If you ask Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern if he can predict when we might get decisions from some of the most anticipated cases before the Supreme Court this term, he’ll tell you, “I would not put money on big stuff coming down sooner [but] I would not be surprised if it does.”
Mark is a senior writer with Slate where he focuses on legal issues before SCOTUS, as well as cases across the country. He joined Susan J. Demas on First Draft to talk about key cases deciding issues involving voting rights, birthright citizenship, mail-in voting, gay and trans conversion therapy, and more. And he put this this very conservative court into perspective with others in history.
And while there’s certainly been a MAGAfication of the Court with its conservative majority, Stern says, “There are still some areas where they’ll break from Trump, sometimes just to show him that they are independent and still have their own power. … And those are the areas where there’s hope for Democrats in a decision that’s not full MAGA.”
Want to understand more about what makes this current SCOTUS tick and important decisions on the horizon? Look no further than this conversation between Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern with Susan J. Demas on First Draft, right here on Lincoln Square.
Radical Acts of Courage in Deep-Red America
We’ve all seen the footage from this past Saturday’s No Kings III protests. In the massive crowds of D.C., New York, and Chicago, it’s easy to feel the power of numbers. But there is a story often missed in the national conversation: the groups of people showing up in deep-red rural communities.
