Supreme Court justice sounds alarm over ‘nightmare’ unleashed by her colleagues: NYT

A Supreme Court justice delivered a blistering assessment of her own court's record on elections just two weeks before the midterms.Justice Elena Kagan told an audience at Catholic University's law school on Tuesday that the conservative majority's rulings on campaign finance, partisan maps and voting rights have deepened the nation's divisions, The New York Times reported."In all these areas, the court has kind of blinded itself to the very deleterious effects of their rulings on how the political system works," Kagan said, adding that the result is "a democracy that does not work as well as it should."Kagan, one of three liberal justices, spoke alongside J. Joel Alicea, a former clerk for Justice Samuel Alito. While Kagan has penned sharp dissents in election cases before, Tuesday's remarks took on the majority's broader record.She singled out the court's 2019 decision shutting federal courts out of partisan gerrymandering disputes, a ruling in...