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Jul 2 20251 hr and 17 mins
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Jun 27 20251 hr and 12 mins
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Jun 26 20251 hr and 2 mins
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For the crossover part of anyone reading this who plays video games, this podcast comes across like the "Soulsbourne" experience. The term refers to a series or video games that have such a steep initial learning curve (particularly in combat) that the full potential of your experience with the game can be ruined as you give up in frustration before you "get good." if you hang in there, you might learn something...even if you needed Google to figure it out.
I listened to "Double Negatives" and was delighted by the implied game of "Clue" that seems to be scattered among the episodes, as some opinions are not signed by their authors. ("It was Kavanaugh on the basketball court consulting the ghost of Scalia!") The episode itself refers to current President Trump's assurance to the American public that, for a set time, at least, the currently held ban on TikTok is "unenforceable." That is true only if you use leaps of logic that you almost have to be enrolled in Stanford Law School to understand. Curiously, the titular case is about 2 minutes of the hour plus podcast.
But the handling of this and other Trumpy matters is where this podcast *really* shines. We don't get the cases unfolding with a heavy helping of the smugness or feigned irony I hear in most other SCOTUS podcasts that lean left. And in place of that liberal bias that I really feel upsets a full appreciation of what is going on, there is something much more usefull: the acknowledgement that Trump is a politician, not a constitutional scholar, and that his brand of politics is coming at the court like a wrecking ball. And I don't mean this in the sense that Trump doesn't get the Court's role in our system of checks and balances...rather, that his first week in office has set his agenda on a collision course with the Highest Court in the Land. It's refreshing to hear "we are going to hear more about this..." instead of...hey, chose your favorite pejorative for our duly elected President and throw in some contempt for good measure. The hosts of this podcast certainly have their own political points of view, but do a fantastic job of maintaining focus on more relevant matters.
Tldr; steep learning curve, worth it if you put in some extra work, as unbiased as any SCOTUS podcast I've found so far.
Not for newbies, but the most a-political podcast on Scotus I've found so far
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Informative but one of the hosts is mean
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