Partisanship at the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In the coming days, the Supreme Court will announce its decisions on two cases that ask the same basic question: how far should partisan politics go? One will determine whether a citizenship question will appear on the 2020 census. The other asks whether partisan gerrymandering is constitutional. With these decisions imminent, that same question about partisanship in non-partisan institutions hangs over the court itself. Still wounded by Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation battle, the nation’s highest court has a “virus of illegitimacy.” And with Democratic candidates endorsing proposals to pack the court, that virus could remake the third branch of American government. On this week’s Radio Atlantic, Isaac Dovere discusses the court with lawyer and Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	June is Supreme Court decision season.
0:53.0	Every Monday this month, we'll be waiting on the biggest decisions from the court this term.
0:57.0	Two of the biggest, about including the citizenship question on the census,
1:02.0	and about whether partisan gerrymandering is constitutional.
1:05.0	Both of these cases ask the same basic question.
1:09.0	How far should partisan politics go?
1:12.0	That question is also being asked of the court itself.
1:16.0	Its year began with the Brett Kavanaugh hearings,
1:19.0	which changed a lot of feelings about what's happening with the justices.
1:22.0	So today, we're discussing partisanship. feelings about what's happening with the justices.
1:22.8	So today, we're discussing partisanship and the Supreme Court.
1:26.9	Will the justices cement election maps and census questions
1:29.7	as partisan tools?
1:31.6	And do questions about the court's own partisanship threaten its legitimacy.
1:36.2	With me in studio to walk us through it is lawyer, slate writer, and avid court watcher, Mark
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