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The Michael Steele Podcast

If the Supreme Court Wanted to Change, It Would (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Leah Litman about how Congress could reform the Supreme Court if it wanted to. Plus, how Mitch Mconnell's blockade after Justice Scalia's death impacted our current composition of the Supreme Court.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

So the black man on the Supreme Court says that the 14th Amendment was basically the result of an irrational, what was that?

0:15.2

Hatred of the South, irrational hatred of the South. Irrational hatred of the South. The very same South that had his grandpappies,

0:28.3

great-grandpappies in irons and chains with lashes on their backs, the same South

0:36.7

where his grandfather, whom he idolizes, who was

0:42.0

the heartbeat of Clarence Thomas, couldn't drink at a water fountain, the very same South

0:50.8

that told him he couldn't marry the woman that he's currently married to.

0:55.4

That irrational hatred?

0:57.6

Is that what we're talking about?

0:59.5

I'm sorry.

1:02.2

Okay.

1:02.6

I think you needed some wine as well, Michael, for this episode, a stiff drink.

1:07.9

I just, I can't even begin to process that shit. I just can't, but go ahead. Go ahead, Leah.

1:13.9

Yeah, and, you know, you mentioned the Supreme Court can go quickly when it wants. You know,

1:20.5

when people were rushing off to the Supreme Court to challenge Biden administration policies

1:26.3

or the Trump administration is now asking the Supreme

1:29.3

Court for permission to implement various policies like the ban on transgender service members,

1:34.8

the Supreme Court can act within days or weeks. Instead, in the immunity ruling, when special

1:41.4

counsel Jack Smith asked the Supreme Court to take up the case in December,

1:45.1

they just sat on it and said no, waited to do so until February. That's a two-month delay.

1:52.1

And then when they did, they scheduled the argument for the end of April, an additional two-month

1:56.0

delay. That guaranteed Donald Trump was never going to face trial on these election interference

2:01.2

charges before he went to run for reelection and people went to vote.

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