The Political Thicket

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🗓️ 10 June 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The question of how much power the Supreme Court should possess has divided justices over time. But the issue was perhaps never more hotly debated than in Baker v. Carr. On this episode of More Perfect, we talk about the case that pushed one Supreme Court justice to a nervous breakdown, brought a boiling feud to a head, put one justice in the hospital, and changed the course of the Supreme Court – and the nation – forever.

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0:00.0	Um, well, I think we should start the story on June 25th, 1969.
0:04.3	Well, first you should say who you are.
0:05.6	I'm Susie Lechtemberg.
0:06.6	I'm Janneb.
0:07.3	I'm Rod.
0:07.7	This is more perfect.
0:08.6	Okay.
0:08.8	So why, uh, why June 20th?
0:10.8	When was it?
0:11.5	June 25th, 1969.
0:13.2	Why then?
0:13.9	Uh, Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren is retiring.
0:17.2	Earl Warren of the Warren court.
0:19.3	Is that a big court?
0:21.1	Yeah, that's really big.
0:23.1	No, come on.
0:23.6	Humory.
0:24.1	I think if you think of legendary Supreme Court justices, he's probably in, I don't know, top five.
0:29.6	So he was one of the mountain Olympians.
0:31.0	He's, he's a big deal.
0:33.6	All right.
0:33.8	So he's retiring.
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