It's Officially Bad Decision Season
Strict Scrutiny
Strict Scrutiny
4.6 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Live from Capital Turnaround in Washington, D.C., Leah, Kate, and Melissa wade right into the swamp, breaking down the (very weird, very disturbing) sexual harassment claims against Texas’s ex-solicitor general, Judd Stone and holding their noses to read Coach Brett Kavanaugh’s opinion on the National Environmental Policy Act. Then, the hosts welcome special guests Ambassador Norm Eisen and Emily Amick, author of the Substack, Emily in Your Phone, to talk about the avalanche of litigation against the Trump administration and reproductive rights (and wrongs), respectively.
Hosts’ favorite things:
Leah: Taylor Swift's letter about buying back her art; Why Is This Supreme Court Handing Trump More and More Power?, Kate Shaw (NYT); Living by the Ipse Dixit, Steve Vladeck (One First); The New Dark Age, Adam Serwer (The Atlantic); Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death, Michelle Goldberg (NYT)
Kate: Beware: We Are Entering a New Phase of the Trump Era, M. Gessen (NYT), How YOU Helped Knock Musk Out of DC–& of Politics, Norm Eisen (Substack); On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama, Kirsten Grind and Meghan Twohey (NYT); Cowboy Carter
Melissa: Her incredible shoes from the show; seeing Cowboy Carter; the newest season of Just Like That; Original Sin by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson
Emily: Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu); Everyone Is Lying to You by Jo Piazza
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- 3/6/26 – San Francisco
- 3/7/26 – Los Angeles
Learn more: http://crooked.com/events
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| 0:00.0 | Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. |
| 0:04.9 | You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion. |
| 0:12.5 | The same people in groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and lives. |
| 0:22.4 | Church-state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. |
| 0:26.0 | One of the last bastions of church-state separation is our public school system. |
| 0:30.3 | So they're pushing vouchers everywhere. |
| 0:32.2 | They're arguing for religious public schools. |
| 0:34.1 | Yes, you heard that right, religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we've discussed on the podcast. If you're listening to us, you're seeing the writing on the wall. We can, we must fight back. Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their growing movement because church-state separation protects us all. Learn more and get involved at AU.org slash crooked. |
| 0:56.2 | Mr. Chief Justice, please support. |
| 1:00.2 | It's an old joke. When I argue, men, |
| 1:03.1 | argues against two beautiful ladies like this, |
| 1:05.4 | they're going to have the last word. |
| 1:08.4 | She spoke, not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity. She said, I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next. Thank you so much for coming out for this special episode of strict scrutiny, |
| 1:44.8 | live from the Capitol Turnaround in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:48.9 | It'll be here. |
| 1:49.3 | You make some noise. |
| 1:54.3 | And ladies, I think it needs to be said. |
| 2:00.2 | This is a very good-looking audience. |
| 2:02.6 | For sure. |
| 2:03.6 | Very good-looking. |
| 2:05.6 | New York City is going to be very jealous. |
| 2:08.6 | Because you all right now look good. |
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