We (Disrespectfully) Dissent.

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🗓️ 20 January 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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OA1114 - “We are now faced, my friends, with the fact that tomorrow is today.” --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4, 1967)

We begin the second Trump administration exactly where we intend to remain for the next four years: in dissent.

Today’s Inauguration Day counter-programming features two of the most powerful dissenters in modern American history: Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

We begin with commentary on Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s defiantly inspiring July 1, 2024 dissent as read from the bench in the Supreme Court’s immunity decision, and conclude with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s powerful call for a “revolution of values” to end “power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight.”

Audio of Supreme Court decision announcements for July 1, 2024 (Sotomayor dissent begins as 42:00)
Full text of Trump v. US (7/1/2024)(including Roberts majority, Coney Barrett concurrence, and Sotomayor and Jackson dissents)
“Hear Me Roar: What Provokes Supreme Court Justices to Dissent from the Bench?” Timothy R. Johnson et al, Minnesota Law Review (2010)
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence” (April 4, 1967)

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0:00.0	You must never ever give up or give in.
0:03.1	You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize.
0:07.5	That is your calling.
0:08.9	That is your mission.
0:10.0	That is your moral obligation.
0:12.0	That is your mandate.
0:13.4	Get out there and do it.
0:15.0	Get in the way.
0:26.6	Change. Change happens because people care. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:36.6	I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure.
0:44.1	I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry,
0:47.9	no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong.
0:55.0	The fight for our country is always worth it.
1:00.5	Hello and welcome to opening arguments.
1:02.8	This is the last episode.
1:05.9	Before Trump to point out, don't worry, not the last episode.
1:12.4	It's OA-1114, but in some ways, it kind of feels like the last episode of an era. I'm Thomas. That over there's Matt Cameron. How you doing, Matt? That was a very dramatic pause. I'm feeling dissentee.
1:16.4	Very dissenty today. And we're going to get into some awesome dissents. It is also, I want to
1:20.3	point out Martin Luther King Jr. Day. And I think this might be the whitest MLK day that we're going to have in a very long time. So we're going to make sure at the end to make sure that Dr. King's voice is in here too. Look, because of my weird brain, holidays are a
1:32.2	surprise every time to me. There's precisely two holidays that I know when they are. That's Thanksgiving
1:37.3	roughly and Christmas. Every other holiday is a surprise. Is this really when they do this one?
1:43.0	Has this always been when they do this one?
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