Justice Elena Kagan, one of three liberal justices on the Supreme Court, criticized recent rulings by her conservative colleagues on Tuesday, according to The Hill. The outlet reported that those decisions opened the door to more political spending and weakened key voting rights protections. Kagan suggested that the rulings have driven the country further apart.
The Hill described her remarks as a "pointed critique" of the decisions. Its summary was cut off before naming where Kagan spoke, so the setting of her remarks is not stated in the reporting available for this story.
Fox News also reported on Kagan's remarks. It said she argued that the Supreme Court's gerrymandering and campaign finance rulings are destabilizing democracy and driving political polarization. Its headline, published by Fox News, called the remarks a "dire warning" about American democracy.
The two accounts emphasize different aspects of the rulings. The Hill's summary focused on political spending and voting rights protections, while Fox News's summary focused on gerrymandering and campaign finance. Neither summary named the specific cases. Both outlets tie the rulings to political polarization.
The summaries available for this story do not include direct quotations from Kagan. They also do not say whether any other justice responded to her remarks, and they do not describe the court's own position on the criticism.
Sources: The Hill: Kagan: Supreme Court rulings have heightened political polarization; Fox News: Supreme Court justice turns on her own court with dire warning about American democracy.