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The Justice wants judges, not elected officials, to draw Congressional maps.

Justice Elena Kagan warned that Supreme Court rulings on gerrymandering and campaign finance have created a democracy that "doesn't work" for everyone.

Elena Kagan argued the Supreme Court's gerrymandering and campaign finance rulings are destabilizing democracy and driving political polarization.

Plus: Kagan is still defending the Court from the “bum rap” that it is pro-Trump.

The liberal justice says the conservative majority’s rulings have weakened democracy. Here’s how those decisions affect the midterms—and what Congress could do in response.

Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more US politics live – latest updates Elena Kagan criticized rulings made by the US supreme court’s conservative majority this week, arguing that its recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance had undermined America’s democracy. “The court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works,” said Kagan, one of the court’s three liberal justices, during a discussion at Catholic University’s law school in Washington DC on Tuesday, according to multiple reports. Continue reading...

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan criticized the high court’s recent election-related rulings Tuesday, arguing that the justices have failed to account for how their decisions affect the functioning of American democracy. Kagan’s remarks at Catholic University’s law school in Washington, D.C., come less than two weeks before the Nov. 3 elections, when voters will decide […]

Justice Elena Kagan says decisions by her conservative Supreme Court colleagues have increased political polarization and weakened democracy in the U.S. She spoke Tuesday, two weeks before the midterm elections, criticizing rulings that weakened the Vo...

The liberal Supreme Court justice took aim at various recent rulings, including one that paved the way for rampant partisan gerrymandering of legislative districts.