[SPEAKER_00]: Hey everyone, this is Leon from Prologue Projects.

[SPEAKER_00]: On this subscriber only episode of 5-4, Peter, Vienna, and Michael are talking about growing concern among some federal judges over how the Supreme Court is operating under the Trump Administration.

[SPEAKER_00]: The New York Times recently sent a survey to hundreds of federal judges across the country.

[SPEAKER_00]: And got responses from nearly 50 of them, saying that the Supreme Court's use of the [SPEAKER_00]: Lower court judges appointed by both Democrats and Republicans told the Times the courts reliance on unexplained emergency rulings as created confusion and damaged public trust in judiciary.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was an extraordinary show of disapproval that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.

[SPEAKER_00]: Defending the Supreme Court on the public stage has been its second newest member, Amy Coney Barrett, whose new book has served as an occasion for press tour with the hosts of bound deeply impressive and persuasive.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just kidding, this is five to four, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

[SPEAKER_02]: Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze a Supreme Court cases that have destroyed our nation, like Donald Trump destroying the east wing of the White House.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hmm, I'm Peter, I'm here with Reannon.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, and Michael.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I just saw the photos like just an hour ago and was like, fuck, like it's really like...

What's this guy doing?

[SPEAKER_03]: They took a fucking wrecking ball to the White House.

[SPEAKER_03]: How?

[SPEAKER_02]: on the nose now sorry we're going to pretend this isn't sick we're going to pretend this isn't awesome so originally the reporting was like they're doing like just a tiny bit of demolition and then they're going to build out the ballroom and then it was like actually it's the entire east wing but by the weekend the entire east wing of the White House will be gone yes yeah you know it's every boy's dream to destroy the White House 100%.

[SPEAKER_04]: Right, every boy's dream, you roll in the wrecking ball, you roll in the crane, the bulldozer, you watch it bring down a building.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: To destroy a building and then make it more flamboyant.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is every young man's dream, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Install some chandeliers.

[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to place to dance.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's what every guy says when they buy a house.

[SPEAKER_03]: And look, it's ridiculous and we are laughing about it, but it is worth noting that this motherfucker has no intention of ever leaving this place, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, you don't demolish a wing of 150 year old building to put in a ballroom if you're out of there in two years, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, there's some theater to it, right?

[SPEAKER_04]: Like, I run this place.

[SPEAKER_04]: This is where I live.

[SPEAKER_04]: I'm going to live here long term.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_04]: So I'm renovating.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Exactly.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I'm putting my little touches on it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Shit he did not do last term, right?

[SPEAKER_03]: He didn't do the tacky gold shit that in the in the oval.

[SPEAKER_03]: Have you guys seen that?

[SPEAKER_03]: No, we see pictures of the oval office.

[SPEAKER_04]: Oh my god, he's installing like Trump branded hardware.

[SPEAKER_03]: I've gotta look at it.

[SPEAKER_03]: The oval office is, no, it's just like all this like molding that's been like either plated or just painted gold.

[SPEAKER_03]: This is like really sort of like God.

[SPEAKER_04]: He's such a plated molding guy.

[SPEAKER_04]: It's so tacky.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, hold on.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking at it right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: 24 karat accents.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, it looks good.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's solid.

[SPEAKER_04]: Solid aesthetics on this deck.

[SPEAKER_02]: There are, there are talians in my neighborhood who would think this is tacky.

[SPEAKER_03]: It looks like, it looks like he saw a Versace shirt and was like that.

[SPEAKER_03]: I want a real life version of that on my mantle on the fireplace mantle.

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