{"id":1665275,"date":"2022-09-29T17:53:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1665275"},"modified":"2022-09-29T17:53:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:53:50","slug":"justice-alito-questioning-legitimacy-of-scotus-crosses-an-important-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-questioning-legitimacy-of-scotus-crosses-an-important-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Alito: Questioning Legitimacy of SCOTUS \u2018Crosses an Important Line\u2019"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fjustice-alito-questioning-legitimacy-of-scotus-crosses-an-important-line%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=1665275&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>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has weighed in to defend the recent rulings from the conservative majority, saying that those questioning the high court\u2019s legitimacy have \u201ccrossed an important line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alito, who penned the majority opinion that essentially sent the question of abortion access back to individual states, was asked by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/kagan-v-roberts-justices-spar-over-supreme-courts-legitimacy-11664394642\">Wall Street Journal<\/a> whether overturning precedent threatens the Supreme Court\u2019s legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt goes without saying that everyone is free to express disagreement with our decisions and to criticize our reasoning as they see fit,\u201d Alito told the Journal on Sept. 27. \u201cBut saying or implying that the court is becoming an illegitimate institution or questioning our integrity crosses an important line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alito\u2019s comment comes as Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elena-kagan\">Elena Kagan<\/a> and Chief Justice John Roberts appeared to engage in a debate without mentioning each other\u2019s names. Speaking at a Northwestern University School of Law forum, Kagan implied that the conservative majority on the nation\u2019s highest court was acting for the political benefit of Republicans and, as a result, damaging the Court\u2019s legitimacy in the eyes of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen courts become extensions of the political process, when people see them as extensions of the political process, when people see them as trying just to impose personal preferences on a society irrespective of the law, that\u2019s when there\u2019s a problem,\u201d Kagan said at the Sept. 14 event.<\/p>\n<p>Kagan reiterated the claims during her visit last week to Salve Regina University in Rhode Island, implying that the conservative justices have trouble putting partisan politics aside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe very worst moments have been times when judges have even essentially reflected one party\u2019s or one ideology\u2019s set of views in their legal decisions,\u201d said Kagan, an Obama appointee and former Harvard Law School dean. \u201cThe thing that builds up reservoirs of public confidence is the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has weighed in to defend the recent rulings from the conservative majority, saying that those questioning the high court\u2019s legitimacy have \u201ccrossed an important line.\u201d Alito, who penned the majority opinion that essentially sent the question of abortion access back to individual states, was asked by the Wall Street [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":392,"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-1665275","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\/1665275","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\/392"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665275\/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=1665275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}