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Strict Scrutiny

SCOTUS Clears the Way for Trump’s Lawlessness

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

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

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In an emergency episode, Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down today’s radical decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., which gives this administration carte blanche to pursue its heinous agenda by curbing the judiciary’s ability to issue nationwide injunctions.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

0:04.7

You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion.

0:12.4

The same people and groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws

0:22.2

and lives. Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions

0:28.2

of church state separation is our public school system. So they're pushing vouchers everywhere.

0:33.5

They're arguing for religious public schools. Yes, you heard that right. Religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we've discussed on the pod.

0:41.2

If you're listening to us, you're seeing the writing on the wall.

0:44.1

We can, we must, fight back.

0:46.4

Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their growing movement because church-state separation protects us all.

0:53.1

Learn more and get involved at a.U.org slash crooked.

0:58.1

Mr. Chief Justice, may it please support.

1:02.2

It's an old joke.

1:04.0

When I argue, man argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word.

1:10.4

She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable

1:14.5

clarity she said i ask no favor for my sex all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet

1:25.1

or for our necks is that they take their feet or fall next.

1:44.4

Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. We are your hosts. I'm Kate Shaw. I'm Melissa Murray. And I'm Leah

1:48.9

Lipman. And fuck. So today's emergency episode is going to focus on the decision we got in the

1:55.4

birthright citizenship case about whether lower courts get to enforce the Constitution or whether

2:00.0

instead Trump gets to violate the Constitution and federal laws unchecked, at least in some places, as a little treat.

2:05.9

We'll briefly summarize the result in the challenge to the Voting Rights Act, which was no resolution, and quickly summarize the decision we got about LGBT reading materials in public schools and parents' right to challenge what is taught in public schools

2:17.6

by insisting their child have a right to opt out of instruction they object to. But we'll do a deeper

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