SCOTUS Says “Sorry Not Sorry”

While there were certainly whoops of joy when Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick reunited in this week's Plus members-only episode, there was not much else to celebrate. A judge ruled that in the process of sending National Guard troops to Los Angeles, the Trump administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act. Sooooo what is going to be done about it? Meanwhile, a different court ruled that $2.2 billion in grants intended for Harvard University were illegally canceled. To get them back Harvard will need to go back to court. Again. Mark and Dahlia discuss this news, and also how lower court judges are calling out SCOTUS' unreasoned, incoherent opinions and how some of the Justices are trying to control, alt, delete all the backbiting.

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