Alien to the Court

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Ricochet

News, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ricochet’s beloved former editor Mollie Hemingway is back with a new book, Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. We’re so thrilled, in fact, that we couldn’t even keep Peter Robinson away. So Mollie leads our embarrassment of hosts through her exclusive scoop on the Supreme Court’s most enigmatic justice. Tune in for an in-depth report covering everything Alito—from the political dramas starting with his confirmation to the leak of his best-known Dobbs opinion, and analysis of the particulars of his legal philosophy, his mastery over oral proceedings, and ultimately his influence over the increasingly originalist branch of government.

And with investigative journalism in mind, our quartet digs into reports about rampant Medicaid fraud in Ohio, and James tries to pin the panelists down on their stance on aliens, UFOs and G-man plots. The gang also guffaws at the Virginia Supreme Court's redistricting rebuff and manages to find quibblible claims against the common understanding of invasive species.

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0:00.0	This is the first big batch of UFO disclosure ordered by President Trump.
0:06.9	Some of the clips and videos on there have popped up different places before.
0:10.8	Some of them have not.
0:12.2	And we have been going through this all morning and overnight to try to put together some of the best video.
0:18.4	So we can all look at this together.
0:20.0	This is a world exclusive right here. It's the Rickusay podcast with Peter Robinson. That's right. I said Peter Robinson and Stephen Hayward and Charles C.W. I'm James Lallax, and today we're going to be talking to Molly Hemming away about our new book about Alito. So let's have ourselves a podcast. The Supreme Court of Virginia got it exactly right.
0:37.9	The governor's gerrymandering scheme failed.
0:40.9	The current fair congressional maps will stay in place for the 2026 elections.
0:46.5	You don't change the Constitution in the middle of an election.
0:50.9	Welcome, everybody.
0:51.8	It's the Rickettshead podcast number 788. I'm James Lillax in Edina, Minnesota, and I'm joined by Charles C.W. Cook in Florida, Stephen Hayward, somewhere, I believe, in California. And if you can believe it, he's joined by Peter Robinson. We're the founders. Gentlemen, welcome, and especially Peter, welcome back. Thank you, James. It's delight to be back. And I'm seated right next to Steve.
1:16.2	As well you are. Somewhere in California, as you put it. And behind you, even though the podcast, of course, is an audio medium, there's a poster what appears to be CCCP and Ronald Reagan in a football uniform defeating the demons of Marxism.
1:28.6	Do I have that correct?
1:29.6	Because you're at the Reagan Library and one would expect such a wonderful tabloes.
1:33.2	Actually, we're at the Reagan Ranch Center in Santa Barbara, which is separate from the library.
1:37.5	We're in their glorious boardroom looking out, it's foggy this morning, but looking out over the Pacific Ocean.
1:42.5	And departing to visit Reagan's wonderful
1:45.2	mountaintop ranch directly after we finish this episode. Well, I imagine that the Reagan
1:50.1	Library does not have the sort of appearance of Obama's Library, which appears to be something
1:55.0	that the Eloys would construct to keep the Moorlocks in line. It is an absolutely dreadful
1:59.7	and the New York times in discussing the art
2:03.3	of the building this week had a piece of course called the audacity of art and everything inside
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