As we barrel through Labor Day and downhill into the midterms, Madiba K. Dennie of Balls and Strikes joins Dahlia to discuss things Trumpian, jurisprudential, and temporal: a district court injunction that halts the Trump administration’s restrictions on mail-in voting for 14 days, and Trump’s request for the Supreme Court to URGENTLY intervene (again). If—as Matthew McConaughey once intoned—time is a flat circle, could it also be a loophole?
Finally, what does the reporting about the Justice’s attempts to shield their papers from public scrutiny reveal about the Court and should we go back to making them ride Circuit on itchy horses?
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