The Lochner Era [TEASER]
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Do you like reboots? You're gonna love The Lochner Era 2: Return of the Robber Barons! Featuring all of the union-busting, labor-exploiting, children-working-in-a-coal-mine of the original Gilded Age, but now with 100 percent more campaign spending by corporations!
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| 0:00.0 | He is a late 19th century industrialist, a robber barren, he has such insane levels of power |
| 0:07.2 | and sometimes he uses them on really vulnerable people and just crushes them like hands. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologg Projects. |
| 0:19.6 | On this week's Patreon only episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne and Michael are talking about |
| 0:24.9 | the Lochner era. |
| 0:26.9 | It's the period in US history at the beginning of the 20th century, when the Supreme Court |
| 0:31.3 | aggressively and repeatedly struck down labor laws under the guise of protecting the right |
| 0:35.9 | to sign a contract. |
| 0:38.0 | The Lochner era eventually subsided partially because of FDR's threat to pack the court, |
| 0:43.5 | but as the current court strikes down worker protections and regulations on corporations, |
| 0:47.9 | the Lochner era is poised for a comeback. |
| 0:50.7 | This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have clogged up |
| 1:04.5 | the pipes of justice. |
| 1:06.2 | Like my girlfriend's hair has clogged up my shower drain. |
| 1:08.6 | I'm Peter. |
| 1:09.6 | I'm here with Michael. |
| 1:11.6 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:12.6 | And Rianne. |
| 1:13.6 | And that was a good one Peter. |
| 1:15.6 | Hi everyone. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, inspired by true events. |
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