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The Authority of the Court and the Peril of Politics
Written by Stephen Breyer
Narrated by Jim Seybert
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A sitting justice reflects upon the authority of the Supreme Court?and how measures to restructure it could undermine the constitutional system of checks and balances.
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Stephen Breyer
Stephen Breyer is a former associate justice of the Supreme Court who served there for twenty-eight years until retiring in 2022. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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