Swamp Notes: Conservatives have big plans for the judicial branch
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 13 July 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As president, Donald Trump appointed three conservative justices to the Supreme Court and hundreds of conservative judges to benches across the judicial branch. These justices and judges have handed down several controversial decisions that have reshaped important aspects of American life. The FT’s US legal and enforcement correspondent, Stefania Palma, and professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia, Barbara Perry, join this week’s Swamp Notes to discuss where the conservative legal movement is going next.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:10.2 | The UK's energy partner. |
| 0:09.6 | The US Supreme Court's conservative judges have checked off just about every item on their wish list. |
| 0:19.0 | They rolled back abortion rights in 2022, dismantled affirmative action in 2023, and undermined regulatory agencies this year. |
| 0:31.6 | This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the F.T. News briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Mark Filipino, and this week we're asking what's |
| 0:44.2 | next for the Conservative Legal Project. Here with me to discuss is Stefania |
| 0:48.9 | Palmer, she is the FTS U.S. Legal and Enforcement correspondent. |
| 0:52.0 | Hi Stefania. Hi, Stefania. |
| 0:53.0 | Hi, Mark. |
| 0:54.0 | And I'm also joined by Barbara Perry. |
| 0:56.0 | She's a professor of presidential studies at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, |
| 1:00.0 | and she's an expert on the Supreme Court. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, Barbara. Hi Barbara. |
| 1:03.0 | Hello, Mark. |
| 1:04.4 | All right, so just before we look ahead, |
| 1:06.7 | I want to look back at this past Supreme Court term. |
| 1:10.4 | Stefania, what are some of the big transformative cases that the court decided this term? |
| 1:15.6 | So once again, this was a blockbuster term for the Supreme Court. I would say there were two |
| 1:20.8 | enormous rulings that were handed down. One of them basically overturned a legal |
| 1:26.3 | doctrine called the Chevron deference doctrine that essentially said courts should generally defer to federal agencies interpretation of ambiguous laws |
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