Now, the sponsors of this bill, the House bill in Mississippi, said we're doing it because

we have new justices.

The newest ban that Mississippi has put in place, the six-week ban, the Senate sponsor

said we're doing it because we have new justices on the Supreme Court.

So this institution survived the stench that this creates in the public perception that

the Constitution and its reading are just political acts.

That was Justice Sonia Sotomayor this week grilling the Solicitor General of Mississippi

on what it would mean for the court's legitimacy if it does what Mississippi wants it to do.

It was perhaps the most widely quoted portion, at least among liberals, from an oral argument

that revealed a court deeply divided over an issue that stirs up passions among tens

of millions of Americans.

So Totomayor's premise was that, as she called it, the stench of politics, will cloud a

court ruling to strike down row because it will be perceived as the inevitable result

of Donald Trump getting to name three Supreme Court justices who pleased his conservative

pro-life base.

Is there any middle ground left for the court to avoid a momentous political upheaval?

We'll talk to Linda Greenhouse, who covered the court for years with The New York Times

and author of the new book Justice on the Brink on this episode of Skull Duggery.

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