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Prices vary based on how you buy. Okay, so Steve, it is ingrained in us as Americans that our government runs on a system of checks and balances.

We're taught this starting in elementary school.

Have there been many checks on the judicial branch in the last few years? No.

Steve Flattick is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center.

I think we've seen very much in real time how few checks there are on the courts today.

We've seen reports of justices behavior that certainly ought to be or ought to have been checked.

We've seen the Supreme Court handing down decisions

that are hard to imagine in a world in which it was meaningfully being checked.

And so I think, you know, you can look all over and find examples of federal courts today acting as

if they're just not looking over their shoulder at anyone or for any reason.

Steve is an expert on constitutional law and the federal courts.

We called him up because last week, as part of a Hail Mary pass to stay on the Democratic

ticket, President Biden told lawmakers he was planning a

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