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There is a long-standing theory among Supreme Court watchers that holds that the reason the six conservatives on the John Roberts court keep giving President Donald Trump big wins is because they are attempting not to provoke a fight with him, and thus not invite a so-called constitutional crisis wherein the executive branch and the high court are in an intractable standoff. On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke to Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent at Vox, who writes about the Supreme Court , the Constitution , and the decline of liberal democracy in the United States, and attempted to understand whether this is a logical explanation of the

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