Kagan Defends Public’s Right to Criticize US Supreme Court (1)

US Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan defended the right of people to criticize the court’s decisions and whether the justices are doing their jobs.

While speaking Saturday at an event for Princeton University alumni, Kagan said the public’s entitled to express views about whether the court “is doing its job properly, no matter how hard we’re working and seriously we’re taking things.”

“In the end, the results matter, people are absolutely entitled to make judgments about the court based on the results that the court is reaching and the reasons that the court is giving for those results,” she said. ...