RBG RIP. GOP Shameless.
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 22 September 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
What should Democrats do about Trump and McConnell and their enablers as they rush through a third Supreme Court Justice? Pack the court? Admit DC and Puerto Rico as states? Kill the Filibuster? Bill talks to former North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan who voted to confirm Justice Ginsburg, and Elizabeth Wydra, President of the Constitutional Accountability Center, dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends and neighbors, and welcome back to the Bill Press pod. |
| 0:12.0 | You know, the world's been turned upside down since our last podcast with the passing of our hero for justice, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. |
| 0:20.9 | Her last wish passed on to us by her granddaughter was that her replacement on the bench |
| 0:26.9 | be named by the next president, whoever wins on November 3rd, not necessarily this one. |
| 0:34.4 | But of course, Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell don't give a damn. They are shamelessly and |
| 0:40.3 | gleefully rushing to ram through a new justice before November 3rd, tilting the court to the far |
| 0:47.0 | right and against the expressed will of the American people for decades. Is there any way to stop |
| 0:53.7 | them? And if they do go through with this travesty, |
| 0:56.8 | what can Democrats do if they win back the White House and the Senate? For answers and advice today, |
| 1:05.0 | we turn to two people in the thick of the debate. First, Elizabeth Weidre, constitutional lawyer and president of the |
| 1:13.0 | Constitutional Accountability Center. And then, former Democratic Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, |
| 1:21.5 | who voted to confirm Ginsburg on the court way back in 1993. Elizabeth, good to see you again. |
| 1:28.6 | Thanks for joining us here on the Bid Press pod. |
| 1:30.2 | Great to be with you, Bill. |
| 1:31.9 | Thank you. |
| 1:32.7 | So as a woman, as an attorney, how big an influence was Ruth Bader Ginsburg in your life? |
| 1:40.5 | Oh, my goodness. |
| 1:41.5 | So, you know, I remember being in high school and writing a report on Frontierro versus Richardson, one of the path marking cases that Justice Ginsburg argued in the Supreme Court when she was a civil rights lawyer for the ACLU, working to ensure that the |
| 2:02.0 | constitutions guarantee equal protection for all applied to women and men and trying to get rid of |
| 2:09.5 | the rampant gender discrimination that then was really reflected in laws across the board that people lived under in this country. |
| 2:21.0 | And obviously we have a long way to go for gender equality, but in a real way, the conditions |
| 2:27.4 | under which we live, and especially women being able to live and dream on equal terms as men are due in large part to Justice Ginsburg's work. |
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