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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Anna Betts

Kagan says supreme court conservatives have made US political system ‘a nightmare’

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Elena Kagan on Capitol Hill on 14 July 2026 in Washington DC. Photograph: Finn Gomez/Getty Images

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.

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