
746 - Gordian, Not! (7/4/23)
Chapo Trap House
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The Importance of the Court's Influence on Democrats
I feel like who he like it's not who's mad at the court is not equal. I don't think he actually gives a shit if there's some ambient distaste for the court in the population at large, because what are they going to do about it? The things like the Voting Rights Act one and the independent state legislatures one directly impacts democratic lawmakers that could do somethingIndependent of any public opinion which is amorphous and un-shaped and undirectable anyway. But at the same time, like this wasn't even in the conversation for Democratic lawmakers until Dobbs. It's helped give them a lease on life that they would otherwise not have.
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