This is the Tom Hartman program.

There's a sad moment here, more than a moment.

Representative Eliza Cummings has passed away.

He was born just five months before I was, you know, we're the same age and

this was a man who modeled integrity, who modeled service, he lived in his district,

went home to his district every night, who modeled fearlessness as chairman of the House Oversight Committee taking on Donald Trump and doing it just

like a a statesman

So we'll we'll circle back around to that.

I want to get into the Supreme Court because there is, I mean there's just like so much happening

at this level.

One of the circuit courts, I believe it was on September 23rd and I think it was the third circuit,

recently struck down ownership rules of radio stations, some of the ownership rules, making

it easier for billionaires to buy lots and lots

and lots of radio stations and put lots and lots of right-wing programming on them.

I'm guessing probably a Trump judge. But it's just one example of how basically

the courts are running everything in this

country and so my question I'll lay out the question first I'm gonna lay out the

argument is how do we

best reform the Supreme Court. Now then comes the question you know why do we need

to reform the Supreme Court and there's a really fundamental question here, and that

is do we live in and want to continue living in either a constitutionally limited representative Democratic

republic or a constitutionally limited monarchy, a semi-democratic monarchy.

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