Steve, what do we have to look forward to, both in terms of upcoming cases they'll be ruling on and in terms of the more distant future? What can we hope for from this court?

Yeah, I mean, Dylan, I think the place to start is with diagnosing what's really wrong with the Supreme Court.

And, you know, there is a widespread assumption that the principal problem with the current Supreme Court is its personnel, right? And that, you know, if only we had different justices, everything would be fine.

And so this is obviously one of the animating justifications for court expansion proposals, things like term limits, you know, efforts to try to change who's making these decisions.

And I want to suggest, and maybe this is a bit of a counterintuitive view, that the problem isn't so much the personnel as the freedom the personnel have to maneuver, which is new.

And so there's a quote that I think captures this brilliantly.

Justice Alito, who is great for nothing else if not saying the quiet part out loud, has this wonderful line in an interview with the Wall Street Journal in July of 2023 where where he says, I realize this is a controversial position, but I'm willing to say it.

So my question is, yes, Congress might have that power, but what's more realistic in our immediate future for Congress to seize that power? or for better people to serve on the Supreme Court?

I think Samuel Alito has recently been – called out for just, in multiple cases, citing factually inaccurate evidence when authoring his opinions and or dissents.

Yeah, I mean I think we've seen this a couple of times, Dylan, where – and I want to be clear.

Like Alito is not the only person who does this.

There was an episode a couple of years ago where Justice Jackson had a statistic that turned out to be wrong.

Like the justices make mistakes.

That's fine.

What I think is especially problematic in some of Justice Alito's behavior in particular – Thank you.

But is there consistency to what the Supreme Court has said about mid-cycle redistricting?