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steven mazie is a writer for the economist.ad are not all wrong. take us through the impact and maybe the before and after of not just the dobbs decision, but the dobbs leak. >> sure. well, thank you so much for having me on. it's great to see kim, who is one of my first friends at the court about ten years ago. i don't want to overstate things. there's that little caveat at the end of the piece, right, the justices are not throwing gav gavels at each other, they're not calling each other names. as with most cases, they are keeping calm and carrying on. but the vibes are not great for these bigger cases. specifically the affirmative action cases that were heard in october and the case involving gay rights and religious liberty that was heard in december. so i think we need to peel things back a little bit. it is about dobbs and it's about the dobbs leak, but can we just take a count of the tumult that we have seen at the supreme court over the past few years? we have four new justices who have joined the court since 2017, about

up next, steven mazie covers the supreme court for the economist. he joins us to discuss his recent piece in the atlantic about tensions simmering among the justices. later, our weekly spotlight on podcast series. tim storey of the national conference of legislatures discusses his podcast "our american states" and the top public policy issues facing the states. ♪ >> there are a lot of places to >> there are a lot of places to get political information that only at c-span you get it straight from the source. no matter where you are from or where you stand on the issues, c-span is america's network. unfiltered, unbiased, word for word. if it happens here, here, or anywhere that matters, america is watching on c-span. powered by cable. >> book tv, every sunday on c-span2. latest nonfiction books. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, producer natosha rogoff details her attempt to launch a russian version of sesame street in the early 1990's following the fall of the soviet union. she is the author of puppets in moscow. on afterwards, washington post calls phil bp, aut