice and eight associate justices. Although a nine-justice Court is not constitutionally required, adding justices now would serve no purpose but to politicize, and thus undermine the legitimacy of, the Court and its rulings,\u201d the letter said.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h3>Let the Cameras Roll at the Supreme Court<\/h3><p>Gabe Roth, The Wall Street Journal <span><svg><\/svg><\/span><\/p><div><p>In a letter to the editor published by The Wall Street Journal, Gabe Roth, the executive director of Fix the Court, contended that cameras in the Supreme Court would not affect the justices in the same way that cameras in Congress have affected lawmakers. \u201cSupreme Court justices and their lower-court colleagues serve for life. Unlike members of Congress, who run for office every two or six years, federal jurists have no professional incentive to play to the cameras and trawl for clicks,\u201d Roth wrote. He noted that a former judge once told him \u201che was concerned about cameras for the first 30 seconds after they were turned on, but then he became engrossed in the case and forgot about being recorded.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><h2>On Site<\/h2><div><div><div><div><span>Contributor Corner<\/span><h3>A dissent worthy of a World Cup<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Anastasia Boden<\/p><p>In her In Dissent column, Anastasia Boden revisited a petition for review from 1982 addressing a dispute between the National Football League and the North American Soccer League. In it, the NFL asked the court to consider whether it could bar \u201cteam owners from holding controlling interests in teams in any other professional sports league.\u201d The court denied the petition, but Justice William Rehnquist wrote a lone dissent from the denial, supporting the NFL\u2019s position and which had a lasting impact.<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-376\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a677878f9222e69e4524b1cd2a06b04f.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 and the opinion-assignment guessing game<\/h3><p>By <!-- -->Adam Feldman<\/p><p>In his Empirical SCOTUS column, Adam Feldman explored how consistently the court has distributed signed majority opinions within each argument sitting over the past approximately 80 years, seeking to determine, among other things, how this practice has shifted on the current court.<\/p><\/div><div><div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2-1024x574.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7be245227afb0d343f54e7ff14f918f2.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>Divided Argument<\/span><h3>Norway-Sweden Worshippers<\/h3><p>Will Baude and Dan Epps discussed Mullin v. Doe and Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, immigration decisions on the Temporary Protected Status Program and asylum metering at the U.S.-Mexico border, respectively.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=374\">A dissent worthy of a World Cup<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div><div><div>A Closer Look<\/div><h3>Justices Testifying Before Congress<\/h3><\/div><div><p>For the first time since 2019, sitting Supreme Court justices will appear before Congress regarding their annual budget. Specifically, Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett will testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government in defense of the court\u2019s fiscal year 2027 budget request and are expected to also appear before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee. The combination of Kagan (appointed by President Barack Obama in 2010) and Barrett (appointed by President Donald Trump in 2020), \u201cmay reflect the Court\u2019s effort to present a cross-ideological front on budget matters,\u201d per one account.<\/p><p>The occasion is the court\u2019s fiscal year 2027 budget request, in which the justices are asking for more than $200 million for salaries and expenses, a roughly 7% increase from current funding. Security accounts for much of that growth: of the $20.6 million overall increase the court is seeking, $14.6 million would go toward protecting the justices at work and another $2 million toward security at their homes. More specifically, the court wants to grow the Supreme Court Police so that it (rather than the U.S. Marshals Service) handles the justices\u2019 residential protection going forward. (The Marshals have guarded the justices\u2019 homes around the clock since 2022, when there was an assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh.) The request also covers  cybersecurity positions and \u201c.\u201d House appropriators have already advanced a bill funding the court at $207 million.<\/p><p>Per Politico, senior appropriators have said they are looking to keep questions trained on the court\u2019s operations (rather than cases). Some lawmakers and court watchers see the hearing as long overdue; House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro, noting that almost a decade has passed since a justice appeared before the House, said in a press release that the justices \u201chave a duty, just as cabinet secretaries and agency heads, to answer our questions and provide information to the American people relevant to their budget requests.\u201d<\/p><p>If history is any guide, the questioning may range beyond funding \u2013 as anyone who has watched a congressional hearing knows, lawmakers are free to wander off topic. At the last appearance of justices before a House subcommittee in March 2019, Kagan and Justice Samuel Alito faced questions about a possible ethics code and whether the court\u2019s proceedings should be televised. And as Steve Vladeck noted, at a March 2001 House budget subcommittee hearing Rep. Jose Serrano \u201cgrilled\u201d Justice Anthony Kennedy about <em>Bush v. Gore<\/em>.<\/p><p>The Congressional Research Service identified 93 committee or subcommittee hearings between 1960 and 2022 featuring at least one sitting justice and 175 appearances in all. A justice appeared before Congress every year from 1960 through 2011. The vast majority of those appearances (92%) came before the House or Senate Appropriations Committees. Justice Byron White holds the record at 24 appearances, followed by Kennedy at 23 and Justice Sandra Day O\u2019Connor at 21; among the current justices, Justice Clarence Thomas has appeared 13 times, most recently in 2010.<\/p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts declined a 2023 request for his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee to testify on ethics, writing that \u201c[t]estimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee by the Chief Justice of the United States is exceedingly rare, as one might expect in light of separation of powers concerns and the importance of preserving judicial independence.\u201d Vladeck, for his part, has said that more frequent Congressional appearances by the justices would be \u201ca relatively low-cost means of restoring some of the interbranch dialogue that used to be common\u2014and the accountability that could indirectly come with it.\u201d With Barrett and Kagan\u2019s appearance today, we may see some of that dialogue.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div><h2>SCOTUS Quote<\/h2><div><div><p>MR. DREEBEN: \u201cSo if you have an iPhone, Justice Breyer, and I don&#8217;t know what kind of phone that you have \u2013\u201d<\/p><p>JUSTICE BREYER: \u201cI don&#8217;t either because I can never get into it because of the password.\u201d<br\/><br\/>\u2014 (2014)<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanservicereview.com\/?p=372\">How Justice Samuel Alito stands out<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices Kagan and Barrett will discuss the court\u2019s budget request before House and Senate subcommittees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-contributor-corner","category-divided-argument","category-newsletter"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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