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The Playbook Podcast

May 11, 2022: Inside SCOTUS, and Trump's first 2022 loss

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

Daily News, Politics, Government, News

4.2614 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump goes 1-for-2 on primary day in Nebraska and West Virginia.  And new reporting from inside the Supreme Court, via Josh Gerstein, Alexander Ward and Ryan, as the nine justices are set to gather Thursday for the first time since POLITICO published the draft opinion overturning Roe: “Justice Samuel Alito's sweeping and blunt draft majority opinion from February overturning Roe remains the court’s only circulated draft in the pending Mississippi abortion case, POLITICO has learned, and none of the conservative justices who initially sided with Alito have to date switched their votes. No dissenting draft opinions have circulated from any justice, including the three liberals. Subscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook. Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0

Presented by Farma.

0:03.2

Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Roguminovalin. It's Wednesday. Today's show,

0:07.8

we got new reporting from inside the Supreme Court. It's her Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

0:17.1

Politico's Josh Kirstine, Alexander Ward, and Ryan Lizza have new reporting from inside the Supreme Court,

0:22.6

as the nine justices are set to gather Thursday for the first time since Politico published the draft opinion of returning Roe.

0:29.2

Quote, Justice Samuel Alita sweeping and blunt draft majority opinion from February overturning Roe

0:35.5

remains the court's only circulated draft in the pending

0:38.3

Mississippi abortion case. Politico has learned, and none of the conservative justices

0:42.5

who initially sided with Alito have to date switched their votes. No dissenting draft opinions

0:47.9

have circulated from any justice, including the three liberals. That could explain why no second

0:52.6

draft of Alito's majority opinion

0:54.5

has been distributed, as typically the two sides react to one another's written arguments and

0:59.7

recast their own. As the nine justices prepare for their scheduled private closed-air

1:04.3

conference this week, they face one of the greatest crises in modern Supreme Court history,

1:08.6

with an internal leak investigation underway, an

1:11.4

agitated nation focused on whether the constitutional right to abortion is about to be overturned,

1:16.5

and some justices facing angry protests at their home.

1:19.9

One person close to the court's conservatives told Playbook Tuesday, quote, this is the

1:23.8

most serious assault on the court, perhaps from within, that the Supreme Court's ever experienced.

1:29.3

It's an understatement to say they are heavily, heavily burdened by this.

1:34.1

It closely watched Republican primaries in West Virginia and Nebraska ended in a win and a

1:39.3

loss for Trump.

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