#1516 The Clean-Up Crew (The System of Activist Judges Defending Trump)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 24 September 2022
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 9/24/2022
Today, we take a look at the decades-long scheme to funnel conservative activist judges into the judiciary to support Republican policy goals and the resulting legal bulwark defending Trump against prosecution and supporting his future election efforts.
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SHOW NOTES
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A federal judge on Monday agreed with Donald Trump’s lawyers to appoint an independent arbiter known as a special master to review top-secret documents seized during an FBI raid on his Mar-a-Lago estate.
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FINAL COMMENTS
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- Closing Music: Upbeat Laid Back Indie Rock by Alex Stinnent
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast in which we shall take |
| 0:07.1 | a look at the decades-long scheme to funnel conservative activist judges into the judiciary |
| 0:12.6 | to support Republican policy goals and the resulting legal bulwark defending Trump against |
| 0:18.5 | prosecution and supporting his future election efforts. |
| 0:22.1 | Clips today are from the Medi-Hassan show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Amicus, |
| 0:27.6 | All in with Chris Hayes, Democracy Now, and a speech from Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, |
| 0:33.2 | with additional members on the clips from All in with Chris Hayes and on the media. |
| 0:38.2 | And say, tuned to the end for my take on the importance of not getting entirely distracted |
| 0:44.0 | by the Trump investigations. |
| 0:51.4 | It's called the most exclusive club in the world. |
| 0:54.3 | And as a Marvel fan, I was always tickled by how Saturday Night Live used to portray the ex-presidents |
| 0:59.8 | as actual cartoon superheroes. Because speaking as a relatively new citizen to this country, |
| 1:05.8 | one thing that is uniquely American about it is that no former president of the United States |
| 1:11.0 | has ever been charged with a criminal offense. While that may seem normal to you, it is not normal |
| 1:17.6 | everywhere else in the world. Former leaders in countries across the globe are being prosecuted |
| 1:23.0 | and imprisoned all the time. No, really. In Israel, the ex-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is |
| 1:28.7 | getting ready to launch a run for his old job, even as his corruption trial is underway. |
| 1:34.0 | Poor BB says he's the victim of a witch hunt. |
| 1:36.6 | Hmm, where have I heard that before? |
| 1:38.9 | And speaking of things that sound familiar, former president Nicholas Sarkozy of France |
| 1:43.5 | had his home raided after he left office in a campaign finance investigation that led to two |
| 1:48.7 | convictions. He's currently appealing them in an effort to avoid prison. |
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