How the Biden SCOTUS Commission Radicalized One Law Professor [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
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🗓️ 12 April 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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President Biden thought he could bury his weaksauce Supreme Court commission report by releasing it right before Christmas. Nice try Joey. We talked to commission member Kermit Roosevelt, of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, about being radicalized by his fellow liberals on the commission. Not because they're radical too, but because they're so institutionalist he got fed up.
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| 0:00.0 | Um, I've never done that top of an episode before. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologg Projects. |
| 0:13.0 | On this week's members only episode of 5-4, we have a conversation with Kermit Roosevelt, |
| 0:18.6 | one of the members of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:22.6 | Roosevelt was one of more than 30 of the nation's top legal minds, chosen by President Biden, |
| 0:27.8 | to summarize the arguments for and against reform of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:32.4 | As you'll hear, Roosevelt went into his work on the Commission, thinking term limits |
| 0:36.3 | would be enough to save the court. |
| 0:38.5 | The experience ended up changing his mind. |
| 0:41.6 | This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 0:50.3 | Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have made our |
| 0:55.6 | civil liberties disappear, the way Clarence Thomas has disappeared from the public eye. |
| 0:59.9 | I'm Peter and I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:03.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:04.9 | What is that about? |
| 1:05.9 | Is he dying? |
| 1:07.7 | For those who don't know, at the time of recording, we're basically a couple of weeks past |
| 1:13.2 | Clarence Thomas being announced as hospitalized with like a mysterious illness or infection. |
| 1:19.0 | He got out of the hospital, but he has not been seen since, has not been appearing |
| 1:24.1 | at oral argument. |
| 1:25.1 | Just appearing via teleconference. |
| 1:27.8 | So he does appear to be alive, but there's a question of, is he hiding a serious illness |
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