Sen. Whitehouse talk ethics at the Supreme Court with Lawrence O'Donnell

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[world wide wally]

1. That guy should be in the Whitehouse

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2. Born for the job, you might even say.

But Wall Street doesn't like him, so it's highly unlikely (not impossible though).

[gab13by13]

3. Yeah, the American oligarchs

who he is exposing don't like him. Whitehouse can't be bribed by them.

[Martin68]

4. This summarizes the biggest problem with our current Supreme Court.

Of course, every issue raised here is a problem because of actions and decisions being made by conservative judges - judges who rule based on a conservative ideology rather than on the Constitution or established precedent. I might add that at least three of those same judges lied to the Senate when testifying during their own nomination approve process.

[Warpy]

5. Abortion law written by Congress needs to reference the thirteenth amendment

which prohibits involuntary servitude, and doesn't specify the nature of such servitude or to whom, only that it is involuntary. It's what Roe should have been based on 48 years ago.

They can make brief stops at the first, telling the long blue noses to mind their own business, and the fourth, to stay out of ours, but any law has to be based on the thirteenth.

Even the Perjury Five won't be able to argue against that.

[erronis]

6. These SC judges were planted and waited until they could be in a majority

Another great segment with Sheldon Whitehouse and Laurence O'Donnell

The KGB/FSB and the US libertarians. What a great team!

Trying to follow the money tho.

The Soviets under Putin get to disrupt the major democratic country and weaken western alliances. That makes sense.

The US congress-critters (and tfg, etc.) that have enabled and encouraged this: What do they really get out of it? Did Putin/Koch/Mercer/Thiel/Murdoch promise them untold wealth? If I were these dolts, I'd be very worried about getting a payout that wasn't deadly.