Justice Kagan Warns of Supreme Court With No Swing Vote

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Posted on Sat, Oct 6th, 2018 by Leo Vidal
Justice Kagan Warns of Supreme Court With No Swing Vote


Last night, just hours after Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh appeared to have secured enough votes to be confirmed, a warning was issued by a current Supreme Court Justice.

Associate Justice Elena Kagan said Friday she is afraid that the high court going forward will not have a justice who will serve as a swing-vote on important cases.

Kagan appeared at a conference for women at Princeton University with fellow Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who also represents the Supreme Court’s liberal wing.

Giving some Supreme Court history, Justice Kagan reminded the audience that over the past three decades, first with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and then with Justice Anthony Kennedy, there has always been a swing vote.

To Kagan, the importance of the swing vote is that he or she was the person on the court “who found the center or people couldn’t predict in that sort of way.”

“It’s not so clear, that I think going forward, that sort of middle position — it’s not so clear whether we’ll have it,” Kagan lamented.

“All of us need to be aware of that — every single one of us — and to realize how precious the court’s legitimacy is,” she added. “It’s an incredibly important thing for the court to guard is this reputation of being impartial, being neutral and not being simply extension of a terribly polarizing process.”

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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/10/06/justice-kagan-warns-of-supreme-court-with-no-swing-vote.html

[MichMan]

1. Couldn't any of the 9 serve as a swing vote on any given case?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Merrick Garland

Merrick Garland would be the center swing vote stolen by extremist traitor Mitch.

[Freethinker65]

3. The center of the court is now Justice Roberts

We now get to see how impartial he is. Will he always go along with purely partisan non-constitutionally based decisions to, in Kavanaugh's words, seek revenge on the "left" or will he consider that the constitution is there to protect and provide certain rights to ALL individuals.

[Mystery sage]

4. The other dems on the court need to worry about

Not leaving (retiring) and taking care of their health

I know it hard for them to stay on the court at times but they need to last until after 2020.

In other words pray for them.