Justice Kagan Serves Her Political Biases

What’s wrong with the US Supreme Court is seen in WSJ’s “Elena Kagan’s ‘Political’ Supreme Court” & how the life-long ideologue pretends to long for a nonpartisan Court while trying to shape it like a Trotsky.

As summarized by the op ed: “The Justice gives an assist to those attacking the Court’s legitimacy.” How? When giving a speech at Northwestern U’s School of Law in my ex-hometown Evanston, Il., she opined: “When courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as trying just to impose personal preferences on a society irrespective of the law, that’s when there’s a problem – and that’s when there ought to be a problem.”

Maybe, Justice, look in the mirror? “Whom do you think [Justice Kagan] had in mind?” the editors facetiously asked as she obviously was referring to the Court majority’s overturning of Roe v Wade aka federal abortion on demand in the Dobbs decision. Hint: The judicial activist doesn’t like returning the life & death question back to the States where the Constitution originally put it & will stay put until there’s a properly adopted Amendment. As WSJ observed, if anyone is playing politics on this particular issue, it’s you know who. “Note that Justice Kagan doesn’t defend Roe on the merits,” the editors wrote, “That’s because Roe’s logic was entirely political, an invention of Justice Harry Blackmun, who was a Republican appointee, while the lead dissenter was Byron White, a Democratic appointee.” Not that Justice Kagan’s law credentials aren’t stellar, having clerked for Justice Thurgood Marshall & begun her career as a U of Chicago law professor before serving Bill Clinton as assoc. WH counsel. But, having covered her career there’s one constant: She brings politics to the Court she serves on & complains about it so as to serve her own political ideals.

Davd Soul