The constitution was crafted by framers who conceived of we the people in an incredibly circumscribed terms. The republican party has views that are not majority views, he says. Over the last 50 years, democrats have nominated four justices to the supreme court,. Total democratic presidents. Trump is about to nominate his third, despite the fact that he did not win the majority vote.
A timely interview from the archives: legal scholars Aziz Rana and Amna Akbar, and Movement for Black Lives lawyer Marbre Stahly-Butts, on SCOTUS, liberal court veneration, and other big questions on the law and politics facing the left.
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