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Elie Mystal on Supreme Court packing, plus Sonia Shah on climate disasters.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

September 24, 2020

The US Supreme Court.(Photo: Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images)

We need at last two more justices on the Supreme Court—and more would be better—as many as ten more. Elie Mystal explains—he’s the magazine’s justice correspondent.

Also: how climate change is forcing migration out of low lying coastal areas: Sonia Shah reports on what happened in the Bahamian island of Abaco after Hurricane Dorian last September—and what we need to do now about migration forced by climate change. Sonia is an award-winning reporter; her new book is The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move.

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