{"id":422541,"date":"2026-10-22T14:28:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422541"},"modified":"2026-10-22T14:28:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:28:22","slug":"what-justice-elena-kagan-gets-wrong-about-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422541","title":{"rendered":"What Justice Elena Kagan Gets Wrong About Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2026\/10\/22\/what-justice-elena-kagan-gets-wrong-about-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Foundry.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Take Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, for instance. She suggested that the majority decisions of her conservative colleagues are undermining American democracy, citing cases involving gerrymandering, money in politics, and other decisions that give the president more authority over the administrative state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effect of their rulings on how the political system works and has created a democracy that does not work as well as it should,\u201d the justice, nominated by President Barack Obama, said at Catholic University\u2019s law school Tuesday night, Courthouse News reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last couple of years especially, both political parties have been engaged in a race to the bottom in terms of doing these partisan gerrymanders, \u2026 making what I think is unfortunately a too-polarized country even more so,\u201d she said. \u201cThe people of America look around and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, and they\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagan also reportedly criticized the majority for \u201cclearing the way for President Donald Trump and other presidents to remove the heads of agencies that Congress set up to be independent of the chief executive,\u201d The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n<p>Yet these decisions arguably return political power to elected officials and voters, restoring accountability and weakening the influence of judges, bureaucrats, and other unelected actors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foundry. Take Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, for instance. She suggested that the majority decisions of her conservative colleagues are undermining American democracy, citing cases involving gerrymandering, money in politics, and other decisions that give the president more authority over the administrative state. \u201cThe court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats-party-of-fear-party-of-hate-party-of-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422542,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422541\/revisions\/422542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}