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Strict Scrutiny

Trump’s DOJ Shakedown

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

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

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Kate and Leah dig into a very busy week of legal news as Trump wields his SCOTUS-enabled executive power in increasingly unhinged ways. They also discuss continuing challenges to the president’s deployment of the National Guard in blue cities, ProPublica’s reporting on “Kavanaugh stops,” and, for dessert, the bonkers text exchange between Trump lackey–turned–U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan and Lawfare’s Anna Bower. Then they speak with author Irin Carmon about her new book, Unbearable: Five Women and the Perils of Pregnancy in America.

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This Halloween, the scariest schools aren't in haunted houses or that rando in your DMs.

0:05.3

Therein are legislatures, courts, and even the halls of Congress.

0:09.0

Christian nationalists are working overtime to impose their agenda on all of us,

0:12.6

from forcing religious doctrine into public schools, to funding private religious education

0:16.7

with taxpayer dollars, to rolling back our rights and freedoms.

0:20.2

If you're looking for the Ghostbusters

0:21.7

to come save us, you'll find them at Americans United for separation of church and state.

0:26.4

They're fighting back against every attack on our fundamental right to live as we choose so long as we

0:30.9

don't harm others. A.U is fighting back and has filed 10 lawsuits so far to defend freedom of

0:36.8

and from religion in every aspect of our lives.

0:40.0

Whether you're a supporter of public education, passionate about LGBTQ plus and reproductive rights,

0:45.1

or all of the above, AU relies on the help of its supporters to do this important work.

0:50.0

You're also a strict scrutiny listener, so you get it.

0:52.7

A threat against the rights of one American is a threat to all of us.

0:56.2

If you're looking for something more to do to fight back against the growing authoritarianism in our country,

1:01.0

consider joining Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

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Learn more by visiting AU.org slash crooked because church-state separation protects us all.

1:10.9

The Supreme Court's word feels final until it's not.

1:16.2

After Roe v. Wade fell, I wondered, could something like this happen in Canada?

1:21.6

I'm Phelan Johnson, and on my new podcast, See You in Court.

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We explore eight cases that shaped a country fighting to protect its stance on everything from abortion to gay rights to junk mail.

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