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Religious Liberty and the Right to Vacation in Jackson Hole

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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

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0:00.0

Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill, with square wheels!

0:10.0

But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business.

0:15.0

So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill.

0:21.0

On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back.

0:25.0

Oh, that's nice.

0:26.0

Search zero with an axe, because healthy business is beautiful business.

0:35.0

Special interest, dark money, influence completely surrounding the court.

0:39.0

And a court that is either in your to it so much that it doesn't know it's there,

0:44.0

like a fish swimming in filthy water, or is pretending that everything is okay

0:49.0

because they want desperately to look like there's nothing to see here, folks.

0:57.0

Hi, and welcome back to Amicus. This is Late's podcast about the courts,

1:04.0

send the law, and the rule of law, and teetering above all of those things.

1:08.0

The U.S. Supreme Court, I am Danieliswick, and we decided to get the band back together

1:14.0

and put a little extra amicus in your feed.

1:17.0

With this special off-week episode, it's a special leaked episode, if you will.

1:24.0

In order to consider the blockbuster story, in last week's New York Times,

1:28.0

as reported out by Jody Cantor and Joe Becker.

1:32.0

Cantor and Becker were following up on a report by a former anti-abortion activist,

1:37.0

the Reverend Rob Schenk, who founded a group called Faith and Action,

1:42.0

an evangelical ministry aimed at high-ranking government officials

1:47.0

with its headquarters across the street conveniently enough

1:51.0

from the private East entrance to the Supreme Court.

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