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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to Woke at Daily with

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Speaker 1: me your girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our podstream

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Speaker 1: studios in Times Square. Folks, if there can be yet

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Speaker 1: another reason why we need an expansion of the Supreme Court, well,

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court gave it to us at the very

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Speaker 1: end of last week. So, in a stunning move, in

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Speaker 1: strike down Biden's e fiction moratorium extension. So let me

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Speaker 1: read this to you from USA today. The Supreme Court

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Speaker 1: rule that Joe Biden's extension of a coronavirus pandemic eviction

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Speaker 1: moratorium was unconstitutional last Thursday. The Court had already ruled

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Speaker 1: the moratorium, issued via the CDC in July twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: was unconstitutional without an Act of Congress that would pass

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Speaker 1: it into law. Biden's administration issued the extension while acknowledging

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Speaker 1: that its legal standing to do so was questionable at best.

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Speaker 1: The High Court's three liberal justice assented the conservative majority

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Speaker 1: opinion read this. It would be one thing if Congress

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Speaker 1: had specifically authorized the action that the CDC had taken,

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Speaker 1: but that has not happened. Instead, the CDC has imposed

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Speaker 1: a nationwide moratorium on evictions in reliance on a decade

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Speaker 1: old statute that authorizes its implement measures like fumigation and

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Speaker 1: pest extermination. It strains credutility to believe that the statute

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Speaker 1: There is sometimes when we have to recognize that laws

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Speaker 1: that sometimes they are just cruel and unusual. When I

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Speaker 1: see things like this Supreme Court decision that is going

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Speaker 1: We are overwrought with people who have lost their jobs

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Speaker 1: for children again. So think about what is going to

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Speaker 1: happen when tens of thousands of people now lose their homes. Right, So,

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Speaker 1: when I think about this Supreme Court decision, in them

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Speaker 1: saying that the CDC does not have legal standing, they

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Speaker 1: that America and American families are in right now. Right,

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Speaker 1: And when we think about what is legal versus what

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Speaker 1: is right, I remind you slavery was legal, the Holocaust

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Speaker 1: was legal, Apartheid was legal, colonization legal. All of these

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Speaker 1: things that have destroyed communities, our humanity, our morals, countries

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Speaker 1: all were legal. Right. And so when you talk to

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Speaker 1: they're not doing it from a place of legality. They're

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Speaker 1: doing it from a place of morals. Right. Who the

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Speaker 1: fuck would think that it is a great idea to

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Speaker 1: we had a moratorium on evictions, on mortgages, on remp

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Speaker 1: on all of these things, right, because people need help.

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Speaker 1: And what I recognize about Republicans is that they don't

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Speaker 1: to help the American people. They are the cruelest group

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Speaker 1: which I find so reprehensible. It's you know, where we are.

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Speaker 1: It is we're in like our apocalyptic present, right, We're

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Speaker 1: in our Orwellian present, right, We're in this space where

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Speaker 1: when we were talking about whether or not people should,

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Speaker 1: would just be an act of solidarity. It would be

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Speaker 1: so here's this story, folks that if this doesn't make

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Speaker 1: A Wisconsin school district has decided that they are going

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Speaker 1: and this is what these people in Wakeisha School District

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Speaker 1: that is beyond heartbreaking, folks, And what is it? A

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Speaker 1: guess what, that well meaning teacher who wanted to show

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Speaker 1: one of De Satan's constituents that he has killed. This man,

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Speaker 1: this party has blood on their hands, and instead of

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Speaker 1: the latest legal nonsense and criminal web that Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: legal leads that is happening across this country, particularly around

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Speaker 1: our wayward twice impeached ex president who continues on his

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Speaker 1: So the inspector General for the Department of Justice one

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Speaker 1: at the May seventeen letter giving me my jurisdictional marching orders.

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