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The “Debate,” SCOTUS & the Constitutional Bind
Episode 208 uploaded June 30: Sam Goldman recaps the events of this past week including the totally
illegitimate “debate” debacle between Trump and Biden, plus the slew of
despotic rulings from the Trump’s un-elected “Supreme” Court.
Sam interviews legal scholar and author Aziz Rana to take a deeper look
at U.S. Constitution and its veneration to understand how it has
supported the rise and preservation of Trump. He currently serves as
Provost’s Distinguished Fellow and J. Donald Monan, S.J., University
Professor of Law and Government at Boston College Law School,
specializing in American constitutional law.
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Aziz Rana: There's a growing recognition that the constitutional system, the rules governing political and legal decision making in the US, really promote various kinds of anti-democratic flaws. All of those anti democratic features are coming back with a vengeance as central elements that are causing all these problems. The Constitution became an alibi for a growing discretionary security state apparatus that has produced various types of violence that are deeply troubling. You can see both of those in a way, paired in somebody like Trump, who embodies both the flourishing of a politics that's ethno-national, suspicious of democracy, and that wants to use and embrace some of the discretionary tools of the presidency of belligerent militarist nationalism on behalf of his own destructive ends.
Sam Goldman: Here's some questions to ask: Why is this happening? What does this mean? What role are we playing, and what is needed to change this dynamic? For anybody who wants to know why this is happening, what is actually happening, what this is a part of; for anyone who needs to understand the Hitlerian playbook that Trump's pulling from and the lessons we learned from the Weimar and Vichy governments; anyone that needs to know the powerful forces that are shaping this moment in history, connect those people to this podcast ... use this show, this episode, and every other as a tool to propel discussion and action. Look at what people do all around the world when faced with tyrants, and don't wait till the last possible moment when we can no longer act.
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