Six of the last seven presidential elections have been on the majority vote has been won by democrats. Ginsburg's death and the republican sh to install barrett has suddenly pushed not only court packing, but also d c statehood into the centre of liberal discourse in a way that i can't remember ever seeing. I think it's a good sign that we are seeing more debate about how to re fashion the Supreme Court as kind of the embodiment of law above politics. And i still don't really have a sense of how wide rangingor, let's say, how many people are actually debating it seem.
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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