Welcome to the Empire Files podcast. This is your host, Abby Martin. This is the audio of our show.

You can watch the episodes on our YouTube channel or at the Empirefiles.tv. For as long as I've been able to vote,

Democrats have used the Supreme Court card to lecture progressives about the need to support them.

Voters have been told for decades that every election could

come down to a woman's right to choose. This gun to the heads of the left demands we can

form and comply for the sake of protecting these sacred rights, telling them, if you don't like

the Democratic Party nominee, too bad. You're not really voting for the next president. You're

voting for the Supreme Court. Now're voting for the Supreme Court.

Now that very scenario is playing out.

Right-wing Judge Amy Coney-Barritt has been officially sworn in as the ninth justice.

Uber religious Barrett was actually an anti-abortion activist and is already on the record advocating the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Even though she has very little experience, we know what else she stands for,

because she clerked for the monstrous right-wing extremist, Antonin Scalia,

proclaiming his judicial philosophy is hers too, like that gay sex should be illegal.

Her nomination cemented a six-three ultra-conservative majority for generations to come.

This means not only the possible repeal of current legislation like civil rights, women's rights, and environmental protections,

but also suppression of any new positive changes we might win.

Anything good that gets passed can just be ruled unconstitutional by

this elite, unelected body. So what did the Democrats do when faced with a fight to stop the

extremists they've been warning us about this whole time? Many will throw their hands up and say,

there was nothing that they could have done. Republicans control the Senate. Nancy Pelosi and other so-called resistance leaders

claim they would use every weapon in their arsenal

or every arrow in their quiver

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