Supreme Court Tuesday & The Irish Oscars - Irishman In America with Marion McKeone

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🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Super Tuesday was anything but super. Marion McKeone reflects on the most pedestrian Grand National of all time. Can this Donkey Derby between two candidates nobody seems to want change? But wait, doesn’t one of the candidates owe a half a billion dollars? The Supreme Court seems very happy to assist him in stalling but surely the bond will have to be paid. Their ruling over Colorado, where is Ron DeSantis, IVF in Alabama and is there such a thing as political fitness? There’s so much to cover this week. That’s why we give you a double size episode each week for our members. Visit www.patreon.com/irishmanabroad to access everything including big interviews with people like Mary Robinson, Gabriel Byrne, Bob Geldof and Imelda May.

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0:00.0	My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be President of the United States, I could be, I could be vice president.
0:06.9	Former Vice President Joe Biden has been elected president of the United States.
0:13.1	It is my greatest honor and privilege to have been your president.
0:17.1	We will be back in some form.
0:19.3	We are still deeply divided.
0:24.6	Public health experts warned this was coming unless more was done, and here we are now. Are you proud of what happened here today?
0:26.6	Absolutely.
0:27.6	Never before in American history, has there been an uprising like this?
0:31.6	Of the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump, I don't know how many today are feeling,
0:38.2	dear God, what was I thinking? But I would wager a lot more our thinking, let's carry on this
0:43.5	fight. Character matters. It matters. Tell them the truth matters. The 21st century is going to be
0:50.4	the American century, because we lead not only by the example of our power but by the power
0:58.6	of our example. That is the history of the journey of America. The Supreme Court issued a unanimous
1:05.5	decision that the big orange lad cannot be kicked off the ballot by the state of Colorado and so ends the biggest
1:12.8	waste of time since Nikki Haley decided to continue her campaign. Marion McKeown, states can't
1:19.4	unilaterally decide to kick a presidential candidate off the ballot. That seems fair enough.
1:24.7	What the hell was the point of all this other than giving Donald
1:29.7	Trump a shitload of free publicity? Well, you know, I am going to disagree with you here,
1:37.1	Jarlet, because this was not clear. Now, the legal scholars and legal experts and people who have an awful lot more expertise than me are still disagreeing about this ferociously, about the Supreme Court's judgment in particular, particularly the five, four aspect of which we'll get to. But in that, if you look at what the Constitution says, it says, you know, basically, if you're
2:02.1	an insurrectionist, take a hike, don't think you're going to take a, you know, get back
2:06.8	into office, don't think if you took the oath to uphold, you know, et cetera, et cetera,
2:10.7	and then you become an insurrectionist, don't think you can come back.
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