Rick Wilson

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431 appearances 6 recordings 5 series first heard Feb 2025 last heard 8 Apr

Rick Wilson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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So on that hand, I think any Supreme Court was going to go, come on, we can't do it this way.

This is against the black letter law of the Constitution.

However, this Supreme Court has bent itself in pretzels for a decade now to accommodate Donald Trump.

So I – unfortunately, my gut tells me we're going to end up with some kind of Solomonic split-the-baby BS.

where Trump, they'll say he's wrong, but that the emergency declarations in this particular case are right.

That's where I'm going to guess they go, because they do not operate as an independent judiciary.

They operate as a law firm for the president right now.

I mean, if you go through at the end of the day – and look, Citizens United was a –

Well, the McCain-Feingold campaign finance move ended up being a trap.

They were right to want more transparency and accountability.

The trap was once you got to the Supreme Court,

you get Citizens United, which has F'd our politics top to bottom.

And I live in that world.

You live in that world.

We all understand how campaigns are run on money.

They do not happen for free, unfortunately.

They're not just mom and dad in the barn putting up hand-painted signs.

The problem is, and you're right, Amy, Citizens United, United States versus Trump,

Dred Scott and Korematsu were probably the four worst cases in American Supreme Court history.

There are a few more, but those decisions are decisions that either had to be unwound

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