#1503 The Supremely Extreme Court
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 26 July 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 7/26/2022
Today, we take a look at recent Supreme Court rulings aside from overturning abortion rights and how all signals are that they are going full steam ahead on a conservative authoritarian deconstruction of the past 100 years of progress
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: A Supreme Court Term Like No Other - Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick - Air Date 7-9-22
Dahlia Lithwick hosts Amicus’ annual term-ending breakfast table conversation, featuring Slate’s own Mark Joseph Stern, Professor Katherine Franke and Professor Nikolas Bowie. They dig into the biggest decisions of the term
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Thursday it will hear oral arguments in a case experts warn could be one of the greatest threats to U.S. democracy since the deadly January 6 insurrection at the Capitol. In October, the court will hear Moore v. Harper.
Ch. 3: Just how bad is the Supreme Court's EPA decision - Strict Scrutiny - Air Date 6-30-22
Kate and Leah break down the "free-wheeling, free association analysis" of the Supreme Court's opinion in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Basically, it's bad! And not just because of the impending climate apocalypse!
Ch. 4: The Supreme Court Needs an Upgrade - What Next - Air Date 7-6-22
The Supreme Court treated its most recent term like the opening salvo in a conservative revolution, approving prayer in schools, establishing a constitutional right to conceal and carry a firearm, and eliminating the constitutional right to abortion.
Ch. 5: The Outrage Continues - In The Thick - Air Date 7-19-22
Julio is joined by Errin Haines, editor at large for The 19th, and Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation. They discuss the Supreme Court and the impact of their decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Writer Mark Joseph Stern joins the MR crew to talk about the recent SCOTUS opinions and rulings on Carson v Makin and Kennedy v Bremerton which continue to blur the lines between church and state.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments on the political philosophy that increases suffering
Bonus clip: Because of Texas abortion law, her wanted pregnancy became a medical nightmare - NPR - Air Date 7-26-22
New, untested abortion bans have made doctors unsure about treating some pregnancy complications, which has led to life-threatening delays and trapped families in a limbo of grief and helplessness.
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:06.9 | take a look at recent Supreme Court rulings aside from overturning abortion rights and how |
| 0:12.1 | all signals are that they are going full steam ahead on a conservative authoritarian deconstruction |
| 0:18.2 | of the past 100 years of progress. |
| 0:20.9 | Clips today are from Amicus, Democracy Now, Strict scrutiny, What Next, and in the Thick, |
| 0:27.8 | with an additional members only clip from the Matropa Report. |
| 0:31.4 | It's interesting that just this week we celebrated July 4th and the Declaration of Independence, |
| 0:43.2 | etc. and it feels like the court is doing two things at once, taking us back to the 18th |
| 0:49.4 | century in terms of understanding what the Constitution means and doing so so aggressively. |
| 0:55.7 | These decisions not only were losses for progressive or even liberal people or people who believe |
| 1:01.4 | in democratic governance, but they were colossal losses. |
| 1:05.1 | And we see a muscular conservatism with this new, emboldened, supermajority on the court |
| 1:12.3 | that I think will have lasting implications not just for the court's interpretation |
| 1:17.4 | of the Constitution, but for the very idea of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:22.1 | Many people feel that they have really overreached and overreached in ways which are deeply |
| 1:27.2 | ideological and political, not in ways that have a kind of special thing that the Supreme |
| 1:33.0 | Court is supposed to do, which is to interpret the Constitution consistently over time. |
| 1:38.6 | And Nico, I want you to answer the same question with the gloss that I do feel like you get |
| 1:43.5 | a certain amount of, I told you so, privileges because you've been telling us for quite some |
| 1:48.4 | time that this is precisely what the court would and could do, and that for a lot of folks |
| 1:54.3 | who woke up in the last weeks and said, wait, what? |
| 1:57.5 | The court can, you know, contravene 80% public opinion on guns and abortion, that can't |
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