Dershowitz: Justices Commenting on Supreme Court’s Legitimacy Hurts the Court
The comments by justices in recent weeks on the Supreme Court’s legitimacy are hurting the nation’s top court, according to Alan Dershowitz, a professor of law emeritus at the Harvard Law School.
Justice Elena Kagan has thrice in recent weeks criticized her colleagues, taking aim at justices appointed by former President Donald Trump after the court overturned Roe v. Wade. And Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts have also weighed in.
“Judges create legitimacy problems for themselves … when they instead stray into places where it looks like they’re an extension of the political process or when they’re imposing their own personal preferences,” she said during one public appearance, at the Temple Emanu-El Streicker Center in New York on Sept. 12. She added that “changes in personnel don’t send the entire legal system up for grabs.”…