| Expert pulls back curtain on 'where Republicans go to do what voters reject' The Supreme Court is kicking off its next term and preparing 'to trample even more of our rights,' but as one legal scholar argued for The Nation, 'we, the people, are not powerless in the face of their power grab.' Elie Mystal is a former litigator turned outspoken legal news analyst and liberal judicial reform advocate, who also works as a justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation. In his latest piece from Monday, Mystal lamented that 'things weren't supposed to play out like this way,' as a new Gallup poll found a record-low public approval for the court and a growing frustration among citizens toward its justices getting to 'rule over the American people, more or less, without their consent,' for lifetime appointments. |
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