Hey everybody. The great Dahlia Lithwick is my guest today, and well, well, I'm feeling

pretty cocky about this one, you know, for a change. Daya Lithwick, senior editor of Slate,

who writes about the Supreme Court and the law and politics, and who's

been with me here quite a number of times, and she always brings it. She's on at just the right

moment. The 6-3 majority in the court has made it quite clear recently that they're not going to

show a lot of restraint.

And Dahlia looks back at what the decisions made by the court in the shadow docket this summer have meant and ahead to what damage they may very well inflict in their 2001 term

that begins on Monday.

Even higher stakes coming up on a Mississippi case that is on the court's docket, which

would put a ban on abortion after 15 weeks.

There's really a question whether Roe will even exist once this term is over.

And you can't be discussing the law now without discussing voting rights and the shaky state of our democracy.

As you'll hear from Dahlia, the stakes are enormous.

Our democracy is facing an existential threat. There just can be no doubt about that.

Two-thirds of Republicans believe the big lie that the election was stolen. It wasn't, by the way.

Only one of these things can be true. The election was stolen or the election was

not stolen. It's not okay for two-thirds of one of our nation's two only major parties to believe

something that has been shown not to be true over and over and over again.

We're at a very dangerous place right now.

On top of that, Republicans have been threatening to let the United States go into default

and cause a worldwide economic disaster.

Mitch McConnell has said that there will be not one Republican vote to raise the debt ceiling

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