Supreme Armageddon

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

The President of Alliance for Justice Nan Aron and the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center Ed Whelan join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." First, Isikoff and Klaidman discuss the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and its implications. Aron then joins to talk about what the Democratic strategy is in order to slow down and even try to prevent President Trump from ramming through a replacement for Ginsburg. Then, Whalen walks us through the process of what it will take to confirm a new Justice in this very unique circumstance with the 2020 election looming. Something he helps the President can and will achieve.

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0:00.0	In a year that seemed like it couldn't get any crazier or sadder, the stunning news dropped on a Friday night.
0:08.0	Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Berlaikon feminist hero, was dead.
0:15.0	While mourners gathered on the steps of the Supreme Court, some reciting cottage the Jewish prayer for those who have passed,
0:22.0	the political world immediately realized the country was now facing a Supreme Court confirmation battle for the ages.
0:29.0	The balance of power on the court, and likely the future of American law for decades, was now at stake.
0:36.0	As President Trump prepares to nominate a conservative replacement for Ginsburg,
0:40.0	and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell gears up to rush the pick through the Senate before Election Day,
0:46.0	we'll talk to two political activists certain to be in the middle of the fight.
0:50.0	Nann Aaron of the Liberal Alliance for Justice, and Ed Wailen of the Conservative Ethics and Public Policy Center,
0:57.0	on this episode of Skull Duggery.
1:07.0	Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well I'm not a crop.
1:11.0	I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.
1:14.0	My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.
1:20.0	I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
1:25.0	There will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth and nothing else.
1:39.0	I'm Michael Luzagov, Chief Investigator of Correspondent for Yahoo News.
1:42.0	And I'm Dan Clyde, Minister and Chief of Yahoo News.
1:45.0	You know, all I could think of after, of course, you know, the sadness of learning about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's passing
1:54.0	is the opening of my favorite Washington movie, Advise and Consent, in which the news that the Secretary of State has died,
2:03.0	and there's going to be a massive mammoth epic confirmation battle over his replacement, sweeps through Washington,
2:14.0	everybody starts angling and applauding strategy.
2:19.0	And that's sort of exactly what we're looking at right now and what was I think, you know, when the movie gets made
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