Justices Don't Communicate by Email, Kagan Says
Supreme Court clerks use email to talk to each other, but the justices prefer to communicate with their colleagues by hand-delivered memos, according to Justice Elena Kagan.
Speaking at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in Tampa, Kagan said the justices “ignore 25 years of technology” in communicating with each other, the Associated Press reports.
Taking questions from two judges, Kagan said none of the three women justices on the court are “shrinking violets.” She said she doubts gender has much of a difference on the outcome of deliberations, according to the story. “But it makes a world of difference, I think, in public perceptions of the court,” Kagan said.
Meanwhile, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told about 300 female judges in Newark, N.J., on Saturday that they should dare to disagree, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. “On rare occasions, a dissent turns the court and becomes the opinion of the court,” she said. Ginsburg was the keynote speaker at the National Association of Women Judges.
