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Boom! Lawyered

Nuke the Filibuster?

Boom! Lawyered

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4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Senate: thoughtful and deliberative institution or undemocratic wankers?

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0:00.0

Hello, fellow law nerds.

0:08.8

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard,

0:11.4

a rewired news group podcast hosted by the legal journalism team

0:15.1

that is still a little reclaimed about the fact

0:18.2

that we have a Biden administration now instead of that other

0:21.5

jackass administration. I mean, I guess I'm Imani Gandhi. And I'm Jess Piclo. Maybe. Rewire News Group

0:29.5

is dedicated. Last I checked, Rewire News Group is dedicated to inspiring you to own your

0:36.5

relationship to sex, abortion, parenthood,

0:39.3

and power.

0:40.1

And the Team Legal Podcast is part of that mission.

0:42.5

So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

0:46.4

You know, like I said in the upfront, life is weird, man.

0:49.9

It's just weird under the Biden administration.

0:52.3

You were just mentioning that you don't really know how to handle it now that there's not just crisis after crisis after crisis.

0:58.3

I'm like anticipatorily sweaty.

1:00.6

Yes, we were sweaty for four straight years.

1:04.2

And now my sweat glands are like recovering.

1:06.3

I don't know if they regenerate like the liver does, but I'm feeling fresh and clean.

1:10.2

I don't know how to feel about it.

1:12.2

But Jesus, that said, Amani, Democrats just might snatch defeat from the jaws of victory like we are going to do.

1:27.4

No, why? Democrats, why? I mean, we're... feet from the jaws of victory like we are going to do.

1:27.8

No.

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