We Don't Talk About Leonard: Episode 1

On the Media

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🗓️ 29 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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One man’s crusade to reshape the courts.

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0:00.0	The court has ruled that states can decide whether abortion should be legal or illegal.
0:09.2	Roe versus Wade is history.
0:11.7	The conservative majority on today's Supreme Court has been redefining American's constitutional
0:17.7	rights in one decision after another.
0:20.7	And one largely unknown man has played an outsized role in making it so.
0:26.8	Leonard Leo has single-handedly changed the face of the judiciary.
0:33.6	This is on the media.
0:34.6	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
0:36.1	This week an investigation into the man who spent decades working toward a conservative
0:41.5	takeover of America's courts.
0:43.9	Because this is about way more than just the U.S. Supreme Court.
0:48.0	The rights revolution in the United States didn't happen just because you magically got
0:52.4	five justices on the court who agreed with you.
0:55.4	It's all coming up after this.
1:01.8	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:04.8	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:07.0	Oye, oye, oye.
1:10.3	Next week on the first Monday in October, the Supreme Court will be open for business.
1:17.1	God save the United States and this honorable court.
1:20.6	Whatever the court decides in the upcoming term.
1:23.4	The body led by Chief Justice John Roberts has already radically changed American life.
1:30.4	We begin tonight with the Supreme Court striking down affirmative action and reshaping college
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