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🗓️ 6 May 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Due to a virtually unprecedented leak from the Supreme Court, we learned a couple of days |
| 0:06.0 | ago that religious fanatic Samuel Lito wrote an opinion that concludes, row in KC must |
| 0:12.3 | be overruled, essentially ending the right to bodily autonomy for over half of the people |
| 0:18.3 | in this country. |
| 0:20.4 | The decision is reckless, arrogant, and deeply cruel. |
| 0:24.8 | Read it at your peril. |
| 0:26.2 | Although the Washington Post has an annotated version which you should actually check out |
| 0:31.7 | if you can stomach it. |
| 0:34.2 | Right out of the gate, Lito mentioned that abortion isn't mentioned in the Constitution. |
| 0:40.0 | Who fucking cares? |
| 0:41.5 | There are plenty of unenumerated rights that Americans enjoy, but if he's so concerned |
| 0:47.5 | about that, maybe he should tell his fellow Republican activists in the Senate that the |
| 0:53.5 | filibuster and the number of Supreme Court justices aren't mentioned in the Constitution, |
| 0:59.2 | either. |
| 1:00.2 | Row was egregiously wrong from the start right, Lito, with a deliberate illusion to brown |
| 1:05.9 | versus Board of Education of Topeka, and its repudiation of Plessy V. Ferguson. |
| 1:12.0 | In other words, he's equating Row with Plessy, the Supreme Court case that codified the |
| 1:18.8 | racist, separate, but equal policy. |
| 1:23.0 | Court far from being about a national settlement of the abortion issue he continues, Row and |
| 1:29.0 | Casey have inflamed debate and deep in division. |
| 1:33.3 | So, Lito was implying that Row has been the cause of the country's split over abortion |
| 1:40.0 | rights, not the fact that 30% of Americans, based solely on their own religious beliefs, |
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