CORRUPT Supreme Court AWFUL SECRETS Get EXPOSED

The Supreme Court “mess” how we got here, and how we can fix it: Here are two excerpts from a conversation between Lisa Graves and Fred Wellman* as another Meidas Touch video makes the transcript project here at City of Angels Blog. 

First Excerpt:

"That's the language of the Constitution, no establishment of a religion and no religious test for office. But..."

TRANSCRIPT:

There are a number of people who believe the Constitution says things

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Like that we should have prayer in public schools or something, like when in fact the Constitution- if you were an in a constitutionalist- if you were someone who really believed in original intent or just the plain language, the Constitution expressly forbids a religious test for office. Like I'm not making that up. That's not some liberal fantasy progressive thing. Or that's neutral. That is the longstanding commitment of our Constitution that we will not have an establishment of

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Religion. That's the language of the Constitution, no establishment of a religion and no religious test for office. But many people in Missouri and other places Louisiana Oklahoma somehow believe that the constitution is is the Bible or something. Like this is a whole other topic aside from our Supreme Court, which has which has eroded this wall between sech Church State deliberately as well, along with other decisions of these past two years. But this is fiction. The Constitution expressly forbids establishment of

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Religion and expressly forbids religious test for office. But we have now a growing group of people who think, No. In fact Michael Flynn is one of them who has suggested that this this is a Christian Nation and it should be a Christian Nation under one God. Those were his words and there are other people who believe that. Because powerful people like Flynn and and Trump say that. Saying it doesn't make it true but I think a lot of people have never read the Constitution. I personally

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Believe again in my opinion that Donald Trump has never actually read the Constitution. I would like be 100% shocked if he had read it.

F: yeah too long. 

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Second Excerpt

"This court is not acting like a court that's merely resolving disputes in a fair and even-handed way. It's handpicking the cases that it wants to change our rights on, and rolling back our rights... part of the same funding machine that put those justices in place"

This Supreme Court only has to

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Take a few cases as a mandatory course. So like if a state sues another state over water or something, right, the court has to take that case. But almost all of its cases it doesn't have to take. It has more than 8,000 petitions every year. And it and it has been choosing about 60 to 70 handpicking those those cases that it wants to change the law in. So you have this faction now that dominates the court that is literally saying this is the year we're going to destroy the power of executive branch agencies to issue regulations or to have those regulations get deference by judges.

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This is the year we're going to change the rules. So that for decades the SEC in regulating fraud in the market on the stock market and publicly traded companies. They can't use administrative law Judges. This is the year. And each year they're choosing these different policy issues, public policy issues, in order to rewrite the law. This court is not acting like a court that's merely resolving disputes in a fair and even-handed way it's

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Handpicking the cases that it wants to change our rights on, and rolling back our rights. And it's doing so with the help of these groups, many of which also are part of the same funding machine that put those justices in place. But those groups are filing cases or working with allies in those states to either bring radical cases basically, like the suits that have gone through to enact radical laws in the hope that this court will

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Rule in their favor it's just- it is it is heartbreak. I mean I I I struggle for words. 

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Watch Video in full https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLK9mWhx_0&t=702s

* Graves hosts Grave Injustice podcast, which explains key cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court and Wellman produces  On Democracy with FPWellman. Graves is also Executive Director of True North Research, a national investigative watchdog group that works to shine a light on dark money.

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Posted by Kay Ebeling