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The Gist

People Power Beats the Courts

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

Daily News, News

4.53.7K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How can savvy activism topple decades of legal precedent? The ACLU's David Cole tells us about three issues in which like-minded citizens advanced their agenda: marriage equality, gun ownership, and checking George W. Bush's war on terror. Cole's book is Engines of Liberty: The Power of Citizen Activists to Make Constitutional Law.   In the Spiel, Mike considers Brett Talley, President Trump's odd pick for federal district judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The following podcast contains explicit materials.

0:07.8

It's Wednesday, November 15th, 2017 from Slated to the Just Time, Mike Pasca.

0:12.4

You know, I usually open the show, this here, show, the one you're listening to with a quip,

0:15.8

an observation, maybe something about Steve Mnuchin's wife wearing elbow-length leather gloves

0:21.6

to visit the money with her husband.

0:23.7

Honey, can we visit the money? She's dressed like a dollar-dominatrix.

0:27.3

She poses with purseed lips holding up a sheet of money.

0:30.8

Darling, please let us visit the money again.

0:33.3

Yes, dear. Wait, wait, was that a Steve Mnuchin impression?

0:37.3

Or was that the fake Washington Post reporter who Alabama voters found on their voicemail?

0:42.4

Yeah, hello. It's Bernie Lieberwitz, so the Washington Post.

0:46.6

We met at your barbeque, you know, the one where you served all the truff.

0:52.0

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! I've got $3,000 for anyone who could do a Mitz-va and say Roy Moore did all their

1:00.8

puppet! 5,000 if it was your took-ass!

1:04.6

I'm not gonna make those jokes. Those jokes have been made, made by better people than me.

1:08.3

It's fun to tell, but yeah, you've heard them.

1:10.3

What I'm gonna do is what so many podcasts do.

1:12.7

Podcasts that appear higher rated on the Apple Podcast charts than mine.

1:17.0

Just open up by plugging all the live shows.

1:19.6

I don't know how this forum decided that that was the best way to grab listeners attention

1:23.6

and far be it for me to tell you more successful podcasts.

1:26.8

Don't open the show with a series of live dates, but you know, on November 28th,

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