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its ruling. If it overruled Roe, the Court argued, public respect for the Court would be diminished—and “so would the country be in its very ability to see itself through its constitutional ideals.”

To which the only appropriate response is: What the heck is the Court talking about? Professor Bradley offers a translation: “The key variables in the legitimacy equation are now Court, people, and constitutional ideals. The burden of the passage is to justify dispensing with the Constitution by positing some galvanizing, mystical bond among the three.” The Court speaks for us; indeed, it is called, it says, “to speak before all others” for our constitutional ideals. As Bradley puts it: “We will be your Court, and you will be our people.”

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its ruling. If it overruled Roe, the Court argued, public respect for the Court would be diminished—and “so would the country be in its very ability to see itself through its constitutional ideals.”

To which the only appropriate response is: What the heck is the Court talking about? Professor Bradley offers a translation: “The key variables in the legitimacy equation are now Court, people, and constitutional ideals. The burden of the passage is to justify dispensing with the Constitution by positing some galvanizing, mystical bond among the three.” The Court speaks for us; indeed, it is called, it says, “to speak before all others” for our constitutional ideals. As Bradley puts it: “We will be your Court, and you will be our people.”