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How about 2027?

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What does this mean

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for the next state

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Supreme Court race?

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Who wants to go there?

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Well, we talked last week

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about how nobody was talking

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about this court election

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as the most important

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in a generation or whatever.

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And then enter Ben Wikler,

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the former chair

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of the Democratic Party.

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He sent out this

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email today of

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and he was explaining

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why he thought for Democrats

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and liberals,

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it was actually,

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hugely important

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because essentially this

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guarantees liberal control

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past the point of the census.

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And so into the next

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redistricting cycle,

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everything comes back

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to redistricting.

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And Zac likes to say.

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I if I'm going to be watching

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to see if Republicans

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or conservatives

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even run a candidate.

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The inverse of that happened

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when the GOP

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was running the table

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on these elections.

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And there's been a few

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talk radio people

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wondering, like,

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who would want to run

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for a seat

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in the minority

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of the Supreme Court

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after someone

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just got

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clobbered by 20 points?

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It sucks to be

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in the minority,

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and we've seen that in both

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the legislature

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and on the Supreme Court,

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where we had

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now two consecutive

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conservative

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incumbent justices

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who were

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well within the normal age

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range

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to seek another ten year

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term, decide.

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I don't want to be

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in the minority

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on this court.

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I'd rather go somewhere else.

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So I think

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those patterns tell you

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a lot more than what

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any of the the press release

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as well.