The Court Makes a King: A Conversation with Supreme Court Expert Dahlia Lithwick

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We just finished probably the most life altering Supreme Court’s session in the history of our country. The six conservative justices, and I use the term conservative loosely, because they’re actually right wing extremists, just took a sledge hammer to decades of legal precedent, human rights, civil rights and the constitution itself, but this idea that there’s nothing we can do about it is wrong. Join me and absolute legal superstar Dahlia Lithwick as we discuss what comes next for court and country. As always, if you find worth in what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, like the rants directly to your inbox and the knowledge that you’re making this kind of highly researched, factual information possible. If that interests you, please go to https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium and subscribe today!! Thank you so much! xoPG Guest social: Twitter: @Dahlialithwick Slate: https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick Lady Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Justice-Women-Battle-America/dp/0525561382 As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl This episode is sponsored by… https://rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl Upgrade your closet with Rhone and use POLITICSGIRL to save 20% at: https://www.rhone.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl And the Vibes Only podcast: https://couriernewsroom.com/vibes-only-podcast-trailer/

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0:00.0	The very idea of American rule of law and democracy is that nobody is above the law and the sort of aggregate effect of all the cases we've been talking about are to place some people above the law.
0:14.0	Take the bribe after, it's not a bribe.
0:16.7	And then to say to other people, right,
0:18.7	we are never ever giving you a second chance.
0:21.5	We are never going to err on the side of, you know, you made a mistake.
0:25.8	People go to the death chamber for making mistakes in their filings, right? They didn't get something in on time. Sorry, you're executed.
0:34.7	Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas fail year after year after year to file their
0:40.8	disclosure forms correctly and say,
0:42.5	oops, sorry, I caught it wrong that year
0:45.0	when I didn't disclose my wife's income, right?
0:48.0	They don't go to the Jest Chamber, no consequences.
0:51.5	And so this two-tiered system of justice for the haves and the have-nots is again the
0:56.6	reason people fled around the world to come to a country that promised equal justice for all.
1:03.8	And that's the thing that's being eroded.
1:05.6	Even if everything else we're saying
1:08.0	feels like legal abstractions or jargon,
1:11.1	that's the thing that was eroded this term.
1:14.0	Hello and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast. I'm your host Lee McGowan. Let's
1:27.8	get into it. Well we just finished probably the most life-altering Supreme Court
1:32.0	session in the history of the country.
1:33.9	The six conservative justices, and I use the term conservative loosely, because really their right-wing
1:38.9	extremists, just took a sledgehammer to decades of legal precedent, human rights, civil rights, and the Constitution
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