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The Al Franken Podcast

101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hint: It involves a lot of dark money.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, got a great one today. Finally, Sheldon White House on the unbelievably successful 50-year right-wing

0:13.7

scheme to capture the Supreme Court. Just for clarity, here's how we started the conversation.

0:21.4

The scheme, this is your book, The Scheme, How the Right Wing Use Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court.

0:28.8

Now, what's the book about?

0:32.2

I read it.

0:33.2

I read it.

0:33.8

I know what it's about.

0:34.9

It's my theory that the right wing used dark money to capture the Supreme Court. I wish you'd what it's about. It's my theory that the right way and you use dark money to capture

0:37.5

the Supreme Court. I wish you'd prove it. Now, of course, this brought us Dobbs in the last

0:47.3

session when it also blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases

0:52.5

and limited state's ability to control guns.

0:57.1

It's going to bring us this term to ending affirmative action in college and graduate school

1:03.8

admissions. But before all that, even before they blocked Merrick Garland and stole two seats on the court, the one that would have been Garland's, whom they, even before they blocked Merrick Garland and stole two seats on the court, the one that would

1:12.4

have been Garland's, whom they blocked in February of 2016 after Scalia died, because McConnell

1:20.3

said, there's already been votes cast in New Hampshire Primer, let the American people decide.

1:28.0

And then the one they installed a week before the 2020 election, Amy Coney Barrett,

1:33.6

when there had been, of course, scores of millions of early votes cast in the general election,

1:39.9

not in a primary.

1:42.7

But well before that, Sheldon tells us how this right-wing scheme created a 5-4 Roberts Court

1:49.2

that led the way for Citizens United and dark money flooding into and completely corrupting our politics.

1:56.6

But before that, Sheldon speaks to the remarkable, uninterrupted litany of other 5-4 pro-corporate

2:04.1

anti-worker, anti-consumer decisions by the Roberts Court. I sat on the Judiciary Committee with

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