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I don't blame any of the justices for how broader shifts in, you know, litigation that I think are mostly Congress's fault have put more pressure on the federal courts writ large.

That doesn't mean that the lower courts are getting these cases wrong such that the justices have to be intervening so often.

It doesn't mean that the court has to, you know, sort of upset the status

quo in ways it never had before.

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