Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system ‘a nightmare’
by Anna Betts from US news | The Guardian on (#796VR)
Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more
Elena Kagan criticized rulings made by the US supreme court's conservative majority this week, arguing that its recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance had undermined America's democracy.
The court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works," said Kagan, one of the court's three liberal justices, during a discussion at Catholic University's law school in Washington DC on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.
Continue reading...