Michael Popak
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628 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 3d ago
Michael Popak’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And they don't have to write dissents.
There's no requirement that you write a dissent, but they're writing it for a reason, that there will be a blueprint for a future case, for instance, that could come up to the United States Supreme Court.
citing to the dissent and try to reshape the result.
For instance, I don't think it's over with our last criminal immunity decision by the United States Supreme Court, because I expect the next Department of Justice, if run by the Democrats, to actually bring cases to figure out what are the parameters of that very murky decision and send cases that way.
And oftentimes dissents will provide the lighted path
for a future case brought by the next administration.
So they're very, very important.
They speak to so many different audiences when a Katonji Brown Jackson or Sotomayor Kay can speak.
And as you said, got under the skin of Alito there.
Look, there's a rumor going around
that he's counting down the days here to give Donald Trump another pick, that it'll be Alito first, could be even after this summer.
That's why you see this last burst of Alito opinions, Alito, Alito, Alito.
And then as soon as Clarence Thomas gets to be the longest serving, it's hard, I can't believe my mouth is forming the sentence, the longest serving Supreme Court justice of all time, sometime right before the midterm, he's going to step off also.
Yeah, I did.
I did.
When he was on CNN with you, did he always have that slight British-affected accent of his?
I don't really understand where this comes from.
And when they create the animatronic Stephen Miller for the Hall of Horribles one day, you know, with his
He's so, you know, we got to stop him from practicing law without a license.
He's from Los Angeles.
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