TAKING A HARD LOOK AT THE SUPREME COURT
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
As Amy Coney Barret take a seat on the high court almost literally on the eve of the election, and after Republicans broke with tradition and pushed through a last minute judge, denied Obama his Supreme Court pick and federal judges, and have thereby packed the federal courts- how should Democrats respond, and what would their options be if they take power?
What steps may a partisan court take to help Trump stay in office even if he loses the election? Did Kavanaugh already tip his hand?
Plus - Dr Justin Frank looks back on the amicus brief he filed when the Supreme Court stole the 2000 presidential election. Could what is happening today reflect the trauma of those events?
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:16.2 | Amy Coney Barrett is going to be officially sworn in. |
| 0:18.8 | It may have already happened in Washington, D.C. by John Roberts at the Supreme Court. |
| 0:23.6 | These swearing ends that they've had at the White House, so Donald Trump can get his |
| 0:27.2 | face in the middle of a photo op with Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and now Amy Coney |
| 0:33.0 | Barrett are all merely ceremonial. |
| 0:37.0 | They're not real. |
| 0:38.0 | It's just, you know, for the photo ops and the media and all that kind of stuff. |
| 0:41.8 | But now, you know, if not a short time ago, a short time from now, Amy Coney Barrett will |
| 0:45.9 | be on the court. |
| 0:46.9 | She will be sworn in, and she will be about doing the court's business. |
| 0:52.1 | And there will be a solid six to three hard right majority on the Supreme Court put into |
| 0:58.4 | place by a series of illegitimate Republican presidents. |
| 1:02.5 | You know, in 2000, the Supreme Court put George W. Bush into the White House. |
| 1:09.6 | They are preparing to use that power, this awesome power that the Supreme Court has taken |
| 1:15.2 | onto itself. |
| 1:16.2 | And the awesome power, frankly, that the Constitution conferred on it in the first place, |
| 1:21.0 | they're preparing to use that power in ways that, frankly, I don't think we've seen in |
| 1:24.8 | the United States since pre-1927. |
| 1:30.2 | And it's the Susan Sarandon thing, you know, she was like, you know, people are asleep |
| 1:35.6 | and if Trump becomes president, well, that will wake them the hell up and it sure did, |
| 1:39.8 | right? |
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