2025-2026 Supreme Court Term Preview
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
You are getting very sleepy…you are getting very sleepy…HEY! Wake up. It may look like the slate of cases for this Supreme Court term doesn't have many fundamental constitutional rights hanging in the balance, but don’t be lulled into thinking any of this is low stakes. Voting rights, trans people in sports, the death penalty—they’re still on that legal fascism grind, down to every little gear and lever.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael |
| 0:12.3 | are looking ahead at what's on the docket for the upcoming Supreme Court term. As you hear, |
| 0:17.8 | justices are gearing up to rule on a grab bag of cases, some in the realm of culture war, others having to do with more long-term conservative projects on voting rights, criminal law, and the rights of police officers. |
| 0:30.8 | The justices will also get to flex their expertise on tariffs. |
| 0:34.6 | So, plenty to look forward to. |
| 0:37.2 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court |
| 0:40.7 | sucks. Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have |
| 0:49.7 | terminated our civil rights like a journalist who tweeted about Charlie Kirk. I'm Peter. |
| 0:54.7 | I'm here with Riannon. |
| 0:56.1 | Terminated. Job gone. |
| 0:57.9 | And Michael. |
| 0:59.3 | You got like a sort of subject verb agreement issue with your analogy today. |
| 1:05.3 | But otherwise it's incredibly toothsome. |
| 1:07.9 | Right. Is the civil rights that were terminated? |
| 1:10.1 | Well, the cases terminate our civil rights, like as if they were a journalist who tweeted about Charlie Kirk. The civil rights are being terminated. Right. As if they were a journalist who tweeted about Charlie Kirk. I need to see a sentence tree. It works. I need to see the branches. I'm not saying it's the most natural sentence in the world, but I think it works. And listen, we get it. We understood. Yeah, we understand. And I believe our listeners will as well. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. |
| 1:47.0 | You're welcome for the constructive criticism. |
| 1:48.8 | And a lot of discontent with Michael for calling me out on a very coherent sentence. |
| 1:56.2 | And maybe there's nothing more to say about it because... |
| 2:00.3 | Well, because we don't want Leon to fire us. |
| 2:02.2 | There's nothing more... |
| 2:03.2 | Because we don't want Leon to fire us. |
| 2:05.8 | Right. |
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