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

Kagan rejects notion that high court ‘does whatever the administration wants’, pointing to tariffs ruling and more

Liberal justice Elena Kagan has said it was “wrong” to accuse the US supreme court of becoming a rubber stamp for Donald Trump in his second term, amid criticism of its authorization of some of the president’s most controversial actions.

Pointing to rulings against the president on key issues such as tariffs, Kagan – one of three liberals on a court that has in recent years been defined by rulings authored by members of its six-justice conservative majority – defended it at an annual gathering of attorneys and judges for the ninth judicial circuit in Bellevue, Washington, on Thursday.