keg. i also think that when we talk about the criticisms that justice alito and other justices have lodged against critics of the court, that comes, maybe, you know, i think the argument is maybe this comes from a place of thin skin, but it also perhaps comes from a place of being able to see what the polls show here. gallup polling shows confidence in the court has hit a new low of late. there was a poll released just this morning from the university of pennsylvania showing a new high in the number of people who would entertain the idea of abolishing the supreme court or restricting its mandate. these are things that very much loom over the court and when that s the picture going into this kind of a term, when there are so many hot button issues the court is going to take up, i think these justices recognize that the decisions that they re about to make are going to be very big ones, not just for the immediate future of the country but also for the future of the court, and this is som
don t move in the other direction, demand cameras, demand more transparency. when you look at what justice alito said, and it really echoed in a lot of ways what republicans were saying at the hearing last week that was focused on this idea of the supposed abuse of the supreme court s shadow docket, these are things that the court generally does without explanation, might not even tell you which justices voted in which way on a given case and increasingly, what s happened is a lot of these things that have been done using the shadow docket have been very significant and i think the texas abortion law is of course the most significant there. but when republicans talk about this, the pushback on this is basically that the supreme court has always had a shadow docket. there are things that it needs to do without holding full hearings, without writing lengthy opinions, and that s true, but it ignores, really, what has been a ramping up of emergency petitions, particularly from the trump