SCOTUS Just Handed America to Corporations - Strict Scrutiny Podcast

Melissa, Leah, and Kate briefly recap the Court’s two major immigration decisions last week (for a deeper dive, check out last week’s emergency episode), before digging into the Second Amendment case, Wolford v. Lopez, which featured a cage match between private property rights and the right to bear arms, as well as Sam Alito’s funhouse-mirror version of history.

Chapters:
0:00 Opening
0:31 Mullen v. Doe: Ending TPS for Haitians & Syrians
2:08 What the TPS Ruling Means in Practice
3:30 Mullen v. Al Otro Lado: Gutting Asylum Protections
10:12 Wolford v. Lopez: Guns vs. Private Property
16:05 Ad Break
19:43 The Bruen Test & Cherry-Picking History
22:52 Justice Jackson's Dissent on Bruen
26:36 Justice Barrett's Concurrence
29:59 Blanche v. Lau: Lawful Permanent Residents
31:26 Pung v. Isabella County: Tax Foreclosures
33:00 Landor v. Louisiana: Rastafarian Prisoner & RLUIPA
37:41 Ad Break
41:30 Exxon Mobil v. CIMEX: Cuba & Foreign Sovereign Immunity
44:29 Cisco v. Doe: Corporate Liability for Human Rights Abuses
49:24 The Re-Gilded Age: Corporate Power & Unenforceable Rights
52:59 Monsanto v. Durnell: Roundup & Preemption
55:40 Ad Break
58:59 We Need to Talk About Justice Thomas
1:01:00 McCarthy v. Hernandez: Habeas & the Etan Patz Case
1:02:48 Voting Rolls & State Lawsuits
1:05:32 Affordable Housing Bill & the SAVE Act
1:08:30 OLC Opinion: Disability Rights & Olmstead
1:11:21 Favorite Things