(2016/03/01) Scalia’s death and the seismic shift on the court (Supreme Court)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 2 March 2016
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Edition #995
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: How Scalia's Death Can Change The Whole Election! - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-14-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: Training Montage - Vince DiCola
Ch. 4: Act 2: Republican Hypocrisy on Scalia Appointment Exposed - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 02-16-16
Ch. 5: Song 2: Nonsense - Komeda
Ch. 6: Act 3: President Obama wades into nomination debate on SCOTUSblog - This Week in Blackness (@TWiBPrime)
Ch. 7: Song 3: Screwed - Slidin' Slim
Ch. 8: Act 4: Paul Rosenberg on Scalia's legacy - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 2-19-16
Ch. 9: Song 4: Hide Your Tears - Daniel Licht
Ch. 10: Act 5: Justice Antonin Scalia's TRUE LEGACY - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 02-14-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: Friend of The Devil - Counting Crows
Ch. 12: Act 6: Akhil Reed Amar explains why politically, originalism can cut both ways - Amicus from @Slate - Air Date 2-20-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Coheed and Cambria Sing Justice Scalias Dissenting Opinions - Funny Or Die
Ch. 14: Act 7: How money and politics corrupts the Supreme Court - @dccommonsense w/ Dan Carlin - Air Date 2-26-16
Ch. 15: Song 7: get real - the mountain firework company
Ch. 16: Act 8: Speaking ill of the dead - @Jimmy_Dore Show - Air Date 2-16-16
Voicemails
Ch. 17: High stakes testing and internet connectivity for students - Chris from Colorado Springs
Ch. 18: How to make the model of society fit the world we are becoming - Emma from New York State
Ch. 19: Get involved with Health Impact Assessments - Ryan from Pheonix
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 20: Final comments with some uninformed impressions about how to deal with gentrification
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
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| 0:14.4 | podcast with clips today from the young Turks, the David Pakner show, this week in Blackness, |
| 0:19.2 | Counter-Spin, Amicus from Slate, Funnier Die, Common Sense with Dan Carlin, and the Jimmy Gorshow. |
| 0:25.5 | Justice Anthony Scalia has just died. Wow! What an amazing turn of events. Now let me explain why |
| 0:37.4 | this is monumentally important. Right now the Supreme Court is five to four on incredibly important |
| 0:44.5 | decisions. There's five conservative justices, four liberal justices. A conservative justice has |
| 0:49.7 | just passed away. That's Anthony Scalia. That means if he is replaced by a conservative, the Supreme |
| 0:55.1 | Court remains conservative. If he's replaced by a liberal, that means the Supreme Court goes five |
| 1:00.4 | to four in terms of progressives now outweighing conservatives. Now President Obama gets to |
| 1:07.6 | pick the next Supreme Court nominee. The problem is the Senate has to confirm them. The reason that's |
| 1:12.6 | a problem is because now the Republicans control the Senate. It would be political suicide for any |
| 1:18.2 | other Republicans to vote for any Obama nominee. They will almost certainly block it for the next |
| 1:22.9 | ten months. Would that be unprecedented? Yes. It would break the record for how long a Supreme Court |
| 1:28.4 | nominee has been blocked by about threefold. If you think the Republicans won't do that, you're |
| 1:34.4 | crazy. You don't know anything about politics. The Republicans will block it, block it, block it, |
| 1:38.5 | no matter how unprecedented it is. Anyone who votes for an Obama nominee before the election on |
| 1:43.6 | the Republican side will likely have a challenger and lose their next election in a primary on |
| 1:50.1 | the Republican side. That's just the reality of it. The only way that's a verdict is if Obama |
| 1:54.4 | in a monumental mistake in order to appease the Republicans, picks someone who is right-wing, |
| 1:59.6 | which is also unthinkable. I hope he doesn't even consider that notion, which then means the next |
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