Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
The Gist
Mike Pesca
4.4 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the recent immunity ruling and emergency-docket moves as system-tilting, not umpiring. She and our host spar over what counts as a "constitutional crisis," contrasting TRO reversals and precedent-scrapping with the break-glass scenario of outright defiance. Also: the Young Republicans' Hitler-meme leak and J.D. Vance's defenses...in song! Plus: New York's mayoral debate—Zohran Mamdani vs. Andrew Cuomo, on prostitution, Jews, and parades.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, October 17th, 2025. |
| 0:06.8 | From Peachfish Productions, it's the gist. |
| 0:09.2 | I'm Mike Pesca. |
| 0:10.6 | And I heard the news today. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, boy. |
| 0:13.0 | After racist texts, New York GOP disfans Young Republican Group. |
| 0:18.1 | All night, they were the young Republicans, young Republicans, young Republicans, |
| 0:25.6 | JD Vets defends the Young Republicans. |
| 0:29.6 | Ooh, who's just what the kids do, young Republicans. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm sorry, I'm not really adding value. |
| 0:38.4 | I'm just telling you. |
| 0:39.1 | I can't get this song out of my head about the young Republicans. |
| 0:45.0 | Do you remember your president Trump? |
| 0:48.8 | Do you remember the tariffs China was meant to pay? |
| 0:53.2 | But that changed yesterday. |
| 0:56.5 | Young Republicans, all right, I'm really going to stop. |
| 0:59.5 | Gas chamber jokes from the young Republicans. |
| 1:02.9 | Well, well, well, would you meme about Hitler? |
| 1:05.8 | If so, delete it soon thereafter. |
| 1:08.0 | And I love the names of these young Republicans. |
| 1:12.4 | My people, Samuel Douglas, |
| 1:20.9 | Peter Guita, Joe Malingo. And there was an Annie K. Katie contained within. I just, I wish I had a morning zoo apparatus so I could do the real parody song jingle, get Annie K. Katie for her edgy texting, her telegram leaks, |
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