Karl Folk from the Institute of Unreality joins me to talk about Samuel Alito's latest attempt to convince us he's above the law, and how we can show him that he isn't.
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Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/
Alito and his wife are captured in audio recordings talking about abortion leak, flag controversy
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/10/alito-wife-supreme-court-recordings-00162610
Alito’s Wife Shocked Even the Activist Who Secretly Recorded Her
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/11/alito-recording-undercover-interview-00162808
A “Delicate Matter”: Clarence Thomas’ Private Complaints About Money Sparked Fears He Would Resign
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-money-complaints-sparked-resignation-fears-scotus
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet-flights-senate-investigation-scotus
(Editor’s Note: We had to find this out from a Senate Probe? SMDH.)
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/what-court-packing
https://www.scotusblog.com/2013/07/the-first-court-packing-plan/
“Between 1862 and 1869, Congress thus re-arranged the federal circuits to curb southern influence, added a tenth Justice to uphold Union war policies, and reduced the size of the Court to thwart an antagonistic president. Taken together, these measures constituted a mostly partisan attempt to shape the structure and personnel of the Supreme Court: the first Court-packing plan.”
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