Brett Kavanaugh
![](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/kavanaugh-thomas-gorsuch-alito.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
In a dissent, justices floated a fringe legal theory that found favor among conservatives as Trump tried to contest the 2020 election.
![conservative court](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/scotus-conservative-shift-unbalanced-court.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
It’s a right-wing dream decades in the making.
![](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/podcast-roe-in-dange.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in a potentially historic abortion case as well as the new omicron variant.
You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.
![](https://talkingpointsmemo.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/GettyImages-1068141116.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1)
This is your TPM afternoon briefing.
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh needed, among other things, a copy editor while writing his concurring opinion on the Supreme Court ruling this week on mail-in ballot deadline extensions in Wisconsin.