10/13/22 On The Mark: Mark & Joe host Professor Alison Merrill, on the politics of the US Supreme Court, the big decisions that are coming, and the big ones so far

Alison Merrill, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Susquehanna University, who specializes in judicial politics and the US Supreme Court, we talk to us about the ambitious court looking at having another big year of big decisions. We’ll ask why courts have a political lean (shouldn’t objective views of the law being black-and-white?), the impact the Dobbs decision has had on…everything, and what are some of the big issues coming up this year. During open phones, we argue about Pres. Biden falsely claiming his son died in Iraq, COVID trends, vax issues, ivermectin, and we also discuss Rank Choice Voting.