March Joseph Stern. You know what I love?

What do you love?

A surprise ending.

There is almost always a surprise twist at the end of the Supreme Court term. Not every year,

but they happen more often than you think, and that's the fun of this

job. Mark Joseph Stern covers the courts for Slate. Sometimes it's a twist that is just gut-wrenching and

horrifying, but every once in a while, it's a twist that makes you a little bit less depressed

about democracy. Hold it. Which twist was it today? Well, it was both of those.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court surprised Mark by handing down two decisions that flipped the way he thought about the justices and could flip the way democracy works in this country. Yeah, I called it good news, bad news at the

Supreme Court. Yep, that's pretty much it. That's something even your grandma could understand,

right? I mean, like hundreds of pages of opinions, but that's the upshot. Some good news,

some bad news. Everyone goes home feeling like they won something. And lost something.

And lost something. And lost something.

Today on the show, the first year of a more conservative Supreme Court is coming to a close.

What the big decisions about gerrymandering and the census tell us about who the new justices are and how they intend to rule.

I'm Mary Harris. You're listening to What Next?

Stay with us.

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She wrote about the incident in her upcoming book.

New York Magazine ran an excerpt.

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