Kate Shaw
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3,267 appearances
14 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 15 Sep
Kate Shaw’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Like it was wild to me.
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Um, and also five.
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As Nico Bowie and Daphne Renan point out in their masterful new book called Supreme, like Taft is largely responsible for ushering in both this really juristocratic conception of the separation of powers that like disables Congress from regulating the president and like gives the court the final word about like when Congress can act.
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Um, and that kind of all of this has its roots in.
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White supremacist, lost cause, post-Civil War, post-Reconstruction dogma.
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Um, and that the person who's sort of the architect of that is who John Roberts decided to make his Substack debut kind of defending.
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So I guess just like Liz, any reaction to this or like any any guesses about what John Roberts next Substack might be about.
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Was it a cry for help?
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I don't know.
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It was really so strange.
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But yes, I hope that this is the kind of one and done of his career as a poster on Substack.
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And just speaking of John Roberts, like in venues that are not Supreme Court opinions, there actually was a really interesting profile in The New Yorker last week by Margaret Talbot, the delusions of John Roberts.
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You know, it it definitely takes the position as we have on this podcast many times that Roberts has basically lost control of the court.
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And he comes across at points as sort of hapless.
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Um, but it also ends on a note that I think is basically right, which is that, like, maybe Roberts is actually fine, happy even with this current state of the court and the country.
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That yes, maybe Roberts thinks or appreciates that we there's like a madman at the helm right now.
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Um, but that that's kind of a small price to pay for the proper restoration of the separation of powers.
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The end of affirmative action, the destruction of the administrative state, the end of the Voting Rights Act, um, you know, to say nothing of, you know, the parts of the ending doctrines that might limit the ability of, say, oil and gas companies to ravage the environment, etc., etc.
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Uh, one thing I did learn from the piece that I thought was pretty interesting was that in 1983, a young John Roberts as a White House lawyer.
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Authored a memo basically arguing that life tenure for judges or justices may have made sense when the constitution was drafted and life expectancies were much shorter, but that today a term of 15 years might be preferable.
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