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The Ben Ferguson Podcast

Showdown at the Supreme Court

The Ben Ferguson Podcast

iHeartPodcasts

News, Politics, News Commentary

4.85.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Showdowns over religious liberty, adoption, and Obamacare are going down at the Supreme Court. Luckily, our intrepid co-host is quite the expert in this area—and not just because he wrote a book about it! Senator Ted Cruz joins Michael Knowles to break down why we always seem to be one vote away on the most crucial SCOTUS cases and what's behind this divide on the Court. Plus, given a magic wand, which constitutional amendment should we repeal?

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0:00.0

A showdown at the Supreme Court, major cases involving religious liberty, involving adoption,

0:06.3

involving health care, and another challenge to Obamacare.

0:10.3

And believe it or not, the co-host of this very podcast is the plaintiff in a major Supreme Court case that's coming down the pike.

0:18.0

This is Verdict with Ted Cruz.

0:25.9

Thank you. that's coming down the pike. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Knowles. I'm going to have a spoiler right here.

0:31.3

I am not the plaintiff in this case coming down the pike at the Supreme Court. It will not be me.

0:35.6

It will be our intrepid host,

0:38.2

Senator Cruz. Senator, that's a lot coming up. It is. We're at the end of a court term,

0:43.4

so it's always busy as we get decisions coming down, and they usually save the biggest ones for last.

0:50.5

So, Senator, you are an expert in this field, not just because you went to law school,

0:57.0

not just because you are a Supreme Court litigator and you've argued before the court before,

1:02.6

also because you've written a book on the subject of the court called One Vote Away. I've been

1:07.7

very busy hawking my book Speechless, but your book, One Vote Away,

1:11.3

very crucial right now because we have had some pretty serious cases just in the past couple of

1:16.2

weeks. Well, that's right. And there's some interesting potential divides that we're seeing

1:21.0

among the more conservative justices. You know, the press has been very fond of saying there's a six-vote conservative majority on the court.

1:29.9

And that may be the case. It may not. Time will tell. There's no doubt the three Supreme Court

1:36.6

justices that President Trump put on the court will be a very significant legacy of his, and it may

1:41.9

prove his most long-lasting legacy. But experience

1:45.8

teaches us that a justice's tenure, that their jurisprudence, is assessed and measured in

1:52.7

decades, not in individual years. So it's really early with Kavanaugh and Gorsuch and Barrett.

1:59.8

It's really early to assess what kind of justices

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