lowest approval rating since gallup has been polling, right? so depending on the pole it was the high 30s, the low 40s. i know that seemed astronomically high compared to other branches of government, but it is catastrophically low for the court, and it has dropped substantially in a really compressed amount of time. i think a thing we have to think about is that when justice alito, or justice gorsuch, or justice barrett say, oh don t criticize the court, because you are undermining the legitimacy of the court, and when you hear the courts say, don t impose ethics rules and standards on us, don t force us to have meaningful recusal roles, but they re saying is don t criticize the court, because you re undermining the court. i think your point here is so important, which is that the court is undermining the court. which whether it s the shadow, docket as you said, the ethics violations, whether it s reaching out to take cases that are not before it. there is a whole litany of things tha
legitimacy of the court, and when you hear the courts say, don t impose ethics rules and standards on us, don t force us to have meaningful recusal roles, but they re saying is don t criticize the court, because you re undermining the court. i think your point here is so important, which is that the court is undermining the court. which whether it s the shadow, docket as you said, the ethics violations, whether it s reaching out to take cases that are not before it. there is a whole litany of things that the court has done, in a really short amount of time anybody who cares about the court, maybe just end with this. because i think it s really important, there is a non trivial chance that the 2024 election goes to the court. and the idea that progressives and democrats want to undermine the court because they want the court to come down with a decision we can all ignore is chilling. because i ve as i ve said many