Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
In the end, the results matter, people are absolutely entitled to make judgments about the court based on the results that the court is reaching and the reasons that the court is giving for those results.
— Justice Elena Kagan, in comments given during Princeton University’s recent Alumni Day event, where she defended the public’s right to criticize whether the Supreme Court “is doing its job properly, no matter how hard we’re working and seriously we’re taking things.” Kagan was later awarded the school’s Woodrow Wilson award.
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