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The Hartmann Report

RESPONDING TO REPUBLICAN HARDBALL ON THE SUPREME COURT

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 21 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

A hard-right Supreme Court nominee could completely alter life as we know it. Ruth Bader Ginsberg has died, and the nation mourns. While everybody is focusing on abortion, the Supreme Court, if it falls into hard-core conservative hands, could actually do massive damage to the entire spectrum of life in America. Could everything from Social Security to Medicaid to minimum wage laws be threatened?

Conservatives don’t just want to take America back to the 1950s; they want to take us back to the 1920s. We all must encourage Democratic members of Congress to do everything possible to hold the line against Trump putting another radical right-winger on the Supreme Court.

Alphonso David of the Human Rights Campaign joins Thom on what's at stake on the Supreme Court for LGBTQ freedoms and marriage equality.


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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman program.

0:18.2

Well Ruth Bader Ginsburg has passed away.

0:21.6

She is in the light.

0:22.9

There's a Jewish tradition that when a Jewish person dies on Russia, China, a Jewish

0:28.6

two-year, basically that means God waited for the entire year to take them back home.

0:35.2

Therefore they must be ascetic, a righteous person.

0:38.4

I think that certainly defines Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

0:42.4

And now we have Donald Trump figuring out how he can make political hay out of us.

0:48.2

He's going to nominate a woman.

0:49.6

Hey, that worked out well for Joe Biden with regard to a vice presidential candidate.

0:53.6

Maybe it'll work out well for him.

0:55.4

He has, in particular, one woman who is a member of a Catholic cult that says that a husband

1:01.1

should control their wives and is opposed to abortion.

1:05.1

He's got another woman who is fervently Catholic, but also the child of Cuban immigrants and

1:12.5

pretty hard-core right wing, but he gets to nominate a woman and a Hispanic to the court.

1:18.3

And then there's a couple of other women that he says they're on his list.

1:21.3

It godly knows where this is going to go.

1:23.5

While everybody is focusing on abortion, the Supreme Court, I mean, if you look back at the

1:30.2

history of the Supreme Court and what the Supreme Court did, the last time it was seriously

1:35.2

hard-core conservative, which was in the years leading up to 1937.

1:41.8

What was referred to as the Lockner Court, started with this Lockner decision as I recall

1:46.2

in 1905, although the Lockner Court has generally viewed as kind of moralist broadly in that

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