#1483 Coming Catastrophe at the Supreme Court
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🗓️ 16 April 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 4/16/2022
Today we take a look at the coming wave of attacks on abortion and the foundational concept of privacy more broadly that are making their way to the Supreme Court for likely rubber-stamping by at least 5 of the deeply conservative current justices. Undermining the established precedent of privacy that abortion rests on can, and likely will, have ramifications far beyond reproductive rights.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:07.1 | take a look at the coming wave of attacks on abortion and the foundational concept of |
| 0:12.5 | privacy more broadly that are making their way to the Supreme Court for likely rubber |
| 0:17.6 | stamping by at least five of the deeply conservative current justices. |
| 0:22.4 | Underlining the established precedent of privacy that abortion rests on can and likely will |
| 0:27.5 | have ramifications far beyond reproductive rights and so we explain that today. |
| 0:32.8 | Clips today are from Democracy Now, the Tom Hartman program, Amicus with |
| 0:37.5 | Dahlia Lithwick and the Bradcast with additional members only clips from |
| 0:42.5 | All-In with Chris Hayes, Past Present and Amicus. |
| 0:52.5 | Republican senators have tried to portray Supreme Court nominee Katanji Brown-Jaxson |
| 0:57.0 | as hostile to anti-abortion views. Republican Senator John Kennedy on Tuesday asked |
| 1:03.3 | Judge Jaxson when life begins. |
| 1:07.0 | For the time for last. When does life begin in your opinion? |
| 1:14.6 | Senator, I don't know. I have a belief. |
| 1:24.2 | I have personal religious and otherwise beliefs that have nothing to do with the law |
| 1:33.5 | in terms of when life begins. Do you have a personal belief about when life begins? |
| 1:39.7 | I have a religious belief. Religious belief. |
| 1:42.5 | That I set aside when I am ruling on cases. |
| 1:46.2 | So that was Senator Kennedy Tuesday. This is Republican Senator John Corne in questioning. |
| 1:51.6 | Judge Brown-Jaxson on Wednesday. No one suggests that a 20-week-old |
| 1:59.1 | fetus can live independently outside the mother's womb. |
| 2:05.4 | Do they? I don't know. I mean you need the child will need to be |
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