Elena Kagan Wants People To Feel Comfortable About Their Right To Criticize The Supreme Court – Above the Law

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In the long run, the outcomes matter, individuals are completely entitled to make judgments in regards to the courtroom primarily based on the outcomes that the courtroom is reaching and the explanations that the courtroom is giving for these outcomes.

—  Justice Elena Kagan, in feedback given throughout Princeton College’s current Alumni Day occasion, the place she defended the general public’s proper to criticize whether or not the Supreme Courtroom “is doing its job correctly, irrespective of how laborious we’re working and significantly we’re taking issues.” Kagan was later awarded the varsity’s Woodrow Wilson award.

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