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A Momentous Week for SCOTUS: Is It a Warning of Worse Things to Come?

The DSR Network

Chris Cotnoir

Government

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

It was only Tuesday when the Supreme Court upheld a decision by North Carolina’s top court that struck down a congressional districting plan as excessively partisan under state law. Since then, the court has ruled against affirmative action in the college admissions process, struck down Biden’s student debt forgiveness plan and ruled in favor of a web designer who said she had a First Amendment right to refuse to design wedding websites for same-sex couples despite a state law that forbids discrimination against gay people. What does this mean for the future of our democracy and how might it impact the 2024 election? Host David Rothkopf breaks it all down with Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick. Don’t miss this important discussion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:32.4

Hello and welcome to the podcast. We have come to the end of a long, long week.

1:37.6

And of course, the thing that was dominating everybody's attention this week was

1:43.5

the decisions of the United States Supreme Court, which there were several,

1:49.1

mostly one more disturbing than the next. We didn't think we could really

1:54.7

handle all that without the assistance of our friend, Supreme Court, Sabant, Dahlia Lithwick.

2:03.4

And she, after doing every TV show, radio show and podcast in America this week,

2:10.8

very kindly agreed to talk to us, even as most people are heading off to the beach. So we are

2:17.6

very grateful. Thank you, Dahlia. Oh, thank you, David. This is, it feels very fitting somehow to end

2:24.0

this completely dispariting week with my favorite ear. Yep. That's right. That's right. Welcome to

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ear today. But I think, you know, in some respects, being an ear has borne out every so often.

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And it certainly has been this week. I'd like to go through the most significant cases this week,

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