Alex Aronson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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And along the way, we have been unwilling to call out what has become an untenable concentration of constitutional power within the federal judiciary, and particularly at the Supreme Court.
And this was the problem that Lincoln recognized with the Taney Court when they were dealing with Dred Scott and slavery, right?
And he understood, and this is a, I'm sure I'll botch it, but I'll try.
Lincoln understood and said in his first inaugural address that if the
the policy of the whole government on vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by the Supreme Court, then the people will have ceased to be their own rulers.
And that's the condition we're living under now, right?
Where even though 80% of America wants the same outcomes on questions like money and politics, even more than that, it's 87% that reject Citizens United.
We can't have that result because we have ceased to be our own rulers because we are living in a legal autocracy where the Supreme Court, this tribunal with ultimate and exclusive prerogative over the meaning of the Constitution,
has set the terms for our lives.
And until we reject their claim to that exclusive control over constitutional meaning, which is not in the Constitution, that is a norm like all of the other norms, until we reject that, we are stuck in the system because they have the Supreme Court majority until 2065 at the earliest.
And there are ways out, though.
There are ways out.
I think it's starting to unwind a little bit.
I talked to a lot of judges, former judges, a lot of folks who certainly I think fall into this camp of people that have looked at people like John Roberts as an institutionalist.
They might disagree with this jurisprudence, but they ultimately think he's principled.
I do think that in the last few years with decisions like Trump versus United States, the immunity decision,
with leaks out of the Supreme Court.
We've seen that there was this explosive leak showing the creation of the shadow docket in the context of Obama's Clean Power Plan, where John Roberts...
effectively said, we can't allow this to happen.
It would have too negative an impact on the fossil fuel industry.
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