The Case That Could Upend Democratic Elections

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4.8 • 616 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Jess and Imani deliver a Schoolhouse Rock-style explanation of the separation of powers—because, apparently, the Supreme Court needs one.

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0:00.0	Two, three, four.
0:05.8	Two, three, four.
0:09.2	Two, three, four.
0:11.7	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:13.4	Welcome to another special reaction episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted
0:19.0	by the legal journalism team that just doesn't really
0:21.6	know what's going on when it comes to democracy in this country anymore. Like, what the hell, man?
0:26.5	I'm Imani Gandhi, ReWire News Group's editor at large. And I'm Jess Peklo, ReWire News Group's executive editor.
0:33.2	Rewire News Group is the one and only home for expert repo journalism that inspires you to
0:37.7	settle in, folks. We have a meaty episode for you today. And the boom-layered podcast is part of
0:47.1	that mission. So big thanks to our listeners and a welcome to our new viewers, subscribers.
0:52.9	Hello, everyone. We have so much democracy to talk about today.
0:57.4	So much democracy.
0:59.8	So, you know, this whole term, every time we do one of these episodes, we talk about how
1:04.1	horrible the cases and how it's going to destroy the country and democracy.
1:07.8	And it just keeps getting progressively worse.
1:10.5	And then here we are with Moore v. Harper.
1:13.9	The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Moore v. Harper today. And this is, it's not an exaggeration
1:20.5	to say that this is a case that could forever change the way that elections happen in this country.
1:26.9	It's true. And look, so much is on the line
1:29.8	that in this episode, you are going to see me read a lot. Look how meaty this script is, folks.
1:37.9	Pages, because really what we have is a cooked up case to try and unravel how elections, federal elections specifically,
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