Welcome to the beat I'm Ari Melver. Happy Friday you made it the end of the week and we've got a special show including historians Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Michael Besslott's coming up.

So we're going to cover everything we've been living through, as well as a wider and larger view.

So I'm looking forward to that.

Get comfortable with me for that.

But we begin with breaking news today out of the Supreme Court and it's fueling concerns

about the increasing partisanship, credibility crises, and corruption that's on display

in this court.

Let me tell you exactly what's going on.

Conservatives now reversing one of the only measures for gun safety that was actually

passed in the recent era, and again you can put all politics to the side as a measure of how

extreme the Supreme Court is today with this ruling I'm going to tell you this was

one of the things that got through the broken hyper-partisan Washington that we hear so much about

that even had centrist and moderate and Republican support to try to deal with one part

of our gun crisis in America.

Today the court reversed a ban on something

that are called bump stocks, and the opinion was 6 to 3,

meaning the conservatives in all three Trump justices

are making it easier to get deadly weapons in America

the other three justices from Democratic appointees dissented.

Now all you need to really know about the bump stop thing is it takes weapons and makes them deadlier it

basically makes a faster semi-automatic with a higher rate of fire in fact you can go

hundreds of rounds a minute which from a legal perspective goes well beyond what most people would ever need for self-defense, right?

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