Jon Lovett

No, I know you do.

Again, that's what, yeah, we were all there for Charlie Kirk and we got plenty of shit for- But it's almost like I actually want the, I want someone to talk to JD Vance about like the worth of a human soul.

And like what happens after we die and what we root for, like what is the purpose of being alive and like who gets to be celebrated and what lives are worthy?

It's just that we're at like a kind of first principles thing because the president of the United States is a moral fucking monster.

Joining me now to discuss today's Supreme Court hearing on mail-in voting is Strict Scrutiny's Leah Lipman.

Leah, welcome back to the pod.

So the Supreme Court heard oral arguments today for Watson v. RNC.

It's an elections case where the Republican National Committee is arguing that federal law prohibits ballots received after Election Day from being counted, even if they're postmarked before or on Election Day.

Can you tell us a bit about how this case reached the court and what the RNC is arguing?

And part of this is grappling with whether or not that would also mean votes cast before Election Day would be counted.

Also, it's not clear if Election Day is the day if you can count votes, say, after midnight, if you turn into a gremlin, if you count votes after midnight.

Now, are the officials in Mississippi defending this case not also Republicans?

So there was some dissensus between the conservative justices.

What was the kind of arguments you were hearing from, say, Alito and Thomas versus what you were hearing from, say, Kavanaugh and Barrett?

Didn't Kavanaugh, though, question whether doing that would be feasible?

Didn't he raise some concerns about that?

Or am I being too optimistic?

Tell me.

So I agree that when California takes forever to count ballots and during that process, suddenly you go from a Republican winning to a Democrat winning, that that creates an impression that leads people to question whether things are fair, even if they are entirely fair and there is no evidence to suggest they aren't fair.

But presumably it's a bad policy.