Amicus: The Alleged Hobby Lobby Leak at SCOTUS

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🗓️ 24 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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When the New York Times built on previous reporting in Politico and Rolling Stone about an evangelical christian ministry that sought to sell access to and influence Supreme Court Justices with fancy dinners and donations, the Hobby Lobby leak dominated the headlines. But there is so much more to this story. To discuss how the headlines fit into a larger narrative of dark money and a captured court, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. Senator Whitehouse is Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights and co-author of The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court. See also: The Supreme Court Ethics and Recusal Transparency Act. Want a behind-the-scenes look at how we create the show? Check out Slate's Pocket Collections for research and reading lists, as well as additional insights into how we think about the stories behind the episodes. Dahlia’s book Lady Justice: Women, the Law and the Battle to Save America, is also available as an audiobook, and Amicus listeners can get a 25% discount by entering the code “AMICUS” at checkout. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	Hi and welcome back to Amicus.
1:02.1	This is Leite's podcast about the courts, the law and the rule of law, and teetering above
1:07.5	all of those things.
1:09.1	The US Supreme Court, I am Dahlia Lithwick, and we decided to get the band back together
1:15.1	and put a little extra amicus in your feed.
1:18.2	With this special off-week episode, it's a special leaked episode, if you will, in order
1:24.8	to consider the Blockbuster story in last week's New York Times as reported out by Jody
1:30.4	Cantor and Joe Becker.
1:32.9	Mr. and Becker were following up on a report by a former anti-abortion activist, the Reverend
1:38.8	Rob Shank, who founded a group called Faith and Action, an evangelical ministry aimed at
1:45.4	high-ranking government officials with its headquarters across the street, conveniently
1:50.7	enough, from the private East entrance to the Supreme Court.
1:55.5	As the story points out, Shank raised more than $30 million between 2018 to give rich
2:03.7	donors a pipeline to justices who needed to have their spine stiffened a little in a
2:09.7	series of religious liberty and abortion cases.
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