"It Ain't Just Inflation." Trump Winning Could Mean a 10-3 Conservative Supreme Court
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 27 July 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Michael Steele speaks with Dahlia Lithwick, Senior Editor at Slate and host of Slate's Supreme Court podcast, Amicus. The pair discuss how Project 2025 and Trump winning the election would mean a 10-3 conservative Supreme Court.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. |
| 0:23.0 | Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piento Ferris, there is another way. |
| 0:30.0 | If you go through and you do an analysis of language around the Project 2025 |
| 0:37.0 | platforming that they have for the US government. |
| 0:47.2 | In my conversations with some of those folks in that space, |
| 0:54.0 | the dirty little secret is that if Donald Trump wins Donald Trump by executive order, |
| 0:56.0 | which is why I wanted to, I wanted to approach this this way |
| 0:59.8 | so people can see exactly the glide path that we're about to land this plane on from |
| 1:06.8 | would plan to add four seats to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:11.5 | And over the course of that year seats to the Supreme Court. |
| 1:15.0 | And over the course of that year, or at that time, whenever that's proposed |
| 1:18.0 | during that term, add four conservative justices, |
| 1:22.0 | making it a 10-3 conservative court, which largely would basically say for the rest of our lifetime |
| 1:38.3 | no matter if a Democrat won unless there was a catastrophic change in |
| 1:48.0 | you know that affected the the members of that court there would be no rebalancing that court for probably two generations. And just in case y'all didn't know, generations about 25 years, so you're talking 50 years. |
| 1:55.0 | That's the dirty little secret here. |
| 1:58.0 | So folks need to understand when they're talking about going into this election and looking at the things that should matter to them, it ain't just inflation. Okay, it ain't just the price of gasoline. |
| 2:12.9 | It is what the country's going to look like |
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