"That's long gone. That can't be good. That's where the Republican party platform tells us to look, at how they want judges to rule to reverse Roe, to reverse the Obamacare cases and to reverse Obergefell and take away gay marriage. Carrie Severino made the hop. What followed state after state after state passed voter suppression laws. We have colleagues here who supported you, this nominee, before there was a nominee. Somebody deserves a thank you.So, let's go on to Roe v Wade. A behind-the-scenes look at how entrepreneur Daniel Ek and financial partner Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify and revolutionized the music industry. They're about power. Republican attorneys general. Here's Donors Trust, 23 $million to those brief writing groups. So that raises the question what are they getting for it? No idea who that is or what they got for it. In all these areas where it's about political power for big special interests and people who want to fund campaigns and people who want to get their way through politics without actually showing up, doing it behind Donors Trust and other groups, doing it through these schemes. So if you have a family member with an interest in some autonomy over their body under Roe versus Wade, the ability to have a marriage, have friends marry, have a niece or a daughter or a son marry someone of their same sex they have, you've got a stake.And if you're one of the millions and millions of Americans who depend on the Affordable Care Act, you've got a stake.It's not just the platform. Now 2020 Democrats are seizing on the issue. And in that case there were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven amicus briefs filed and every single one of them was a group funded by something called Donors Trust.Donors Trust is a gigantic identity scrubbing device for the right wing so that it says Donors Trust is the donor without whoever the real donor is. The Thom Hartmann Reader will make people both angry and motivated to act. The grand total across all the donor groups was 68 million dollars to the groups that were filing amicus briefs pretending that they were different groups. By Ben Kenigsberg. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that I made and I intend to ask some questions in that area. So something is not right. They bring cases to the court. Reversing Roe 2018 TV-14 1h 39m Political Documentaries Through interviews with abortion rights supporters and opponents, this film lifts the lid on a decades-long political campaign to overturn Roe … They win, everybody else loses and if you're looking at who might be behind this, let's talk about people with unlimited money to spend and a motive to do it we'll see how that goes.- next: knock the civil jury down. Here's a Bradley Foundation memo that they've published. Our leader said back when it was Garland versus Gorsuch that "of course, of course the American people should have a say in the court's direction, of course, of course", said Mitch McConnell.That's long gone.Senator Grassley said, "the American people shouldn't be denied a voice. What is the scheme here? Here's the page off the brief. . They just decided that that was a problem that was over. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s “Reversing Roe” is not a history of abortion itself, or a meditation on the morality of the procedure or the people who fight for and against it. But overall, racial disparities and their impact on communities were mentioned sparingly in the film; and while I enjoyed this documentary … They went on to say which foundations funded the brief writers in that CFPB case. Reversing Roe is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg.Through interviews, the film analyzes the abortion laws in the United States and the effects of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. You've got briefs that she wrote. It doesn't have a business, it doesn't have a business plan, it doesn't do anything, it's just an identity scrubber.And this group here the Bradley Foundation funded eight out of the 11 briefs. If he wanted to make a bias case, Dick Durbin is a hell of a good trial lawyer. The woman who helped choose this nominee has written briefs for Republican senators attacking the ACA. And they make decisions based on the law. Transcript: Sheldon Whitehouse at Senate nomination hearing for Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court - 13 October '20. That's where the contest is. Republican platform says it wants to reverse Obergefell and the Republican brief filed in the case said same-sex relationships don't fall within any constitutional provision. "Reversing Roe ," released on Netflix in September, charts the period leading up to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade and the pro-life opposition that has followed ever since. On so badly targeting African-Americans that two courts said it was surgically, surgically tailored to get after minority voters.And gerrymandering, the other great control. Over and over again, let's start by talking about the Affordable Care Act. Over and over again his White House counsel said so. Receive our daily rundown of news, show highlights and random musings. ... is go through with the people who are watching this now, the conversation that you and I had when we spoke on the telephone. Synopsis. She hopped in to take over for him with the Federalist Society. In the year that it went to work on the Affordable Care Act, 10 wealthy donors gave 10 million dollars. saw it and they did better work. Reversing Roe documents how the Religious Right became politicized over their conflicting desire to both maintain segregated schools and the different organizations’ tax-exempt status, and began using abortion as a rallying cry when they could no longer openly discriminate using racist tactics. And I thank my colleagues for hearing me out. Sept. 11, 2018; For those who found the discussion of … But it's annoying to big corporate powers because you can swagger your way as a big corporate power through Congress, you can go and tell the President you put money into to elect what to do. And in every single case that donor interest won. It's managed by a guy, was managed by a guy named Leonard Leo and it's taken over the selection of judicial nominees.How do we know that to be the case? Josh Brahm analyzes the documentary “Reversing Roe” and exposes the biased editing tricks and responds to the pro-choice arguments made. Well, I showed the slide earlier on the Affordable Care Act and on Obergefell and on Roe versus Wade. They don't wind their way to the court, your honor, they get shoved to the court by these legal groups, many of which ask to lose below so they can get quickly to the court to get their business done there.And then they turn up in a chorus, an orchestrated chorus of any key. A handsome secret agent and his team of LGBTQ superspies embark on extraordinary adventures. The Republican party platform says it will reverse Roe. If they wanted to make a bias case and they could show an 80-0 pattern, (a) that's admissible and (b) I'd love to make that argument to the jury. Let me start with this one.In all cases there's big anonymous money behind various lanes of activity. Why would we not comment on that and take you at your word? They also note that Bradley has done previous philanthropic investments in the actual underlying legal actions so Bradley is funding, what do they call it - philanthropically investing in - the underlying legal action and then giving money to groups to show up in the orchestrated chorus of amici. There are two schools of thought: either the right to abortion will be systemically hollowed out, leaving it a right on paper only, or Roe will be overturned. The legal groups, all the same funders over and over again, bringing the cases and providing this orchestrated chorus of amici. So we have an anonymously-funded group controlling judicial selection run by this guy Leonard Leo.Then in another lane we have again anonymous funders running through something called the Judicial Crisis Network which is run by Carrie Severino and it's doing PR and campaign ads for Republican judicial nominees. And what if, if you're a big polluter, what do you want? Best known for his work an editor on critically acclaimed films Middle of Nowhere (2012), Selma (2014) and for producing 2016 acclaimed documentary 13th for which he received Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations at 89th Academy Awards, that he shared with director Ava … ", "If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story. Don’t miss out again. Same thing.The President has said that reversing Roe v Wade will happen automatically because he's putting pro-life justices on the court. “Reversing Roe” is merely one documentary that will soon be lost in a myriad of films, articles, and speeches. And keeping them a secret is a full-time job. All five-four, all partisan, all this way. Here's the President talking about this litigation that we're gearing up this nominee for, for November 10th. Carrie Severino who also helped select this nominee running the Trump / Federalist Society selection process.So the connections abound. They're getting money from the same foundations; from Donors Trust 16.7 million dollars, from the Bradley Foundation 1.37 million dollars. On no record, with no basis, because it got them to the result that we then saw. So Leonard Leo writes back on Federalist Society address, so don't tell me that isn't Federal Society business, on Federalist Society on his address he writes back, "Yes, send it to the Judicial Education Project which could take and allocate the money. Mr Chairman, you figure in this. We use cookies (why?). And it's not just in the Consumer Financial Protection Board case. Transcript: A Justice for All ... Take the question of abortion and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision upholding a woman's right to choose. SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Reproductive rights are human rights. So, don't act surprised when we ask questions about whether that's what you're up to here.And finally, out in the ad world that you have spared yourself, wisely, Judge Barrett, the Susan B Anthony Foundation, is running advertisements right now saying that you are set, you are set to give our pro-life country the court that it deserves there is the ad with the voice over, "she's set, she's set".And then, Roe, Obamacare cases and Obergefell - gay marriage. This is what President Trump said. Showtimes. Netflix supports the Digital Advertising Alliance principles. You can't bribe them, you're not allowed to, it's a crime to tamper with the jury. With winter behind them, Bheem and his townspeople usher in a sunny new season in all their favorite ways during the Makar Sankranti festival. Here's how the Washington Post summed it up. He'll put your stooges at the EPA, it's all great until you get to the civil jury because they have an obligation, as you know, Judge Barrett. And then Roe, Obamacare cases, and Obergefell, gay marriage, National Organization for Marriage, the big group that opposes same sex marriage says in this proceeding, all our issues are at stake. Short List: Features. "That's long gone.And our chairman made his famous hold the tape promise "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term we'll wait till the next election. And Source Watch and Propublica did some work about this.Here's Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund and here's the Bradley Foundation and they totaled giving 45 million dollars to the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen groups that filed amicus briefs pretending to be different groups. As reproductive rights grow more embattled, award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Devil Came on Horseback) trace the legacy of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. And by the way, the Judicial Crisis Network funds the Republican attorneys general. What's behind us is now 80 cases, Mr. Chairman. Do the math. Netflix uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. The Koch Industries is a polluter, the fossil fuel industry is a polluter, who else would be putting buckets of money into this and wanting to hide who they are behind Donors Trust or other schemes? From the same group of foundations, total 33 million dollars.So you can start to look at these and you can start to tie them together. Senator Collins, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hoeven, Senator. Bulk gerrymandering where you go into a state like the REDMAP project did in Ohio and Pennsylvania and you pack Democrats so tightly into a few districts that all the others become Republican majority districts. You have said that's what you want to do.So how are people going about doing it? Citizens United is the famous one but it's continued sense with McCutcheon. He has dealt with a wide range of topics throughout his life, and this book provides an excellent cross section. Don't say the ACA's not an issue here. This is what your party platform says - reverse the Obamacare cases. Same thing. So when we say the stakes are high on this, it's because you've said the stakes are high on this. It's standard practice to tamper with Congress. Guess who jumped in to take over the selection process in this case, for Judge Barrett? The debate was moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. That's a little unusual.We have the political ram job that we have already complained of driving this process through at breakneck speed in the middle of a pandemic while the Senate is closed for safety reasons and while we're doing nothing about the COVID epidemic around us. I refer to that group as the Roberts Five. ", economist and author of Plunder and Blunder, False Profits, and Taking Economics Seriously, national radio commentator and author of Swim Against the Current, the American people should have a say in the court's direction, the American people shouldn't be denied a voice, If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term we'll wait till the next election, We want to terminate health care under Obamacare, I will vote only for nominees who acknowledge that Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided, which foundations funded the brief writers, Only public trials and humiliation can save the American experiment from the Trump/GOP coup attempt. This more and more looks like it's not three schemes but it's one scheme with the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, and then showing up in court in these orchestrated amicus flotillas to tell the judges what to do.On the Judicial Crisis Network you've got the Leonard Leo connection obviously. For employees of the Deep State, conspiracies aren't just theories — they're fact. A deep historical look at one of the most controversial issues of our time, highlighting the abortion debate from various points along the ideological … "Thom Hartmann is a creative thinker and committed small-d democrat. The Consumer Financial Protection Board. National Organization for Marriage, the big group that opposes same-sex marriage says in this proceeding, "all our issues are at stake". That seems weird to me when you have amicus briefs coming in little flotillas that are funded by the same groups but nominally separate in the court. Oct. 13, 2020 3:58 pm ... That's where the Republican party platform tells us to look, at how they want judges to rule to reverse Roe, to reverse the Obamacare cases and to reverse Obergefell and take away gay marriage. I've never seen this around any court that I've ever been involved with where there's this much dark money and this much influence being used. Full transcript of the first 2020 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. If you're used to being the boss and swaggering your way around the political side you don't want to be answerable before a jury and so one after another these eighty 5 to 4 decisions have knocked down, whittled away at, the civil jury, a great American institution.- third: first was unlimited dark money, second was demean and diminish the civil jury, third is weaken regulatory agencies. National Federation of Independent Businesses, until it filed the NFIB v. Sebelius case, had its biggest donation ever of twenty one thousand dollars. Ultimately, it does not care to pass moral or other judgment in either side’s views or positions, but to highlight what is at stake for both sides and how we got here. 45 years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. ... Wade is that President Trump has said he will only appoint justices who are committed to reversing Roe, and there's no reason not to believe him," she said. An 80 to zero sweep. Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. Whittle it down to a nub. "That's gone too.So there is a lot of hard to explain hypocrisy and rush taking place right now and my experience around politics is that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.Now, people may say, what does all this matter, this is a political parlor game, it's no big deal. It was an 80 to zero, five to four, partisan route, ransacking.And it's important to look at where those cases went, because they're not about big public issues like getting rid of the Affordable Care Act, undoing Roe versus Wade and undoing same-sex marriage. And then over here you have a whole array of legal groups also funded by dark money which have a different role. That's a really simple equation to run.The Republican brief in June Medical said Roe should be overruled. And we've got one coming up now. And it goes beyond just the briefs, it goes beyond just the amicus presentations. And if you look at those 80 decisions, they fall into four categories over and over and over again.- one: unlimited and dark money in politics. A new Netflix documentary, Reversing Roe, claims to provide an "illuminating look" at the state of abortion and women’s rights but features pro-choice women 13 … 80 cases under Chief Justice Roberts that have these characteristics:- one: they were decided five to four, by a bare majority- two: the five to four majority was partisan in the sense that not one democratic appointee joined the five. The Bradley Foundation is reviewing a grant application asking for money for this orchestrated amicus process and what do they say in the staff recommendation it is important to orchestrate - their word, not mine - important to orchestrate high caliber amicus efforts before the court. But since then, the court's composition has moved inexorably to the ideological right, with the court's three newest justices appointed by President Trump. It got 17 million, single 17 million dollar donation in the Garland/Gorsuch contest. Directed by Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg. And in those states you send a delegation to Congress that has a huge majority of Republican members like 13 to 5 as I recall in a state where the five, the party of the five, actually won the popular vote. Mitch McConnell and on through the list. A lot of this money, I'm convinced, is polluter money. Learn more or change your cookie preferences. REVERSING ROE. 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