The Conservative Push to Weaken Our Democracy
Strict Scrutiny
Strict Scrutiny
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
International law expert Rebecca Ingber of Cardozo Law joins Leah at the top of the show to talk about the US and Israel's war on Iran. Then, Leah welcomes guest co-host Chris Geidner of Law Dork to run through domestic legal news, including the omission of allegations against Trump from the Epstein files, the President’s MAHA Surgeon General nominee Casey Means’s confirmation hearing, the administration’s wildly illegal halting of Medicaid funds to Minnesota, the role of independent media in Trump 2.0, and some of the stories Chris has been breaking. They also unpack last week’s oral arguments and opinions before Leah is joined by Marc Elias, chair of Elias Law Group and founder of Democracy Docket, to discuss how voting rights are under attack from all three branches of government.
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- Leah: Upcoming article for the Georgetown Law Review, The Passive Vices; independent media including Law Dork; Democracy Docket; and One First; The Supreme Court is Not "Reining in" Executive Power, Steve Vladeck (One First); Crooked on MS NOW premiering on Saturday at 9pm ET on MS NOW
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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 | Since the nation's founding, the values of religious liberty and pluralism have been central to the American identity. |
| 0:10.2 | These values are now under accelerated attack. |
| 0:12.9 | The government has no authority to pick and choose which religious beliefs to promote and which to marginalize. |
| 0:18.1 | Religious freedom for only some is religious freedom for none. |
| 0:21.5 | The Trump-Fantz administration's Religious Liberty Commission is pursuing a culture of Christian |
| 0:25.6 | nationalism that seeks to divide and isolate people across our nation. The fatally flawed way |
| 0:30.7 | this commission was assembled makes clear that the predetermined outcome isn't just un-American, |
| 0:35.3 | it's against the law. The Trump-Fance administration has failed to |
| 0:38.5 | uphold our country's proud religious freedom tradition, and we will hold them accountable. |
| 0:42.9 | Be part of the movement that's pushing back and standing up for freedom. Register to attend today |
| 0:47.3 | at thesrf.org. |
| 0:52.3 | Mr. Chief Justice, may please support. |
| 0:55.0 | It's an old joke. |
| 0:58.0 | When I argue, men, argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word. |
| 1:04.0 | She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity. |
| 1:10.0 | She said, I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next. The Hi, listeners, it's Leah. |
| 1:36.3 | On Saturday morning, I woke up to news that at 3 a.m. Eastern time, the FIFA Peace Prize recipient, President Donald the Dove, himself, had announced that he launched yet another war. |
| 1:46.1 | This one with Iran at 1 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:49.2 | There's no pretense that these were limited strikes. |
| 1:51.9 | Saturday morning, he was calling for regime change and saying there might be casualties, |
| 1:55.9 | which unfortunately there already have been. |
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