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Kaganism: The People Steering Us Into Another World War

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The Iraq war debacle, the relative (to Bush) restraint of the Obama administration, and the 2016 anti-interventionist campaign of Donald Trump may have seemingly discredited the neo-conservative movement and its personalities, but they have come roaring back.

This new stage in American foreign policy could be characterized as Kaganism: neither Democrat or Republican, but rather a non-partisan 21st century crusade for “liberalism.”

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Justice Elena Kagan: Legitimacy Of The Supreme Court Is Now At Risk

Via ZeroHedge

Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan said that the highest court in the land risks losing legitimacy without a centrist swing-vote, reports Bloomberg.

In Friday comments made just hours after the US Senate cleared the way for USSC nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, Kagan said that the court benefitted from having centrist Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Anthony Kennedy over the past 30-plus years.

The presence of O’Connor and Kennedy “enabled the court to look as though it was not owned by one side or another and was indeed impartial and neutral and fair,” Kagan said to an audience at Princeton University. “And it’s not so clear that, you know, I think going forward that sort of middle position — you know, it’s not so clear whether we’ll have it.”

She added: “All of us need to be aware of that, every single one of us and to realize how precious the court’s legitimacy is.” –Bloomberg

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