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81: The Brilliant Dahlia Lithwick – Slate’s (and Al’s) Expert on SCOTUS

The Al Franken Podcast

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Will You Add Members to the Court?

This is a problem that we are going to have to deal with in 20 22. The lack of action, the sense that this is not a serious existential threat, just emboldens the court. We're talking like a ten year range of things we could maybe talk about, thinking about doing. And i think that in aper world, we could talk about 18 year term limits, and we can talk about jurisdiction stripping. Ther many, many interesting ideas that this commission is sifting through. In the meantime, as you say, democracy is being dismantled right? Whether it's the voting rights act section two last term, whether it is blessing votes oppression, whether It is blessing jerry mand

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