On today’s What Next: This Supreme Court revealed itself to be unpopular, unaccountable, and increasingly unabashed.
Unpopular decisions and multiple scandals involving lavish, undisclosed gifts from conservative megadonors have the Supreme Court handing down decisions under a cloud of public outcry and controversy—but that hasn’t stopped the conservative majority from acting just as hardline as its critics feared.
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