So they will talk for a while and then open it up to questions so feel free to put them in the chat room and at some point we will start taking the questions to the chat. Taken away. It does sound my take an inside job. [laughter] i thank you all for coming on a friday night and as i said earlier this is for policy nerds hope to have a drink with you and we spent hours talking about this wonderful book i want to say red line in the sand was great i once read a book called line in the sand you are correspondent for the New York Times and cbs so you have seen the is redlines so ill start with the most basic question of all right we call it the red line . A red line in the sand it goes back to the new testament when jesus was brought by the pharisees as the adulterous and to draw a line and one in the sand and said whoever steps across the line cast the first stone. Who dares to do that . Know when did. That is the line in the sand. That is much more recent in the crimean war. I will give
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Couples. The Supreme Court has until june of next year, to issue a ruling in the case. Fulton versus city of philadelphia. The honorable, chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oye, oye. All persons having business before the honorable, Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to get their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and its honorable court. We will hear argument this morning in case number 19120 three, fulton versus city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court, the courts below made a civil error. They failed to understand where a simple error. Date fail to understand where smith controls and where does not. Aith does not control where government uses individual exemptions or makes other exceptions that undermine rules or when it changes rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three errors here. The city cannot identify a neutral, generall
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see ma sorts of thnology platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. Im am
Over the counting of mailin ballots continues. The Supreme Court is allowing pennsylvania and North Carolina for now to count ballots received after election day, but the high court could still hear the pennsylvania case after the election and it could decide who wins the presidey. Nc we will speak to mother jones ari berman. Then we look at big techs role in the election as Senate Republicans accuse social Media Companies of favoring democrats. But is that true . If anything,e see many sorts of Technology Platforms throughout the past four years supporting the trump agenda and a conservative agenda. Millions plunged into pandemic poverty, the senate has adjourned before passing another stimulus bill. We will look at the spike in hunger across United States. These families are basically living like on a ticking time bomb when this starts up again, how theyre going to pay their rent. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the quarantine report. I