U.S. Supreme Court

The Right sees a small window remaining to permanently empower a white minority.

Andra Watkins boils it down: "Project 2025’s economic plan is 1. China evil; 2. oil, gas, and extraction good; 3. immigration bad; 4. incarcerated enslaved labor good; 5. taxing the rich bad; 6. tricking dumb nuts to vote for their own tax increases, no Social Security, no Medicare good."

Brian Daitzman writes: "By laundering unofficial acts through official channels, exploiting the presumption of immunity, using preemptive pardons, and retaliating against legal authorities, a president can evade prosecution and undermine democratic governance."

Fox News spent a lot of time trashing Biden even including segments during the July 4th celebrations. The network also is starting to pivot to trashing Vice President Kamala Harris. She’s the mastermind of a vast conspiracy to cover up Biden’s declining mental state. Hunter Biden has the nuclear codes. Bernie Sanders and The Squad are going to rip the country in half. The Democrats will stack the Supreme Court! Trump definitely won’t abuse his power and a preview of what life might look like under Project 2025.

The Right sees a small window remaining to permanently empower a white minority.

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” wrote Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissenting opinion in yesterday's terrible, horrible, no-good SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity. So, we're wondering where the asterisks were in Chief Justice Robert's 2005 statement and Justice Alito's in 2006 below? It must be there somewhere because they have a big whopping exception for Donald Trump's lawlessness. Stuart, Joe, and special guest, former Biden-Harris Admin member, Gevin Reynolds done in.

"A conservative Supreme Court is not a new problem. The way to get another Warren court is for Democratic presidents to appoint enough justices," writes Teri Kanefield.

In Part 2 of Teri Kanefield's "Criminal Law" series, she picks apart the history of criminal laws, tapping into how they came to be, and how differently criminal law has been applied to different groups of people.

Teri Kanefield explores the significance of juries in the landmark Zenger Trial and their role in the American legal system.

Rick Wilson writes: "When Trump promised to '…root out the communists, Marxists, fascists and the radical-left thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country,' you should substitute those words for 'anyone who criticizes me, opposes me, or has brought charges against me for my crimes.'"

Teri Kanefield writes that in the end, "All we’ve got are individual people formed by the norms and institutions they are embedded in making decisions, hopefully coming to the right conclusions and acting in good faith. Or at the very least, bowing to some sense of public pressure or shame not to do the wrong thing."

Justice Samuel Alito expects the public to accept his claim of impartiality, even after news broke that a "Stop the Steal" flag was flying over his house. Steven Beschloss writes, "This all makes a mockery of Chief Justice John Roberts’ assertions that he cares about the credibility of the court and securing the public’s trust."

We spend a lot of time talking about the odds - and not enough time talking about the stakes for 2024. Mike Podhorzer joins Joe and Alex to discuss the long-term implications of the 2024 presidential race -- and how pervasive the Federalist Society's influence on our judiciary has been. What might the Supreme Court look like after another term of Trump in 2028? Bottom line: It's all on the line in 2024. Mike and Joe explain why we have to look at what's already happening in red states or in places where MAGA already controls the judiciary. So what do we do about it? How do we make our democracy better for more people?

Teri Kanefield peers into the intersection of privacy rights, equal protection, and women's autonomy.

Rick Wilson shares his thoughts on the compromised Supreme Court's decision to hear Donald Trump's inane claim of "Presidential immunity." What do you call leaders who cannot be held accountable for crimes? Dictators.

The 14th A states: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." Seems clear enough - but Teri Kanefield explains that it wasn't enough to provide women and Black people equal protection or equal rights.

Ruth Ben Ghiat explains how Pinochet's Chile is a warning for us today.

Rick and Stuart were in rare form! From Trump losing in court AGAIN (turns out the appellate court doesn't think he can shoot someone of 5th Ave) to his ever-worsening foot-in-mouth disease, it's obvious that Biden's best weapon against Trump is...well...Trump.

Teri Kanefield shines a legal light on spirit of liberty and the Fourteenth Amendment arguments to remove Trump from ballots.