Hi, this is Al Franken. You know, when I was in the Senate, I sat on the Judiciary Committee, and my fifth day in office, I found myself in the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing.

This is July of 2009.

When it finally got to my turn for my opening statement, I called the Roberts Court an activist court.

Evidently, no Democratic senator had said that before, and since then, the Roberts Court has

continued to overturn precedent with Citizens United, which brought billions of dollars of dark

money into our elections, and to undo laws that have been written by Congress with Shelby

County, which effectively overturned the Voting Rights Act,

you really don't have to look further than last spring's Janice decision, which made it harder

for working people to organize, to negotiate for more pay in order to understand that this has

been the most pro-corporate court since the New Deal.

And with me today are two of the best minds in our nation on this subject of our courts.

Nancy Gertner is a professor of law at the Harvard Law School.

She got that job because she is 100% Ashkenazi Jew.

Prior to that, she was a federal judge for 17 years.

Jeffrey Tubin is a lawyer, journalist, and author.

He is the chief legal analyst for CNN and is a staff writer for the New Yorker,

and is well known for best-selling books like The Nine about the 1959 Chicago White Sox. Now, it was about,

of course, the Supreme Court. You wrote that in 2007, right? And then I wrote a sequel in 2012 about the the called

the oath about the the Roberts Court okay but that was the Roberts Court six

years ago which is a lot's changed since then yeah so don't get that one but

this is about the the 2007 books about the 30 years previous correct okay

okay so you know the court you know the court. You know the court.

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