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FREE DEMENTIA VIRTUAL SEMINAR
Supreme Court Associate Justice Elena Kagan at Penn
Conversations with Dr. Tam Cummings
A Monthly Education Series for the Dementia Caregiver
“Law should be stable.

Peopledepend on law.”
Navigating the Caregiver
Journey - Part Two
SUPREME COURT ASSOCIATE JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN
A major concern for family caregivers of persons
Later in the conversation, Magill
asked a question about how Supreme
Court justices get along when they
disagree on so much. Kagan was nom-
inated to be an associate justice in
May 2010 by President Obama and
confi rmed by the Senate three months
later. Over the last 12 years, she has
seen the court go from the moderate
body that upheld the Aff ordable Care
Act to the 6-3 conservative major-
ity that overturned the constitutional
right to an abortion. She watched the
previous president, Republican Donald
J. Trump, appoint three new justices to
reverse that balance of power.

Th rough it all, though, Kagan
remained an American who, as Magill
explained, would go on a hunting trip
with Scalia.

“Why did you do that?” Magill asked.

“I did it because I promised to,”
Kagan answered.

When the Jewish woman was going
through her confi rmation process, she
did a set of “courtesy visits,” as she
described them, to the senators who
would be responsible for confi rming
her. During those visits, the senators
could not ask her how she would vote
on a case, but they could fi nd ways to
ask her that without asking her that.

Conservative senators would pose
questions like, “Have you ever hunted?
Do you know anybody who’s hunted?”
Kagan told the laughing crowd that
she grew up in New York City, and
that in New York City “this is really
not what we did on the weekends.” But
during one visit, she invited herself to a
gun-loving senator’s ranch.

“And this look of total horror came
on,” Kagan said.

Kagan told Scalia the same story
aft er her confi rmation, and he started
“laughing uproariously,” she recalled.

But then he took Kagan to his gun club
and had his son-in-law teach her to
shoot. During the last fi ve-and-a-half
years of Scalia’s life, Kagan went hunt-
ing with Scalia “not once, but many
times.” “I enjoy his company very much,”
she said. JE
jsaff ren@midatlanticmedia.com
living with dementia is anticipating what will
happen next and how to plan for the disease’s
progression. This webinar will discuss care and more
unexpected twists and turns as the person with
dementia advances towards the latter stages of
the disease.

Tam Cummings, Ph.D., Gerontologist
Author, Untangling Alzheimer’s: The Guide
for Families and Professionals
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