This is hell.

Among the reasons that promise does go unfulfilled is because of the Supreme Court, which we were all likely taught was a pillar of democracy,

but historic evidence reveals it is far less than

democratic the court determines the law but is that law just when it comes to

fairly treating all people equally in the United States which is supposed to be a bedrock of society or

based on the nation's founding documents, at least I thought it was, here to help us all

have a better understanding of what the court is and what the court is not.

Historian writer and editor Steve Frazier returns to this is how to discuss his new

Tom Dispatch article.

The Trump Supreme Court is nothing new, a history of the tyranny of the

Supreme's welcome back to this is hell Steve. Thank you very much for having me. You know I was

eavesdropping on your show you just you just survived a year a year from hell I mean I'm sympathetic.

What did you take a year off?

Yeah, thank you very much I would like to and that's why my whole stock portfolio right now is full of lottery tickets, Steve.

So that's my whole plan, it's my business model right now. So you write has the

Supreme Court gone rogue. The evidence mounds a woman's right to get an

abortion gone. Meanwhile voting rights are barely hanging on along with the 1965 Voting Rights Act

that gave them life. State legislatures so the court ruled may no longer reign in want

an availability of firearms and so the bloodshed will inevitably follow.

Climate catastrophe will not get closer as the Supremes have moved to disarm the EPA's

efforts to reduce carbon emissions, religion excluded from the public arena since the

nation's founding can now invade the classroom thanks to the court's latest pronouncement.

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