U S Supreme Court s Kagan says justices must find common ground again
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U S Supreme Court' s Kagan says justices must find ' common ground' again
10/22/2022 4:55:00 AMU S Supreme Court' s Kagan says justices must find ' common ground' again
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U.S. Supreme Court's Kagan says justices must find 'common ground' again Liberal Justice Elena Kagan on Friday expressed hope that her colleagues on the conservative-dominated U.S. Supreme Court could get back to finding 'common ground,' saying it risked looking political by continuing to overturn legal precedents. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.comRegister"If you give people a right, and then you take the right away, well, in the meantime they've understood their lives in a different kind of way," Kagan said during a discussion with UPenn President M. Elizabeth Magill. "So law should be stable." The comments mirroredsimilar remarksKagan, one of the court's three liberals, has made in the months since the abortion decision, in which she has warned the court risked forfeiting its legitimacy in the view of the public.The Supreme Court gained its 6-3 conservative super-majority thanks to three justices named by former Republican President Donald Trump: Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and Amy Coney Barrett in 2020. Read more:Reuters »