Justice Kagan: ‘When Political Figures of Any Stripe Are Trying to Intimidate Judges and Justices ... That’s Where We Really Have Crossed the Line’

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KAGAN: “Wherever these come from and, you know, whatever political figure says them, whatever party that political figure is a member of, it — these statements are really unhelpful. They’re dangerous in terms of individual justices’ security and they’re not appropriate way to treat a coordinate Branch of government. I think that Chief Justice had a year-end statement last year where he talked about this issue and he talked about, like, criticism is fair game. I mean, go for it. You know, life in the big city is that you’re subject to all kinds of criticism. But intimidation is a different thing entirely. And when political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like rather than the things that they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed a line.”