1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,680 Speaker 1: Supreme Court fronts and center. Yeah, President Biden doing what 2 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:05,600 Speaker 1: he is held back from doing for a while. Now 3 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:08,039 Speaker 1: he is ripping into the Supreme Court. Hearth court in 4 00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: this country, says Biden. 5 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 2: Supreme Court has never been as out of kilder as 6 00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 2: it is today. Well. 7 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:17,960 Speaker 1: Biden was appearing at a star studded Hollywood fundraiser last 8 00:00:18,040 --> 00:00:21,280 Speaker 1: night alongside and former President Obama. Also at this scene 9 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: was Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel, who served as MC, 10 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: and several alist actors, among them George Clooney, Julie Roberts, 11 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: Barbra Streisen, and so on. At this event, they raised 12 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:33,600 Speaker 1: close to fifty million dollars in New Zealand equivalent. Biden 13 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: predicted that the next president, whoever, is likely to have 14 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,400 Speaker 1: two more Supreme Court picks. Former President Trump already has 15 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:44,120 Speaker 1: three nominees on the Court as part of the six 16 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:48,600 Speaker 1: to three conservative majority currently. If Trump gets in, says Biden, 17 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: he's going to a point maybe two more justices flying 18 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:55,200 Speaker 1: flags upside down. That's his reference to Justice Samuel Alito, 19 00:00:55,240 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 1: who blamed his wife, you recall, for flying an upside 20 00:00:57,960 --> 00:01:00,720 Speaker 1: down flag at his place in what he said was 21 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,840 Speaker 1: a dispute with neighbors, only to have another flag used 22 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:07,119 Speaker 1: by the Capitol Hill rioters seen at the Elitos other place, 23 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: their holiday home elsewhere. So they're big on political flag cling. 24 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:15,080 Speaker 1: This comes after the Trump bolsted Supreme Court overturned abortion 25 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: rights with Row v. Way, and this past weekend issued 26 00:01:18,640 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: something the New York Times Editorial board cause quote one 27 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:25,200 Speaker 1: of the most astonishingly dangerous decisions ever issued by the court, 28 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,560 Speaker 1: end quote, and a decision that quote will prove fatal. 29 00:01:28,959 --> 00:01:32,000 Speaker 1: They overturned the Trump ban on bump stocks, the devices 30 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,639 Speaker 1: that can turn a semi automatic weapon into a virtual 31 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,840 Speaker 1: machine gun. They say practiced users can fire maybe one 32 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,200 Speaker 1: hundred and eighty rounds per minute with an AR fifteen 33 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 1: most commonly used weapon in the routine mass murders here. 34 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 1: We see those stories every second day. The bump stock 35 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: lets them boost that number of shots permitted to as 36 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 1: much as eight hundred. That's what we saw in the 37 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 1: twenty seventeen Las Vegas shooting, where a fellow opened fire 38 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 1: on the crowd at a country music festival. And here's 39 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: just a little reminder of how when yeah, this was 40 00:02:14,520 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: this was a massacre, one person killing sixty other people 41 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,880 Speaker 1: directly wouning four hundred and thirteen and leading in the 42 00:02:19,880 --> 00:02:22,880 Speaker 1: panic to some eight hundred and sixty seven injuries. Even 43 00:02:22,919 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: Trump reacted, but not so Justice Clarence Thomas on the 44 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: Supreme Court, who argues that the eighty dollars bump stock 45 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:32,400 Speaker 1: does not fit the precise definition of a machine gun 46 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 1: or associated device, since it uses the gun's recoil to 47 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:40,400 Speaker 1: increase speed of fire in descent. Justice Sonya Soto Mayor 48 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: voiced her astonishment, writing quote, when I see a bird 49 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:45,799 Speaker 1: that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and 50 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:47,639 Speaker 1: quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. 51 00:02:47,680 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: The bumpstock, she says, turns weapons into machine guns. Clarence 52 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:54,480 Speaker 1: Thomas did not agree. Thomas, of course, is the justice 53 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: caught out by the media for taking luxury trips worth 54 00:02:57,600 --> 00:03:00,280 Speaker 1: millions and millions of bucks paid for by billionaire real 55 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:05,400 Speaker 1: estate tycoon and Nazi memorabilia collector Harland Crow. That disclosure 56 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: forced Thomas to admit just the other day that he'd 57 00:03:07,440 --> 00:03:10,400 Speaker 1: taken such previies, made a list of them, taking them 58 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:12,800 Speaker 1: from someone who well might have cases of interest before 59 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:15,040 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. He listed the trips last week, then 60 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: pro publica said, hey, you know there's three other private 61 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 1: jet trips you didn't bother dimension. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy says, 62 00:03:21,600 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 1: of this. 63 00:03:21,919 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 2: Well, Justice Stimus is engaged in is just a grift. Right, 64 00:03:25,120 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 2: He's got a major political player on the outside who 65 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 2: absolutely has political and business interests at the court. 66 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:35,119 Speaker 1: Meantime, back on the guns, there have been three more 67 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: mass shootings in the past twenty four hours Mike in Texas, 68 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 1: two dead, multiple injured, Massachusetts, seven youths shut up in 69 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: a car meet up at in Michigan where nine wounded, 70 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,840 Speaker 1: including two young children, at a shooting at a swimming 71 00:03:47,880 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: pool splash pad. That shooter fight as many as twenty 72 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:54,800 Speaker 1: eight times reloading, then killed himself. He was in his forties, 73 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: lived with his mum, and while police now say he 74 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 1: likely had some mental issues, he had loads of AMMO 75 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,680 Speaker 1: at an AR fifteen. They soult in the weapon anyway, 76 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:06,680 Speaker 1: despite anybody's concerns about anything. And now, of course, if 77 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: he were still alive, he'd be able to buy that 78 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: bump stock and fire eight hundred rounds per minute. Right 79 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:15,040 Speaker 1: might see Wednesday appreciate it very much. 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