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The 45th

164: Why the Supreme Court Won't Save Us

The 45th

Audioboom Studios

News

4.5884 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

September 8, 2020 / Rabia and Susan welcome professor Mike Klarman to discuss the decline of democracy, catch up on the latest Covid19 numbers, and cover the increasing tension between Trump and military brass. You can find the article by Prof. Klarman that's discussed on this week's show at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3671830
 
Episode scoring music by Broke for Free.
 
Today’s episode is sponsored by Rothy’s.
 
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0:00.0

This means that Donald Trump will be the 45th president of the United States.

0:20.0

This is your life now. This is our election now. This is us. This is our country.

0:24.0

It's real.

0:25.0

Hi and welcome back to the here with my colleague Susan Simpson and this week we also have a great guest but first hello Susan.

0:37.0

Hey Robia.

0:41.0

How you doing?

0:42.0

I am doing fantastic. I actually am got to see my family for the first time since 2019. We quarantine for two weeks and then you have to see him this weekend and it was fabulous.

0:54.7

So that's great.

0:55.7

I'm so glad you got a chance to do that.

0:57.4

Yeah.

0:58.4

Well my husband also got a chance to do that with his Canadian with his family in Canada after testing and

1:03.4

quarantining and all that and I'm glad they did that too but we're

1:07.7

joined today by Professor Mike Clarmon he's a Kirkland and Ellis professor at the

1:10.9

Harvard Law School after law school professor Professor Clarmon, clerk for the Honorable Ruth

1:14.9

Bader Ginsburg on a US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit,

1:18.4

he then joined the faculty at the University of Virginia

1:20.4

School of Law in 1987 and served there until 2008 as the James Monroe

1:24.2

Distinguished Professor of Law and History. Incredibly distinguished guest I

1:28.7

must say. And we brought him on this week because he recently released a

1:32.0

forward called the

1:33.4

Decreditation of American Democracy and the Court and which he outlines a very

1:37.5

comprehensive review of not only the Trump era which we've covered on the

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