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Supreme Court Justices Kagan, Sotomayor concerned about court being viewed as politically divided
The Blaze ^ | October 6, 2018 | Teri Webster

Posted on 10/06/2018 7:23:13 PM PDT by TBP

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor said they are concerned the court’s legitimacy could be undermined if it is viewed as politically divided.

What did they say?
“We don’t have an army, we don’t have any money, the only way we get people to do what we say that they should do is because people respect us and respect our fairness,” Kagan said in an NJ.com report.

“Part of the court’s legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing structures of this country now. In other words, people thinking of the court as not politically divided in the same way, as not an extension of politics, but instead somehow above the fray,” she also said.

The two Princeton graduates made their comments Friday during a “She Roars” women’s conference Friday at their alma mater. They avoided saying anything about the contentious atmosphere surrounding Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
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The left is in a tizzy. They really do believe that any time they lose, it's ipso facto illegitimate.
1 posted on 10/06/2018 7:23:13 PM PDT by TBP
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The two skank, extremist political hack Justices should just move the the right of Roberts and become the swing votes [libtards...].


2 posted on 10/06/2018 7:25:21 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Supreme Court Justices Kagan, Sotomayor concerned about court being viewed as politically divided

Because it is.

3 posted on 10/06/2018 7:25:50 PM PDT by Politically Correct (A member of the rabble in good standing)
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Duh?


4 posted on 10/06/2018 7:25:55 PM PDT by Misplaced Texan (July 4, 2009 - the first day of the 2nd Revolution!)
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Liberal judges basing every decision on their liberal feelings and emotions instead of the constitution worried they are viewed as too political. Yeah.....ok.


5 posted on 10/06/2018 7:25:58 PM PDT by vespa300
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These 2 Gargoyles can go hang around outside on the roof


6 posted on 10/06/2018 7:26:18 PM PDT by butlerweave
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Well, if they stepped down, it would go a long way to end that division.

“Divisiveness” to the Left always mean failure to obey them.


7 posted on 10/06/2018 7:26:37 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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In other words, the role of the court is to comfort leftists. Got it.


8 posted on 10/06/2018 7:26:46 PM PDT by samtheman (On to victory in November)
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Resign then. Both of you.


9 posted on 10/06/2018 7:27:40 PM PDT by alstewartfan ("We circle each other in flight Til together we roll like the ocean In its bed at night" Al Stewart)
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A little late, skanks of Hell.


10 posted on 10/06/2018 7:28:16 PM PDT by sitetest (No longer mostly dead.)
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no political division with the 2 women Obama SC appointees attending a womens conference called ‘she roars’ at a communist university bastion of upper learning Princeton, now is there ??? /mucho sarc


11 posted on 10/06/2018 7:28:27 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Without the rule of law, you got nothing.

Make stuff up, bend the rules, then wonder why no one cares about the rules.

12 posted on 10/06/2018 7:28:59 PM PDT by going hot (happiness is a momma deuce)
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Cue the crying libs.

Didn’t one of these witches not even have judge experience?

Shut up, betches.


13 posted on 10/06/2018 7:29:27 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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The left is in a tizzy. They really do believe that any time they lose, it's ipso facto illegitimate.

Well said, and exactly right.

14 posted on 10/06/2018 7:29:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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the court should not be, is not intended to be a political branch of government

but that ideal, so carefully crafted by our founders of our republic, went bye-bye (under FDR) and again under Clintoon/Obammytoon

it is ironic how some of the commie leftist ideologues on the court are just NOW getting “concerned” about itrs politicization.... they expressed no such concerns while they were ‘ruling the roost’ on the court for the CPUSADNC


15 posted on 10/06/2018 7:29:56 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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Democrats demand democracy, but don’t want it.


16 posted on 10/06/2018 7:30:03 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (The Red Queen wasn't kidding.)
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News Flash: Nobody gives a shit what the Kegger and Wise Latina think.


17 posted on 10/06/2018 7:30:27 PM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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If they are so concerned about a politically divided court, then maybe they should consider moving themselves more toward a constructionist perspective. Problem solved. Kumbayah.


18 posted on 10/06/2018 7:31:08 PM PDT by Prince Caspian
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I guess these people have never thought about just abiding by and upholding the constitution. It’s not exactly rocket science.


19 posted on 10/06/2018 7:31:27 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Well, on the one hand, some justices read the law and apply the law.

And on the other hand, some justices are Progressive activists who legislate from the bench.

So, yeah, there is some division. But we’re working to end that.


20 posted on 10/06/2018 7:31:32 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The MSM is in the business of creating a fake version of reality for political reasons.)
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