​​Justice Kagan’s Dangerous Rhetoric

​​Justice Kagan’s Dangerous Rhetoric
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan stands during a group photograph of the justices at the Supreme Court in Washington on April 23, 2021. Erin Schaff/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Mark Hendrickson
Updated:
0:00
Commentary
Three years ago, I wrote a column criticizing Chief Justice John Roberts’s obsessive preoccupation with wanting the public to regard the Supreme Court as apolitical. Ideally, of course, the Court wouldn’t be political. Its role in our constitutional order is to defend the integrity of the Constitution, to never fall under the sway of democratic passions, and to remain above the fray of partisan politics.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
contributor
Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.
Related Topics