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🗓️ 1 February 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, under tremendous pressure from the left, announced his resignation this week, which allows President Biden to name a successor while the Democrats still control the Senate.
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0:00.0 | Breyer bows to the left, cinema doesn't know what's right, and is Putin playing chicken on Kiev? |
0:06.9 | Food for thought on the political junkie. |
0:09.3 | You like Ike, I like like, everybody likes I for president. |
0:13.8 | Add light to you and lead to me. I don't care how you quoted. |
0:17.9 | Come on and vote for Kennedy, vote for Kennedy, |
0:22.5 | and we'll come on top. |
0:24.9 | Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge |
0:28.6 | because they're the ones to lead the USA. |
0:35.8 | Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 381 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Routen. |
0:42.9 | When progressives were jumping down Ruth Bader Ginsburg's throat to have her step aside and let President Obama name her successor, |
0:51.1 | the octogenarian Supreme Court Justice, who had had several bouts with cancer, |
0:56.0 | brushed them aside. I'm in good health, she said, and I haven't finished the job I set out to do. |
1:02.5 | When her health was no longer good, the guy in the White House was Donald Trump, and Ginsburg did |
1:08.2 | everything she could to stay alive, until voters would hopefully put in a |
1:12.4 | Democrat as president to enable her to retire. But that was not to be. She died on September 18, |
1:20.5 | 2020, and Trump and the Republicans rammed through Amy Coney Barrett as her successor. |
1:26.2 | RBG's stubbornness not only gave Trump a third justice, |
1:29.8 | but the succession changed the trajectory of the court |
1:32.6 | from 5-4-conservative to 6-3 conservative. |
1:36.8 | That in a nutshell is why Stephen Breyer bowed to liberal pressure |
1:40.2 | and called it quits. |
1:42.0 | The tenuous Democratic majority in the Senate has a good chance of |
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