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Bonus episode excerpt: "Speech" Bubble

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Current Affairs

Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

An excerpt from today's bonus episode, available in full to our Patreon patrons, in which Current Affairs legal editor Oren Nimni and social media editor Vanessa A. Bee break down the latest cases from the Supreme Court's 2018 term: why they're disappointing, why everything can't be "speech," and why Anthony Kennedy is overrated.

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0:00.0

Hello, listeners. It's your host, Pete Davis here to share that over on the bird feed,

0:12.8

we just released a bonus episode on the Supreme Court cases that just came down last month.

0:18.8

Current Affairs legal editor Orrin Nimney and social media editor Vanessa A.B.

0:24.0

Break down what has been happening at the Supreme Court, why it's all very unfortunate,

0:29.2

and what we should think and do about it.

0:32.0

If you want to listen, become a subscriber on our Patreon page.

0:35.8

That's patreon.com slash current affairs. And you'll gain

0:40.4

access to our bird feed, which is the weekly feed of bonus episodes from the current affairs

0:45.8

extended universe. If you can't now, that's totally fine. We'll have an extra special main

0:52.7

episode next week.

0:59.2

It's going to be a full episode of the Current Affairs panel answering your voicemails.

1:16.4

So if you haven't called in yet and are dying to tell us or ask us or yell at us about something, call 504-867-8851, and we might play it on the air next week. For now,

1:23.8

here's Oran and Vanessa, with an excerpt from today's bonus episode. Kennedy, our Lord and Savior, I, you know, kneel down to my little figure of Kennedy every morning. No, Kennedy is,

1:30.6

if you didn't think that Anthony Kennedy was a joke before Trump v. Hawaii, you have to think

1:35.5

that he is after Trump v. Hawaii, because he writes a extremely short concurrence. Two pages.

1:42.3

I have grocery lists longer than that fucking

1:45.4

where basically he's like, and just to be clear, this is the last thing that this progressive

1:51.2

ground-shaking justice writes for the Supreme Court in his entire tenure. He basically writes

1:57.5

a grocery list length opinion saying, well, you know, it's definitely legal

2:04.1

and we can't really question the executive, but we do have a constitution and, well, people

2:10.2

should remember that. And yeah, but still, fuck you guys. And I feel like it was the greatest

2:17.0

encapsulation of his entire career,

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