Why you’re thinking about the Supreme Court in the wrong way
On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti
WBUR
4.3 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Political partisanship is one way to measure how the Supreme Court justices think about how their rulings affect the nation. SCOTUSblog editor Sarah Isgur says another, she believes more important way, has to do with their tolerance for change, with the justices ranging from order-loving institutionalists to true chaos agents.
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. |
| 0:03.3 | Bloomberg follows the money. |
| 0:05.4 | Because behind every headline is a bottom line. |
| 0:09.3 | Whether it's the funds-fueling AI or crypto's trillion-dollar swings, |
| 0:13.8 | there's a money-side to every story. |
| 0:16.5 | And when you see the money-side, you understand what others miss. |
| 0:22.3 | Get the money-side of the story., you understand what others miss. Get the money side of the story. |
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| 0:29.6 | Hey, it's Megna Chakra-Bardi. |
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| 1:21.4 | This is on point. I'm Megachyarabardi. |
| 1:33.7 | In Philadelphia, in 1787, at the Constitutional Convention, James Madison suggested that the newly United States should be ruled by three co-equal branches of government. |
| 1:36.9 | Of course, the legislative, the executive, and the judicial. |
| 1:46.7 | The idea was, and I know you all remember this, that no single branch could become too strong and that each would serve as a check on the others. Okay, so here we are 200 plus years later on the 250th anniversary of the birth of this nation, |
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