On the erudite and thorough SCOTUSBlog, I just picked up this, about the Kavanaugh nomination, from Justice Elena Kagan who was giving a speech at UCLA. My bolding:<\/p>\n
At UCLA Law<\/a>, Kagan declined to comment on the confirmation process (\u201cI think given the events of today, that\u2019s the one question I\u2019m not going to answer,\u201d the Associated Press<\/a> quoted her as saying.). Kagan did talk about the current justices\u2019 extensive efforts at consensus-building, according to the Daily Bruin<\/a>. Perhaps presciently, she noted: \u201cThe court\u2019s strength as an institution of American governance depends on people believing it has a certain kind of legitimacy\u2013on people believing it\u2019s not simply just an extension of politics, that its decision making has a kind of integrity to it. If people don\u2019t believe that, they have no reason to accept what the court does.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n She said it. What of course she couldn’t say or predict is what will happen if and when we “have no reason to accept what the court does.”<\/p>\n That, I think, will be a form of civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the erudite and thorough SCOTUSBlog, I just picked up this, about the Kavanaugh nomination, from Justice Elena Kagan who was giving a speech at UCLA. My bolding: At UCLA Law, Kagan declined to comment on the confirmation process (\u201cI … Continue reading