SCOTUS Strengthens Conservative War on Education
Strict Scrutiny
Strict Scrutiny
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🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Leah, Melissa and Kate roll up their sleeves and unpack last Friday’s huge day at the Court, starting with Mahmoud v. Taylor, the case that tested Sam Alito’s ability to comprehend picture books. They also break down the outcomes of cases involving age verification for adult entertainment and the nondelegation doctrine. If you missed last Friday’s emergency episode on the birthright citizenship case, you can find it here.
Hosts’ favorite things:
- Melissa: Jackson and Sotomayor dissents (Mahmoud v. Taylor, Trump v. CASA, Inc.); Outrageous (BritBox); Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Kate: Green-Wood Cemetery’s Living Dead, Paige Williams (New Yorker); Dying for Sex (FX on Hulu); Chris Hayes’ lecture at the Chautauqua Institution
- Leah: KBJ and Sotomayor dissents; The 21 Best Croissants in New York City Right Now, Mahira Rivers (NYT); YELLOW, Washington, D.C.
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| 0:00.0 | Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. You don't destroy |
| 0:05.2 | 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion. |
| 0:11.2 | The same people in groups that backed Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's |
| 0:15.6 | relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and lives. Church |
| 0:20.6 | state separation is the |
| 0:21.9 | bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions of church state separation is our public |
| 0:26.7 | school system. So they're pushing vouchers everywhere. They're arguing for religious public schools. |
| 0:31.7 | Yes, you heard that right. Religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we've talked |
| 0:35.6 | about on the pod. If you're listening to us, |
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| 0:57.8 | It's an old joke, |
| 0:59.5 | but when I argue, men, |
| 1:01.8 | argues against two beautiful ladies like this, |
| 1:03.5 | they're going to have the last word. |
| 1:05.9 | She spoke, |
| 1:09.6 | not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity, |
| 1:14.7 | she said, I asked no favor for my sex. |
| 1:39.1 | All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next. Hello, and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it. |
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