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Economist reporter notes that the Supreme Court's legitimacy and popularity are 'at an ebb'

Steven Mazie, who covers the Supreme Court for The Economist, laid out a lengthy thread the other day on Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2022 year-end report. Apparently, the report is *long* on subtext but “makes scant explicit reference to SCOUTS’s most tumultuous year in memory.” Roberts also “paints judges as potential martyrs for the rule of law in the face of profound public pressure opposing their rulings.” We’d like to see the portion of the report where he does that — it’s probably in the subtext.

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But one tweet in the thread has gotten more attention than the others; it’s this one in which he notes that the court’s legitimacy is “at an ebb (to put it mildly).”

Oh, and Roberts didn’t mention Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife:

This is a time when the popularity and legitimacy of the media, and The Economist, is at an ebb:

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And we’re not sure why we’re supposed to care that the court’s popularity is at an ebb (among journalists). Is there some rule that journalists covering the court have to be progressives who’d just as soon see the court abolished?

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