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Strict Scrutiny

Stacking the Bench with Creeps & Kooks

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

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

4.8 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

Leah and guest co-host Mark Joseph Stern of Slate and the Amicus podcast run through what’s been happening in the courts this week, including disturbing attacks on judges, the confirmation of the extremely unsavory Emile Bove, and Amy Coney Barrett’s upcoming appearance with Bari Weiss. Then, Kate and Melissa speak with Jessica Calarco, sociologist and professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, about her book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net.

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0:00.0

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

0:04.5

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

0:11.9

The same people in 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 and lives. Church

0:22.4

state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions of church state

0:27.7

separation is our public school system. So they're pushing vouchers everywhere. They're arguing for

0:32.3

religious public schools. Yes, you heard that right, religious public schools at the Supreme

0:37.1

Court in a case we talked about on the podcast. If you're listening to us, you heard that right, religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we talked about on the podcast.

0:39.8

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

0:42.9

We can, we must fight back.

0:45.1

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

0:51.7

Learn more and get involved at AU.org slash crooked.

0:55.9

Mr. Chief Justice, may it please support.

1:00.0

It's an old joke, but when I argue, men,

1:02.9

argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last

1:06.3

word.

1:08.1

She spoke, not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.

1:13.6

She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

1:18.9

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.

1:26.8

The or for next.

1:43.1

Hello, and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

1:44.7

I'm your host for today, Leah Littman.

1:46.6

As part of our rotating summer respite schedule, I am delighted to be joined today by a very special guest co-host, someone who is much requested on the Friends of the Pod Discord channel, and someone whose writings are often part of our favorite reads of the last week segment.

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