Congress Needs to Act
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
SCOTUS has placed itself above Congress, the Constitution, and the Founders. The Court is corrupted by a handful of morbidly rich “friends” whose affiliated groups are constantly bringing cases or amicus briefs to the Court. Congress needs to exercise its regulatory duty over the court.
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| 0:45.5 | A lot to talk about today, the Supreme Court has placed itself above Congress, the Constitution, |
| 1:00.5 | and the founders, and Sheldon Whitehouse wants to do something about it. |
| 1:04.1 | Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse has been a guest on this program many times. |
| 1:08.0 | Just filed an ethics complaint about corruption with the Supreme Court. |
| 1:12.2 | Weirdly enough, he had to file that complaint with the Supreme Court. |
| 1:16.6 | He had to send the, it was a letter he sent with his complaint, and the letter had to be submitted |
| 1:21.6 | to John Roberts, the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the corrupt members of |
| 1:27.0 | the Court. John Roberts' wife has made over $10 million, hustling lawyers into law firms that |
| 1:32.4 | might do business with the Supreme Court. |
| 1:35.2 | Sheldon Whitehouse in his letter, he says, I write to you and your capacity both as Chief |
| 1:39.1 | Justice and as chair of the Judicial Conference, because, unlike every other federal court, |
| 1:44.0 | the Supreme Court has no formal process for receiving or investigating such complaints. |
| 1:53.0 | His complaint was sparked in part, this White House is complained, by Sam Alito in the Wall Street |
| 2:00.4 | journal saying, and I quote, no provision in the Constitution gives Congress the authority to |
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