Welcome to this episode of the award winning Best of Left Podcast.

We are in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for any non- extreme conservatives in the country.

At the same time, as scandal corruption and justices Thomas and Alito's refusal to recuse in the face of clear bias is all reaching a modern peak.

Sources providing our top takes today include Amicus with Dollylithwick,

The majority report, 99% invisible invisible and contempt of court with

L. E. Nestal.

Then in the deeper dive half the show

will go deeper in four sections.

Section A, Do Fact Matter.

Section B, Pol fact matter. Section B, policing medical care.

C, the Republican court we've all waited for,

and D, Scotis is a flawed system. Some of the stuff that you've been writing about what makes this term different, Steve.

And one of them, as you point out, is that we have a whole, I think crap ton is the word I want to use of Merritt's decisions that are coming, and they're all going to be, according to your amazing data-driven classification system, going to be really important and of those I think a

bunch are nationally significant.

This is not like the terms that I am used to where there's four blockbusters in the last two

weeks of June.

This is an entirely different animal and you've been sort of trying to parse out what that means and how that is sort of shaping

May and June and I'd love for you to give us a more fulsome explanation of how this is different.

Sure, I mean so it's different in two ways

that are going to sound like they're inconsistent,

although I think they're coming from the same place.

So, you know, the first way, and this is something

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