The Supreme Court returns to the bench today, a return that is marked
mostly by tension and is perhaps unlike any other in the history of the
institution. “The normally relaxed season for heading to vacation homes
and teaching abroad was marked by the most intense security footing ever
for the justices, along with uncommonly public internecine strife among
the court’s members,” POLITICO's senior legal affairs reporter Josh
Gerstein writes. 

Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and Josh Gerstein discuss the cases coming
up before the court in this term, the seditious conspiracy case
involving Oathkeepers' founder Stewart Rhodes and former president
Donald Trump's ongoing showdown with the Justice Department.

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