so help me god. so help me god. now all of the members of the court, i m pleased to welcome justice jackson to the court and to our common calling. [ applause ] an historic transition coming at the end of the most activist and frankly destructive supreme court term in more than a century. also tonight, more criminal exposure for trump and his january 6th enablers, including a potential criminal referral for witness tampering. we begin tonight with a look back at what has been one of the most consequential and life changing supreme court terms since they overturned segregation and expanded women s rights. only this court has done all of it in reverse. today was the last time we heard from them and thank god. they have successfully weakened miranda rights. kneecaped state laws. began to dismantle the separation of church and states and one in the court s final rulings this term the 6-3 majority effectively gutted the epa s authority to work on climate change. with the u
care of them? it is unnecessary and preventible harm to people on a scale these are laws are passed by men who couldn t pass a seventh grade biology test. those who told us not to be hysterical about donald trump and they re telling us stop being so hysterical about a national abortion ban orbans on contraceptives. oh, i m going to be hysterical and i hope we all will. i m going to be absolutely hysterical because they will do whatever they can. i really love the fact that lying liar brett kavanaugh who tlied get his supreme court seat poor susan collins told us, oh, no, we re not coming after contraception, gay marriage.
fast. as you mentioned, they are about to get worse for maybe our lifetime considering the age of these justices on the court now. you go to kavanaugh, this is somebody whose memorable quote is what goes around comes around and that i like beer and he essentially was threatening he is saying i am going to politicize this court. alito said, no, we are a court that has desired outcomes. we re going to rule almost always in favor of conservative christian. they re 83%. whatever conservative christians want, not religion, conservative christians. i haven t seen them do that for any other religion. just they re down the line for corporations, for wealthy people. they re pretty doctrineaire. the brazenness is what i m talking about, they re an
evangelical group. i think bush v. gore unleashed that. do you? i do. they ve had a series of strategic plans that have gotten them to this point. they ve also gotten lucky in terms of both deaths and retirements on the supreme court. the fact that so many conservatives galvanized and there was no punishment for mitch mcconnell or donald trump. it helped donald trump. his seat was left over despite so many norms. the things that govern the supreme court were soft norms, politeness. there were enough republican appointees that were willing to follow the rules and believe in the institution of the court. there was nothing holding them except for some measure of accountability. the win he wins in 2016, that gives us gorsuch, gives us kavanaugh. wow, listening to clarence thomas talk about his feelings of vengeance. yeah.
independence from the republican party, particularly when the trump administration got really sloppy on certain issues. and that allowed people to still think that and decisions like over gaffell, kennedy joining liberals. some abortion rights opinions that weren t as bad as they could have been. for a while there was a sort of treading water. i think you re right to place it at bush v. gore. clarence thomas when he joined the supreme court, he was the minority ideologically. i think bush v. gore put them on a path for clarence thomas to be the intellectual vanguard leading the way. justice kavanaugh is the medium. when justice ginsberg disseptembered in bush v. gore, a lot was made of her saying i dissent instead of i