The Supreme Court Episode

FiveThirtyEight Politics

ABC News

Politics, News

4.6 • 20.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

With the data from the most recent term in hand, the crew discusses how far to the right the Supreme Court has gone. They also break down what that means for future cases and what it means for the legitimacy of the court overall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think America needs a royal family.
0:02.5	I think I've floated that theory before, right?
0:05.2	We should pull people, you guys, please get on this.
0:09.0	If America were to have a king in a queen,
0:10.8	you guys would ask that question.
0:11.6	Who would Americans want it to be?
0:13.2	Don't they have a ranking of the most popular Americans?
0:16.7	Most popular people in America.
0:20.0	This is so boring.
0:21.6	I don't want these people to be our royal family.
0:24.0	No, this is pretty good.
0:25.0	Who's the king in Queen would be more
0:26.4	than Freeman and Betty White, like, first of all, that possible.
0:30.8	Second of all, that's so boring.
0:33.6	No, no. They can't be popular.
0:36.2	Like, that's the thing.
0:37.8	People have to like, like, having them in place
0:40.6	for entertainment value, but they cannot all be popular.
0:53.2	Hello and welcome to the 538 Politics podcast.
0:56.1	I'm Gail Andrick.
0:57.5	The past Supreme Court term featured
0:59.6	the sharpest partisan divide in decades.
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