Crooked Prosecutors/AWOL Congress

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

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🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Former Governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman, who was convicted on dubious corruption charges and spent five years in prison joins us to talk about his chronicle of those events in his book “Stealing Democracy: How the Political Assassination of a Governor Threatens Our Nation.” And old friend and constitutional scholar, Bruce Fein, makes the case that Congress has once again abdicated its responsibility during the Covid-19 crisis.

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.
0:05.0	Stand up, stand up.
0:07.0	You've been sitting way too long.
0:10.0	Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with my co-host David Feldman. Hello David.
0:20.0	Hello, good morning. And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. Hello,
0:24.7	everybody, fasten your seat belts. This is going to be quite a show.
0:29.1	Yeah, the gang's all here and today we're going to talk with former governor of Alabama, Don Siegelman,
0:35.4	whose three decade career in public service ran afoul of Republican opponents who used the
0:41.6	federal judicial system to take him out of contention in
0:45.0	Alabama and nationally. This involved Carl Rove as I understand.
0:49.0	Mr. Seagman spent five years in an Alabama prison after being convicted on dubious corruption charges.
0:56.4	We will talk about how all of that happened and also how Mr.
1:00.1	Seagland has been drawing attention to poor conditions and prisons, especially in the age of
1:04.7	coronavirus, where these facilities are becoming the true hot spots.
1:09.1	Reicher's Island, for instance, in New York City, has a coronavirus infection rate nearly eight times higher than the rest of the city.
1:15.8	Mr. Siegel has been drawing attention to those poor conditions and advocating for inmates to be released.
1:21.8	Our second guest is one of the Ralph's favorites
1:24.3	Republicans.
1:25.4	He has been on the show nine times.
1:27.5	Regular listeners know Bruce Fine is a constitutional scholar.
1:30.8	He is here to talk to us about how Congress has gone AWOL during this pandemic.
1:35.5	Despite Congress putting its nose to the grainstone for our usual two and a half days
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