SCOTUS: A Question of Legitimacy

The PoliticsGirl Podcast

MeidasTouch Network, Leigh McGowan

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

The current, far right, conservative make up of the Supreme Court clearly has an agenda, and it’s terrifying for the legitimacy of our rule of law and way of life. So today we’re going to talk about the Supreme Court, its importance to American society, it’s capture by the far right and what, if anything, can be done to save it from itself. I want to be clear, this is a completely destructive situation and pretending any of this is business as usual will be America’s undoing. In fact, ignoring it is how we got in this position in the first place. Please RATE and SUBSCRIBE so we can grow the show, open the dialogue and inspire better change moving forward! All my links here!: https://linktr.ee/politicsgirl Thank you to today’s sponsors! http://www.ThirdLove.com/politicsgirl http://www.AthleticGreens.com/politicsgirl http://www.MagicSpoon.com/politicsgirl The PoliticsGirl Podcast is a Meidas Touch original podcast produced by Happy Warrior Entertainment. Special thanks to Holly Shuter & Julia Lee Stander for additional research. The Hill: Opinion - Supreme Court should look more like America or so the Republicans once thought by Glenn C. Altschuler 02/06/22 USA Today The Supreme Court Shadow Docket: Alabama Redsitricting Case Renews fight amoung justices - John Fritze 02/08/2022 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/26/us/politics/trump-ginni-thomas-meeting.html Democracy Docket - by Marc Elias (subscribe on Twitter) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-rights-judicial-movement-perfected-dark-money-it-takes-chutzpah-for-them-to-decry-it-now/2021/04/09/4dfd3a44-9950-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/04/gorsuch-federalist-society-supreme-court/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_source=twitter https://ballotpedia.org/History_of_the_Supreme_Court https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/nominations/judicial-tempest.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/17/federalist-society-dark-money-breyer-supreme-court-seat/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/09/opinion/supreme-court-voting-rights.html?referringSource=articleShare https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/opinion/supreme-court-alabama-maps.html https://www.stradley.com/insights/publications/2020/10/scope-and-standard-issue-2?utm_source=Mondaq&utm_medium=syndication&utm_campaign=LinkedIn-integration https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/10/14/bidens-supreme-court-commission-warns-adding-justices-may-not-serve-democratic-values/?sh=5f574458407d https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/04/22/court-packing-real-motive-adding-supreme-court-not-historical-column/7288802002/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/26/us/politics/supreme-court-nominee-nomination-biden-democrats.html https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/20/8-key-findings-about-catholics-and-abortion/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/us/anita-hill-women-power.html https://www.senate.gov/legislative/nominations/SupremeCourtNominations1789present.htm https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/news/press-releases/van-hollen-whitehouse-cicilline-reintroduce-disclose-act-to-repair-americans-faith-in-democracy-require-transparency-in-campaign-finance https://www.markey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/judiciary_act_of_2021.pdf https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/who-ketanji-brown-jackson-likely-biden-short-lister-supreme-court-n1288053 https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/25/us/supreme-court-nominee-biden#ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court https://harvardlawreview.org/2022/02/as-the-legislature-has-prescribed/ https://medium.com/an-idea-for-you/45-things-to-remember-when-the-world-gets-scary-d2a085f4053d Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm sorry, we're supposed to believe the tyrannical leader of the world is
0:03.7	Justin Trudeau for allowing Canadian police officers to arrest criminals, but not
0:08.2	Vladimir Putin who's invaded Ukraine because he just wants it for himself.
0:12.3	The far right has lost its god damn mind.
0:17.1	Hello and welcome to the politics girl podcast.
0:29.5	I'm your host, Lee McGowan.
0:30.9	Let's get into it.
0:32.4	The Supreme Court.
0:33.9	How long does something last once it's become corrupted?
0:37.4	How long do we accept the rule of those who no longer represent us?
0:41.2	Law and order are the cornerstone of a functioning civil society, but if the law itself has been
0:45.4	corroded by those who would use it for their own benefit, how long until the law itself
0:50.1	is rejected?
0:51.6	The night Trump won the 2016 election I was horrified.
0:54.6	I left the room before all the results were in to have a shower, mostly so I could cry
0:58.0	in peace.
0:59.2	As I left the room, my husband said to me, it's not over yet, and I said, oh it's over.
1:04.2	And I turned on the showers hot as possible and I cried for the debasement of our country.
1:08.6	I cried that such a disgustingly awful man with absolutely no experience could be placed
1:13.4	on the highest pedestal our nation had to offer.
1:16.2	That we could allow a known liar and conman incredible rapist with such misogynistic and
1:20.9	racist tendencies to represent us.
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