Is the Supreme Court Out of Order?
Bill Moyers in Conversation
Public Square Media, Inc.
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2014
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bill Moyers. It's good to have your ear. |
| 0:05.0 | Is the Supreme Court out of step with the 21st century? |
| 0:10.0 | Two of our best watchers of the Supreme Court assess how its recent decisions affect everything |
| 0:15.0 | from privacy and women's rights to public unions and corporate power. |
| 0:20.0 | Doja Lithwick? |
| 0:21.8 | You cannot look at the Roberts Court and say that they've done anything other than |
| 0:26.3 | systemically unravel. |
| 0:28.4 | Voting rights, women's rights, workers' rights, environmental progress. |
| 0:32.5 | It's a pretty palpable and unequivocal trend. |
| 0:36.3 | And Linda Greenhouse. |
| 0:37.4 | I think it's hard for anybody looking at this court objectively to come away, not thinking |
| 0:45.3 | that it's a court in pursuit of an agenda. |
| 0:47.3 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:49.3 | If you had trouble sorting through the blizzard of decisions released by the Supreme Court, |
| 0:55.9 | led by Chief Justice John Roberts, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:59.8 | Two of the most knowledgeable court watchers in journalism are here to help decode the implications |
| 1:05.2 | of those five to four rulings on public prayer, organized labor, campaign finance reform, |
| 1:10.7 | and the Hobby Lobby case. |
| 1:12.6 | That's the decision that certain companies own religious grounds do not have to provide health |
| 1:18.0 | insurance for some forms of birth control. Linda Greenhouse covered the Supreme Court for the New York |
| 1:24.0 | Times for 30 years and still writes a bi-weekly column for that paper. |
| 1:29.1 | She's a lecturer, as well as the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence at the Yale Law School. |
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