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Strict Scrutiny

No Choice but to Stan: A Deep Dive on Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

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

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Pamela Karlan, experienced advocate and co-director of Stanford’s Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, joins Kate and Leah to break down just how exceptional Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar is at her job. Then, all three hosts speak with Madiba K. Dennie about her book, The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back.

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0:00.0

Mr Chief Justice is

0:02.5

Justice, they're pleased for it.

0:05.0

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

0:10.0

they're going to have the last word.

0:18.0

She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity. She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

0:24.0

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our next. Hello and the legal culture that surrounds it. We're your host today. I'm Leah Littman

0:50.6

and I'm Kate Shaw. Today we have another two-part episode for you.

0:54.4

Melissa will join us in the second half of the episode to talk to Madeba Denny

0:58.3

about her new book, The Originalism Trap, how extremists stole the Constitution, and how we the people can take it back.

1:05.4

But first, we're doing something pretty uncharacteristic for this podcast.

1:09.9

We are going to have a positive and heartwarming conversation. This is something we have actually

1:14.6

received a lot of requests for because a lot of people, fan girl, fan boy, non-binary fan out

1:20.9

over this person, and this person is Elizabeth Prelager, who is the Biden

1:26.0

administration's lawyer in the Supreme Court, the Solicitor General.

1:30.4

She's also coincidentally the subject of a big vanity fair profile this week by Christian

1:34.6

Farias. So for the first half of today's episode we are going to talk about her greatest hits.

1:40.0

The person who eats bananas before oral arguments runs circles around Brett Kavanaugh,

1:45.2

regularly and publicly owns Sam Alito and more.

1:48.2

And to help us pay tribute to one of the greatest to ever do it, we are joined by another one of the greatest. Pam

1:53.5

Carlin, the Kenneth and Harrell Montgomery professor of public interest law

1:56.9

and co-director of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic at Stanford. Welcome to

2:00.5

the show, Pam. Thanks so much for having me.

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