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Roe v. wade the landmark case plainly wrong and lamented that the second amendment has become a disfavored right. the court will wade into the culture wars on both issues before 2021 concludes, with arguments on a new york gun law restricting people carrying guns in public in november and arguments on a mississippi law banning most abortions after weeks, a direct challenge to roe v. wade on december 1st. fractures in full view with stinging dissents from the liberal leaning justs after five conservatives refused to block the texas law banning most abortions after six weeks without hearing argu...

Don't move in the other direction, demand cameras, demand more transparency. >> when you look at what justice alito said, and it really echoed in a lot of ways what republicans were saying at the hearing last week that was focused on this idea of the supposed abuse of the supreme court's shadow docket, these are things that the court generally does without explanation, might not even tell you which justices voted in which way on a given case and increasingly, what's happened is a lot of these things that have been done using the shadow docket have been very significant and i think the texas ab...

Reputation. a poll found americans' opinions have dropped to a new low, with 40% approving of their job performance. joining me to break it down, a justice correspondent for "the nation" and all things snark and potus. and noel nikpour. great to have both of you with us. i want to start with what the court is expected to hear. they made several major decisions this year using the so-called shadow docket. just last week, you had justice alito taking issue with people using that term saying it's portrayed in a negative way. it has given this sense of a dangerous cabal about the court. what do yo...

For that. they think you become like a politician. and i think that's -- that's a problem. >> reporter: the supreme court ignited a firestorm last month when it allowed a restrictive texas abortion law essentially banning the procedure after six weeks, to take effect. the 5-4 decision came down in the middle of the night without a hearing causing critics to slam the action as part of the court's so-called shadow docket. a poll shows a plummeting approval rating of 40%, the lowest in 20 years the liberal justices lashed out with stinging dissents when it ruling came down, some have spoken out s...

About this trend. >> i want to bring up this notion that alito brought up in this speech that he was talking about this shadow docket and referring to something that kagan mentioned on her dissent on the texas abortion case. you testified at a senate hearing this past week about the shadow docket. help us understand what it is and why it may be a concern. >> yeah. so it's really not meant to be a pejorative tern. it's about the obscurity of these rulings. the notion is that we're seeing more and more rulings like the texas abortion ruling where the justices are being asked to decide important ...