Episode 268 - Supreme Courting (w/ Corey Robin)
Bad Faith
Bad Faith
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Corey Robin joins Bad Faith to offer a deeper dive on Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in the wake of a ProPublica expose that uncovered decades of undeclared gifts Thomas has taken from a rightwing billionaire. Robin literally wrote the book on Thomas, and is able to give a much more complex and nuanced read on what motivates the man beyond reading the tea leaves of Nazi artifacts.
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).
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| 0:16.0 | . So, So unless you've been living under a rock, perhaps I shouldn't patronize my audience that way, |
| 0:47.3 | but you're probably well aware of the fact that a lot of folks are talking about this |
| 0:51.8 | recent ProPublica story, which reveals that Clarence Thomas |
| 0:55.4 | has taken a large number of, I will call them maybe in-kind donations, gifts, as they say, |
| 1:01.7 | from a particular billionaire donor, largely in the form of vacation, stays, and jet travel |
| 1:07.6 | over the course of a number of years. This has caused politicians like AOC to call for |
| 1:14.5 | his impeachment and has broadly opened up a conversation about the rightward shift of the Supreme |
| 1:21.2 | Court and what to do about it. During the trips that have been described in this ProPublica piece, |
| 1:27.4 | include trips along with |
| 1:29.3 | the architect of the court's rightward movement, the founder of the Federalist Society. |
| 1:34.6 | So again, this is raising questions about the nature of the Supreme Court. |
| 1:37.5 | So it felt really apropos then to invite on the author of the Enigma of Clarence Thomas, Corey Robin, to have a |
| 1:48.0 | conversation about what might be driving some of Clarence Thomas's choices here and what, |
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