Garcetti v. Ceballos
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.5 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court tramples upon your most sacred right: the right to complain about your co-workers.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument next in 04473, Garcetti v. Sabios. |
| 0:09.7 | Hey, everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects. On this episode of 5 to 4, Peter, |
| 0:16.2 | Riannon, and Michael are talking about Garcetti v. Sabios, a case from the early 2000s about the |
| 0:22.2 | free speech rights of government employees. Richard Sabios, a prosecutor in Los Angeles, |
| 0:27.8 | discovered that a sheriff's deputy had misrepresented facts in an affidavit that had been |
| 0:31.8 | used to obtain a search warrant. Sabios wrote an internal memo to his supervisors, |
| 0:37.3 | recommending that the case be dismissed. |
| 0:39.6 | The memo was ignored, and afterwards, Sabios was demoted and denied a promotion. |
| 0:45.3 | Sabios sued, arguing that his employer had retaliated against him for exercising his First |
| 0:50.0 | Amendment rights. |
| 0:51.7 | But the Supreme Court ruled that when government employees speak as part of |
| 0:55.2 | their official job duties, that speech is not protected by the First Amendment, even if it exposes |
| 1:00.8 | corruption or misconduct. This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:23.4 | Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have rat fucked our nation like the media is trying to rat fuck Zoran Mamdani. |
| 1:27.4 | I'm Peter. I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:29.5 | Hey, everybody. Henry Annan. |
| 1:31.4 | Hello, big election coming up. |
| 1:33.9 | Election Day, don't forget to vote. |
| 1:36.0 | Election day, as this drops, don't forget to vote for Andrew Cuomo, lest we all fall under Sharia Long, folks. |
| 1:47.8 | I'm a Slewa diehard. Slewa, Slewa, how's it pronounced? I don't know. |
| 1:52.9 | I believe it's Slewa, although, yeah, I've never really known. |
| 1:56.8 | If you want someone to finish Eric Adams' job of reading New York of rats, |
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