 stuff. The leak. So as you know, and I talked about this last show, I talked about the content and towards the about the leak of the world versus Wade proposed to appeal the opinion by Judge Alito. And I talked primarily about the decision itself and about what I think about the decision about what I'd like to see in terms of abortion and everything like that. But and towards the end, I kind of threw out a comment about the fact that the leak was truly horrific. And I thought it justified a little bit more leaking a document like this is is truly undermining of the authority of the Supreme Court of the independence of the Supreme Court. It is it is an attempt to turn everything into mob rule, democracy, people yelling at one another, people placing pressure on one another. You know, the Supreme Court is is one of the last institutions, American institutions, American institutions that is still functioning. I mean, I disagree with so many of the rulings. I disagree with the reasoning behind the rulings. I disagree with. And as I said, I'm very critical of the understanding of people like like our conservatives, like like Alito's understanding of the concept of individual rights and what it means and how to apply it. And I'm very, you know, I'm an idealist and I I want the Supreme Court to have a proper objectivist understanding of individual rights and to rule accordingly. That's not going to happen. So within their understanding of the ideas within the scope of what they do, it is one of the last institutions in our great republic that still functions, that still works, that is, hasn't become just a mockery and hasn't become just just filled with pressure groups and tug of war and just just just tribalism and you know, even the Supreme Court has become more of that because it used to be that you could some judges, you couldn't tell exactly how they would rule in a particular opinion. It has become more that you can tell exactly these are the lefties or the right, they do this, they do that. And that's unfortunate. But it's still a place that's intellectual. It's still a place where they write opinions, where they give you arguments, where there's real debate, they ask questions. People come and present before them, they ask questions, they debate internally, they have discussions, they write drafts, they edit the drafts, they disagree. Even a majority opinion, there might be five, there might be a few different majority opinions and there might be a few different dissenters because people are making an intellectual case for their position. And they see it important to write out that intellectual case. And God, we live in such an anti-intellectual culture, we live in a Twitter world. And to see, I don't know, if it's a 70 page or 90 page opinion, an essay basically written articulating somebody's opinion about something, even if you disagree with it, you have to admire it. And whoever leaked this, may the wrath of hell be upon them. I don't know. I mean, it truly is horrific. It undermines the institution. It is explicitly meant to encourage pressure on the institution from a variety of pressure groups. It is a way to undermine the functioning of this great institution, undermine its process. Again, the process is what is what is good about this. So it's truly tragic that this has happened and I'm not sure how the court is going to respond. I hope they catch the person who did this. I hope he gets kicked out. I hope he's shunned by the profession. But I think it's really important for them to catch him. And I think it's really important for Roberts, the Chief Justice, to send a clear message that how inappropriate this behavior is. And maybe all the judges, whether they agree with the majority opinion or not, all the judges should voice their opinion that this is unacceptable and that they will not allow this to have problems. So I just wanted to be clear in expressing my disdain for this, even though it gives us something to talk about, even though it prepares us, even though, you know, I'm one of the people in one of the pressure groups trying to influence the court. But you know, they're going to do what they do, hopefully based on their own views and judgment, even if it's the wrong thing, the battle for individual rights will continue. We will continue here on the Iran book show and wherever there are people who understand what individual rights are, understand the importance of individual rights, understand how crucial it is for civilization, the battle will continue. We will not let it go. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. 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