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The Bunker

Bunker USA: Trump trashed the Supreme Court. Can it be fixed?

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

4.6984 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The US Supreme Court has a huge power grip over America. And, thanks to Trump, it’s now more politicised than ever. So how has that impacted real life? Brian Klaas is associate professor in global politics at UCL and argues the court is “...a politicised institution masquerading as an impartial one”. He joins Andrew Harrison in The Bunker to discuss if it can be fixed. Brian’s piece: https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/how-to-fix-the-us-supreme-court “There was a deference given to the courts… as if they were gods on American soil.” – Brian Klaas “Politicising something takes 10 minutes, depoliticising something takes 10 years or more.” – Brian Klaas “They’re all actors… it’s all for show.” – Brian Klaas “There is a problem that is now unsolvable, which is I don’t think the court will be seen as apolitical ever again.” – Brian Klaas www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Producer: Chris Jones. Audio production: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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understanding between two separate political cultures and Andrew Harrison.

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Today America's Supreme Court, it's the ultimate legal body in the world's most powerful democracy,

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and it has seldom been as contentious as it is today.

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Since Donald Trump made three hard-lined Conservative appointments to the bench,

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Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kaviner and Amy

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Coney Barrett, the court has bent hard to the right. It overturned Roe versus Wade and

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thus universal access to abortion. It enshrined the right to carry a gun outside the home in the middle of an epidemic of mass shootings,

1:45.0

and it reversed affirmative action programs that was opposed to work against America's history of race-based exclusion.

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And it's not just the consistent votes for hard conservative positions that have cast a shadow over the

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