Liberals Don't Care About the Threats to Conservative Justices

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🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Today's podcast notes that all the talk of the Supreme Court now being illegitimate because of the expected overturning of Roe v. Wade has triggered defensive actions to ensure the safety of the justices. Where's the outrage? Why aren't liberals more exercised by this? Why, in fact, are some of them actually tickled? Also: Who benefits from the leak of information about American intelligence being used in Ukraine? And how dare the Museum of Jewish Heritage refuse to allow the rental of its facility for an event at which Ron DeSantis will speak? Give a listen.

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0:00.0	music
0:24.0	Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Friday, May 6, 2022. I'm John
0:29.2	Paul Horitz the editor of commentary with me is always executive editor a
0:33.4	brainwalt high a John senior writer Christine Rosen high Christine and
0:38.7	associate editor Noah Rothman high Noah hi John so we got we got a couple of
0:44.8	things we want to get to Christine you are feeling exercised by once again the
0:55.0	issue is what what the media stress what what it is that they focus their
1:01.9	iron or their attention on what becomes the prevailing story of the day what
1:06.7	is the how how in the case of a gigantic matter like the coming apparent
1:14.8	overturn of roe v. Wade what they choose to focus on and something
1:23.9	unprecedented seems to be happening in relation to the justices in the Supreme
1:28.6	Court and it is not being given the kind of relentless attention that you
1:36.0	think that it should yes so I'm all wound up about a couple specific things the
1:40.4	first and most important is the fact that the threats against the conservative
1:44.6	justices are likely to have escalated and we don't know any you know we
1:48.6	didn't have no official release of that but we do know that pro abortion
1:52.3	activists have been posting the home addresses of some of the conservative
1:55.3	justices online and they non scalable fencing was put up around the court
2:00.7	some concrete barriers they've they've clearly increased the physical security
2:04.0	barriers around the court they don't do that unless there are credible
2:08.5	threats to the safety of the people inside the court so that's pretty
2:12.8	unprecedented that hasn't happened in a while and what's really struck me is
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