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Emergency Pod: Samuel Alito’s Pandora’s Box

The Powers That Be: Daily

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How Did We Get Here?

republican leaders for forty years have been, you know, and this is accelerated in the last ten years. White evangelicals were also working with organization like the federalist society to make sure that there wud if there was going to be an octavist court,. as they put it that it would be an actavist court in their image. In more recent history, i think back two verik moments. george w. Bush' winning the presidency without winning the popular vote and then getting to appoint two supreme court justices, two lifetime appointments. And then the same happening with donald j. Trump, not winning the ar vote, by getting to appoint three supreme court justices.

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