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Be in this predicament today. maybe there are no more answers. no reason to keep digging up the pass. just leave it rooted right where it is, and let the spanish moss group. that s all for this edition of dateline . i m craig melvin. thank you for watching. welcome to the show, i m mehdi hassan. all but 17 white men. there has never been a black woman on the highest court in the land. on thursday at noon, that changed. i do solemnly swear that i will administer justice without respect to person s and do ....
Justices, but rebalancing the court after donald trump, mitch mcconnell, packed it? i think because, they are talking about reality. reality is, you are not going to pack the supreme court. we have to be very practical. we need to talk about high in the sky things we would love to do, we have an 80% majority. but we cannot do that. you are not going to pack the supreme court, it will not happen. you have to understand that s frustrating to a lot of people. but it s frustrating to the very same people who should have made sure that we were putting people in place, voting for the last 20 years. and now they have a court, and we have people who are organized, and get out there. i do you think they re right. it would be a challenge, anything that congress does, is going to get challenged in a court of law. we have to make sure we do it. that does not mean that we don t do everything we can in the states, get the things we can take is state ....
Versus epa, explicitly limiting the powers of the environmental protection agency. but, it s not just the threat to the planet, that the supreme court now poses, it s the entire as you say, conservative revolution. the federal government s broader power of regulation. help unpack for us the full impact of this ruling? how will it affect other departments, other things the federal government wants to do? for many decades, when the kind of government rulersome regulation is legal, it looks at the text of law that congress passed. it says, well, is this authorized by the law? the congress enacted. and this decision, the court actually, kind, of abolishes that approach. creating a new doctrine that it calls, the major questions doctrine. it says, when there is some kind of government action or regulation, that involves a major question about the environment, about energy, about any kind of policy that ....
Help decide the next presidential election? or am i overstating this? you re not overstating this. this is one of the biggest and most frightening cases involving american democracy, the supreme court has heard in history. this has the potential to revolutionize the way that we conduct elections, by giving gerrymandered state legislatures absolute and untrimmed pulled authority overall election laws, including not just partisan gerrymandering in voting rights, but also the appointment of presidential electors in the electoral college. the supreme court could use this case to effectively legalize the coup attempt that trump made in 2020, by letting state legislatures throw out the popular vote in their state, and instead assign electors to the losing republican candidate. this is a horrific case. it s an absolute alarm for everyone who studies voting rights and democracy, and we should be very afraid of what the court will do with it. we should be afraid and we should be expecting o ....
Filibuster on abortion rights. it would be very important to do that. as we talked about, it is a slippery slope. because if we don t go out there and vote, we re gonna have a republican president and republican congress that will undo everything. here s my issue doug jones. when you say pie in the sky, i accept, it s not an easy thing to have be done. the republicans brought it down to eight for an entire year in 2016. i understand, it s not easy. it is an ambitious goal. if you are saying it can be done, the what s you are saying is supreme court can shootdown abortion, right shoot down gun rights, shootdown voting rights, allow gerrymandering, independent legislative theory that they plan to do later this year. shoot down the separation of church and state, and democrats can do nothing. you are saying there s nothing we can do, as that robe court overturns the president, and ....