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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | exclusive never before heard audio recordings of Justice Samuel Alito speaking to an undercover progressive activist. |
0:07.6 | That's what we have tonight. |
0:09.2 | That is in addition to the bombshell recordings that were released yesterday and you will |
0:13.1 | definitely want to hear these recordings when we play them. If you've been |
0:17.7 | wondering how those secret tapes were made in the very first place, how |
0:21.1 | activists and judges on the highest court in this land, how |
0:25.9 | they came to mingle behind closed doors? Well the answer to that begins almost 10 |
0:31.3 | years ago to this day when the Supreme Court handed down a |
0:35.0 | major decision. |
0:37.7 | Supporters of the Hobby Lobby cheered today's victory. The Oklahoma family that owns the chain of 500 craft |
0:46.4 | stores claimed that providing insurance coverage for some forms of |
0:49.7 | contraceptives under Obamacare would be the equivalent of paying for abortion. |
0:54.4 | The court's dissenters called the ruling startling and said it will allow companies to |
0:58.2 | opt out of any law they judge incompatible with their sincerely held religious beliefs. |
1:04.5 | The Hobby Lobby decision. |
1:06.4 | The majority opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was written by Justice Samuel |
1:10.3 | Alito, and it was one of the first signs that conservatives on this court were willing |
1:14.3 | to go after reproductive freedoms no matter the consequence. |
1:18.8 | Now in the wake of the Dobbs decision 10 years later, Hobby Lobby seems sort of like the canary and the coal mine in more |
1:25.0 | ways than one. |
1:26.8 | In November of 2022, the New York Times offered key reporting about how the Hobby Lobby |
1:32.0 | decision came to be. |
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