we have this. dahli lithwick, one of my favorite writers period but especiall on the urgent matters at han of the court it s good to see you, thank yo for joining the show thank you. still ahead we knew that special counsel jack smith was investigating a trump may had illegall fundraised off the big lie and now, new reporting indicates that mr. smith is interested i how those funds have bee influenced to testimony in the influenced to testimony in the mar-a-lago heading on a family trip? coming up after, that my nah, sorry son, prices are crazy, [son deflates] interview with actor joh leguizamo. what he thinks that donald trump and a shared on town and whatever happened to latino three? that is all ahead, stay with us do it! go to your happy price priceline want luxury hair repair that doesn t cost $50? pantene s pro-vitamin formula repairs hair. as well as the leading luxury bonding treatment. for softness and resilience, without the price tag. if you know. you know it s pa
attorney general or th administration or somebody i the justice department is goin to say, enough is enough merrick garland, the nation turns its lonely eyes to you how much this is cast a shadow over the decision tha is on the courts front burne now, which is the mifepristone decision it s amazing that it has not been turned out, but here we are. they have a couple of days dea with this. do you think this figures at all in, and how do you see tha playing out? i think that there are so many rolling plates. i think that the court is stil recovering from the dobbs leak last year and the unbelievable not investigation into the dobbs leak i think the court is way behin in terms of publishing written opinions this year the pace is unbelievably snow. the last thing that the cour wanted was to have dobbs lan on its doorstep again with a big i told you so wink emoji really, you told us that w could build interstate travel, and you told us that this woul be decided by the politica
folks something that justice thomas said a few years back about the supreme court, liste to this. the court was thought to be the lace dangerous brands an we may have become the mos dangerous. i think a lot of it is our own doing and i think the threat are we have lost the capacity, even i think as leaders to not allow others to manipulate our institutions when we don t get the outcomes that we like. now, look no secret that th united states supreme court ha enormous power i mean establishing marriage equality as a law of the land. all the way to ripping away woman s right to choose. there is not a person in america at thinkers life has not been affected by the supreme court rulings but th spite the insistence of th court that s above politics, this particular court is subject to very little accountability it s the only bunch in the
stuff as well. and together, and the narrativ you get is that with the exceptions and these reall horrible decisions, a long tim ago, the supreme court has bee a generally positive force for american life. but when you actually zoom out and look at its entire history the picture becomes very different. the supreme court, for example throughout the 18 60s, 70s, an 80s, systematically dismantles the federal governments abilit to enforce the laws, to enforc the constitutional amendment written to preserve the rights of the formerly enslaved completely destroys the 14th amendment until the 20th century. there s a way you can think of brown is less this bout of decency, excuse, me and more the court correcting its own mistakes, correcting the thing that already were were don previously to undermine th federal governments ability to protect the rights o americans. the economic rulings of th court throughout its history many people know walk nervy ne york, which sets up this regim of laissez-
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