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Explain It to Me

America’s Next Top Supreme Court Justice

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Vox senior politics reporter Jane Coaston joins Matt and Dara to talk about the future of the Supreme Court without Justice Kennedy. References and further reading: NYT piece on Justice Kennedy's son's connections to the Trump family Dara's piece on the most likely picks for Kennedy's replacement Jane's piece on Senator Mike Lee Jane's piece on polling that show's Trump voters were motivated by the Supreme Court vacancy Examiner piece on overturning Roe v. Wade Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Anyway, we should take an actual podcast.

0:02.0

Yes.

0:07.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.

0:19.7

I'm Matthew Glacias here today with Darren Lynn and Jane Kostin.

0:23.8

This has been a week.

0:25.8

It's been a week.

0:27.8

It's been a lot of news, but I think that when we look back in the grand sweep of history,

0:32.4

we will see the Supreme Court news of this week as the most enduringly consequential.

0:38.9

Justice Anthony Kennedy both sided with conservatives on a whole bunch of cases to close out the

0:45.6

week and then drop the news that he's retiring.

0:49.9

And it has, I think, just as a big deal, substantively.

0:53.2

And I've also, I've experienced it in readers and people I know this has been like a psychic

0:59.4

gut punch to a lot of American liberals who had been looking to the courts as an institutional

1:08.3

check on Donald Trump and seeing both the swing justice throw in with the conservatives

1:13.3

on a bunch of cases and then hand the seat over to the Trump regime is a, it's like

1:19.2

a reminder that this has really happened.

1:21.0

Yeah, I would like to state for the record for those of you who were listening to last

1:24.2

week's podcast that Inter Alia talked about the potential retirement of Justice Kennedy.

1:28.8

At least one of you has blamed me personally for the retirement because in calling him

1:33.4

the messiest drama queen of them all, I apparently hurt the Justice's feelings and caused him

1:37.7

to retire.

1:38.7

I would like to say that if this is the case, that characterization stands entirely.

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