The Federalist Society, part 4: How to Fight Back [TEASER]
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🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Let's burn this motherfucker down metaphorically speaking OF COURSE! Today we're talking about how to counter Fed Soc's influence on campus and in the courts. The game plan isn't to copy their strategy - it's to play to the left's strengths.
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| 0:00.0 | I don't lose I win I win I'm a lawyer that's my job that's what I do |
| 0:10.9 | hey everyone this is Peter one of the hosts of 5 to 4, filling in for Leon. |
| 0:16.7 | Leon is sick. Usually that means that Rachel Ward or Andrew Parsons would be reading this |
| 0:21.9 | introduction, but both of them claim |
| 0:24.3 | that they don't have microphones, despite the fact that last I checked, they were in |
| 0:28.8 | the podcast production business. Interesting, but I digress. |
| 0:34.0 | This episode of 5-4 is the final installment of our Federalist Society series. |
| 0:39.1 | Today, me, Rianen, and Michael are talking about how to destroy the Federalist Society. |
| 0:44.8 | While there have been attempts on the left to copy Fed Sox' on-campus strategy, |
| 0:48.8 | no one has succeeded in matching the part of its network that really matters, its influence and reach into the judiciary. |
| 0:55.9 | But as you will hear, there are some promising signs that the left is learning how to counter the |
| 1:00.7 | Federalist society, not by copying them, but by drawing on its own strengths. |
| 1:06.0 | This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court and the Federalist Society suck. Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have |
| 1:25.6 | retracted our civil liberties like scientific journals retracting |
| 1:29.0 | anti-Miphyphoprous-owned studies. That's right. I'm Peter. I'm here with Rianen. Hey. And Michael. Hey everybody. |
| 1:38.0 | Michael, you shared this story with us, so I'll let you explain. Yeah, these scientific journals retracted all these anti-Mipipristone studies because their |
| 1:47.8 | stated reason was, well, the lead author on the study and all the authors on these articles in our journals |
| 1:55.4 | all claim they had no conflicts of interest but it turns out they're all heavily |
| 1:59.3 | involved in the anti-abortion movement. |
| 2:02.8 | So they do. |
| 2:04.4 | And also, there's some serious methodological concerns |
| 2:08.1 | on top of the conflict of interest concerns. |
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