During a marathon Supreme Court session Tuesday over whether states may ban transgender women from participating in women and girls’ sports, some justices were already focused on what may lie around t

Justice Brett Kavanaugh recalled his days as a girls coach. Actor Elliot Page protested. A look at the Supreme Court battle over trans athletes.

A recent opinion by Supreme Court JusticeBrett Kavanaugh, which has all of the appearances that he wants the expression “Kavanaugh stops” to fade into obscurity, was panned by Slate legal analysts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern on Tuesday.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a dissent in a case involving mail-in ballots where she needled her conservative colleague, Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Last year, Kavanaugh penned an opinion giving more leeway to immigration agents by claiming that they rarely take American citizens into custody,

The justice, a sports buff, has coached girls’ basketball teams for many years and has often reflected on the role such mentoring can play.

Another conceivable conclusion is that Kavanaugh now hopes to apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment without doing any actual apologizing. Call it a mea culpa minus the mea. Needless to say, none of this reflects well on Kavanaugh and his possible motivations. Perhaps we'll get a more forthright account from him in a future case.

Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would have agreed to hear a bankruptcy case that the Court majority declined to take up.