SMN: How The Supreme Court Is Undermining Democracy

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Hi. The Supreme Court - which has never been an apolitical entity - has been coming out with some really frightening rulings lately and is likely to keep it up. That's because fringe right-wing groups have infiltrated the Supreme Court and are now circumventing democracy to make laws. Support us on our PATREON: http://patreon.com/somemorenews Check out our MERCH STORE: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/somemorenews?ref_id=9949 SUBSCRIBE to SOME MORE NEWS: https://tinyurl.com/ybfx89rh Please fill out our SURVEY: https://kastmedia.com/survey/ Subscribe to the Even More News and SMN audio podcasts here - Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/some-more-news/id1364825229 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ebqegozpFt9hY2WJ7TDiA?si=5keGjCe5SxejFN1XkQlZ3w&dl_branch=1 Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/show/even-more-news Follow us on social media: Twitter: https://twitter.com/SomeMoreNews Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/SomeMoreNews/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SomeMoreNews/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@somemorenews Make sure your online activity and data is protected with the best VPN money can buy. Visit https://ExpressVPN.com/morenews right now and get three extra months free. Get a 4-week trial, free postage, and a digital scale at https://www.stamps.com/MORENEWS. Thanks to Stamps.com for sponsoring the show! Athletic Greens is going to give you an immune supporting FREE 1-year supply of Vitamin D AND 5 free travel packs with your first purchase if you visit https://athleticgreens.com/morenews today. Sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1M4QmTC9aEFjPCvNnmh2NLazb1OlKiB4vD_qrQ5pGWS0/edit Support the show!: http://patreon.com.com/somemorenewsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Experiencing the news each day can feel like a journey.
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0:35.2	I was just watching a previous episode of the show at patreon.com slash some more news.
0:40.4	Like and subscribe and mail us your blood and spit and elderly.
0:43.9	Anyway, it was the one we recently did on Roe v Wade and how the Supreme Court was gearing
0:48.2	up to overturn it and then the week we recorded the episode, the Supreme Court actually did
0:52.4	overturn it.
0:53.4	Which was great synergy for us at the show, but less so for America.
0:57.8	Anyway, fucked up stuff.
1:00.0	What with the millions of Americans losing their reproductive rights and access to bodily
1:03.8	autonomy and it really shined a light on the Supreme Court as a whole.
1:07.8	A lot of Americans probably weren't paying attention to the Supreme Court before that point.
1:11.9	I mean, the bear just came out and we had a lot of other stuff going on.
1:16.6	And so this tilt toward the far right no doubt snuck up.
1:20.4	Combine this with the news of Ginny Thomas, wife of Clarence Thomas who appears to be a proponent
1:24.7	of Donald Trump's election fraud lies.
1:26.9	You know that guy, Donald?
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