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Lectures, interviews, and talks by David Graeber — anthropologist, anarchist, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything.
Good evening. Judge Amy Coney Barrett gets the kid glove treatment in the Senate as she refuses to say she'll recuse herself if the election goes to the Supreme Court. A statue of Abe Lincoln gets pulled down in Portland. Is it time to reevaluate the…
…potential bank tax and insurance fraud as well as falsification of business records. And on Capitol Hill, Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett insisting she would bring no personal agenda to the court but would decide cases as they come. declined to say…
…cases involving Trump, who nominated her to fill the seat of late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Trump is pushing to have Barrett confirmed before the November 3rd election. Excited by the prospect of a conservative judge aligned with the late Antonin Scalia,…
…rushing ahead to install a 6-3 conservative court majority for years to come. But Rhode Island Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse says Barrett is a stalking horse for billionaire donors to dark money funds. They are aimed at environmental deregulation and political…
…at them. There are 40 images of the Ten Commandments on the bronze gates on both sides of the courtroom. And then, Judge Barrett, when you're sitting at the bench, above your left shoulder will be a frieze you know well, a frieze carved into the wall…
…public acknowledgements. It also extends to religious liberty. And that's Ted Cruz earlier today. Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar questioned Barrett closely on her commitment to Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion. Is Roe a super precedent? How…
…Marbury v. Madison and Brown v. the Board that no one questions anymore. Minnesota Democrat Amy Klobuchar questioning Amy Coney Barrett earlier today. Democrats stayed far from criticizing Barrett's conservative Catholic faith, but a former Catholic priest and…