Cassandra was a Trojan priestess whose warnings to the Trojans of looming disaster were both true and ignored, Ever since a Cassandra is one who warns of a coming catastrophe that inevitably happens even as it is dismissed at the time. In this podcast episode for Constitution Day 2022, Dr. Richard Reiman tells the story of three Cassandras of the Supreme Court who warned their fellow Justices that their actions would cost the course credibility and respect as an institution supposedly “above politics.”
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