More infighting at the Supreme Court! But also some apologies? In the Amicus Plus bonus episode this week, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down the public battles between three of the nine justices. Last week was all about Sonia Sotomayor’s takedown of the “Kavanaugh Stop,” but this week she apologized for getting personal. Dahlia and Mark ask if that was a strategic move, and wonder if her apology could be a bad omen for cases still to come. Meanwhile, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the fray, with a robust rejection of Kavanaugh’s shadow docket apologia in a talk at Yale Law School. Then, in a televised speech in Texas, Justice Clarence Thomas took aim at progressivism, blaming it for Nazism, Stalinism, and basically everything bad that happened in the twentieth century.

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Amicus Plus - Bonus: Justices Flaming Justices