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Get Us to Seven feat. Rep. Mondaire Jones

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

The hosts are joined by Rep. Mondaire Jones to discuss the Judiciary Act of 2021, Supreme Court reform, and the Biden Commission.

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0:00.0

We are here today because the United States Supreme Court is broken.

0:07.3

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologue Projects.

0:11.6

On this week's episode of Five to Four, Peter,

0:14.1

Riannan and Michael are talking about what it means that the Biden administration has appointed a

0:18.8

commission to study the possibility of reforming the Supreme Court.

0:22.1

President Biden set up a pseudo-academic commission to study the merits of packing the Supreme Court.

0:30.0

Just an attempt to close this transparent power play in fake legitimacy.

0:36.0

In the second part of today's episode, the hosts are joined by representative

0:39.7

Mondair Jones of New York State, one of the sponsors of the Judiciary Act of 2021,

0:45.6

a bill that would increase the size of the court from 9 to 13 and shift the balance of power

0:50.4

that has given conservatives in the court a super majority. This is Five to Four,

0:54.7

a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

1:03.7

Welcome to Five to Four, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have swarmed

1:09.5

our nation like a brute of cicadas. I am Peter. I'm here with Riannan. Hi.

1:16.8

And Michael. Hey everybody. And a little bit later, in the show, we will be touching base with

1:22.4

Congressman Mondair Jones. I do a little interview. Second Congressman to be on the show, not a big

1:29.5

deal for us anymore. Yeah. It's just something that we do. It's normal. We're just talking to

1:33.8

powerful people all the time. Right. They're begging us and it's like, uh, subnoxious. It's obnoxious,

1:39.1

I think. Yeah. Yeah. So today we are talking about Supreme Court reform, but more specifically,

1:48.7

we are talking about some developments in Supreme Court reform, namely the Biden Reform Commission

1:55.4

and the pending Supreme Court expansion bill in Congress. So last year, following the death of

2:03.3

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there was a lot of talk about Supreme Court reform. Yeah. We did an

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