good evening, i m mehdi hasan. let us be clear what happened. a democratic president was elected to office in the midst of a once in a generation crisis, he entered into the white house with a mandate for the american people, a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with eight ambitious legislative agenda. but, a major obstacles hands in his way. a right wing, reactionary supreme court, with very little public legitimacy. sound familiar? this week, the supreme court wrapped up one of its most controversial terms in modern american history, scaling back decades of progress in the matter of near weeks. we ve actually been here before, following a landslide victory 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. securing what was, at the time, the largest popular vote tally in american history. fdr s victory sold out of not only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the progra
course of its most recent term. the far-right roberts court has ruled back abortion rights, dealt a deadly blow to the separation of church and state, strict these states ability to determine their own gun ntrol policies. curb the federal government s ability to tackle climate change, and, well, govern, and allowed multiple gop led states to go ahead with functionally racist voting maps. you are worried about being polarizing, mister president? unelected justices, five of them were appointed by presidents who initially lost the popular vote, and they are getting our basic rights. that is what is polarizing. but, if those decisions that we just put on the street green, they don t scare the hell out of you? well, maybe this will. on thursday, the supreme also announced he would hear the harper, that case is a challenge for the north carolina supreme court striking down of a gerrymandered congressional map, on the grounds that he violated the state constitution by giving republicans an