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Democrats Can Still Play Hardball

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Senate Republicans are almost certainly going to fill Justice Ginsburg’s vacant Supreme Court seat ahead of the election. It may look like Democrats are backed into a corner but they have ways to check a SCOTUS supermajority. Guest: Jamelle Bouie, New York Times opinion columnist  We want to know how you are preparing for the election. Leave us a voicemail at 202-888-2588. We might use your message on the show.  Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nothing's more British than a copper and a biscuit.

0:04.6

Taking a 15 minute break to reset, recharge and feel better.

0:09.6

But the perfect break needs the perfect biscuit.

0:13.7

And let's be honest, as the original and the best

0:17.5

only a MacVitties one will do.

0:20.6

Time for a biscuit, Britain.

0:23.4

MacVitties' true originals,

0:25.6

buy and store for a chance to win a truly original biscuit break.

0:34.4

I wanted to talk to Jamel Bowie about what happens now with Ruth Bader Ginsburg's

0:38.6

Supreme Court seat.

0:40.3

Because from the moment he found out she'd passed,

0:43.2

he's been focused on the political bind.

0:45.6

Liberals are in right now.

0:47.5

What I, what I, this was all at Friday night.

0:51.8

So I'm watching a movie with my wife

0:54.3

and I get a text from a friend who's like,

0:56.5

over, you know, we're screwed.

0:57.7

Now's like, what are you talking about?

1:00.4

And then I opened up Twitter and pretty quickly saw what was happening.

1:04.0

And my media thought was that, oh, yeah, of course they're going to try to fill the seat.

1:12.0

It's sort of the rational move, right?

1:14.0

The situation we're reversed, I'd expect Democrats to do the exact same thing.

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