S8 Ep838: 4/16: John Yoo details organized attempts to intimidate the Supreme Court through leaks and threats. He also explains the President's constitutional authority to unilaterally terminate international treaties like the NATO alliance.
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | I'm John Batchel with John U of the Berkeley Law School in California and of the University of Texas at |
| 0:22.0 | Austin Civitas Institute. In Texas, we turned to a story that John posted at the New York |
| 0:28.0 | at the Fox News that I was not aware of what was going on here was an organized attack, assault, |
| 0:37.3 | brutalizing the members of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:40.3 | I understand that they've been under threat for some time now from the Dobbs decision, |
| 0:45.8 | but I didn't know that there was cooperation of what appeared to be organized cooperation |
| 0:50.0 | by a major newspaper, that would be the New York Times, and by the leadership in the Democratic Party. |
| 0:56.5 | What is it that they want to happen, John? Is this packing the court part two? Where are they going with this? |
| 1:02.9 | I think that's exactly right, John. This is an effort to try to attack the court because liberals or progressive, whatever you want to call them, |
| 1:14.4 | disagree with the court's direction. They don't like the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade |
| 1:20.1 | in the Dobbs case in 2022. And what you saw there in the wake of that decision was the first ever leak of a Supreme Court opinion. Before |
| 1:30.5 | Dobbs had officially issued, someone on the court leaked to the press, the actual draft opinion. |
| 1:36.8 | That's never happened before in the history of the country. And because of that draft, |
| 1:42.0 | someone tried to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh. |
| 1:44.9 | Now, luckily, he was captured by the police before he could carry off his plot. |
| 1:49.5 | But he was found in front near Kavanaugh's house with weapons. |
| 1:54.8 | And that was an obvious effort to try to intimidate the justices, to try to get them to change their opinion. You've |
| 2:02.6 | also had the Supreme Court issue a number of other decisions that liberals haven't liked, like the |
| 2:08.2 | end of race-based affirmative action in the Harvard case, like the case saying that President Trump |
| 2:14.4 | could not be prosecuted for his official actions as president in Trump |
| 2:19.1 | versus United States. And you've seen incredible number unprecedented leaks to the New York Times |
| 2:26.4 | now about all these cases, about the Dobbs case, about Trump versus United States, and now over |
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