‘We enjoy this sometimes’: The rhetorical battle between Justices Alito and Kagan at the Supreme Court
Lucian Nemoiu
CNN — The morning after Donald Trump was reelected president, Justices Samuel Alito and Elena Kagan began jousting more than usual. They personify the ideological and political gulf on America’s highest court. Alito, a 74-year-old Trenton, New Jersey, native is prepared to tear through decades-old landmarks, while Kagan, a 64-year-old New Yorker and one of three remaining liberals, clings to them. The rhetorical sparring this session highlights a pattern between two forceful justices that is
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