Alex Aronson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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Thanks, Sam.
Great to be with you.
Yeah, it is.
It is really hard to pick one, because I think almost the most disturbing thing about the end of the term is the entire end of term ritual itself.
this sort of baroque and grotesque process whereby we all sit around and wait to find out which of our rights and freedoms survive the latest John Roberts decree.
It really, I think, shines a spotlight on just how broken the entire system is and how much power we've allowed this court to sort of take on for itself.
Of the actual decisions that came down, I think two really stand out.
One came several weeks ago, of course, the Calais decision, the real culmination of a decades-long project to gut the Voting Rights Act that John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the United States, has really been at the helm of.
And then of this week's decision, I think the one that we must pay extra special attention to is...
the decision in the FTC case about the independence of the FTC, which really was more about Congress's power to, on behalf of the American people, set up these independent agencies and insulate them from this type of political interference that we're seeing from Trump.
And again, just like Calais, this represented the culmination of a decades-long project
funded by right wing billionaires to basically overturn the administrative state and put in place this tyrannical presidency that Congress simply can't touch.
So those two cases really stand out within this broader context of a court that has become masterful at dominating the narrative and I think creating the impression that it is a guardrail against authoritarianism when it is in fact authoritarianism's central driver in this country.
Right.
Of course.
Absolutely.
This came out of out of thin air.
It's egregious overreach.
Normally, when the right wing legal movement has a target like this, it takes a lot of time to develop a whole doctrinal assault on the existing precedent.
Right.
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