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Several cases related to Trump and Jan. 6 are heading for the Supreme Court—what a way to ring in 2024! Now the court is going to have to make some momentous decisions that could shape the next presidential election, at a time when the court has done its utmost to discredit itself. The whole thing is a recipe for disaster.

“It’s the political and financial dirty work of two decades, coming to light in the span of one year, that the court has brought on itself at the moment in which it should have been beyond reproach,” Dahlia Lithwick writes.

She takes stock of the many shameful revelations that have come out about the high court over the past year, and what a dangerous situation that has set up now.

Plus, in case you missed it: Now might be a good time to revisit our Disorder in the Court package from earlier this year—particularly Lithwick’s piece on how the........

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