Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court

This Is What Happens When Two Supreme Court Justices Play Video Games

Justice Kagan dishes on what it's like to play video games with Justice Breyer.

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[Justice Breyer] had his clerk set it [the video game console] up in his office and I went over to his office. And there we were, killing everybody left and right… [Justice Breyer] thought it was really horrible, really disgusting and repellent. And I was like, ‘next round, next round.’

— Justice Elena Kagan, at an event at Harvard Law School, describing some extracurricular research the justices performed while deciding a case about the constitutionality of a California law banning the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. She went on to add that their different reactions were “probably reflective of the fact that we did come out on different sides of this case… I like to think that there are better reasons than that.” For the record, Justice Kagan was in the majority, striking down the California law.

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