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It’s cliché to say that the addition of every new justice should be considered the beginning of a whole new Supreme Court. But with Kavanaugh’s controversial arrival on the bench, there’s reason to believe the Roberts Court really did become something fundamentally different. Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern joins the show to discuss his new book American Justice 2019: The Roberts Court Arrives, tracking the chief justice as he navigates “the political fray without abandoning his conservative instincts.”
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