The Trump Administration's SCOTUS Winning Streak

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🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Kate dive into the week’s legal news, explaining how SCOTUS continues to carry water for the Trump administration. They also cover an epic slapdown of the Roberts Court out of Hawaii, Sam Alito’s Italian sojourn, and the DOJ’s refusal to investigate the wads of cash lining border czar Tom Homan’s pockets. Then all three hosts are joined by special guests Sherrilyn Ifill, founding director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy at Howard University, and New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie to discuss the Supreme Court in the years after the Civil War and Reconstruction and why that era, known as the Redemption Court, resonates with today’s legal landscape.

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0:00.0	Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for Separation of Church and State. You don't
0:04.9	destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting precedent, shattering norms, and dropping a few
0:11.2	billion. The same people in groups that back Project 2025 are part of a larger shadow network
0:16.4	that's relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian nationalist agenda on our laws and lives.
0:21.5	Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda.
0:24.8	One of the last bastions of church state separation is our public school system.
0:28.9	So they're pushing vouchers everywhere.
0:30.6	They're arguing for religious public schools.
0:32.7	Yes, you heard that right, religious public schools at the Supreme Court in a case we talked
0:36.9	about on the podcast. If you're listening to us in a case we talked about on the podcast.
0:38.4	If you're listening to us, you are seeing the writing on the wall. We can, we must, fight back.
0:43.9	Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their growing movement because church-state
0:48.5	separation protects us all. Learn more and get involved at a.u.org slash cricket.
0:55.2	Mr. Chief Justice, may please support.
0:59.3	It's an old joke.
1:01.1	When I argue men, argues against two beautiful ladies like this, they're going to have the last word.
1:07.4	She spoke not elegantly, but with unmistakable clarity, she said, I ask no favor for my sex.
1:17.6	All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet or for next.
1:41.2	Hello and welcome back to strict scrutiny, your podcast about the Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.
1:42.6	We are your host for the segment.
1:43.9	I'm Kate Shaw. And I'm Leah Littman. And this is the last week of summer programming before we
1:49.5	plunge right into October term 2025, the Supreme Court term that starts on Monday, October 6th.
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