Behind the News: The Reactionary History of the Supreme Court w/ Samuel Moyn

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🗓️ 1 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Doug speaks to Samuel Moyn, co-author of this article, on the reactionary history of the Supreme Court and how to democratize it. Plus: Deepak Bhargava, one of the editors of Immigration Matters, on immigration policy, historical, current, and future.

Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html

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0:00.0	.
0:10.0	.
0:20.0	.
0:28.0	.
0:34.0	Hello and welcome to Behind the News.
0:36.0	My name is Doug Henwood.
0:38.0	Two guests today, Samuel Moyne,
0:40.0	will talk about how we can get our
0:42.0	Richard Supreme Court under democratic control,
0:44.0	and Deepak Bargava will talk about the history of
0:46.0	immigration policy in the U.S.
0:48.0	and what a more humane regime than the present one
0:50.0	might look like.
0:52.0	As I say in my opening question to Samuel Moyne,
0:54.0	the Supreme Court has long struck me as
0:56.0	many years, and Moyne challenges me on even this.
0:58.0	A reactionary ruling class institution that
1:00.0	stood against democracy and egalitarian
1:02.0	social policy for almost all of U.S. history.
1:04.0	That has become obvious with Trump's
1:06.0	three hard appointments to the court,
1:08.0	Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett.
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