SUPD 1059 Headlines and Civil Rights Lawyer Alex Aronson tells us how to Save Democracy from the Courts
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Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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In five years as counsel, senior counsel, and chief counsel to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Alex Aronson led Senate investigations, oversight, and legislative campaigns to confront anti-democratic judicial influence, ethical misconduct, and abuse of power. A political organizer, civil rights lawyer, and judicial ethics expert, Alex’s work on judicial accountability and right-wing judicial influence has helped elevate these issues to national prominence, laying the groundwork for today’s headlines exposing the Supreme Court’s corruption and extreme judicial activism. Alex most recently served as the Managing Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law Center. He was previously an attorney in the Appellate Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, a litigation associate at Covington & Burling LLP, and a law clerk to Judge Albert Diaz on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Before attending Stanford Law School, Alex helped lead a nationally prominent state-based nonprofit focused on improving voting access for underrepresented communities in Oregon, culminating in the nation’s first statewide automatic voter registration law.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends and welcome to today's episode of Stand Up where my guest will be Alex Aronson. |
| 0:07.4 | Such a very important guest and expert. |
| 0:11.1 | This might be one of the most important people and conversations that I've had on the podcast and |
| 0:17.0 | I had a lot of important conversations I think so that's saying a lot. |
| 0:20.8 | He is the former chief counsel for Senator Sheldon White House who was the |
| 0:25.0 | chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He's led Senate investigations. He has |
| 0:29.7 | been a political organizer, civil rights lawyer, a judicial ethics expert. |
| 0:34.2 | He is now the director of a nonprofit called Court Accountability and working on some really |
| 0:38.8 | important projects to help fight for democracy. |
| 0:42.6 | Alex Aronson is back on the show for the second time. |
| 0:46.1 | This is a real important conversation. |
| 0:49.3 | It starts at about 17 minutes into today's show after the headlines and I hope you like it and tell |
| 0:55.4 | your friends about it tell your friends about him and follow him and support his work. |
| 1:00.2 | All right well let's get to those headlines and thank you very much for everybody who's been emailing me this week and leaving comments on various different platforms where the show is posted. |
| 1:09.5 | Of course, Patreon. A lot of nice things being said about the show about Anna Marie Cox as well as |
| 1:14.2 | just rate David K Johnson and all of my guests that have three names you guys |
| 1:18.3 | seem to really like. Thank you for the great feedback. I'll just read Shannon |
| 1:22.0 | emails and says Pete thank you. for the great feedback. I'll just read Shannon whites real quick. |
| 1:23.0 | Shannon emails and says, Pete, thank you so much for having David K Johnston on. |
| 1:26.7 | I feel so much more informed and educated after listening to this. |
| 1:29.5 | He's one of the best interviews you've had in a long time. Not that many have been great. |
| 1:33.8 | Bravo, Shannon. |
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