Listener Q&A with Harry Litman
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Harry Litman
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 November 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Harry here in the hot seat for the first time. |
| 0:03.6 | We're going to be doing some Q&A sessions for our supporters on Patreon. |
| 0:09.4 | Our ace marketing producer, Kalenetano, has collected a bunch of questions for me. |
| 0:14.7 | I've been held backstage in the Soundproof booth. |
| 0:18.2 | Don't know what they're going to be and I'm ready to be surprised and to take your questions. |
| 0:24.2 | Thanks for being here and good morning, Kalenet. |
| 0:27.2 | All right, hi. Nice to be on the air for the first time. |
| 0:31.4 | I'm out in the open now. |
| 0:36.4 | Okay, so our first question to start us off is Lucy Barrett from Twitter says, |
| 0:43.8 | Scotus found the Texas abortion law to be urgent enough to immediately rule on it sort of. |
| 0:49.2 | The investigation of the January 6th attempted overthrow of our government is surely as important. |
| 0:53.8 | Could the January 6th committee go to Scotus directly to enforce their subpoenas? |
| 0:58.2 | Okay, thanks, Lucy. That's a fairly rich one. |
| 1:01.8 | So let me start by saying, here's what the court would say. |
| 1:04.8 | The court would say, we are passive when things come to us. |
| 1:08.8 | We have to rule and we had a motion come to us in the Texas case from challengers, |
| 1:17.8 | people who were saying that they were being threatened and injured by the Texas statute. |
| 1:23.6 | And they surely were. They were having not to perform abortions. |
| 1:28.2 | These were by doctors and all kinds of ways they could show injury. |
| 1:33.6 | That will normally do it. |
| 1:35.2 | But then we go to the dastardly element in the Texas statute, |
| 1:40.2 | which is completely on purpose unprecedented as the Chief Justice said. |
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