country to the right, giving them favorable rulings on issues even if the majority of americans don't support them. how much of an advantage does that give republicans politically? is the court essentially a gop backstop? >> well, you know, that is sort of an unknowable question. but i do think what we do know is that the politics of this are shifting, don, and that it's very likely that it's now democrats who may become more focused not only this election year but in the coming years in organizing around a campaign for a long-term effort to retake the supreme court to restock the federal judiciary with progressive-type judges. and i think you've seen that conservatives basically are now in the victory lap and with the spoils of their really long-term plan to retake the supreme court. so what will be interesting to me is how much is president biden and are democrats this year able to use organizing