UnJust Justice: A Conversation about SCOTUS with Dahlia Lithwick

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Despite how frustrated we might be with the ethics, decisions, and arrogance of this far right activist court, guest Dahlia Lithwick believes we’re actually at an amazing moment in American history where we have the opportunity to really address the court with our politics. If we’re not happy, then we insist on change. Supreme Court justices are not imperial. Corrupt people make corrupt rulings, and most of the county can agree we hate corruption. According to Dahlia, true institutional change is not only possible, it’s shockingly doable, but it won’t happen unless we make the court a first tier issue. As always, if you enjoy what we do, please consider SUBSCRIBING to PoliticsGirl Premium. You’ll get this podcast ad free, along with a bunch of other perks, and the knowledge that you’re allowing us to keep bringing you the best content possible. That’s https://www.politicsgirl.com/premium Thank you for caring! xoPG MERCH STORE NOW OPEN: Check it out at: https://www.politicsgirl.com/store Guest social: Twitter: @Dahlialithwick Slate: https://slate.com/author/dahlia-lithwick Lady Justice: https://www.amazon.com/Lady-Justice-Women-Battle-America/dp/0525561382 As always, please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue, and inspire change moving forward! All show links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl https://www.moshlife.com/politicsgirl https://www.trymiracle.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl https://www.reelpaper.com/politicsgirl Code: PoliticsGirl https://www.rocketmoney.com/politicsgirl

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0:00.0	I think this is the thing with the Supreme Court.
0:02.1	Is the level of, like, learned helplessness?
0:04.9	I don't think there's anything to be done about it,
0:07.3	and it's true that every law that Biden passed
0:09.9	will probably get reversed, but since there's nothing to do,
0:12.5	let's just, like, not have a theory and not have a plan.
0:15.4	And it's just, like, our yes-seven.
0:18.2	Hello, and welcome to the Politics Girl podcast.
0:31.2	I'm your host, Lee McGowan.
0:32.6	Let's get into it.
0:33.7	Considering the Supreme Court's not in session,
0:35.9	we've certainly been hearing an awful lot about them lately.
0:38.6	Mostly thanks to investigative journalists
0:40.6	discovering Clarence Thomas' seemingly never-ending gravy
0:43.6	train from conservative operatives.
0:45.6	As people start paying more attention
0:47.3	to what goes on with the justices outside of the court,
0:50.3	and start to question why they, unlike all the other courts,
0:53.5	don't have any boundaries or guardrails or ethics rules to follow,
0:56.9	I think it's important to take a step back
0:59.1	and look back at the court as a whole.
1:01.4	These are not people used to scrutiny.
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