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Supreme Court justice sounds alarm over ‘nightmare’ unleashed by her colleagues: NYT

A Supreme Court justice delivered a blistering assessment of her own court's record on elections just two weeks before the midterms. Justice Elena Kagan told an audience at Catholic University's law school on Tuesday that the conservative majority's rulings on campaign finance, partisan maps and voting rights have deepened the nation's divisions, The New…

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