The messy drama queens of the Supreme Court

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

News, Education, Society & Culture, Politics

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

While Sarah, Matt and Ezra are away Dara is joined by Dylan Matthews and Andrew Prokop to talk about the friction between how the Supreme Court says it makes its decisions, and the way everyone assumes it really works. Is it time for the Court to stop getting polite and start getting (legal) real(ist)? References and further reading: Andrew’s explainer on the gerrymandering decision The “efficiency gap,” explained by one of its creators Dylan on the public-sector union case Janus v. AFSCME Dara’s piece on Trump v. Hawaii, the travel ban case Sonia Sotomayor endorsed legal realism before joining the Court KENNEDYWATCH, 2018 Edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think that the next great fight after our reason that's actually good is our Twix not
0:05.0	candy.
0:06.0	Illinois categorizes Twix and Snickers bars as food and candy respectively.
0:11.7	Twix have flour, Snickers don't, and taxes them differently.
0:15.3	Hello and welcome to the Weeds on the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:32.3	This is Dara Lind.
0:33.5	I am while Matt is out of town, Sarah is on the tour of the leave and Ezra is still until
0:39.0	next week on Book Leave.
0:40.9	He will be back on Tuesday for Weeds.
0:42.8	I am holding down the fort and while you might be expecting me to talk about immigration,
0:47.3	I'm not because there's this other branch of government called the judicial branch
0:53.5	and the Supreme Court is nearing the end of its term.
0:56.4	So I have with me to help me explain what the hell is going on with the Supreme Court
1:01.6	Andrew Procop here in the DC studio, Senior Reporter at Vox and Senior Correspondent, I guess
1:08.0	technically Dylan Matthews who is joining us up from New York and who is going to interal
1:13.8	lia explains to me what the hell the Chevron difference is I guess.
1:18.5	So as you may know if you've vaguely been following things, the Supreme Court term ends traditionally
1:24.9	at the end of June.
1:26.4	Next week is the last week that they're probably going to be releasing opinions and because
1:30.1	the Supreme Court is a bunch of petty bitches who love drama.
1:34.7	They traditionally wait to save their biggest cases until the end of the term.
1:39.0	So we are still waiting on two of the biggest cases.
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