Hey, everybody. So a great one today, just the best, the absolutely brilliant

brilliant Daniel Lithwick. No one better. Now, I say that even though I've said a number of

times on this podcast that Heather McGee is my favorite guest. And let me clarify, all this is a

conceit. You see, a comic conceit, like a good one for a change. That's a that's a

conceit because if the norm was that almost all of these shows were shitty, you wouldn't be

listening, right? So a good one for a

change, a comic conceit. Heather McGee, my favorite guest, it's also a conceit, except it's a

different kind of conceit because a good one for a change, the concede is, of course, that isn't true.

Heather, Jesus Christ, she's good.

If you haven't listened to my Heather McGee podcast, just go listen.

But not until you listen to this one, because Dahlia Lithwick is the best.

Dahlia is a senior editor at Slate and writes about the Supreme Court brilliantly,

and there's a lot to talk about the Supreme Court these days.

All of it very disturbing.

I don't consider this a legitimate court.

As far as I'm concerned, they stole two seats, one from Merrick Garland,

when they wouldn't take him up in 2016,

supposedly on the principle that it was a presidential election year.

Scalia died in February of 2016,

and then,

Coney Barrettrett who they seated just eight or nine days

before the 2020

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