HOW DID WE GET HERE?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 June 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As we see the Supreme Court hand out even more partisan rulings, are we in dire risk of losing our democracy to minority rule? How did this come about? If we lose the midterms in November to authoritarians will we ever regain a representative government?
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| 0:45.7 | It's a prem court. Essentially legalized school prayer. |
| 0:48.5 | We'll see where this goes and how broad they try to take it because we're just getting the |
| 0:52.9 | ruling. This is Kennedy versus Bremerton's school district and the ruling just came down. |
| 0:58.9 | This was a coach, the Kennedy was a coach who was going out on the 50 yard line and praying |
| 1:06.4 | with the students from this school and sometimes parents would join him. |
| 1:10.9 | Over the course of a year or two or three, it had turned into a really big event and the kids |
| 1:17.0 | on the team were complaining or some of the kids on the team were complaining that they felt that |
| 1:22.0 | if they didn't show up for the prayer, they would be ostracized. |
| 1:25.4 | In other words, there was both peer pressure and coach pressure on them to participate |
| 1:30.1 | in a prayer that they really didn't want to have anything to do with. |
| 1:33.2 | There's several lower courts said, no, no, there's this wall of separation between church and state |
| 1:37.9 | and this school is funded with federal dollars and state dollars, state dollars basically and |
| 1:44.4 | therefore you can't do these prayers. |
| 1:47.2 | And the Supreme Court said, nope, this is 63 ruling, overturned it, obviously the three were |
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