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The Hartmann Report

Rebuild the Supreme Court

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The top court has become an anti-democratic institution- can we take it back? Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a bill that would revitalize the court. Plus- Alex Lawson reports on Kamala's policy proposal to cover senior home care within Medicare.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:15.0

The six Republicans on the Supreme Court are up to their old tricks ruling this week that Texas is draconian abortion ban

0:25.1

can continue without modification meaning that more women in that state will

0:29.2

die or bleed out to the point where their lives are in danger and or their ability to have future

0:34.0

children is ended.

0:35.9

By the way, that sentence caused Facebook to censor this article.

0:40.7

We put it up, they took it down, and every, and I've gotten dozens of emails, text messages,

0:46.6

you know direct messages on Facebook, on Twitter or whatnot saying, you know, Facebook won't let

0:50.7

me post this.

0:51.7

I'm telling you, Facebook is going hard right. It's just

0:54.8

wild. They're doing this in part because the court has been captured by a fringe right-wing

0:59.5

Catholic death cult, the result of an intentional well-funded campaign.

1:05.0

I mean, this is Leonard Leo and his buddies at Opus Day.

1:10.0

And, you know, I've written at some length about the billionaires who control

1:14.0

the supreme court i've written two books about it

1:16.8

on equal protection of corporations became people in the hidden history the

1:20.0

supreme court the betrayal of America.

1:23.0

And now Oregon Democratic Senator Ron Wyden, who's been a frequent guest on our program,

1:27.8

has apparently listening, or at least is on the same wavelength.

1:32.2

He's proposed new legislation that would pretty much solve the major problems of our court

1:37.0

and corruption proof it going forward.

1:40.2

So it's called the Judicial Modernization and Transparency Act and it's one of the most important pieces I think of legislation

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