Voting Rights & Wrongs, According to SCOTUS (with Steve Vladeck)
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4.8 • 32.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Preet here. Joyce Vance and I are out with a new episode of The Insider Podcast, |
| 0:06.3 | and we're sharing an excerpt with listeners of Stay Tuned. |
| 0:09.0 | This week, we're joined by our friend, constitutional law scholar, and one of the sharpest observers of the Supreme Court, Steve Vladick. |
| 0:16.3 | We cover an election case involving a basic question with major implications for how votes are counted, |
| 0:22.0 | specifically whether ballots must be mailed and received by Election Day. |
| 0:26.5 | Then we preview next week's oral arguments in a case that could do away with birthright citizenship. |
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| 0:53.3 | Now, on to the show. |
| 0:57.9 | You know, Steve, I had been waiting for the oral argument in Watson versus RNC, the late |
| 1:04.4 | arrived mail-in ballot counting case from Mississippi, really since the start of the term. And I was stunned, I have to say |
| 1:13.8 | stunned, to hear that within about two minutes of the Solicitor General of Mississippi, Scott |
| 1:21.1 | Stewart, beginning to speak with the justices, that it sounded like they were more concerned |
| 1:27.4 | about what conservatives |
| 1:28.9 | called ballot harvesting than they were about mail-in ballots per se. So what did you make of |
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