{"id":80279,"date":"2026-10-21T09:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/kagan-says-supreme-court-conservatives-have-made-us-political-system-a-nightmare\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T14:56:02","slug":"kagan-says-supreme-court-conservatives-have-made-us-political-system-a-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/kagan-says-supreme-court-conservatives-have-made-us-political-system-a-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system \u2018a nightmare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/21\/donald-trump-south-carolina-data-centers-midterms-ukraine-witkoff-russia-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elena Kagan criticized rulings made by the US supreme court\u2019s conservative majority this week, arguing that its recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance had undermined America\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works,\u201d said Kagan, one of the court\u2019s three liberal justices, during a discussion at Catholic University\u2019s law school in Washington DC on Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-democracy-elena-kagan-4554d6c508f37ac9821dfed06cfa02ab\">multiple reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2026\/oct\/21\/kagan-supreme-court-conservatives-politics-nightmare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal justice says recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance have undermined democracy and polarized US even more US politics live \u2013 latest updates Elena Kagan criticized rulings made by the US supreme court\u2019s conservative majority this week, arguing that its recent decisions on redistricting and campaign finance had undermined America\u2019s democracy. \u201cThe court has &#8230; <a title=\"Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system \u2018a nightmare\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/kagan-says-supreme-court-conservatives-have-made-us-political-system-a-nightmare\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system \u2018a nightmare\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}