The guest on the first 2025 episode of the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s television show spotlights two of the pressing issues that this country will be tackling in the year to come.
Alex Aronson, co-founder and executive director of Court Accountability, talks about the dubious ethics of the U.S. Supreme Court and the dangers of Project 2025. Aronson has been a political organizer, civil rights lawyer and commentator who has served as chief counsel and senior counsel to U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, as managing director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center, and as an attorney at the Department of Justice.
“This goes back deep into our country’s founding and into our history,” Aronson explains to “Freethought Matters” co-hosts Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor what a combination of the current Supreme Court and the incoming Trump administration may mean for the United States. “This was exactly the type of tyranny that the Framers were concerned about when they set up our very delicately balanced three-branch system. This level of a lack of accountability, this degree of unilateral power over the laws of our country were not what the Framers had in mind.”
Tune in to watch the rest of Aronson’s insightful warnings about court corruption and what it means for FFRF issues.
“Freethought Matters” airs the weekend in:
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Los Angeles, KCOP-MY (Ch. 13), Sundays at 8:30 a.m.
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Madison, Wis., WISC-TV (Ch. 3), Sundays at 11 p.m.
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San Francisco, KTVU/KICU-IND (on broadcast Ch. 36 and Cable 6), Sundays at 10 a.m.
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Washington, D.C., WDCW-CW (Ch. 50 or Ch. 23 or Ch. 3), Sundays at 8 a.m.
If you don’t live in any of the marquee towns where the show broadcasts on Sunday, you can already catch the interview on FFRF’s YouTube channel. New shows go up every Thursday.
Upcoming guests include librarian Amanda Jones, the author of “That Librarian,” which is a cautionary tale about the personal toll of book bannings. You can catch interviews from earlier this season and from previous seasons here, including with Gloria Steinem, Ron Reagan, author John Irving, actor John “Q” de Lancie and award-winning columnist Katha Pollitt.
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