{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","title":"What Does Peak Fascism Look Like?","description":"Huge news for lawyers: You can now listen to Strict Scrutiny for CLE credits in California, New York, Texas, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Washington, and Oregon! More info at http://crooked.com/strict_cleLeah is joined by guest co-host Somil Trivedi, advocacy director & senior counsel at Court Accountability, to run through last week’s legal news, which involves a whole lot of straight up fascism, the corruption that enables it, and the rising tide of Christian nationalism. They also ask the important questions: Who’s the richest SCOTUS justice? And…what exactly is Trump babysitter Natalie Harp’s whole deal? Then Melissa sits down with Jesse Wegman for a conversation about his book, The Lost Founder: James Wilson and the Forgotten Fight for a People's Constitution (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-lost-founder-james-wilson-and-the-forgotten-fight-for-a-people-s-constitution-jesse-wegman/908fb8618fdcd180?ean=9781250851079&bkshp-astro=t) .\n\nFavorite Things:\n\nLeah: The Natalie Harp (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/natalie-harp-trump-devotion-white-house.html) saga; The Five-Star Weekend (https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/the-five-star-weekend) (Peacock); Lost Weekend (https://open.spotify.com/album/2NSzwyYvQvdOQAoEjrlw9c) , Phoebe Bridgers; He Was Deported to a Country He’d Never Heard Of. He May Never Go Free (https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/magazine/deportation-immigrants-prison-eswatini.html) , Nicholas Casey (NYT); Kate’s conversation (https://youtu.be/nQg4iZQm9YM?si=P63-HKJTf29AF0c5&t=3261) with Julia Angwin and Ami Fields-Meyer about their book, On Courage (https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-courage-how-to-be-a-dissident-in-an-age-of-fear-ami-fields-meyer/5114a6bf6c9eb615?ean=9780063491946&bkshp-astro=t) ; The Wrong Kind of American (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/10/trump-white-house-transgender-mike-pence/688284/?gift=v2nq5wGhfBDeTXIqnKhHrt97ZWxQ4HbMzHVPeKXvBF0&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share) , Julia Curlee (The Atlantic)\nSomil: Lost Weekend (https://open.spotify.com/album/2NSzwyYvQvdOQAoEjrlw9c) , Phoebe Bridgers; Frozen Charlotte (https://open.spotify.com/album/0VV4lddlDaShTgEzohQ7Jj) , Jack White\n\nFollow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/strictscrutinypodcast/?hl=en) , Threads (https://www.threads.net/@strictscrutinypodcast) , and Bluesky\n\n (https://bsky.app/profile/strictscrutiny.bsky.social) Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE on November 6th in Washington, DC: Crookedcon.com\n\n (http://crookedcon.com/) Buy Melissa’s book, The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader\n\n (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-constitution-annotated-for-the-contemporary-reader-melissa-murray/8e7f0dfa472fc3ca?ean=9781668221938&next=t&) Buy Leah’s book, Lawless (https://bookshop.org/p/books/lawless-how-the-supreme-court-runs-on-conservative-grievance-fringe-theories-and-bad-vibes-leah-litman/5b562d6fcb316d6e?ean=9781668054642&next=t) , now out in paperback\n\nFollow us on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/strictscrutinypodcast/?hl=en) , Threads (https://www.threads.net/@strictscrutinypodcast) , and Bluesky\n\n (https://bsky.app/profile/strictscrutiny.bsky.social) For a transcript of an episode of Strict Scrutiny please email transcripts@crooked.com","author_name":"Strict Scrutiny","author_url":"https://audioboom.com/channels/5166629-strict-scrutiny","provider_name":"Audioboom","provider_url":"https://audioboom.com","width":480,"height":95,"thumbnail_url":"https://audioboom.com/i/43408246/600x600/c","thumbnail_width":600,"thumbnail_height":600,"html":""}