Is Charles Koch's Network All About Getting the "Right" Cases to the Supreme Court?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.3 • 8 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2023
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Billionaire’s web of rightwing groups works to bring cases to court that could undermine core functionings of the US government. The attack on the administrative state is central to the work of Americans for Prosperity, which boasts of its years-long campaign to challenge what it calls the “out-of-control regulatory environment imposed by Washington''. The GOP is eating their own: Matt Gates outs a gay Republican congressman. Will Dean Phillips upset the campaign or will he be marginalized?
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| 0:48.0 | Greetings, my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace, freedom, |
| 0:54.2 | and the American way. |
| 0:56.5 | Get the right cases to the Supreme Court. |
| 0:58.9 | Ed Pilkington writing over at the Guardian, inside Charles Koch's network. |
| 1:04.5 | He's writing that the Koch network, a web of right-wing groups cultivated by billionaire |
| 1:09.2 | businessman Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch, is spearheading the attack |
| 1:13.5 | on federal agencies and government regulations that dominates the US Supreme Court agenda this term. |
| 1:18.7 | Basically what he's talking about is the Chevron deference. |
| 1:22.4 | I've written about this before back in the 90s, I think it was, or maybe it was the 70s. |
| 1:28.7 | The Supreme Court basically ruled that the way that regulatory agencies in the United States |
| 1:35.6 | work is the way that they're supposed to work. |
| 1:38.1 | In other words, Congress says, okay, we've got a problem with air pollution. |
| 1:42.0 | So we're going to create the Environmental Protection Agency and we're going to say, |
| 1:45.7 | you guys figure out what to do about air pollution because we know it's a problem. |
| 1:49.6 | But we're not scientists. We don't know exactly what to do. |
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