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Strict Scrutiny

The Dubious Legality of Trump's DC Takeover

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Kate and Leah recap the week's legal news, including argument calendars for the next SCOTUS term and President Trump's attempted federal takeover of Washington, DC. Then, it's our third annual State of The Uterus episode. Melissa and Leah talk with Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and Lisa Beattie Frelinghuysen, founder of ClutchKit, about the current status of reproductive freedom three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. Finally, Leah talks about the authors of After Dobbs: How the Supreme Court Ended Roe, But Not Abortion.

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0:00.0

Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few billion. The same people and groups that back Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and our lives.

0:22.3

Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda.

0:25.8

One of the last bastions of church state separation is our public school system.

0:29.5

So they're pushing vouchers everywhere.

0:31.8

They're arguing for religious public schools.

0:33.9

Yes, you heard that right.

0:35.6

Religious public schools.

0:37.3

And they're pushing for it at the Supreme

0:38.8

Court in a case drummond that we talked about earlier this year on the pod. If you're listening to us,

0:44.8

you see the writing on the wall. You know that we can and we must fight back. Join Americans

0:50.7

United for separation of church and state and their growing movement, because church-state separation protects us all.

0:56.7

You can learn more and get involved at AU.org slash crooked.

1:01.1

Mr. Chief Justice, may it please support.

1:05.1

It's an old joke, but when I argue men, artists against two beautiful ladies like this,

1:10.3

they're going to have the last word.

1:12.6

She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity.

1:18.6

She said, I ask no favor for my sex.

1:23.6

All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our legs.

1:43.5

Hello, and welcome back to Life of a Supreme Court show podcaster, also known as strict

1:49.9

scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

1:54.9

I mean, our announcement of today's episode is probably going to get like 100 million downloads.

1:59.0

I am quite sure.

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