Political Gabfest - SCOTUS Guts The Establishment Clause
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🗓️ 23 June 2022
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Summary
This week, David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the Supreme Court decision requiring that government funding for private schools include religious ones, the January 6th hearings, and dissension at progressive organizations.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Jack Goldsmith for The New York Times: “Prosecute Trump? Put Yourself in Merrick Garland’s Shoes.”
John Dickerson for Slate: Whistlestop podcast: “The Mulligan Letters”
Ryan Grim for The Intercept: “Elephant in the Zoom”
Here are this week’s chatters:
John: “Watergate Trial Records Digitized For 50th Anniversary of Watergate”
Emily: Agnes Callard for The Boston Review: “Against Persuasion”
David: Hustle
Listener chatter from Cyrus Farivar: Tim Folger for Scientific American: “Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down”
Be sure to tune into Emily’s conversation with author Keri Blakinger on her new book, Corrections in Ink, on Gabfest Reads on June 26, 2022.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Politico Gavvist. |
| 0:16.0 | For June 23rd, 2022, it's the SCOTUS Gutts, the Establishment Clause edition. |
| 0:22.9 | I'm David Klotz of CityCast in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:26.3 | I am joined by Emily Baszlan of New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School |
| 0:31.1 | and you Haven Hello, Emily. |
| 0:33.3 | Hey, David. |
| 0:34.7 | And by John Dickersen of CBS' Sunday Morning in New York City, hello, John. |
| 0:40.1 | Hello, David. Once again, I'm in Washington. |
| 0:42.4 | Man, you've been in Washington for like three weeks. |
| 0:44.5 | You haven't called. |
| 0:45.6 | You're like, I've just been sitting in my apartment waiting for anything to do. |
| 0:51.1 | Like any chance to have a cup of coffee with you. |
| 0:55.2 | But no. |
| 0:55.7 | There's such short trips. |
| 0:57.2 | You're probably staying in a hotel right next to me and you don't even, let's not even |
| 1:00.9 | talk about it. |
| 1:01.9 | I mean, you're building. |
| 1:02.9 | This week has the Supreme Court gutted the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. |
| 1:09.6 | Then more appalling revelations from the January 6th Commission. |
| 1:13.0 | What will the upshot of that be? |
| 1:15.4 | What will the impact of those revelations be? |
| 1:17.9 | And then is cancel culture destroying progressive organizations from within plus we will have |
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