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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

happen and that it's treating citizens fairly and so when you see that some supreme court members are taking trips with billionaires on private yachts and going to their private hunting fishing retreats and the private jet trips and it seems like the rules are for thee but not for me yeah It makes people feel salty about it. Like I would get fired if I let you take me out to lunch.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's easy for Chipotle to even cost more than $20. Yeah, exactly. If you just add on enough queso. Some Supreme Court justices have even talked openly about that, that when they go out to lunch with friends, they insist on paying for themselves. They do not even allow themselves to be treated by a friend to lunch to keep things above board.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's easy for Chipotle to even cost more than $20. Yeah, exactly. If you just add on enough queso. Some Supreme Court justices have even talked openly about that, that when they go out to lunch with friends, they insist on paying for themselves. They do not even allow themselves to be treated by a friend to lunch to keep things above board.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's easy for Chipotle to even cost more than $20. Yeah, exactly. If you just add on enough queso. Some Supreme Court justices have even talked openly about that, that when they go out to lunch with friends, they insist on paying for themselves. They do not even allow themselves to be treated by a friend to lunch to keep things above board.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But that has not been the case with a couple of justices on the court. So all that to say that there is a perceived imbalance in terms of how political they have become to where they're supposed to be. The number of cases they hear that are unanimous. If you look at the number of cases they hear where at least one of the liberal justices is in the majority with the conservative justices.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But that has not been the case with a couple of justices on the court. So all that to say that there is a perceived imbalance in terms of how political they have become to where they're supposed to be. The number of cases they hear that are unanimous. If you look at the number of cases they hear where at least one of the liberal justices is in the majority with the conservative justices.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But that has not been the case with a couple of justices on the court. So all that to say that there is a perceived imbalance in terms of how political they have become to where they're supposed to be. The number of cases they hear that are unanimous. If you look at the number of cases they hear where at least one of the liberal justices is in the majority with the conservative justices.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you look at the number of cases where one of the conservative justices finds with the liberals, you would find a different pattern, however. you would find a pattern in which their behavior overall is not as politicized as the news would have us believe.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you look at the number of cases where one of the conservative justices finds with the liberals, you would find a different pattern, however. you would find a pattern in which their behavior overall is not as politicized as the news would have us believe.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If you look at the number of cases where one of the conservative justices finds with the liberals, you would find a different pattern, however. you would find a pattern in which their behavior overall is not as politicized as the news would have us believe.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's the big name cases. It's the heavy hitters. But it's the political cases. Yes. It is the ones that get the attention. Exactly. And this is the other thing that's true about the court is that they take the cases they want to hear. They get to choose which cases they want to hear.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's the big name cases. It's the heavy hitters. But it's the political cases. Yes. It is the ones that get the attention. Exactly. And this is the other thing that's true about the court is that they take the cases they want to hear. They get to choose which cases they want to hear.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

It's the big name cases. It's the heavy hitters. But it's the political cases. Yes. It is the ones that get the attention. Exactly. And this is the other thing that's true about the court is that they take the cases they want to hear. They get to choose which cases they want to hear.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Four people have to want to hear the case.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Four people have to want to hear the case.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Four people have to want to hear the case.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Out of nine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Out of nine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Out of nine.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Wow, that was nice of you.