45- SCOTUS without RBG

What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law

Roman Mars

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🗓️ 26 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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On September 18th, Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at the age of 87. She was a trailblazing jurist who fought for the equality of women before the law. But her legacy is in peril, as Donald Trump and Senate Republicans prepare to nominate a conservative successor. What can Democrats do to alter the course of the SCOTUS? And what does the constitution tell us about so-called ‘judicial supremacy’?

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0:00.0	So Roman, in your life experience, what happens when a president loses the election?
0:05.8	They stop being president.
0:08.2	They stop being president and what happens in January.
0:10.5	A new president gets inaugurated and it's people show up.
0:14.4	They're people cheering.
0:15.6	It happens.
0:16.6	It's a thing.
0:17.6	Exactly.
0:18.6	And the scaffolding underlying all of this is that we assume that there's going to be a peaceful
0:22.8	transfer of power from the loser to the winner.
0:26.9	So the problem here is, of course, that Trump has said just this week, he was asked at
0:32.0	a press conference, would he commit right now to a peaceful transfer of power if he were
0:37.8	to lose?
0:39.5	What the president said on this was pretty worrisome too, because I didn't hear him specifically
0:45.0	state that he wants to see a quote, peaceful transfer of power.
0:49.3	What did you hear?
0:50.3	Well, the same thing.
0:51.3	I mean, he was asked twice about it.
0:52.7	He said he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
0:55.5	Obviously, transfer implies that Joe Biden would win.
0:59.4	And his answer was, we're going to have to see what happens.
1:04.1	So not surprisingly, he says, well, we're going to have to see what happens.
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