Adam Serwer

They weren't facing that kind of pressure to disenfranchise Black people.

If they had upheld Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, it's not like people would have been showing up to the court trying to burn it down.

I mean, I think, you know, the other thing is that that court, the 1870s court, maybe didn't understand the consequences of what they were doing.

But these people have done it without the public pressure, but with the knowledge of hindsight.

So in some ways, you could actually argue that.

that they're worse.

Henry Billings Brown only wrote one Plessy and Alito has basically written two.

I make a lot of things of the story, none of which I'm in a place to discuss because the Atlantic has asked us not to talk about it.

I would just repeat, you know, I'm just joking.

And I don't...

I don't want to put the magazine in like a weird legal position.

So I just point to our public statements.

I will say hypothetically, you know, if I were the head of head of the FBI, you know, I would try to act with the utmost integrity and the knowledge that I'm running an organization full of investigators and bureaucrats who are very familiar with chains of evidence and documentation.

So, you know, I don't know that I would, uh,

I'd be trying to piss off my workforce if I were running the FBI and I were in that situation.

Well, there's also, you know, Brennan Carr jawboning ABC over Jimmy Kimmel because he's making jokes the president and his wife don't like.

I mean, look, these people's philosophy of free speech is that Republicans have the right to say what they want to say and you have the right to say what Republicans want to say.

And if you don't say those things, you might be subject to legal or professional sanction.

It's one thing for the administration to be total liars on this.

And there are some people who have been consistent, but I think it says a great deal about