Ahead of Midterms, Elena Kagan Says the Supreme Court Is Undermining Voting Rights
This gerrymandering, Kagan said, strips people of “their rights to voting equality” and has resulted in “driving people away from the center, toward the wings, toward the extremes.” The outcome, she said, is contributing toward what’s already a “too-polarized country.”
She added that these redrawn maps are “very destructive to our democracy.”
How campaign finance rules may come into play ahead of Election Day
In her speech, Kagan also highlighted the role that money increasingly plays in politics.
“The people of America look around this political system and think that all this money chasing all these political candidates is a nightmare, and they’re right,” Kagan said.
A 6-3 ruling split along ideological lines from June in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC removed limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with their candidates, including on television advertisements.
