Kagan on Scalia: How Two Supreme Court Opposites Became Friends
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 8 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia could not have disagreed more about the Constitution, yet they shared a deep and lasting friendship. Speaking at the dedication of the Antonin Scalia Law School, Justice Kagan reflects on Scalia’s influence on American law, his love of ideas and students, and the personal bond they formed across sharp ideological divides.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.6 | This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories, the show where America is the star |
| 0:20.4 | and the American people. |
| 0:22.6 | And today we have a final thoughts for you, and this can be a eulogy, a remembrance of someone |
| 0:27.7 | important in your lives or an American life who died. |
| 0:30.8 | This week's final thoughts feature comes from Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, honoring |
| 0:37.2 | someone you might not expect. |
| 0:39.8 | Someone completely unlike her, at least as it relates to the law, but completely like |
| 0:46.8 | her in this sense. |
| 0:48.8 | Well, they're human beings, who loved other human beings and being with them, that person she honored is the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, |
| 0:59.6 | someone that she hunted with. |
| 1:01.9 | In fact, he taught her at a hunt. |
| 1:06.6 | And the occasion of Justice Kagan speaking about Justice Scalia was the dedication of George Mason University's law school in his name. |
| 1:18.3 | Let's drop in and take a listen. |
| 1:21.7 | I'm deeply honored to participate in this dedication of the Antonin Scalia Law School. |
| 1:27.7 | Although I have to admit, the name strikes me as a little bit formal. |
| 1:32.6 | I'm wondering if I can substitute the word, Dino. |
| 1:36.7 | It's so fitting, it's so right, |
| 1:40.1 | that a fine law school like this one should bear Justice Scalia's name. One reason that's true, |
| 1:48.0 | the obvious reason, I suppose, has to do with what Justice Scalia accomplished during his time on the |
| 1:54.3 | bench. He'll go down in history as one of the most important Supreme Court justices ever, |
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