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Hello and welcome to Factually. I'm Adam Conover.

Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.

You might have noticed that the Supreme Court has lost their mother-fucking minds.

In the last few weeks, our nation's highest court handed down a boatload of extreme decisions

that radically reshape American government, handing massive power to corporations, judges, and the president.

They made it harder for the SEC to try people for securities fraud.

They stopped a rule the EPA used to curb air pollution, and importantly they overturned the Chevron decision

a rule with 40 years of precedent and in so doing essentially gutted the federal

agency's ability to do their job and regulate corporate America.

Now, experts from just about any federal agency who want to issue rules related to science, technology, the environment, or the economy,

you know, the thing that they're supposed to do under law,

will have their decisions reviewed and possibly overturned by judges who cannot possibly be

experts on those topics.

It is a huge judicial power grab and it means that any time a giant

corporation wants to stop the government from regulating it, all I have to do now is

find a friendly judge to overturn a rule they don't like. And finally, the court decided that the President of the United States

has an immunity from prosecution so broad

that he or she cannot be tried or punished

for basically anything they do in office,

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