Is the Supreme Court Playing a Political Game Better Than Democrats?

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Four justices have recently given speeches that are very, very defensive. Justice briar is the one liberal who has done this. He wrote a whole book, which i wrote a fairly scathing review of. It's not a very good book, you know, isn't it like a hundred page. The court needs to get out into the public circuit and try to rebot it. There are actually pictures of mich mc connell sitting next to her,. gazing admiringly upon her as she argues that the supreme court is not a bunch of, quote, partisan hacks.

Since the Supreme Court’s "shadow docket" decision to allow the Texas abortion ban to go into effect, a growing chorus of politicians and legal experts have questioned the court’s legitimacy. Vox's Ian Millhiser says the justices aren’t taking the criticism well.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid with help from Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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