SWAMP PERSON: Does the Supreme Court even like us? with Doug Lindner

About this episode

Today we are joined by Doug Lindner, the Senior Director for Judiciary and Democracy Advocacy at the League of Conservation Voters! He helps us explore such important questions as: Was Hitler also a big ole dummy? Are we cooked RE democracy? Should we buy Trump Doubloons? And the big Q of the day: Is the Supreme Court…good? There’s no way, right?? Doug lays bare some basic failures of the Supreme Court. The lack of ethics oversight or accountability. How billionaires are influencing justices. The “shadow docket” being used as a tool for the Republican agenda. Why we can’t just wait out this era. He also is deeply involved in democracy conservation, which means he shares actual viable solutions. Doug’s top advice: Bother your politicians about expanding and rebalancing the Supreme Court. Elect GOOD Democrats. Elect Democrats committed to bold swings. Don’t wait on the pendulum to swing back–Republicans have taken the pendulum off the damn clock. And we ask the perennial question: Who is the nicest person in congress? Tune in for nice stories about Jamie Raskin (Democrat Rep, Maryland), Sheldon Whitehouse (Democrat Senator, Rhode Island), and Hank Johnson (Democrat Rep, Georgia).