Progressives NOT Ready For The Horrors Of A 6-3 Conservative Supreme Court

The left in the United States seems totally unprepared for the legal bloodbath that is already underway in a Supreme Court dominated by radical right-wing judges. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.

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We will be talking to Ari Berman next week about what the Supreme Court has done and these two cases that came down basically as we were speaking with him yesterday one dealing with section two of the voting rights act and the concept of racial disparity the other dealing with a california law that required disclosure of dark money or not doc dark money because it was disclosed this one-two punch by the supreme court is both stunning and somewhat predictable with the 6-3 court we are just at the beginning it's impossible for me to to to say this dramatically enough we are just at the beginning of the unwinding of so much that has been built insufficient as it is on the unwinding of of of elements that enhanced our democracy i am certainly open to the critique of you know to what extent we have a democracy when um our politicians are far more responsive to the um to money than anything else but if that is your concern things got a lot worse yesterday a lot worse and they um indicate that they're going to get a lot worse in the future 6-3 supreme court is not only dramatically different than a 4-4 or a 4-5 or even a 5-4 conservative court 6-3 means that the the the margin of error that one where oh you know clarence thomas took issue this because he has these idiosyncrasies that's over that's over.

This is and if you watch this program in 2016.

Then we said at the time the most lasting implications of a donald trump win were going to be the supreme court and we have yet to even begin to understand that i think um voting rights access to the courts limits on corporate power ability for government to regulate corporations ability uh for government to perform some of the basic tasks that we that the vast majority of us assume that government is supposed to do.

The idea that we could describe this supreme court when anthony kennedy sat on it through the last one was citizens united but there was a series of cases.

Basically made it almost impossible to limit how much money can flow into our politics anthony kennedy pretended that it was about well we still have disclosure well yesterday.

A huge uh stake was driven into the heart of that uh concept of disclosure and again we're at the beginning of this.

At one point people have to understand the enormous power that rests with the supreme court and you can deny and and i'd be the first one to say that it shouldn't be this way but it is.

And even if you are someone who believes that we we need to get rid of the supreme court the we are that much further away from having the democracy to be able to even do that.

There are nine people really six at this point who wield more power than i think broadly we have any concept of they do not have the constraints of other of of politicians they do not they simply have no constraints except for ones that are in their minds about their notion within history but the context in which they come from the waters in which they swim the narrowness of their constituencies um means they are basically unconstrained hugely important hugely overlooked particularly by the left in this country sadly oh excuse me sorry i was just finishing my lunch i ordered the crowder it was really good hey don't forget to subscribe and to hit the like button thank you can't do it without you.

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