Deadlocked: How America Shaped the Supreme Court | show | 2023 | Official Trailer | dHNfTTNXVzdyQkVsYXc
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00:00 [bell ringing]
00:02 The only power the Supreme Court has is its legitimacy.
00:06 [crowd chanting]
00:10 [dramatic music]
00:12 And if it loses that, well, then the question becomes,
00:15 why obey?
00:18 The objective of the court was to use the Constitution
00:23 as an engine of social change.
00:26 But there are lots of people who want to stop that.
00:28 [dramatic music]
00:30 The only thing that has changed is the membership of the court.
00:33 We have rolled back the clock to 1965.
00:37 I am putting pro-life justices on the court.
00:42 This term is the court checking off
00:44 the conservative to-do list.
00:46 Abortion, check.
00:47 Administrative state, check.
00:48 Religious freedom, check.
00:51 It's really not a conservative court.
00:53 It's a quite radical court.
00:55 It's not just the liberals who are dissented.
00:57 That is bad for the court, bad for the country.
01:00 [dramatic music]
01:03 Etched in the frontage of the Supreme Court,
01:06 equal justice under law,
01:08 it's not just a statement of fact.
01:11 It's a demand.
01:13 [dramatic music]
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01:19 [thunder rumbling]
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01:26 [BLANK_AUDIO]