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“Whatever tensions are behind the scenes or whatever tensions they’re feeling about the way the law is going, they are letting those become more apparent to the rest of us,” said Carolyn Shapiro, a Chicago-Kent College of Law professor who co-direct’s the school’s Supreme Court institute. “But I also suspect that there are members of the court who don’t like that at all. It’s not a monolith.”

“Bondi’s reign is probably most notable because of the revenge that Trump overtly tried to take against his enemies via the Department of Justice,” says law professor Harold Krent at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “The irony is, she did his bidding and she tried to politicize, weaponize the Department of Justice … and it didn’t work.”

“Is it another candidate who isn’t considered because a team doesn't have the time because they have to interview a minority candidate?” said Jason Bent, law professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law. “Or is it a team’s first choice for a position who has to wait for them to interview minority candidates? Does that make you an aggrieved person? It’s not clear.”