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Elena Kagan's warning to progressives attacking the Supreme Court

The liberal justice wants the Supreme Court’s harshest progressive critics to chill out.

Reason By Damon Root Aug 4, 2026, 11:00 AM Captured Aug 4, 2026, 11:33 AM

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Supreme Court is seemingly under fire right now from every political direction.

From the right, President Donald Trump has spent the last year pestering, bullying, and lambasting the Court, including launching repeated attacks against two of his own judicial appointees for daring to rule against him.

Meanwhile, from the left, progressive activists are apparently gearing up to launch another big political push in favor of court packing, judicial term limits, and other measures designed to strip the Court's conservative justices of the 6–3 majority they now command over the bench.

Is anybody willing to say even just one kind word for the Supreme Court as it is currently constituted?

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Origin wording grade

A 4/100 risk

Grade A reflects 4/100 framing risk from editorial voice; each finding below is tied to stored wording.

Report confidence: 80%
Content format: opinion
Evidence findings: 1
Sentences checked: 31
Method: origin-framing-v2

Outlet context is separate libertarian-right (+55, 60% confidence). This profile does not change the article grade.

Evidence behind the grade

Editorial voicebody

+4 · 68% confidence

"I don't think that there are all that many decisions in the recent times, where a court strikes down such an important policy to a sitting president." Of course, the Supreme Court did strike down President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation plan in 2022, though it seems safe to say that Biden's loss in Biden v.

The sentence states an evaluation in the narrator's voice instead of attributing it to a named source. The cue appears in attributed or quoted language, so its score is reduced.

Useful context, not penalties

Opinion format 1
Argumentative wording is expected in this format, so narrator-voice and decision-pressure cues receive reduced weight.
Attributed claims 2
Attribution helps readers distinguish a source's claim from the article narrator's own assertion.

As Josh Gerstein reported in Politico, Kagan devoted a notable chunk of her remarks to "rejecting claims that the high court's conservative majority is in President Donald Trump's corner."
Uncertainty qualifiers 3
Qualifiers such as may, might, or reportedly are disclosed as technique but do not add framing-risk points by themselves.

At first glance, Kagan may appear to be the progressive opposition's greatest legal champion.
Attributed framing cues 1
Attributed or quoted cues remain visible, but their score contribution is reduced to avoid assigning a speaker's wording to the reporter.

"I don't think that there are all that many decisions in the recent times, where a court strikes down such an important policy to a sitting president." Of course, the Supreme Court did strike down President Joe Biden's student debt cancellation plan in 2022, though it seems safe to say that Biden's loss in Biden v.

What this grade does and does not mean

This grade evaluates wording and reader-steering cues, not factual accuracy.
The outlet's general profile is separate context and does not affect this article grade.
Potential omissions require comparison with other reporting and are not graded from one article alone.