mexico while their asylum cases are under review. so what do these major rulings say about the direction of the court, and what can we expect for the next term? ilya shapiro is author of supreme disorder, which is available on paperback on tuesday. ilya, welcome. good to see you here. historic term for the supreme court. did the court surprise you with its ending? the court finally colessed; has, the conservative majority that has long been promised, expected, feared, vaunted finally came together this term. and i don t know whether it was terribly surprising, but it was a little breathtaking to see it actually happen. this is what, you know, many people thought would happen once all of these justices, particularly the trump-appointed ones, got on the bench, but it didn t happen last year on the bench, it didn t happen right when brett kavanaugh was confirmed. but here with all of this constellation of issues that you listed there, it really took a significant jump. and,
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it s looking at constitutional provisions for their original public meaning when they are enacted, whether that s 1789 or 1868 for the 14th amendment that provides protections against state violations of individual rights. and for that, you look at resources like contemporaneous diction dictionaries, you look at newspapers. the federalist papers are relevant because it shows how people of that generation understood the various terms that are in the constitution. and, look, it s not an easy task. it s not a mechanical task that you just program a computer for. this is serious historian, serious legal/academic debate, the meaning of these decisions. paul: big chunks of the opinions now look at that original understanding and rye to explicate it for why they reached the decision that they did. i look at a lot of the cases here, abortion, religious liberty, as a kind of a judicial clean-up operation where these justices think that the court