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Strict Scrutiny

DOGE Runs Amok & Originalism’s Ahistoricism

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This week, the ladies react to the ransacking of the federal government by Elon Musk and his fleet of DOGE dorks. Then, Kate and Leah speak with Jonathan Gienapp, professor of law and history at Stanford University and author of Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, about what originalists get wrong about history and how the founders thought about the law.

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2:34.6

Thank you. Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. We're your hosts. I'm Leah Littman. I'm Melissa Murray. And I'm Kate Shaw. And with the Supreme Court still in between sittings, we have a non-newsygment coming your way today. It's a break from the news cycle that is a deep dive on a fabulous new book about originalism. The book's called Against Constitutional Originalism with author Jonathan Ginnap.

2:39.9

Before we do that, we did want to do a quick newsy segment, but because of time constraints,

2:44.8

we're only going to be able to focus on one crazy thing, maybe the craziest thing, that happened this past week.

2:46.6

Now, to be clear, we are going to reserve all of the other crazy things slash developments that happened this week for the show that we're going to be recording at Fordham Law School for the Levine lecture that will air next week.

2:59.7

And we know many of you wrote in on the crooked Discord or elsewhere to request that we cover certain issues.

3:06.1

We are going to get there and we're going to get there with a live audience at Fordham. So stay tuned.

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