What even are words, if not a way to massage the average voter's brain into a jelly? Welcome to you wrong about the Mackenzie Joy Brennan, attorney, and constitutional scholar,

about the Supreme Court.

Some recent decisions of theirs, you may have noticed.

Is there a constitutional right to abortion?

No. And how many crimes can the president commit, most of them.

One of the difficult things, in my opinion, about being an American is that you can tell something terrible is going on but if you don't have the legal

vocabulary to name what you see happening according to the terminology chosen by the profession of the people making it happen, you can feel

too ignorant to be allowed to have an opinion about it. Or at least that's how I feel sometimes.

That is why we are talking today with Mackenzie about the

Supreme Court, what it is, how it works, what powers it claims to have, and what it

claims to derive them from. And one of the central themes in the Supreme Court's claim to power is the concept of originalism.

The idea that the nine justices sworn in for life are uniquely able to interpret the desires and beliefs of the

founding fathers and that this if it were possible would be the correct way to run a

country. The real driving question of this episode for me is

what is the Supreme Court and is it destined to be the thing it is now? And the

answer is no. The world looks a certain way today, but it doesn't have to look that way forever

and it didn't look that way in the past. We have that power.

Thank you for listening. Welcome to your wrong about the podcast where sometimes we just ask a question of

mine that I really want an answer for and our guest today to help us in that quest is

Mackenzie Joy Brennan Mackenzie hello hi I'm so excited to be doing this

except for what brings us here. Yes, I mean, yeah, the last eight years potentially happened because somebody wished on a monkey's paw that they would have

something to write about as like a journalist or something covering America. Oh my God right?

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