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Kagan diagnoses American democracy with a Supreme Court problem

Justice Elena Kagan said the high court had created a democracy that does not work as it should.

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Courthouse News Service· Oct 21, 1:32 AMKagan diagnoses American democracy with a Supreme Court problem

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Supreme Court justice sounds alarm over ‘nightmare’ unleashed by her colleagues: NYTA 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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Ahead of Midterms, Justice Kagan Says Rulings Have Intensified PolarizationThe justice said during a discussion that recent Supreme Court decisions on voting rights, gerrymandering and campaign finance have deepened America’s divides.

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