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#462 - SCOTUS Interruptus (w/ Damon Root)
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#462 - SCOTUS Interruptus (w/ Damon Root)

The US Supreme Court wraps its term, and Damon Root returns to the podcast for a mostly coherent retrospective on various things SCOTUS-related.

It’s an Independence Day Miracle (if a few days delinquent). As another US Supreme Court term draws to a close, we tap in with our favorite SCOTUS obsessive, Damon Root (currently Freethink/Big Think, previous Reason, and author of books you really should buy).

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We discuss. Presidential absolute immunity, Chevron deference, the pitiful state of SCOTUS journalism, and the obviously-super-serious effort in the US Congress to impeach/pack/scorn the highest court in the land on account of its *various crimes against democracy* (or something like that).

ALSO: Frederick Douglass's on Independence Day… and Juneteenth?!


“With flowing ROBES, grace, bald, striking.”

- (Caddyshack - 1980)


Show Notes:

  • Supreme Court and Presidential Powers

  • Chevron Deference, Executive Authority, and Legislative Inaction

  • Checks. Balances.

  • Judicial Perspectives on Recent Cases

  • Social Media and the First Amendment

  • Supreme Court's Conservative Majority

  • Frederick Douglass and American Ideals

  • Channeling Frederick Douglass (for Juneteenth)

Recorded: June 3rd 2024
Published: June 7th 2024

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The Fifth Column (A Podcast)
The Fifth Column
Your weekly rhetorical assault on the on the news cycle, the people who make it, and occasionally ourselves. Kmele Foster (Freethink), Michael Moynihan (Vice), and Matt Welch (Reason) talk and laugh and drink their way to at least quasi-sanity in a world gone mad, often with the aid of clean and articulate guests. Weekly Members Only subscription edition often comes with listener mail and professional-quality (if inappropriate) singing. Analysis. Commentary. Sedition.