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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

What Next - She Met the Alitos—and Got Them on Tape

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Furtively recorded conversations with Justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Alito’s wife Martha-Ann provided a window into what these powerful figures are saying behind closed doors. But do the means of getting these recordings undermine their ultimate goal? 


Guest: Lauren Windsor, journalist and executive producer for “The Undercurrent” and documentary filmmaker of “Gonzo for Democracy.”


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:25.8

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0:31.0

hey everyone heads up this episode contains an undercover F-bomb.

0:37.0

You've been warned.

0:40.3

On Sunday night, Lauren Windsor went online to tell her tens of thousands of

0:48.1

followers that she had big news. And to be honest, she wasn't lying.

0:54.0

Lauren had gotten herself invited to a dinner at the Supreme Court.

1:01.0

She showed up posing as an eager conservative, a Catholic, a fan girl.

1:06.1

And the whole time she was recording. I think that it's a matter of like winning.

1:16.0

I think they're probably right.

1:18.0

I think one side or the other.

1:19.6

One side or the other is going to whip.

1:23.3

This is Lauren talking to Justice Samuel Alito.

1:26.8

He wrote the decision that brought down Roe v. Wade.

1:29.9

Lauren prods him into talking about religion.

1:33.1

I think that the solution really is like winning the moral argument.

1:37.6

Like people in this country who believe in God

1:40.7

have got to keep fighting for that

1:42.2

to return our country to a place of godliness.

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