“America’s Next Top MAGA.”
Republicans compete to out-crazy each other over Lauren Boebert and vaccine requirements, Law Professor Leah Litman joins to talk about the Supreme Court case that may overturn Roe v. Wade, and Dr. Mehmet Oz shakes up the 2022 midterms by carpetbagging his way into the Pennsylvania Senate race.
- Duration
- 58m
- Broadcast on
- 02 Dec 2021
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- other
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The Supreme Court has had a busy summer loosening gun restrictions in states, overturning Roe vs. Wade, and severely threatening our Miranda rights. I'm Leah Litman, and each week on Strix scrutiny, I'm joined by my co-hosts and fellow law professors, Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw, to break down the latest headlines and the biggest legal questions facing our country. It's more important than ever to understand the repercussions of these Supreme Court decisions and what we can do to fight back in the upcoming midterm elections. Listen to new episodes of Strix scrutiny every Monday wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to Potsay of America, I'm John Favreau. I'm Dan Pfeiffer. On today's show, Democrats try to govern while Republicans fight each other over Lauren Boebert and vaccine requirements. Law Professor Leah Litman joins to talk about the Supreme Court case that may end Roe vs. Wade as we know it, and Dr. Mement Oz shakes up the 2022 midterms by carpetbagging his way into the Pennsylvania Senate race. But first, if you're in the market for a quick, smart, hilariously written rundown of the news every night, subscribe to Cricut's What A Day newsletter at Cricut.com/newsletters. And if you're bingeing movies, television and comic books over your holiday break, then don't miss out on new episodes of X-ray Vision with Jason Concepcion. This month, Jason will revisit the Spider-Man franchise ahead of the release of the much buzzed about Spider-Man No Way Home. You can catch episodes of X-ray Vision every Friday wherever you get your podcasts. All right, let's get to the news. We talked on Tuesday's pod about what President Biden and Democrats in Congress are focused on right now, avoiding a government shutdown and a catastrophic default, passing an economic plan that would lower costs for most people, and bringing an end to the pandemic, which Joe Biden just gave his speech about this morning, talked about providing more cheap at-home testing, more vaccinations, more boosters, etc. But today, we thought we'd check in on what Republicans are up to, which is doing their best to fuck this all up and fight culture wars so they can win the midterms. To it, House Republicans are fighting with each other over what to do about Congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggesting that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is a terrorist because she's Muslim and Senate Republicans are fighting with each other over whether to shut down the government unless Joe Biden stops trying to get people vaccinated. Let's start with Boebert's hateful garbage and Congresswoman Omar's response. Here's a clip. But the most pervasive is the constant suggestion that all Muslims are terrorists and should be feared. So when a sitting member of Congress calls a colleague member of the Jihad Squad and falsely and falsifies a story to suggest that I will blow up the Capitol, it is not just attack on me, but on millions of American Muslims across this country. So that was the first clip was, of course, from a fundraiser that Boebert had attended in September. She's also reportedly said it a few other times. This is something she enjoys saying because she's fucking nuts and an awful person. Republicans Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar have both been kicked off all House committees for promoting violence against Democrats. You think the same thing should happen to Boebert here? I think we should just start out by saying how dangerous this rhetoric is, right? The Republican Party is a political party that is normalized violence as a legitimate political solution. That's what happened in the Capitol in January. That is what happened when and we know, I don't say and we know that people take the words from the Republican politicians and right-wing media figures and act on them. It's what happened in Texas where someone took an assault rifle to a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood because they were afraid of replacement theory, something that a number of Republicans, including, but primarily Tucker Carlson, talk about. We saw that with the pipe bombs that a Trump supporter mailed to a group of people who also happened to be the exact same group of people that including reporters that Donald Trump attacks all the time. This is dangerous and this is putting someone at risk and not just Ilhan Omar, every Muslim, right? This idea that issue points out that a Muslim is a terrorist is very, very dangerous and has gotten many people already hurt and killed in this country. I think the question about the committees is complex. I don't think the Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats have any option other than to
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Republicans compete to out-crazy each other over Lauren Boebert and vaccine requirements, Law Professor Leah Litman joins to talk about the Supreme Court case that may overturn Roe v. Wade, and Dr. Mehmet Oz shakes up the 2022 midterms by carpetbagging his way into the Pennsylvania Senate race.