Jodi Kantor
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the court will often issue a cryptic opinion.
We're talking about like one paragraph.
It will say what should happen, but it won't say why.
And these are not minor issues.
They're technically temporary decisions, but they've had
They have been used to award President Trump a lot of power.
For example, one of the questions dealt with in this cryptic way over the past year was about who can be deported and how.
And we don't know what the court's logic is.
So I just really want to make sure that listeners know that the court is not explaining itself in a lot of these cases.
And it only makes our journalism more important, right?
Because there's our rationale.
We have this imperative to see and to understand.
What keeps you doing this work?
Oh, I love doing this work.
The idea that a regular person like me, Debbie, can pose questions of the Supreme Court and actually answer