Description: “”Anne Nelson is an award-winning war correspondent and author. Her newest book, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right, details the influence of the Council for National Policy, a powerful right-wing political coalition. In this episode, Anne discusses the corruption within the Supreme Court and how certain “grassroots” conservative
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This is 4 min. YouTube video. SCERT Bill passed the Senate. Sen. Whitehouse said that the Republicans claimed that the Democrats are going to try to pack the Supreme Court. But in his opinion, the Republicans have already packed the Supreme Court! Whitehouse quote: Instead, amidst the usual cascade of smears and innuendo, and unfounded
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After 9:40 he says “…the idea that the people choose their elected representatives rather than the other way around.” Partisan Gerrymandering is taking place in states and the court, as he says, is okay with that. He brings up section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was not invalidated by SCOTUS. SCOTUS invalidated some sections
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Very Interesting. “”In the [Supreme] court that dark money built, the honor system has flagrantly failed. We need to legislate; we need to investigate and we need to fix this mess, for the American people.””
Profound implications!
I thought about this in the past, and it made sense to me that when there are inequalities in a system affecting human rights, the system should be able to make modifications to reduce the inequalities. For instance, if the percentage of a race is over- or underrepresented in the higher education system, then it’s
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SCOTUS voted 6-3 to reject the “independent state legislature” theory that argued state legislatures can set election rules with little oversight from state courts. Apparently the “legal theory” that the appelants wanted was so extreme that even 3 conservative justices including Roberts voted against it. Quote from Vox article: “”Moore involved the awkwardly named “independent
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Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson Senate confirmation hearings into a circus. This was shameful. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/24/ketanji-brown-jackson-republicans-senate-confirmation-hearing
The Supreme Court’s shadow docket and its ramifications for the executive branch. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/31/supreme-court-us-cases-shadow-docket
Ted Cruz is the pot calling the kettle black in this Politifact article. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/27/ted-cruz/ted-cruzs-dubious-claim-gop-didnt-rig-scotus-confi/ A commenter said, “They know their base has zero critical thinking skills, selective short-term memory and will believe whatever they are fed. It’s pathetic.”
