Luke Thomas
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1,281 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Jun
Luke Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Because they will try, I am confident, to push Alito and Thomas off of the bench.
And if they have the votes in the Senate, they will try to put 30-something MAGA fanatic lawyers on the Supreme Court who will serve literally for generations.
And that will be, if it comes to pass, in some ways the most durable legacy.
of the Trump presidency.
When it comes to controversial Supreme Court nominees, every single vote in the Senate matters.
First of all, the Senate majority is in play, but even if it were not,
We would need to fight for every vote in the Senate to ensure that we can defeat the most offensive and extreme potential Supreme Court nominees who may have some difficulty peeling off some of the moderate Republicans.
It is very difficult for me to imagine in this political environment, given the crisis that the nation faces right now,
Democrats in the Senate feeling in a cooperative mood with respect to any Supreme Court nominees from this White House?
I think we have to step back and just acknowledge how catastrophically the Department of Justice has been politicized in a very short time.
How standards of independence that were long considered crucially important for presidents of both parties have been demolished.
I mean, the Department of Justice has a giant banner of the president standing.
hanging from it right now, like some totalitarian farce.
The DOJ is just going after his critics and adversaries and chosen targets.
Taking us back to the Fulton County raid, and if folks go back and they look at what Tulsi Gabbard said about why she was there and that the White House asked her directly to go, just think about the fact that the President of the United States is personally managing the staffing of
politically sensitive law enforcement raids on polling places or election facilities in the United States while DOJ brazenly and blatantly goes after his political adversaries while they wield prosecutorial power to try to intimidate the Fed chair to cut rates.
This is banana republic stuff and it has to be opposed every step of the way.
It is, and I think we have to take...
The authoritarianism seriously as a threat to the constitutional order and our civil liberties and our civil rights.
We also have to step back and recognize that it's all grossly incompetent and they're clowns.
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