TIME TO UNDO REPUBLICAN COURT PACKING
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 23 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
DEBATE: Thom VS John Vecchione of the New Civil Liberties Alliance. " Why do you object to undoing Mitch McConnell's court packing? "
Democrats will introduce legislation to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, joining progressive activists pushing to transform the court - a move that intensifies a high-stakes ideological fight over the future of the court.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome back. |
| 0:18.4 | So should we unpack the Supreme Court after Mitch McConnell's little dance with Merrick |
| 0:24.9 | Garland, etc. |
| 0:26.7 | John Veccioni is with us. |
| 0:28.0 | He is the senior attorney with the new Civil Liberties Alliance, a conservative group, |
| 0:32.6 | NClA Legal.org is the website, NClA Legal is also the Twitter handle. |
| 0:38.8 | John, welcome to the program. |
| 0:40.6 | So why do you object to unpacking Mitch McConnell's court packing? |
| 0:46.1 | Well, obviously I disagree with the way you phrased it. |
| 0:49.9 | We've had for 150 years nine members of the Supreme Court. |
| 0:54.0 | And that was from the Judiciary Act of 1868, which was specifically put in to make sure |
| 0:59.3 | that the slave states did not have the influence on the Supreme Court they had before. |
| 1:04.5 | It was in fact this nine, the number picked to stop the slave states from controlling |
| 1:12.7 | the appellate courts. |
| 1:14.3 | And it's been a good number. |
| 1:16.1 | And the way that the current bill that's by Markey and Nadler, what they want to do |
| 1:21.1 | is put four justices in, picked at the same time. |
| 1:25.2 | Now, if you didn't want some ideological outcome, but you did think that there should |
| 1:29.4 | be more justices, what you do is have it staggered. |
| 1:32.8 | And they haven't done that. |
| 1:33.8 | So I think it's kind of a raw effort to not have checks and balances. |
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