Three justices appointed by donald trump, who ran very clearly saying, vote for me. I'll pick justices who'll overturn rove wade. So if it's not overturned in june or july, or sometime this year, it looks like rovy wade will be overturned fairly soon. What does this say about the court as a political body? It has wanted to propound of itself that it's above politics. Is that view now dead? i think that view of the court has been getting harder and harder to hold for a while. On so many big questions, on environmental regulation, an abort on on guns,. In the most contentious questions in american life, gay
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