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Strict Scrutiny

9-0, but Make It Complicated

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Leah, Kate and Melissa unpack this week’s raft of SCOTUS decisions, including cases on “reverse discrimination” and whether Mexico can sue American gun manufacturers, and explain why a unanimous vote is more complicated than it appears. Also covered: Trump’s new travel bans and the Justice Department filing a lawsuit against North Carolina because...a Democrat won the supreme court race. Finally, they discuss Kate’s rockstar testimony in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and some GOP senators’ fixation on this very podcast.

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0:00.0

Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

0:05.2

You can't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms,

0:10.5

and dropping a few billion. The same people and groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger

0:16.8

shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our lives

0:22.4

and our laws. Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. And one of the last

0:28.2

bastions of church state separation is our public school system. So that's why they are pushing

0:33.9

school vouchers everywhere. It's why they're arguing for religious public schools.

0:38.5

Yes, you heard that right. Religious public schools. We've talked about this on the podcast.

0:43.8

Just this term, there was a case in which the state of Oklahoma said, hey, guess what? We can't

0:48.9

have religious public schools. But these guys were like, no, you totally can. The First Amendment

0:53.9

requires it.

0:55.1

Thankfully, the Supreme Court pushed back on this, but there's going to be another case and it's

1:00.1

going to percolate back up to the court in real time. And it means that we have to be vigilant.

1:06.0

We have to fight back. And you know this. If you're listening to strict scrutiny, you already

1:10.8

see the writing on the wall. You know we can and we must fight back. And you know this. If you're listening to strict scrutiny, you already see the writing on the

1:12.0

wall. You know we can and we must fight back. And that's where Americans United for Separation

1:18.4

of Church and State comes in. You can join Americans United for Separation of Church and State

1:22.9

and support their growing movement because church state separation protects all of us. You can learn more and get

1:29.1

involved at a.u.org slash crooked. You host a podcast, correct? And that is called strict scrutiny.

1:39.4

Correct? You host a pod, host a podcast, correct?

1:44.9

And that is called, that is called strict scrutiny.

1:52.9

Strict scrutiny.

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