Anyway, we should take an actual podcast.

Yes.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

I'm Matthew Glacias here today with Darren Lynn and Jane Kostin.

This has been a week.

It's been a week.

It's been a lot of news, but I think that when we look back in the grand sweep of history,

we will see the Supreme Court news of this week as the most enduringly consequential.

Justice Anthony Kennedy both sided with conservatives on a whole bunch of cases to close out the

week and then drop the news that he's retiring.

And it has, I think, just as a big deal, substantively.

And I've also, I've experienced it in readers and people I know this has been like a psychic

gut punch to a lot of American liberals who had been looking to the courts as an institutional

check on Donald Trump and seeing both the swing justice throw in with the conservatives

on a bunch of cases and then hand the seat over to the Trump regime is a, it's like

a reminder that this has really happened.

Yeah, I would like to state for the record for those of you who were listening to last

week's podcast that Inter Alia talked about the potential retirement of Justice Kennedy.

At least one of you has blamed me personally for the retirement because in calling him

the messiest drama queen of them all, I apparently hurt the Justice's feelings and caused him

to retire.

I would like to say that if this is the case, that characterization stands entirely.

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