Ladies and gentlemen, we have major breaking news that happened just within the past half an hour or so.

I'm sure most of you know because you clicked this video where live here, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court Justice has passed away. She was 87.

Rest in peace. We have a lot to talk about. Donald Trump will now have to select a new Supreme Court Justice.

And there is a lot to unpack potential riots, protests, who are the Supreme Court picks. I can't, I'm shocked. This is happening right now. I mean, it was with, it with all due respect. A lot of people were worried this day was going to come, but it was fairly reasonable to assume.

I'm trying to be very delicate because I really do mean it that Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a strong individual. She was, she broke ground in a lot of ways.

And I have tremendous respect for anybody who, who gives their life to serve this country, even if we disagree. But her time did come and she passed away. Donald Trump now has a bunch of people he wants to pick.

And there are many of them. If not all of them, that could lead to protests is putting, that's putting it lightly. I mean, most of you probably remember what happened with Brett Kavanaugh. The smears, the media cycle, the pounding on the doors. That was pretty intense.

We are not, we are less than two months away from one of the most important presidential elections, probably ever. I mean, at least for us in our lifetime. And this dropped just right now. So it's hard to know who this is going to energize more Republicans or Democrats. But we have a lot to break down and we'll figure it out. So we are, we are lucky to be joined by political commentator Drew Holden, the spooler of threads on Twitter.

Yeah, you have a bunch of insightful threads talking about various political issues. And so we were just going to talk regular news. We were like, it'd be really, it'd be really great to have Drew. I've shared your threads on Twitter before you're pretty insightful. And, and then this happened. And we were, we were getting ready for the show when the news dropped. And it was just kind of like getting punched in the gut. And I'm not saying like, you know, it's, I'm not saying it to be like I was, you know, devastated by it emotionally, just like it was a shock. Like, yeah, right now it just happened.

So we should just dive into this. There's a lot to go over. Of course, make sure you smash the like button, subscribe, share this stream if you like the show because that's, that's how we do it. We don't have a marketing budget. It's word of mouth. If you think this is a good show, an important stream. Please share. Of course, we're joined also by at Sour Patch Lids.

Hello, I'm the producer and we have, oh, I'll just say a million time. I'll have to go through. So let me just, we'll do the news first and foremost. And then we, we're going to start breaking this down from NPR Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg champion of gender equality dies at 87.

I'm going to show you her, one of her, I'm going to show you her dying wish that NPR is included that I was shocked to hear.

According to NPR, they say just days before her death, as her strength waned, Ginsburg dictated this statement to her granddaughter Clara Sparrow, quote, my most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed.

Okay, that is shockingly 2020. And we're going to start getting into, we're going to lighten up in a little bit.

I want to make sure we're being respectful and delicate as we talk about her losing her life for sure. But we're going to lighten up and talk about the future in a second, but I just want to say, I'm that that quote to me is.

It's bordering on the absurd. I can't, it's almost shocking that they, that's the statement that was put out, but let me just read a little bit. They say Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the D'Amure Firebrand, who in her 80s became a legal cultural and feminist icon has died.

Supreme Court announced her death, saying the cause was complications from cancer. Architect of the legal fight for women's rights in the 1970s.

Ginsburg subsequently served 27 years on the nation's highest court, becoming its most prominent member. Her death will inevitably set in motion what promises to be a nasty and tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.

And it thrusts the Supreme Court vacancy into the spotlight of the presidential campaign. She knew what was to come.

Ginsburg death, Ginsburg death will have profound consequences for the court and the country inside the court not only is the leader of the liberal wing gone, but with the court about to open a new term, chief justice John Roberts no longer holds the controlling vote in closely contested cases.

Though he has consistently conservative, though he has a consistently conservative record on most cases, he has split from fellow conservatives and a few important ones this year casting his vote with liberals, for instance, to at least temporarily protect the so called dreamers from deportation by the Trump administration to uphold a major abortion precedent and to uphold bands on large church gatherings during the crown of Irish pandemic.

But with Ginsburg gone, there is no clear court majority for those outcomes. Now the most important thing that needs to be mentioned as we enter an election cycle that will likely be disputed is that the Supreme Court now skews conservative very likely meaning if this if if if if we go to a contested election in the court must decide.

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