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The Trump administration keeps losing in the trial courts, and keeps winning at the Supreme Court. Americans who want to believe that the courts will save us have to reckon with the possibility that the Supreme Court will not. On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick spoke with Judge J. Michael Luttig, a Republican-appointed former federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4 th Circuit. They spoke about Trump’s threat to run for a third term of office as shared by his adviser Steve Bannon, the dangers against American democracy presented by the Trump administration right now, and how the courts may still be the country’s last best hope. Their con

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