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Beats being that.

I like having slates Mark Joseph Stern on the show because he manages to have a sense of humor

about the Supreme Court.

I laugh so as to not cry.

You know, it's pretty brutal at the court these days.

Mark laughs even as he acknowledges that the court's jurisprudence this term

amounted to a bloodbath for progressives.

And Mark is a progressive.

There was the abortion ruling, of course, but then this long line of other decisions.

I mean, how much time do we have here?

For gun owners, the court established a constitutional right to conceal to carry.

The justice is OK'd prayer on a school football field.

And they ruled that even if a prisoner has proven their innocence,

they may have to stay behind bars anyway.

But it's not just the rulings themselves that upset Mark.

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