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The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell

S2 Ep157: SCOTUS Profoundly Changed Elections—Mid-Vote! (w/ Kate Shaw)

The Illegal News with Sarah Longwell

The Bulwark

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kate Shaw—ABC News contributor and co-host of the podcast 'Strict Scrutiny'—joins Sarah Longwell to explain a major Supreme Court ruling that American elections. Then they discuss a string of notable legal news: a DOJ filing that reads like Trump wrote it himself, Trump suing his own government for $10 billion, and the indefensible Comey “seashell” indictment.

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dig it 5. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the illegal news. I'm Sarah Longwell,

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publisher of the bulwark, and famously not a lawyer. So I am joined today by Kate Shaw,

1:54.0

and I have been joined by many fancy lawyers on this podcast. But Kate may be the fanciest of them

2:00.1

all. She clerked for the

2:01.3

Seventh Circuit and for the Supreme Court. She worked at the White House Counsel's Office.

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She's a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, the school I didn't

2:08.9

get into. And she is co-host of the podcast, strict scrutiny. She's the second strict

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scrutiny I've had on this podcast. Most importantly, or so I'm told by the lawyers in my

2:18.9

office, she graduated from Northwestern University Law School. And I am surrounded by, go cats,

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