Emily Bazelon

The Democrats take at least a house, if not the Senate.

And then that will absolutely shift the dynamic.

I agree that that is like the main drama of the State of the Union.

I think in terms of the theater of the event, there's also a sort of side question.

Are the Supreme Court justices going to show up?

Usually most of them do.

They sit really close to where the president is standing.

They're there in their robes representing their branch.

You know, presumably they are going to show up because they still think that's part of their role.

And I think it's going to be really hard for President Trump to resist the temptation to go after them.

And, you know, maybe that will just be like a moment of spicy performance and it won't matter a whole lot.

But it also could sort of put, you know, even more of a point on this relationship.

Real difference in how the justices see their jobs versus the president.

I mean, the president went after the conservatives who were in the majority on the tariffs case for being a disgrace to their families, disloyal to the Constitution.

He really might as well have just said disloyal to him.

because that's what's really troubling him here.

And I think if he goes down that road in this kind of public way, you know, on video, which will be streamed over and over again at the State of the Union, that's just going to kind of up the ante.

And, you know, maybe there's something sort of usefully clarifying about that for the American people to see that the president expects the court to do his bidding, even though it is a separate and co-equal branch.

Yeah, totally.

I mean, if you go back to that phrase that he said that they were disloyal to the Constitution.