Jackie Calmes on the Weaponization of the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 3 August 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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The Supreme Court's reputation as an apolitical body has been permanently changed. How did we get here? Jackie Calmes from the LA Times has studied the changes in Supreme Court politics that hit a new low during the Trump presidency. Despite two impeachments and a single term, Trump and the Republicans managed to reshape the Court for decades -- and it's possible Democrats have underestimated and under-organized around the impact of the GOP's stranglehold on the judicial system. Jackie, Joe and Alex talk about the change in political strategy when it comes to appointing justices, how the Brett Kavanaugh nomination process completely missed another massive scandal, and how we recover from a climate where the Supreme Court is viewed by Republicans as the surest way to extend its minority rule. Jackie's new book, Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Dissent-Radicalization-Republican-Party-Capture/dp/1538700794 Follow Jackie on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/jackiekcalmes?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5EauthorSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/that-trippi-show/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Seems like everyone's in a hurry these days.
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0:24.6	We don't make sense.
0:25.8	We make chicken.
0:26.8	Love that chicken from propwise. Hey everybody it's Joe Trippy and welcome back to a special guest episode of that trippy show. This week we welcome
0:45.1	Jackie Combs recently named Washington columnist for the LA Times. Her new book
0:50.1	Dissent, The Radicalization of the Republican Party, and its capture of the court is out now and
0:56.5	highly recommend you pick up a copy. Jackie welcome. Thank you for having me, Joe. It's great to be here.
1:05.0	We've been so focused on what to do about this autocratic movement now that I don't think many people fully
1:12.0	grafts sometimes the effect of Trump's three
1:15.5	Supreme Court nominees. I mean they feared it and they and they worried about it
1:20.0	but I'm not sure they understand the full effect of it
1:22.8	and what happened during his term.
1:24.7	You call it weaponizing judicial politics
1:28.1	and confirmations are a full-fledged partisan war now.
1:31.8	Just want to have you get into that a little bit for us.
1:35.4	Well it's a war that the Republicans have won. The court is now 6-3, 6-6 Republican appointees, the majority, and of that six at least for our ideologues, right-wing ideologues, right wing ideologues that are willing to really push the country in a
1:59.9	far right direction and the, you know there's a lot of talk about getting Stephen
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