I think that it points out how glaringly unjust the constructure is. And so the fact that a person can make that decision, and that the impact of that is what it's going to be, i think speaks to the more systematic problem of having a qart the way we have. Why is there no meaningful liberal or left counterpart to the federalist society? I do want to say that like, that bet was very close to actually winning, in the sense that, like, imagine gore gets elected in two thousand and clinton gets elected in 20 16. It's very possible that you could have had a centre left reshaping of the federal judiciary. But basically, because those two
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