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Strict Scrutiny

The Supreme Court Makes Its Biggest Power Grab in a Generation

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Leah, Melissa and Kate try to wrap their heads around SCOTUS throwing away 40 years of precedent that allowed federal agencies (and the experts who work for them) to interpret ambiguous laws, not the judiciary. The court also made it easier to criminalize homelessness and harder to charge hundreds of January 6th insurrectionists. A tough day on 1 First Street, to say the least.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Mr Chief Justice,

0:03.0

Justice, may it please to court.

0:05.0

It's an old joke, but when I argue, man argues against two beautiful ladies like this,

0:11.0

they're going to have the last word.

0:14.0

She spoke not elegantly but with unmistakable clarity.

0:19.0

She said, I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our

0:30.3

next. Hello and welcome

0:45.0

welcome back to strict scrutiny your podcast about the Supreme Court and the

0:48.9

legal culture that surrounds it. We're your hosts. I'm Melissa Murray.

0:52.3

I'm Leah Littman and I'm Kate Shaw and the band is back

0:55.8

together for this emergency episode that is somehow still not a term recap because the term will

1:02.4

never end. This is hell and we live in it. So because the term is still

1:06.4

ongoing, we will just be covering in this episode the three opinions that we got on Friday and

1:10.9

because no it's not really going to be the term forever Monday is in fact the

1:14.8

last day of the term we are going to mix up the usual schedule of episode releases

1:19.7

so you actually won't have an episode in your feed at the usual time early in the morning, but

1:25.2

fear not we haven't been silenced. That's like probably still a couple terms off and turns

1:29.2

very much on the outcome of the presidential election, though for now at least we're still allowed to

1:33.0

podcast. All we're going to do is wait until later in the day, so we'll get the

1:35.8

Monday opinions, recap them later in the day Monday, and you'll have them in your

1:39.7

earholes, you know, like probably evening time, strict scrutiny after dark, and then we will have

1:44.2

our term review in your ears the next Monday for the following regularly scheduled episode.

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