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Lisa Graves has graciously agreed to join us again today to help us wade through this ultimate travesty of justice by the high court that is no longer “supreme”. Extreme is more fitting.Lisa Graves has unimpeachable legal bona-fides. Among other positions during her career, she served under two US Attorneys General — Janet Reno during…
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The six Extreme Court injustices completed their task from the Federalist Society to kill our democracy. And no, that’s not hyperbole. The month of July begins with such a travesty to close out the court’s session.I spent most of the first half-hour reading from Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissents. PLEASE read…
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It’s time for our weekly get-together info download with Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net. And it’s another week ending with out disbelief over what’s happening in our corner of the world…. After last night’s debate and this morning’s group of SCOTUS rulings, I can’t help but envy Marcy’s living in Ireland. Today, we try to make…
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What a day! The Extreme Supremes this morning handed down four more decisions out of the dozen or so still tba… and then signaled that they will not get it all done by the official end of the term tomorrow. There will be at least one more decision day in July. We’ll know more about…
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With the Extreme Court allegedly poised to hand down the final decisions for this term over the next two days, we’re joined again by the Nicole Sandler Show’s unofficial legal expert Lisa Graves. I had hoped that this morning’s announcements would include more than the two they trickled out… and in a sense it did….
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Yesterday, the HEALTH CARE un-covered Newsletter arrived in my inbox, sporting the headline “Fifteen Years Ago Today I Became a Whistleblower”. It was from Wendell Potter who remains a hero to all of us in the US, whether you know it or not. I was fortunate to first interview Wendell on Air America Radio in…
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After a rebound infection with COVID over the weekend (I’m not kidding), I’m almost feeling human today. The icing on the cake was a negative test this morning! Yippee!! So I’m back, trying to catch up on all that happened while I was delirious. One thing that did happen was TFG rambling like the demented…
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Marcy Wheeler is on holiday and I’m still on the mend from a nasty case of Covid, but we managed a fascinating hour of conversation about everything from Hunter Biden’s trials to Aileen Cannon’s and the Supreme Court’s assaults on democracy and lots in between. Read Marcy at emptywheel.net, and hear her at the end…
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I’m back today, hopefully my voice will hold up for the hour.I’m no longer testing positive for Covid, so I’ve got that going for me. Any my brain isn’t as foggy as its been, so there’s that too… But much news has transpired in the week and a half I’ve been gone, and I can’t…
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I’m slowly emerging from the Covid fog, but still have a way to go before I’m feeling fine. So today, I’ll test the waters with a short live segment. Then I’ll fill the rest of the hour with the conversation I had with Heather Cox Richardson upon the release of her book, DEMOCRACY AWAKENING: NOTES…
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