Kagan warns the Supreme Court must 'act like a court' to keep Americans' faith
WASHINGTON – Associate Justice Elena Kagan isn't waiting to get back onto the Supreme Court's bench before posing some tough questions.
As the high court readied itself for another consequential term, Kagan used a series of public appearances to describe how she believes the court should function – and to warn that Americans will lose faith if the institution is viewed as another political branch.
It goes without saying that the former solicitor general and dean of Harvard Law School chose her words carefully, declining to cite by name the landmark decision in June to overturn Roe v. Wade, for instance, or a major ruling days later that has left many gun regulations in states across the country on shaky ground under the Second Amendment.
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"The court shouldn't be wandering around just inserting itself into every hot button issue in America, and it especially, you know, shouldn't be doing that in a way that reflects one ideology or one...set of political views over another," she said Sept. 19 during a question-and-answer session at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island.
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As was posted in one on my alumni groups today, no one tells a Hunter girl to be quiet.
