Daily Take: So, What Can We Do About the Naked Corruption of the Supreme Court?
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 5 April 2024
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Replacing Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh would take the balance of the Court back to where it was in 1973, before Nixon decided to drive Fortas out with bogus charges. There may be a way...
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| 0:00.0 | So what can be done about the naked corruption on the Supreme Court. |
| 0:06.0 | When the Miffopristone case came before the Supreme Court, |
| 0:09.0 | Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito bizarrely brought up their desire to see the Comstock Act again enforced. |
| 0:16.0 | Even arguably worse, they're in part responsible for giving Trump months of delay in the case |
| 0:20.4 | Jack Smith is brought against him for trying to overthrow our form of government. |
| 0:24.8 | As Liz Cheney apparently quite pissed off at the court herself said this week, quote, |
| 0:29.9 | Trump now is pushing this idea that a president should have complete immunity against |
| 0:33.6 | any criminal prosecution for anything he does in office and he's pushed this appeal to the |
| 0:37.4 | Supreme Court. |
| 0:38.4 | I think it's very important that the Supreme Court recognizes what he's doing is a delaying tactic. It cannot be the case |
| 0:44.6 | that a president of the United States can attempt to overturn an election and |
| 0:47.5 | seize power and that our justice system is incapable of holding a trial and |
| 0:51.4 | holding him to account before the next election." |
| 0:54.0 | End quote. |
| 0:55.0 | Actually, with the Supreme Court filled with corrupt stooges for the morbidly rich, it can be the case. |
| 1:00.0 | It is, in fact, the case. |
| 1:02.0 | They've given him as much delay as they legally can. |
| 1:06.0 | So what can we do about the naked corruption on this court? If Donald Trump wins the White House |
| 1:10.8 | this fall, in all probability both Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito will |
| 1:14.5 | retire to let the Federalist Society and Leonard Leo's people pick two replacements |
| 1:19.4 | in their 40s. But if Biden wins, Democrats should be ready to help them both out too. But how? |
| 1:26.5 | By using political theater. Richard Nixon pioneered this strategy back in the early 1970s when the most liberal member of the Supreme |
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