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Strict Scrutiny

Magical Moment

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Kate are joined by Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of NAACP LDF. They further break down the “shadow docket” cases from last term, highlight an underappreciated theme of the last term, and identify some things to watch in the next few months.

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0:00.0

Let's keep justice. Please report.

0:04.0

It's an old joke, but when a man argues against two beautiful ladies like this,

0:09.0

they're going to have the last word.

0:12.0

She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.

0:17.0

She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

0:23.0

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for our ex.

0:30.0

And we're going to have a conversation with you.

0:33.0

We're going to have a conversation with you.

0:36.0

We're going to have a conversation with you.

0:39.0

We're going to have a conversation with you.

0:42.0

Welcome back to StrixCruitney, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that's around it.

0:48.0

I'm Leo Littman.

0:50.0

And I'm Kate Shaw.

0:52.0

And this is a very special summer episode of StrixCruitney with a very special guest.

0:56.0

We've had the chance to listen to our recap of October term 2019.

1:00.0

You'll know that we discussed on that episode the consensus or mainstream take on this past term.

1:05.0

That take which we saw reflected in headline after headline went something like Chief Justice,

1:10.0

John Roberts is a moderate institutionalist centrist who has somehow found a way to get the court above the fray of partisanship.

1:16.0

And if you've been listening, you know that we were not huge fans of that assessment because we thought it obscured a few important details.

1:22.0

And thus did the public a real disservice by miscommunicating in many ways what had actually happened at the court.

1:28.0

And that's both in the way some of the big cases were discussed.

1:31.0

And in this kind of narratives failure to account entirely for some of the cases that went under the radar.

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