i think that it is correct that if you look at the long arc of the supreme court's history, it is not a never ending stream of liberal defeats over and over again in every single individual case. You know, historically, the party that appointed a justice wasn't necessarily a great predictor of how justice would vote on the supreme court. And i think that both political parties have gotten very, very good at figuring out what kind of judges they need to appoint to get the results that they want. S it turns the supreme court into something that it's not supposed to be. It turns it into a partisan institution.
The Supreme Court overturned a 49-year-old precedent that secured the right to an abortion. Irin Carmon from New York magazine breaks down the case and Vox’s Ian Millhiser argues the Supreme Court is undermining democracy.
This episode was produced by Haleema Shah and Amina Al-Sadi, edited by Matt Collette, fact checked by Victoria Chamberlin and Victoria Dominguez, engineered by Paul Mounsey, re-uploaded by Efim Shapiro and hosted by Noel King.
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