The Supreme Court this summer handed conservatives a victory nearly 50 years in the making when it overturned Roe v. Wade . Liberals, including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan , are taking the defeat poorly — so poorly, in fact, that they’ve taken up questioning the legitimacy of the court itself.
This type of reaction is par for the course for liberals.
“When courts become extensions of the political process,” Kagan said this month in a not-so-subtle reference to the court’s recent decisions, “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’s when there’s a problem — and that’s when there ought to be a problem.”
Kagan continued, wink-winking at the idea people may stop respecting the court’s legitimacy should the people suspect new rulings are the product of recent changes on the bench. Wherever would these people get such an idea? Perhaps from a disgruntled Supreme Court justice?
