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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How about your removal as an unqualified POS?
She has absolutely no idea what an actual constitutional right is, or where it comes from. Wow…that alone makes her hopelessly inadequate to the task of serving as any kind of judge, much less as a Supreme Court justice. As for precedent, if the Court can never overturn precedent then that presupposes that justices are perfect, infallible beings who never make mistakes (or worse, manufacture imaginary “rights” for political purposes).
It’s called the Constitution. Do your damn job.
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Yes, and the so-called justices wearing soilantgreen robes should quite the court or, at the very least, quit gripping. I would suggest they take a Constitutional law exam. Jerks, they are.
The ground below DemocRATS is littered with drugs, feces, and dead babies. Eff them and the sewer they feed from.
If all the justices have the same opinion, we don’t need them.
SCOTUS under regimes like the current one will become irrelevant. No Constitution, no SCOTUS.
Ms. Kagan - The job of a Supreme Court justice is NOT to find common ground! It's to determine whether a law is constitutional or not. That's it!
Overturning laws that are unconstitutional is precisely what the Supreme Court should be doing.
Why isn’t Kayan compromising to find that common ground??
So Kagan is signaling she will move to the right to stand on this “common ground”? My guess is no.
By “common ground” she means, the RATS and their illegal alien crew get whatever THEY want. To hell with the American people. Well, I say to hell with Kagan. “Common ground” my ass. With the Feral “courts”, it’s either the RATS win or Americans win. Anyone who doesn’t believe that is living in La La Land.
Kagan must first respect and expand the Heller decision to start with! (Just to show us she is sincere.)
I agree. That quote shows the scope of the problem of such people as Judges. Entirely ignorant of their job.
Now, with Ketanji Mugabe in the mix, I’ll bet the few “normal” justices are having a ball. What a bunch of misfits!
+1
And here I was happily going through life thinking judges and justices were supposed to uphold laws and rights, not interpret them. /s
Common ground = code for come over to our side.
When the left has the slimmest control, they ramrod their agenda through without remorse. (e.g., Obama: “I won.”)
When they lose, it’s now time for conciliation and certainly not a return to Constitutional principles on any issue.
They’re like fantasy game kobolds or real life muhammedans — ‘peace’ is just the interim while they get ready for another sneak attack. Their ideology deserves the same fate as that of the Aztecs.
Shove your “common ground” gorgeous.
The world is full of breathless, dopey, university-bred snobs like Kagan.
“What agreement has light with darkness?”
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