From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon about the legal issues. Then, the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
slide from democracy to autocracy. and how should we think about america? because there is this fear in the american left largely that you have this very conservative supreme court that is upending a lot of settles law in america. right. so we ve been talking about what happens when the courts become too weak. it is also possible for courts to become too strong. so in the united states, we have a feature that no other country has. we have life tenure for judges. that means that the supreme court justices could sit for 30 or 40 years. you re having a huge amount of power amassed in the hands of a very small group of people and it is random when they leave the bench. and so you have a kind of disconnect between political influence over the court, the ability of republicans or democrats to appoint the