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U.S. Supreme Court's Kagan says justices must find 'common ground' again
msn ^ | 10/21/2022 | Nate Raymond

Posted on 10/22/2022 5:49:09 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Liberal Justice Elena Kagan on Friday expressed hope that her colleagues on the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court could get back to finding "common ground," saying it risked looking political by continuing to overturn legal precedents.

Speaking at an event at the University of Pennsylvania, Kagan did not explicitly reference the Supreme Court's decision in June to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide.

But Kagan, who dissented from that decision powered by the court's conservative majority, argued that judges and justices should be "humble" and respect past precedents interpreting laws and rights that people build their lives around.

"If you give people a right, and then you take the right away, well, in the meantime they've understood their lives in a different kind of way," Kagan said during a discussion with UPenn President M. Elizabeth Magill. "So law should be stable."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: commonground; kagan; supremecourt
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Roe v. Wade "decision" was legislation from the bench. It was a political decision that ignored the Constitution. The Justices who supported it, literally in broad daylight took a lead pipe and kneecapped the Constitution.

As such the incursion, usurption, was reversed recently Justices who understand their role and oath.

At no point does Kagan the Socialist/Maxist Superlegislator mention the constitution or her responsibility to interpret the law based on the framers intent.

There is your tell.

She is a globalist marionette in a black robe.

She continues to spread propaganda, poisening and aggitating the minds of young adults regarding the law, the purpose of the judicial branch and the role of the justices.

1 posted on 10/22/2022 5:49:09 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

It’s called the Constitution. Do your damn job.


2 posted on 10/22/2022 5:50:07 AM PDT by GMThrust
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Justice Kagan wants to bring back Slavery, was political and wrong for the Court to overturn the precedent that allowed Slavery?

Hell, lets bring back Segregation too


3 posted on 10/22/2022 5:51:17 AM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Yeah. Just as long as they fall on the progressive side of any issue. Besides, branDUHn already let everyone know that none of those pesky things in the Bill of Rights is absolute.


4 posted on 10/22/2022 5:53:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Constitution be damned, she says!


5 posted on 10/22/2022 5:53:49 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

No, they don’t need to find common ground. They need to defeat you leftist lunatics and your insane policies at every possible turn.


6 posted on 10/22/2022 5:54:29 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Typical leftist B.S. They don’t want “common ground”. They want conservatives to cave in to them. And they want to destroy the constitution.


7 posted on 10/22/2022 5:56:29 AM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Try paying attention to the CONSTITUTION for once.
8 posted on 10/22/2022 5:59:07 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Word needs to go out:

Kagan supports Dred Scott!

Kagan supports Plessy vs. Ferguson!

Maybe someone needs to ask Kagan when bad rulings need to be overturned. Even the Notorious RBG agreed than Roe was bad precedent.


9 posted on 10/22/2022 6:00:47 AM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Well then stop your dissents and join the majority.


10 posted on 10/22/2022 6:01:01 AM PDT by cotton1706
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To: eyeamok

“Justice Kagan wants to bring back Slavery, was political and wrong for the Court to overturn the precedent that allowed Slavery?”

Great point. Someone should ask her about that at her next anti-American key note speaker events.


11 posted on 10/22/2022 6:01:17 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

What she means is that conservative judges need to vote with the communists on the bench.


12 posted on 10/22/2022 6:01:45 AM PDT by stockpirate (Where Justice Ends Tyranny Begins...Repression Breeds Violence)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

I have absolutely no respect for her. Anything she says is to be ignored.


13 posted on 10/22/2022 6:02:24 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Translation: Conservative justices need to agree with me more.


14 posted on 10/22/2022 6:02:32 AM PDT by KevinB (Word for the day: "kakistocracy" - a society governed by its least suitable or competent citizens)
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To: eyeamok

I’m cool with segregation, since apparently any and everything I do is racist.


15 posted on 10/22/2022 6:03:12 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Sorry, Justice Kagan. Rights are only given by God. The founders understood that any right that can be given by man can be taken away by man.

I contend that the court finally found the common ground and ms elena is all butt hurt.

EC


16 posted on 10/22/2022 6:03:17 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

No wonder the Democrats are upset. They had the right to keep slaves and then that right was taken from them. So now they fight to enslave us all.


17 posted on 10/22/2022 6:03:34 AM PDT by shotgun
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argued that judges and justices should be "humble" and respect past precedents interpreting laws and rights that people build their lives around.

correcting past mistakes is not being immodest

18 posted on 10/22/2022 6:04:14 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Leftists say things like that when they’re on the back foot.


19 posted on 10/22/2022 6:04:28 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
Isn't this rich.

Democrats false sense of entitlement emboldens them to attempt to define terms like democracy, common ground, climate to mean their politician wishes. Kagan, who never sat on a bench until SCOTUS wasn't crying about common ground before Trump. Probably quite the opposite.

20 posted on 10/22/2022 6:04:30 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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