San Antonio ISD v. Rodriguez ft. Alec Karakatsanis

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Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

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🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The hosts are joined by Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityAlec), founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, and the author of Usual Cruelty: The Complicity of Lawyers in the Criminal Injustice System. They discuss San Antonio ISD v Rodriguez, an equal protection case from 1973, which is widely cited by conservatives as holding that the equal protection clause does not protect impoverished people. The hosts beg to differ.

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0:00.0	Next in 71, 1332, San Antonio School District against Rodriguez.
0:09.0	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects.
0:15.8	On today's episode of 5-4, Peter, Riannan, and Michael are joined by civil rights lawyer
0:20.8	Alec Carrick at Sanos to discuss San Antonio independent school district V Rodriguez, an
0:26.7	equal protection case from 1973. In this case, parents from an underprivileged school
0:32.0	district in Texas sued over inequitable school funding.
0:35.5	Well, are you saying that you're discriminated against in this school district because you're
0:39.4	poor and these children's education are suffering because of that?
0:42.4	They are. Well, the district is poor and so on, so that we have four education.
0:50.0	But the court rejected their claim.
0:51.7	The day the Supreme Court, in effect, conceded the system may be discriminatory, but rule
0:56.3	5-4 that it is constitutional.
0:58.7	This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:07.9	Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have dilapidated
1:12.7	our liberty, like rising ocean temperatures have bleached the Great Barrier Reef.
1:16.7	I'm Peter. I'm here with Riannan.
1:20.5	Hey, hi, everyone.
1:22.4	And Michael.
1:23.4	Hey, everybody.
1:24.3	And our special guest, Alec Erkutsanos.
1:27.1	Alec, welcome.
1:28.1	Hi.
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