Justice Elena Kagan and Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
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Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are scheduled to testify next week housing investment The subcommittee regarding the High Court’s fiscal 2027 budget request, according to the agenda released Tuesday.
Her testimony on July 14 will be the first time Supreme Court justices have testified before Congress since 2019, when Kagan and Samuel Alito testified about the court’s budget request for House appropriations. Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government.
Kagan and Barrett will appear before the same panel.
Kagan has served on the court since 2010, following her appointment by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Barrett has been a judge since 2020. He was appointed by President Donald Trump, a Republican.
CNBC has requested comment from a Supreme Court spokesperson regarding the scheduled testimony.
The hearing will take place two weeks after the Supreme Court issues its final opinion for the 2025-26 term.
The opinion, which none of the justices are expected to discuss in their testimony, includes a ruling upholding the constitutional right to birthright citizenship, which Trump had sought to curtail with an executive order. Barrett and Kagan were in the majority in that stake.
Kagan was also part of a 5-4 majority opinion that said Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook while the lawsuit challenging her dismissal continues in federal district court. Barrett was in the minority in that case.
But Barrett was in the majority, and Kagan was in the minority, in ruling that Trump had the right to fire. federal trade commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter. That decision gave presidents the power to remove members of nominally independent agencies.
In his 2019 opening statement to the subcommittee, Alito thanked its members “for providing a substantial amount of additional security funding to the Court last year.”
“We are carefully and deliberately putting those new funds to work based on a top-to-bottom review of our current practices by highly respected and experienced security experts,” Alito said.
Since that testimony, concerns have increased about the safety of the nine Supreme Court judges.
In May 2022, safeguards and security for judges were increased after the leak of a draft opinion written by Alito, overturning nearly half a century of Supreme Court precedent. roe vs wade It was said that abortion is a constitutional right.
In response to that leak, protests took place outside the homes of Alito and two of his fellow conservatives on the court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
According to court records, on June 8, 2022, a 26-year-old California man armed with a handgun, knife, pepper spray and burglary tools was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland after he told police he was there to kill the judge.
man, nicholas roesketold police that he was troubled by the possibility that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe v. Wade, which it did weeks later when Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was officially released.
Roske pleaded guilty to attempting to kill Kavanaugh in April 2025 and was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison in October.