The Supreme Court Crisis w/ Elie Mystal

The Laverne Cox Show

Shondaland Audio and iHeartPodcasts

Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 770 Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Elie Mystal joins Laverne to talk about the wilding U.S. Supreme Court and how we got here.

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0:00.0	Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced.
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0:28.4	listening. Terms apply. Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership
0:36.0	with IHeart Radio.
0:43.5	It's not that the conservatives are winning.
0:45.8	It's that they've won.
0:51.7	And now it's time for the new forces to get back into the game, right? We're not in an Empire Strikes Back situation.
0:54.9	We're in a end of Revenge of the Sith situation
0:58.0	where the young things have been slaughtered.
1:01.0	The empire is on top, and right now we need a new hope, right?
1:04.3	Right? Hello everyone and welcome to the Laverern Cox Show.
1:19.9	I'm Leverne Cox.
1:23.0	Growing up in Mobile, Alabama with a mother who grew up in the segregated South in the context
1:31.1	of racial apartheid, I was very aware of Brown versus Sportive Education, this Supreme
1:38.7	Court decision that desegregated schools. And so I grew up with this thought of the Supreme Court
1:47.0	as this place, this space that could be potentially liberatory for my people.
1:54.0	And as I've sort of grown up and taken on advocacy work as an openly trans woman of color, the law, and the court
2:06.3	continue to be spaces of fascination for me, spaces of possibility, and spaces of potential
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