Weekends: Disempower SCOTUS, Amy Coney Barrett, and Amazon's Private Preschools w/ Samuel Moyn

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🗓️ 29 September 2020

⏱️ 126 minutes

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Summary

Every Saturday at 1 PM ET, Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila broadcast live from the Jacobin YouTube channel. Weekends features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and left political strategy, as well as interviews with prominent individuals on the left. This is the podcast version of the show that broadcast on September 26, 2020.

The guest is Samuel Moyn. He is the Henry R. Luce professor of jurisprudence at Yale Law School and a professor of history at Yale University. His most recent book is Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World. He joins us to talk about Trump’s appointment of Amy Coney Barrett and how socialists can disempower the Supreme Court.

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0:00.0	The Hey everyone welcome to weekends on Jacobin I'm Anna Casparian joined by Nando Vila my trusty co-host.
0:24.0	Nando how you doing?
0:25.0	I'm doing well I'm doing well we have a few technical
0:28.0	glitches you know to start the stream but we're here for you people
0:32.0	don't worry we're here for you people. Don't worry.
0:33.6	We're going to deliver the takes.
0:35.4	We're going to deliver the news.
0:37.0	That's the important thing, you know.
0:39.2	Yes.
0:40.2	We look great.
0:41.2	We always look great, but the most important thing is the takes.
0:44.0	Yes, Nando, according to my mom, you always look great.
0:48.0	And the Washington Post and I'm sure many others.
0:53.0	But yeah, we did have some technical issues.
0:54.8	Sorry for the late start today,
0:56.8	but we do have a great show ahead.
0:59.0	Hopefully we can actually carry out a smart conversation
1:02.4	about Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick.
1:06.5	We're going to have a Yale professor of jurisprudence in history to join us to talk about that.
1:12.1	Samuel Moyne will be joining us later in the show.
1:15.6	I am going to engage in a debate with Nando.
1:19.6	Something hasn't been sitting well with me and I felt like felt like I needed to speak up so we're going to actually start the show with that. Let's get right to it.
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