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American polls as 70% of americans want trump to be president again, even though every single day he denies the outcome of the last election which is the fundamental prerequisite of having a functioning democracy. if the losers don't accept the outcome of the election, you don't have a functioning democracy. increasingly you see republicans preparing for a coup in 2024, purging anybody from the you see them basically approving any means necessary to gain power. trump is holding up ashleigh babit as this wonderful martyr.

Texas. which you did not nullify roe, you did. you can say in a strict sense it did not overrule it. but roe is nullified on the ground in texas. again, things have plain meaning. second of all, it's like, to the point, they know what they are about to do. that's the other thing that feels this way. they are going go in to this term and they can feel everyone waking up to what the court is. >> well, you think that is obvious though. we have had the b-team out here talking about they are not partisan hacks while mitch mcconnell sits flanking them on the podium and justice thomas talking about d...

Jobs in the same way that justice alito is defending himself and his colleagues doing their job. it's not the normal course of exchange in a liberal democracy, he is using the power of the pulpit to intimidate and incite others to go forward and take up a charge against this individual. it's naming enemies. >> also, it's, i mean, i agree with that, i also have -- i think that like adam and steve vladic, the law professor you were referring to who has done great work on this. they, they are in the new to the perry and thrust, we can all criticize each other. the preciousness and thin skinnednes...

It as an independent institution. >> now, to me this is an encouraging development. fun trivia fact, shadow docket, coined by a former clerk of john rodgers, not a crazy liberal. and intimidate the court is a choice of words, because it's just criticism. the level will of defensiveness here shows the criticisms of the court are getting to them. they hear it. they know that the public perception of them is bad. and that's a good thing. because guess what justices alito, we live in a liberal democracy and the court is part of the institutions of liberal democracy, apparently people like sam alit...

Banning phrases, concepts as a tool for stopping people from learning that history. >> well, i mean, these are the symptoms of a weak and fragile society. i can't think of anything more un-american than banning of ideas. i'm not a communist, but i want to understand what communism is about. i'm not an atheist, but i want to understand what that world view is about. in the 1930s the nazis banned reading books by albert einstein, or helen keller, banned reading books in french or english. and that's why we need to recognize that this is a threat not just to the conversation about race and histor...