{"id":1566228,"date":"2022-07-22T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566228"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:05:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T15:05:52","slug":"elena-kagan-says-scotus-might-lose-legitimacy-if-it-ignores-public-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elena-kagan-says-scotus-might-lose-legitimacy-if-it-ignores-public-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Kagan Says SCOTUS Might Lose Legitimacy If It Ignores Public Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felena-kagan-says-scotus-might-lose-legitimacy-if-it-ignores-public-opinion%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566228&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday the court could lose \u201clegitimacy\u201d if it loses \u201cconnection\u201d with public opinion while speaking at a judicial conference in Montana.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan, making her first speaking appearance since the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/bonnie-watson-coleman-scotus-expand-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high court<\/a> overturned <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/women-denied-abortions-raise-children\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roe v. Wade<\/a> in a landmark decision, said it would be \u201cdangerous\u201d if the court loses the \u201cconnection\u201d with the public, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/justice-kagan-warns-us-supreme-court-must-maintain-public-confidence-2022-07-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not talking about any particular decision or even any particular series of decisions, but if over time the court loses all connection with the public and with public sentiment, that\u2019s a dangerous thing for democracy,\u201d Kagan said, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOverall, the way the court retains its legitimacy and fosters public confidence is by acting like a court, is by doing the kinds of things that do not seem to people political or partisan,\u201d Kagan reportedly continued.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7482087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7482087\" class=\"size-large wp-image-7482087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-620x402-1.jpg\" alt=\"Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan&#039;s investiture ceremony in Washington, October 1, 2010. REUTERS\/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-620x402-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-185x120.jpg 185w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-768x497-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-1536x995-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/2010-10-01T000000Z_948924930_GM1E6A20CGP01_RTRMADP_3_USA-COURT-KAGAN-2048x1327-1.jpg 2048w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7482087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security guards walk the steps of the Supreme Court before Justice Elena Kagan\u2019s investiture ceremony in Washington, October 1, 2010. REUTERS\/Larry Downing (UNITED STATES \u2013 Tags: POLITICS CRIME LAW)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Kagan then said the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/19\/stephen-breyer-harvard-university-faculty-retiring-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">court<\/a> \u201cearns its legitimacy by what it does, by the way it behaves,\u201d though there have been times when the high court has been \u201cunconstrained and undisciplined\u201d as justices \u201creally just attempted to basically enact their own policy or political or social preferences.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/07\/18\/prince-harry-supreme-court-rolled-back-constitutional-rights-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Prince Harry Claims US Supreme Court Rolled Back \u2018Constitutional Rights\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court is, by design, meant to be the least partisan branch immune from public opinion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/fed78.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federalist 78<\/a> by Alexander Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them,\u201d Hamilton wrote. \u201cThe executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;That&#8217;s a dangerous thing for democracy&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}