Oct. 3, 2022: A shaken Supreme Court returns to court

The Supreme Court returns to the bench today, a return that is marked mostly by tension and is perhaps unlike any other in the history of the institution. “The normally relaxed season for heading to vacation homes and teaching abroad was marked by the most intense security footing ever for the justices, along with uncommonly public internecine strife among the court’s members,” POLITICO's senior legal affairs reporter Josh Gerstein writes. Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and Josh Gerstein discuss the cases coming up before the court in this term, the seditious conspiracy case involving Oathkeepers' founder Stewart Rhodes and former president Donald Trump's ongoing showdown with the Justice Department.