#1636 The Supreme Court Is In Bad Shape. Like, Really Bad. And SCOTUS Is Going To Take Us All Down With Them

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Air Date 6/14/2024

We're in the middle of Supreme Court opinion season, which is not going well for non-extreme conservatives in the country, at the same time as scandal, corruption, and justices Thomas and Alito's refusal to recuse in the face of clear bias is reaching a modern peak.

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KEY POINTS

1: Opinionpalooza A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS Part 1 - Amicus

2: How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS - Amicus

3: Way Too Close Insane SCOTUS Case Could've Sunk The Country w Mark Joseph Stern - The Majority Report

4: Fact-Checking the Supreme Court - 99% Invisible

5: The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming - Amicus

6: SCOTUS Flag Neighbor Exposes Alito’s BS Story- The Majority Report

7: Delegitimize The Court - Contempt of Court

(1:03:35) NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

On some of Alito's finer absurdity

Articles:

Alito says the Supreme Court’s fake ethics code allows him to be unethical

The Republican Party's man inside the Supreme Court

The Supreme Court's new voting rights decision is a love letter to gerrymandering

DEEPER DIVES

(1:14:19) SECTION A: DO FACTS MATTER?

(1:45:47) SECTION B: POLICING MEDICAL CARE

(2:15:48) SECTION C: THE REPUBLICAN COURT WE’VE ALL WAITED FOR

(2:42:24) SECTION D: SCOTUS IS A FLAWED SYSTEM

Description: Photo of the U.S. Supreme Court building with an ominous red filter. An image of golden, uneven scales of justice sits on top.

Credit: Composite design by A. Hoffman. / Photo: “The Supreme Court” by Glenn Beltz, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Overlaid with red and imagery as part of composite. / Illustration: “Uneven scales of justice” via TheDigitalArtist, Pixabay.