It does feel like so many of their opinions this term and in recent terms, you know, retrofit around an outcome.

My solution would be more trying to address the underlying structural issues that allow us to get to a point

where a minority faction that is not committed to and antagonistic to the rule of law can get power.

I just think we have to step back.

Like there's a bigger fundamental problem and the bigger fundamental problem is that we have never done the work in this country of actually wrestling with our deep-seated antipathy for a multiracial, multi-faith, pluralistic democracy.

Hello and welcome. Why is this happening with me, your host, Chris Hayes.

Well, June is in the rearview mirror. Summer's in full swing. It's July, and you know what that means.

It means that we've just gone through the last week of the Supreme Court term, which also means a barrage of shocking, appalling, and deathlessly cynical decisions by the 6-3 conservative mega court majority.

This year was no exception.

We got some real doozies down the stretch.

And also, I think, a kind of increasing revelation of the core nature

of the court, some signs and signals about what we can expect going forward, and some of the first

big tests of whether this court would act in a muscular way to restrain the most anti-constitutional

impulses of the Trump administration. It has become something

of an annual tradition here in these parts and why this is happening that we do a Supreme Court

review with my favorite Supreme Court reviewers, the glamorous ladies of strict scrutiny.

That includes Leah Lipman, Melissa Murray, and of course my wife, Kate Shaw. And welcome back to the podcast for another,

I don't know how to say it. Like, I'm so glad to see you and to talk to you, but man, alive is the end

of term, a tough, tough run.

One of the few enjoyable things about the end of June, Chris, is that we get to do this crossover episode with you.

But yeah, it's bleak.

I love that Kate has to wait until the end of the Supreme Court term to have this conversation with you, Chris.

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