How Democrats Should Fight Trump's Supreme Court Pick

>>NEIL GORSUCH UP FOR HEARINGS TODAY TO BE A SUPREME COURT
NOMINEE, REPUBLICANS BLOCKED
MERRICK GARLAND FOR A RECORD 293 DAYS, THAT IS MORE THAN TWICE AS
LONG AS ANY PREVIOUS RECORD FOR HOW LONG THE SUPREME COURT
NOMINEE HAS BEEN BLOCKED, THEY BLOCKED HIM WITHOUT ANY
CONSIDERATION AS TO HIS MERITS, THEY REFUSED TO HAVE A HEARING,
BUT HERE WE ARE, THEY ARE IN CHARGE SO THEY ARE HAVING A
HEARING ON GORSUCH, DEMOCRATS OF COURSE SHOULD FIGHT BACK WITH
EVERYTHING THEY'VE GOT, WE HAVEN'T SEEN IT, AND WHEN ASKED
DIANNE FEINSTEIN SAID SHE'S NOT SURE WHAT HER STRATEGY IS, BUT
SHE'S HOPING FOR QUOTE UNQUOTE
GOOD QUESTIONS.
WE ARE ALL HOPING FOR THAT, AREN'T WE?
YOU
SHOULD SIGN ANY AND EVERY
PETITION FIGHTING AGAINST GORSUCH INCLUDING ONE PUT
TOGETHER BY A LOT OF ACTIVIST GROUPS INCLUDING US, WE MUST
STOP TRUMP FROM TAKING OVER
SUPREME COURT.
I AGREE WITH THAT AND I THINK IT IS IMPERATIVE
THAT GORSUCH NOT BE CONFIRMED.
IF YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THESE
HEARINGS YOU SHOULD ASK THE QUESTIONS.
ONE QUESTION WOULD BE
WHY SHOULD YOU GET A HEARING IF
MERRICK GARLAND DIDN'T GET ONE?
WERE REPUBLICAN SENATORS WRONG
AND WERE THERE ACTIONS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WHEN THEY DID
THAT?
EITHER NO, THEY WERE WONDERFUL AND CORRECT, IN WHICH
CASE GO HOME FOR 290 DAYS, BECAUSE YOU JUST TOLD ME IT IS
PERFECTLY CORRECT TO BLOCK ANY
NOMINEE -- OR IF YOU SAY THE REPUBLICANS WERE WRONG, PLEASE
EXPLAIN TO ME THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ACTIONS OF
THESE REPUBLICAN SENATORS
SITTING HERE.
WHICH ONE IS IT?
THAT EASY, THAT'S NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER TWO, ASK HIM ABOUT
CITIZENS UNITED.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW THIS, BUT AN ENORMOUS
PERCENTAGE OF THE COUNTRY, ABOUT 90% OF THE COUNTRY, BELIEVES
THAT MONEY HAS A CORRUPTING
INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.
CONSERVATIVE JUDGES, INCLUDING
GORSUCH, DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
THEY THINK THE INCREDIBLY SMALL
MINORITY -- AND WHEN I SAY 90%, THE COUNTRY IS NOT 90% DEMOCRAT,
REPUBLICAN JUST WON THE PRESIDENCY, THAT INCLUDES A
GIGANTIC PERCENTAGE OF REPUBLICANS.
DEMOCRATS,
INDEPENDENTS, LIBERTARIANS, CENTRISTS, ALMOST EVERYONE
AGREES MONEY HAS A CORRUPTING
INFLUENCE IN POLITICS.
GORSUCH DOES NOT AGREE.
DEMOCRATS ARE
STRUGGLING ON HOW TO ATTACK HIM, YOU MIGHT WANT TO PICK THE ONE
WHERE 90% OF AMERICANS AGREE
WITH YOU.
GOLLY GEE, HOW DO I FIGURE OUT HOW TO ATTACK HIM?
THERE ARE TWO PARTS OF CITIZENS
UNITED THAT ARE RELEVANT HERE, THEY ARE BOTH SO EASY TO ATTACK
HIM ON AND TO HAVE HIM PUT ON THE RECORD WITH INSANE, ABSURD
POSITIONS THAT THE REST OF THE ESTABLISHMENT HAS AGREED TO IN
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LOVES AND CONSERVATIVES IN THE JUDICIAL
BRANCH LOVE, BUT THAT THE REST
OF THE COUNTRY DESPISES.
POINT ONE, DO YOU THINK CORPORATIONS
ARE HUMAN BEINGS?
ANYBODY OUT THERE IF YOU ARE WATCHING THIS,
YOU KNOW THAT IS THE MOST PREPOSTEROUS THING YOU EVER
HEARD IN YOUR LIFE.
HOW THE HELL COULD A CORPORATION BE A
PERSON?
BUT GORSUCH WILL SAY, OF COURSE.
I SAW A CORPORATION THE
OTHER DAY, I HAD A COFFEE WITH HIM, I THOUGHT ABOUT HAVING SEX
WITH HIM, BECAUSE THEY ARE
PEOPLE.
BUT THEN HE GOT RUN OVER BY A TRUCK AND I WANTED TO SUE
THE GUY -- OF COURSE THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE.
ACTUAL HUMAN BEINGS
UNDERSTAND THAT.
CENK, YOU ARE SO UNSOPHISTICATED, I DO
DECLARE, IT'S A JUDICIAL PHILOSOPHY FROM OVER 100 YEARS
AGO, BY THE WAY LOOK INTO THE HISTORY, THE SUPREME COURT NEVER
RULED ON THAT, IT WAS ADDED IN THE NOTES AFTER THE RULING, BY A
PERSON WHO WORKS FOR CORPORATIONS, I DON'T WANT TO
GET INTO THE HISTORY, MITT ROMNEY SAID CORPORATIONS ARE
PEOPLE BECAUSE THERE ARE PEOPLE INSIDE CORPORATIONS.
BUT THE
CORPORATION IS A LEGAL FICTION, IT IS NOT AN ACTUAL LIVING,
BREATHING ENTITY THAT IS DUE ANY UNALIENABLE RIGHTS.
LET ME QUOTE
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, IN CASE YOU ARE UNCLEAR.
THIS IS
WHAT THEY WROTE --
>>I COULD GO ON AND ON BUT LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING.
DO YOU
THINK WHEN THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS WROTE THAT,
THEY THOUGHT, WELL, BY MEN OF COURSE REMAIN GIANT
MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS, AND BY THE CREATOR WE MEET US
BECAUSE WE CREATED CORPORATIONS.
NOBODY IS GOING TO SAY THAT GOD
CREATED CORPORATIONS, THAT WOULD
BE HORRIBLY SACRILEGIOUS.
NO, THEY ARE A LEGAL FICTION CREATED
BY MEN FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE.
I'M NOT SAYING THEY SHOULD
EXIST, BUT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
THAT WAS
NEVER INTENDED AND OF COURSE THEY ARE NOT PEOPLE, OF COURSE
THEY DON'T HAVE UNALIENABLE
RIGHTS ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR, AND OF COURSE THEY SHOULDN'T
HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS AS HUMAN BEINGS.
SO ASK HIM THE DAM
QUESTION, IT'S NOT THAT HARD.
AND HAVE HIM MAKE A FULL OF
HIMSELF SAYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, YES, I SAW A CORPORATION
THE OTHER DAY, IT LOOKED JUST LIKE SALLY.
JUST LIKE MY FRIEND
BOB, WHO IS A REAL PERSON.
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO DO POLITICS AT
ALL?
IF I TELL DEMOCRATS THIS, THEY SAY I DO DECLARE, CENK, YOU
ARE SUCH AN UNSOPHISTICATED
PHILISTINE.
HERE IN WASHINGTON WE UNDERSTAND THAT THE AMERICAN
PEOPLE DON'T CARE ABOUT THINGS LIKE BIG BUSINESS RUNNING AMOK.
BUT I JUST SAW A POLL THAT SAID THE ONLY THING MORE UNPOPULAR
THAN POLITICIANS IS BIG BUSINESS.
BUT I DO DECLARE, THEY
ARE OUR DONORS AS WELL.
THAT'S WHAT YOU DON'T WANT TO ATTACK
THEM, IF YOU ATTACKED THEM IT WOULD BE POPULAR, READ THE
POLLS, SO I WILL READ THEM FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU OBVIOUSLY AREN'T
GOOD AT THIS.
THE SECOND PART IS
EVEN MORE IMPORTANT -- IN CITIZENS UNITED THEY DECLARED
THAT GIVING MILLIONS, BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS TO POLITICIANS -- DOESN'T LOOK LIKE BRIBERY AT
ALL. AND THE FACT THEY DO THE SAME THING YOU GAVE THEM THE
MONEY TO DO, THAT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF
CORRUPTION.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME STATS -- IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS
TO HUNDRED OF THE MOST
POLITICALLY ACTIVE U.S. COMPANIES, THAT IS JUST 200, NOT
ALL COMPANIES OR UNIONS OR EVERYONE WHO DONATES, JUST THE
200 MOST POLITICALLY ACTIVE,
SPENT $5 BILLION INFLUENCING.
THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY, DO YOU
THINK THEY ARE KNUCKLEHEADS AND
WASTING THAT MONEY?
NO, THOSE COMPANIES RECEIVED IN RETURN
$4.4 TRILLION IN TAXPAYER SUPPORT..
FOR GOD'S SAKE JUST
PUT UP THIS GRAPHIC AND ASKED
GORSUCH, DO YOU THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF
CORRUPTION?
AND LET THE MAN SAY NO, I DON'T SEE THE CORRUPTION,
THEY GAVE 5 BILLION, THEY GOT 4 TRILLION.
THEY GOT WHAT THEY
WANTED AND MORE, I DON'T SEE THE CORRUPTION.
LET HIM SAY IT.
EITHER YOU SEE THE APPEARANCE OF CORRUPTION, AND THE ACTUAL
REALITY OF CORRUPTION, AND HENCE YOU WILL AGAINST CITIZENS
UNITED, OR YOU WILL MAKE PREPOSTEROUS CLAIMS THAT
CORPORATIONS ARE HUMAN BEINGS AND THAT WHEN THEY GIVE BILLIONS
OF DOLLARS TO POLITICIANS AND GET TRILLIONS IN RETURN THERE IS
NO CORRUPTION AT ALL.
I CAN'T
EVEN SEE IT.
FOR GOD'S SAKE, FIGHT.
FIGHT!
THAT IS WHAT WE
WANT YOU TO DO.
IT IS NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
BUT HERE'S MY
PREDICTION, THEY WILL GRAZE THIS TOPIC BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO
GET YELLED AT.
DO YOU THINK THEY WILL GO FULL BORE AFTER THIS?
NO, BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO -- FIRST OF ALL MOST OF THE GUYS
ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TAKE MILLIONS FROM DONORS AND THEY
DON'T WANT TO HIGHLIGHT IT.
IT'S NOT JUST REPUBLICANS, IT IS
DEMOCRATS TOO, AND SOME OF THE SOMEWHAT DECENT PEOPLE ON THE
DEMOCRATIC SIDE OF THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE MIGHT NOT WANT TO
EMBARRASS THEIR COLLEAGUES.
IF I
POINT OUT THAT DIANE FEINSTEIN TAKES MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND
LARGELY DOES WHAT DONORS TELL HER TO DO, THAT WOULD BE DEEPLY
EMBARRASSING.
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SOPHISTICATED
THIS ARGUMENT IS ABOUT HOW I WANT TO PROTECT MY CORRUPT
FRIENDS.
I DON'T FIND THAT SOPHISTICATED, I FIND THAT
COWARDLY AND CRAVEN.
ARE YOU GOING TO FIGHT THIS GUY WHO IS
MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN ANTONIN SCALIA?
OR ARE YOU JUST GOING TO
GRAZE THESE TOPICS AND LET HIM WALK ON AND AFTER THEY SPIT IN
YOUR FACE AND WOULDN'T EVEN LET GARLAND HAVE A HEARING?
MY GUESS
IS YOU WILL LET THEM SPIT IN YOUR FACE AND LET THE GUY WALK
IN.
DEMOCRATIC ESTABLISHMENT, YOU ARE SETTING UP THERE -- SHOW
ME WHAT YOU GOT.
DON'T COME CRYING LATER AND SAY -- THIS
SHOULD BE THE ESTABLISHMENT
DEMOCRAT SLOGAN -- THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD DO.
BUT CENK,
YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, WE ARE SO SOPHISTICATED, WE PLAY
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CHESS AND WE SAY THERE WAS NOTHING WE COULD
DO.
FIGHT, THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO. AND THIS IS WHERE YOU FIGHT,
ON AN ISSUE WHERE 90% OF AMERICANS AGREE WITH YOU.
NOT
THAT COMPLICATED.

How Democrats Should Fight Trump's Supreme Court Pick

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