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David Cole on What To Do About the Supreme Court, and Sarah Posner on School Prayer

On this week's episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, a discussion of how to organize to fix the Supreme Court, and a deeper look at Christian nationalists' influence in politics.

Jon Wiener and Start Making Sense

July 7, 2022

People protest in response to the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in front of the US Supreme Court Building on June 24, 2022, in Washington, D.C.(Brandon Bell / Getty Images)

national legal director of the ACLU and legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, has the best answer: organize, and vote.

Also: The people who say “America is a Christian Nation” had some big victories at the Supreme Court last week, on school prayer, and on taxpayer funding of religious schools. Sarah Posner comments on the endgame of the Christian nationalists; she’s the author of Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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