Brooks and Dionne on Supreme Court rulings and controversies surrounding the justices
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🗓️ 14 June 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The Supreme Court is in the spotlight again as controversy surrounds its latest ruling in some of the justices themselves. |
| 0:07.0 | On that and the other political stories shaping the week, we turn to the analysis tonight of Brooks and Dion. |
| 0:12.0 | That's New York Times columnist of Brooks and Dion. |
| 0:12.8 | That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and E.J. Dion, |
| 0:15.6 | a columnist for the Washington Post. |
| 0:17.4 | Jonathan Kapart is away this evening. |
| 0:19.6 | Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. |
| 0:20.9 | Great to be with you. |
| 0:21.8 | So the Supreme Court, as we reported earlier this morning, struck down this Trump-era |
| 0:25.8 | rule that sought to ban bump stocks. |
| 0:27.9 | These are devices that allow semi-automatic rifles to fire like fully automatic machine guns. |
| 0:34.0 | David, this was not a case about the Second Amendment or gun rights, |
| 0:38.4 | but this ruling is a rejection of the government's few steps, one of the government's few steps to really regulate |
| 0:44.8 | and address gun violence in this country. What are the implications? |
| 0:48.9 | Well I mean first I should say I'm against gun stock I would get rid of these things in a heartbeat and I think we should the Congress should just eliminate them and pass a zillion other gun control |
| 0:59.5 | legislations but this is about who gets to decide these things. |
| 1:03.0 | And so machine guns are banned, |
| 1:05.0 | and they're banned with a definition of machine gun, |
| 1:07.0 | that a machine gun is something, a single function of the trigger. |
| 1:10.0 | Hold your hand and a bunch of bullets come out. |
| 1:12.0 | And so, bump stocks are not quite that technically. |
| 1:15.5 | And so the Obama administration, under the Obama administration, |
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