Judicial Independence and Political Controversies

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We begin with Neil Gorsuch’s recent appearance on Fox News. How normal is it for a sitting Supreme Court justice to go on Fox News, and did Gorsuch really just threaten the Biden administration over its relatively minor court reform proposals? 

In our main story, we break down two major antitrust suits from the past week: Elon Musk’s ridiculous claim that corporations which refuse to advertise on a social media platform which has failed to regulate neo-Nazi and animal abuse content are violating Section 1 of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, and District Court judge Ahmet Mehta’s extremely reasonable findings that Google’s anticompetitive practices are in violation of Section 2. Also, Matt has some nice things to say about Richard Nixon.

• White House announcement on Biden court reform proposals (7/29/24)

• About GARM (WFANet.org)

• "GARM's Harm" report from the House Judiciary Committee (7/10/2024)

• Complaint in X v. GARM et al (8/6/2024)

• “Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search Engines” J. Bevendorff and M. Wiegmann, et al., Leipzeig University (2024)

• Judge Amit Mehta’s full ruling in US v. Google (8/5/24)

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