fictionalized-ing that somewhere on the other side, they were talking about defunding the police. now they re talking about defunding the fbi, defunding law enforcement, because all that matters to them is that the lord autocrat, donald trump. look, they ve gone down a really extreme road and we are in another posture. we are defending the institutions of democracy, and we re making democracy work, which is why today with such an extraordinary day with the passage of the inflation reduction act. extraordinary, indeed. that was the other big news of today. tell us what this is going to mean for americans when this is going to be signed into law. it s amazing. needless to say, it was done on a total party line basis because no republicans would come over and supported. let s start on, this with climate change, we are reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by the year 2030. this is serious, sustained, dramatic investment in
just be esoteric conversations in a law school classroom and in a number of cases that the supreme court takes even in their shadow dockets where we have no idea what they re truly thinking about those issues. that s going to be the very transparent among themselves moment, which the public we have no idea. and the instances involving criminal defendants in particular, i suspect it will be particularly influential at this court on the shadow docket. yeah. that s a great point about the shadow docket as well. look how critical it has been in the last term. gloria borger, to you. she talked about judicial philosophy and said essentially yesterday i do not have a specific judicial philosophy, she would be taking breyer s seat, he wrote the book making democracy work, about being pragmatic. mitch mcconnell took aim at her for that, saying we need an answer, we need to know what her judicial philosophy is. how much of the line of questioning today do you think will be focused on that?
Any number of Washington, D.C., law firms with Supreme Court practices would likely pay top dollar for the services of a retired Supreme Court justice. After all, that person would