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🗓️ 17 July 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Once again, the Supreme Court ended its term with monumental decisions which will affect the way millions of Americans are able (or not able) to do important things in their lives. As usual, we covered many of those issues over the past year, and in this episode we revisit that coverage to contextualize the importance of the court's decisions and efforts to reform the court.
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Alyssa Milano, and this is Sorry Not Sorry. |
0:30.0 | I'm Ben Jackson, and for one more week for Alyssa Milano, who's working out of the country. |
0:41.0 | The end of the Supreme Court term brought several monumental decisions. |
0:45.0 | We've extensively covered the court and these issues over the years, and we wanted to take this opportunity to revisit those episodes to put these decisions and efforts to reform the court into context. |
0:57.0 | Breaking news in Washington, D.C. in the past few hours. |
1:03.0 | The Supreme Court has ruled on two major rulings. |
1:07.0 | The first allows certain businesses refuse service to LGBTQ plus people. |
1:12.0 | Now the court also ruled against President Joe Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. |
1:16.0 | Judge Thomas and his wife set off on a nine-day island hopping tour on this super yacht, which comes complete with a staff and a private chef. |
1:25.0 | Pro-Publica did the math and calculated that had just as Thomas paid for the trip himself, it would have cost him more than $500,000. |
1:32.0 | Another Supreme Court justice is under scrutiny. |
1:35.0 | A new report, Pope Pro-Publica claimed Samuel Alito accepted a lavish vacation from a conservative billionaire with frequent business before the high court. |
1:44.0 | A new study by four law professors estimates that Republicans are likely to keep control of the court for another 42 years until 2065. |
1:55.0 | Unless the court is expanded and rebalanced. |
2:04.0 | Surprisingly, not all of the decisions from this court went against our interests. |
2:08.0 | Two cases, one involving Jerry Mandered voting districts in Alabama, and another which considered a dangerous election manipulation attempt called the Independent State Legislature Theory, were decided appropriately. |
2:21.0 | To explain what was at stake, Megan Hatcher-Mays of Demand Justice joined the podcast. |
2:28.0 | I want to talk about that particular case that's on the docket this term, which is more of Harper, which deals with basically election oversight, right, which is just horrifying. |
2:39.0 | First of all, just give my audience a bit of background on the case. |
2:44.0 | This one is really scary. |
2:47.0 | A case before the Supreme Court, more V-Harper could radically reshape presidential and congressional elections in this country. |
2:53.0 | At the heart of the case is a controversial and disputed legal theory that claimed the U.S. Constitution gives state legislatures almost unchecked power over how federal elections are run. |
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