
Behind the News: The Reactionary History of the Supreme Court w/ Samuel Moyn
Jacobin Radio
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The Supreme Court's Decisions Are Socialized
I'd love the republicans to have to justify class rule openly in order to get the kinds of laws passed that would take the country in the direction supreme court has. My basic trouble with the supreme court is whenever it makes a decision, it's choosing policy, but it's pretending it was already decided in the law or, worse, a 200 year old constitution. I'lm speakg wof thel professor and historian samuel moyne, most sceptical of reforms that a focus on personnel rather than structures. Ye me to there's no durability, necessarily, but also the structures shape the personnel. You get on the bench and you start thinking differently from when you arrived
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