What Next - The Supreme Court’s Back. Uh Oh.
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court term’s kicked off this week, and the cases in front of the nine justices could reshape American life in public, at home, and in the doctor’s office, for wide swaths of the country. The election, too, could be at the hands of the Court.
Guest: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate senior writer covering courts and the law.
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| 1:11.0 | Are you ready for it? |
| 1:12.8 | No, absolutely not. |
| 1:14.8 | Mark Joseph Stern covers the Supreme Court for Slate. |
| 1:19.6 | Like every year, he's been gearing up with a little bit of dread for the start of the scotus term. |
| 1:25.0 | So you know when John Roberts was still a lawyer before he was a judge he famously said |
| 1:30.4 | that when the Supreme Court lets out for its break the Constitution is safe for the summer |
| 1:35.1 | and I mean I think he was on to something like it is very much a relief over the |
| 1:40.9 | summer when they don't have their fingers in the pie to continue the |
| 1:43.9 | Thanksgiving theme. And now they're back. |
| 1:47.1 | In the year of 2024, you probably know how you feel about the Supreme Court. |
| 1:52.4 | Mark certainly does, which is kind of a problem for the two of us. How do we explain this new court term to you when you're already thinking? These guys? Again? A few weeks back, Slate published an article that said that instead of examining the cases, |
| 2:08.0 | the justices are about to hear, one way to understand this term is to look more closely at the Justice's summer media |
| 2:14.4 | tours. Both Republican appointed Neil Gorsuch and Democratic appointed |
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