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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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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

How about your removal as an unqualified POS?


21 posted on 10/22/2022 6:05:03 AM PDT by farming pharmer (fork you :(){ :|:& };:)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
If you give people a right, and then you take the right away…”

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).

22 posted on 10/22/2022 6:06:13 AM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: GMThrust

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.


23 posted on 10/22/2022 6:10:34 AM PDT by Bodega (Ready to secede now before it's too late.)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

The ground below DemocRATS is littered with drugs, feces, and dead babies. Eff them and the sewer they feed from.


24 posted on 10/22/2022 6:10:48 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

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.


25 posted on 10/22/2022 6:11:39 AM PDT by dforest
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To: 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.

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.

26 posted on 10/22/2022 6:11:43 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Why isn’t Kayan compromising to find that common ground??


27 posted on 10/22/2022 6:12:02 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

So Kagan is signaling she will move to the right to stand on this “common ground”? My guess is no.


28 posted on 10/22/2022 6:12:23 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

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.


29 posted on 10/22/2022 6:13:52 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Veto Beto, FJB.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Kagan must first respect and expand the Heller decision to start with! (Just to show us she is sincere.)


30 posted on 10/22/2022 6:15:43 AM PDT by oldplayer
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To: noiseman

I agree. That quote shows the scope of the problem of such people as Judges. Entirely ignorant of their job.


31 posted on 10/22/2022 6:16:25 AM PDT by KC Burke
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Now, with Ketanji Mugabe in the mix, I’ll bet the few “normal” justices are having a ball. What a bunch of misfits!


32 posted on 10/22/2022 6:16:33 AM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: oldplayer

+1


33 posted on 10/22/2022 6:17:12 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything. )
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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.

And here I was happily going through life thinking judges and justices were supposed to uphold laws and rights, not interpret them. /s

34 posted on 10/22/2022 6:17:38 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Common ground = code for come over to our side.


35 posted on 10/22/2022 6:18:00 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (Maranatha)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

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.


36 posted on 10/22/2022 6:20:10 AM PDT by No.6
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

Shove your “common ground” gorgeous.


37 posted on 10/22/2022 6:20:22 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

The world is full of breathless, dopey, university-bred snobs like Kagan.


38 posted on 10/22/2022 6:21:41 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (/s)
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh

“What agreement has light with darkness?”


39 posted on 10/22/2022 6:24:13 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
The very idea that certain Justices have been described as “textualists” (and as a negative connotation) is extremely problematic. ALL Justices should be textualists.
40 posted on 10/22/2022 6:28:16 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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