Kate Shaw

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3,169 appearances 13 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5d ago

Kate Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Strict Scrutiny · All the President’s Henchmen · 17 Aug 2026 podcast

So, like this is not he this is not the first installment of this series, but it's definitely the first by a sitting Chief Justice. voice-verified

And I think it must be the first on Substack. voice-verified

Um, and even if it's not. voice-verified

It's still pretty weird. voice-verified

And I'm also really struck by the decision he made about what to sort of use as his first foray into the genre, which is this kind of encomium to Chief Justice William Howard Taft, the only person to have served as both president and chief justice. voice-verified

Um, so just a couple things I will highlight, and then Liz, I'm curious to get your reaction to it. voice-verified

So, one, Roberts pointed out and clearly loved pointing out, that for voice-verified

Taft being president really was like just kind of the warm-up. voice-verified

It wasn't that big a deal. voice-verified

It was kind of a way station. voice-verified

On his way to fulfilling his real dream, which was to be Chief Justice. voice-verified

So obviously, like that's the better gig. voice-verified

Roberts wants us all to know that. voice-verified

So the opinion also goes out of its way to praise Taft's opinion in Myers versus United States, which is one of these really important opinions about presidential power, which the slaughter decision about the president's power to fire FTC commissioners cited lovingly and in great detail as like the most important opinion ever written about presidential. voice-verified

Power. voice-verified

Um, Roberts praises tasks like deep reservoir of optimism and faith in the correctness of core principles and. voice-verified

Commitment to public service and devotion to the constitution. voice-verified

Um and he it's interesting he gets some digs in on outsize conceptions of presidential power. voice-verified

He like praises Taft for when he was president operating within voice-verified

The system, so you know, acting only when the president was authorized by the constitution. voice-verified

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