{"id":690804,"date":"2026-10-22T12:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=690804"},"modified":"2026-10-22T12:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:18:58","slug":"obama-appointed-scotus-justice-slams-conservative-colleagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=690804","title":{"rendered":"Obama-appointed SCOTUS justice slams conservative colleagues"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ripped her conservative colleagues, suggesting that some of their rulings have undermined democracy and increased polarization.<\/p>\n

In the latest political remarks from one of the three Democrat-appointed justices currently on the nation\u2019s highest court, Kagan slammed rulings on the Voting Rights Act and campaign finance during a Tuesday talk at Catholic University\u2019s law school in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the reason why the court got it wrong was a kind of lack of the appropriate concern or understanding of the consequences of their decisions,\u201d the Barack Obama appointee said during her remarks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI do think in all these areas the court has blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that doesn\u2019t work as well as it should,\u201d Kagan added.<\/p>\n

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Justice Elena Kagan said that the Supreme Court has \u201cblinded itself\u201d to the effects of its rulings and has \u201ccreated a democracy that does not work as well as it should,\u201d at an event Tuesday in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n

Kagan pointed to rulings that weakened the Voting Rights Act and allowed for more partisan gerrymandering.<\/p>\n

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The rare public rebuke of her colleagues comes as both parties have engaged in redrawing of congressional maps to give them a partisan advantage in elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the last couple of years especially, both political parties have been engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of doing these partisan gerrymanders, \u2026 making what I think is unfortunately a too polarized country even more so,\u201d the Obama appointee said. \u201cThe people of America look around and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, and they\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n

The liberal justice was referring to a 2019 decision that judges could not intervene to limit partisan gerrymandering and also to rulings that have failed to get a handle on out-of-control campaign financing.<\/p>\n

She also bemoaned the \u201cevisceration\u201d of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act by an April decision against a Louisiana map gerrymandered along racial lines, blatant unconstitutional discrimination to favor blacks.<\/p>\n

Kagan did not specifically name any of the high court\u2019s conservatives or go so far as to accuse them of being in the bag for President Donald J. Trump, citing rulings on tariffs, birthright citizenship, and mail-in ballots that the president has not been happy with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a period of time where the court was in a better place and the country was in a better place because the court was more balanced and it was unclear whether the court could push through anybody\u2019s program,\u201d Kagan said, according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cNobody in America thought that the court was in the pocket of any one group or any one party,\u201d she added, \u201cand the court had a kind of legitimacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chief Justice John Roberts has rejected suggestions that the court is motivated by politics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not simply part of the political process, and there\u2019s a reason for that, and I\u2019m not sure people grasp that as much as is appropriate,\u201d he said earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Justice Kagan\u2019s remarks come two weeks before voters go to the polls in what could be the most pivotal midterm elections in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

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