Elena Kagan: Ethics & Recusals
Elena Kagan has no documented history of undisclosed gifts, luxury travel, or financial disclosure violations. Her ethics record instead centers on two recusal fights, more than a decade apart, both alleging that her prior work — as a government lawyer, and later as an occasional academic writer — created conflicts she should have avoided. She has also been an unusually public advocate for the kind of transparency several other justices have resisted. ...