Chris Geidner

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206 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 29 Jun

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The Majority Report with Sam Seder · 3676 - How Protest Became Terrorism; Supreme Court Run Amok w/ Sufia Khalid, Chris Geidner · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

I mean, who's to say what actually was going on here?

But Sotomayor gives a very long spoken bench dissent, which is not, one, it's not unusual for a bench dissent because the whole point when you're reading a dissent from the bench is like, I'm mad and I want everybody to know.

That's true when conservatives do it.

It's true when liberals do it.

So on just a basic level, it wasn't a surprise that this went on for a while.

And just as a matter of fact, Sotomayor does read long.

Some justices just give a very quick summary of their opinion, even when they're reading the majority.

But Sotomayor regularly gives a rather long bench statement.

So it wasn't surprising.

And yet, when she finished, Alito both initially acted like he didn't even know she was going to read her dissent.

And then suggested that she went longer than he expected and said, like, if I had known that, I would have spoken more.

And then he went on to say something about the fact that, like, the metering policy had been implemented by two administrations as the base.

best way to deal with this growing problem.

And it was literally something that none of us in the press room had seen an example of that precise thing happening before.

The next day, the court did release a statement that was given to CNN that he had been informed she would be reading a bench dissent and there had been a, quote, misunderstanding.

Yeah, I mean, I like that's what we went into this term with understanding that, like, here's the reality, like.

You'd have to be pretty dense not to remember sort of the cause and effect of Justice Ginsburg not having retired under Obama.

And so there was this thought that—

If they want to keep a strong majority, one of the two of Thomas or Alito would retire.

I, since January, have really felt like there was just a...

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