He's got a pretty interesting podcast too called Making the Case. Been listening to the first couple episodes, it's kinda dry but informative as hell
The Scheme: a series of speeches given by Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse about how the Supreme Court was captured by dark money interests.
Submitted 1 year ago by althea_vestrid@lemmy.world to videos@lemmy.world
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smallaubergine@kbin.social 1 year ago
photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
That’s great, podcasts are better for long-form informative content like this. Or books.
althea_vestrid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Full playlist:
Fisk400@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is the guys name Sheldon Whitehouse?! I’d that even allowed?
massive_bereavement@kbin.social 1 year ago
I don't know this guy but now I want him to be president just to say Whitehouse's Whitehouse.
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I refuse to believe that he is a real person. 1000% fake
Nobody@lemmy.world 1 year ago
He’s exactly right. Everything happening with the Court now has been in the works since the Powell Memo in 1971. Weaponize the judiciary to serve business interests. The culture war stuff that grabs headlines is a side effect.
flossdaily@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Democrats should have been talking about packing the court with liberals all the way back to when the Supreme Court stole the election from Gore.
Republicans are out there staging insurrections in order to gain power. Meanwhile, Democrats won’t even explore these legal means of stopping them. It’s insane.
flipht@kbin.social 1 year ago
There are good people who are democrats, for sure.
But the Democratic party is managed opposition. They love that republicans do stuff that benefits them personally, and they love that they can fundraise on the culture war stuff, and they love that no matter how bad they fail, they can blame republicans.
The party as an organization is one of the worst enemies of progress, because it sucks up resources as if it will do something, but then turns around and spends all the money on their safe seats.
FireTower@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If either side attempts to pack the court to their political ends by increasing the number of justices it simply guarantees the other party will do the exact same when they come into power.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
So what? Let’s keep it going make the Supreme Court 50 people for all I care. It would still be better than the corrupt assholes right now. There only being 9 makes corruption so much easier.
It’s much easier to pay off 2 judges than 25.
TwoGems@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Uh but Republicans already did that anyway. So what?