Daily Take: Do the Rich Dudes Want the Court to Ban Trump or Not?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
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Now that several of the Republican justices have been so heavily saturated with fat-cat money and thus regularly vote in favor of their morbidly rich “friends,” what do those rich dudes want?
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| 0:00.0 | Do the rich dudes want the court to ban Trump or not? |
| 0:06.5 | This Thursday the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the case of Trump v |
| 0:10.0 | Anderson which will determine whether Trump can appear on the ballot and hold |
| 0:14.1 | office if elected or if he's disqualified by virtue of his having incited an |
| 0:21.5 | insurrection on January 6th. The really fascinating part of |
| 0:25.5 | this whole drama though will have to do with the power politics behind the |
| 0:28.9 | Thrones on the court. Now that several of the Republican justices have been so heavily saturated with |
| 0:34.6 | fat-cap money and thus regularly vote in favor of their morbidly rich friends. |
| 0:39.8 | What do those rich dudes want out of Thomas Roberts Alito Gorsuch and their other investments? |
| 0:46.0 | Do they want their totees on the court to keep Trump off the ballot because he's more likely to lose against Biden than his Haley or somebody else. Or like Fritz Tyson in |
| 0:55.3 | Germany in 1933, do they still think they can control him and he'll give them |
| 0:59.9 | more tax breaks and deregulation and anything else they want if they just help |
| 1:03.8 | become president again. While political and legal commentators will be |
| 1:08.6 | hyper-focused on the arguments made for and against Trump being able to stay on the ballot. I'll be |
| 1:14.4 | looking for any indications that at least a few of the justices may be |
| 1:17.8 | peeling off from Trump because they're sugardaddies are concerned about |
| 1:21.8 | his electability or erratic behavior. |
| 1:26.0 | Trump's defense has largely been confined to a few technical points. |
| 1:30.0 | The 14th Amendment says that any person who's acting, quote, |
| 1:33.1 | as a member of Congress or as an officer of the United States, |
| 1:36.3 | and quote, will be barred if they engage in or have, quote, |
| 1:39.7 | given aid or comfort, end quote, to an insurrection. |
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