Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Federal Courts, has launched a new podcast series called Making the Case. The podcast discusses how the Supreme Court has been reshaped in recent years by Republican administrations.
The first episode of Making the Case features Whitehouse, Congressman Hank Johnson, Dahlia Lithwick from Slate, and Lisa Graves from True North Research. They discuss the early years of conservative efforts to reshape the judiciary. Senator Whitehouse has advocated for transparency and accountability in the Supreme Court, introducing legislation to establish a code of ethics and term limits for justices.
“Between the Roberts Court ripping away a constitutional right for women in the Dobbs decision and Justice Thomas’s extravagant vacations courtesy of a right-wing billionaire megadonor, many Americans are rightly asking just what is going on at the Court,” said Whitehouse.
“The billionaires and big special interests that captured the Court did so quietly over decades, and they deliberately made it difficult for people to follow what they were doing. I’ve been working for years to expose what happened and bring the public along.”
