SCOTUS: A Question of Legitimacy

The current, far right, conservative make up of the Supreme Court clearly has an agenda, and it’s terrifying for the legitimacy of our rule of law and way of life. So today we’re going to talk about the Supreme Court, its importance to American society, it’s capture by the far right and what, if anything, can be done to save it from itself. I want to be clear, this is a completely destructive situation and pretending any of this is business as usual will be America’s undoing. In fact, ignoring it is how we got in this position in the first place. Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue and inspire better change moving forward! All my links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! http://www.ThirdLove.com/politicsgirl http://www.AthleticGreens.com/politicsgirl http://www.MagicSpoon.com/politicsgirl The PoliticsGirl Podcast is a Meidas Touch original podcast produced by Happy Warrior Entertainment.  Special thanks to Holly Shuter & Julia Lee Stander for additional research. The Hill: Opinion - Supreme Court should look more like America or so the Republicans once thought by Glenn C. Altschuler 02/06/22 USA Today The Supreme Court Shadow Docket: Alabama Redsitricting Case Renews fight amoung justices - John Fritze 02/08/2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html Democracy Docket - by Marc Elias (subscribe on Twitter) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rights-judicial-movement-perfected-dark-money-it-takes-chutzpah-for-them-to-decry-it-now/2021/04/09/4dfd3a44-9950-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/04/gorsuch-federalist-society-supreme-court/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_the_Supreme_Court https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/nominations/judicial-tempest.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/17/federalist-society-dark-money-breyer-supreme-court-seat/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights.html?referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/opinion/supreme-court-alabama-maps.html https://www.stradley.com/insights/publications/2020/10/scope-and-standard-issue-2?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=LinkedIn-integration https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/10/14/bidens-supreme-court-commission-warns-adding-justices-may-not-serve-democratic-values/?sh=5f574458407d https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/04/22/court-packing-real-motive-adding-supreme-court-not-historical-column/7288802002/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/supreme-court-nominee-nomination-biden-democrats.html https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/20/8-key-findings-about-catholics-and-abortion/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/anita-hill-women-power.html https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations/SupremeCourtNominations1789present.htm https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-whitehouse-cicilline-reintroduce-disclose-act-to-repair-americans-faith-in-democracy-require-transparency-in-campaign-finance https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/judiciary_act_of_2021.pdf https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/who-ketanji-brown-jackson-likely-biden-short-lister-supreme-court-n1288053 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/25/us/supreme-court-nominee-biden#ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court https://harvardlawreview.org/2022/02/as-the-legislature-has-prescribed/ https://medium.com/an-idea-for-you/45-things-to-remember-when-the-world-gets-scary-d2a085f4053d