Hawley, have said, "I will vote only for nominees who acknowledge that Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided".And their pledge to vote for this nominee. Sept. 11, 2018; For those who found the discussion of … Here’s the GOP platform, the Republican platform, the platform of my colleagues on the other side of this aisle say that a Republican president will appoint judges who will reverse Roe, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases. You might say, well, that was just the one-off. So when we say the stakes are high on this, it's because you've said the stakes are high on this. In 1973, when the court issued its landmark Roe v. Wade opinion, the vote was 7-to-2, with five Republican-appointed justices in the majority. They also note that Bradley has done previous philanthropic investments in the actual underlying legal actions so Bradley is funding, what do they call it - philanthropically investing in - the underlying legal action and then giving money to groups to show up in the orchestrated chorus of amici. National Organization for Marriage, the big group that opposes same-sex marriage says in this proceeding, "all our issues are at stake". That is their stated objective and plan. Best known for his work an editor on critically acclaimed films Middle of Nowhere (2012), Selma (2014) and for producing 2016 acclaimed documentary 13th for which he received Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature nominations at 89th Academy Awards, that he shared with director Ava … On no record, with no basis, because it got them to the result that we then saw. I'd be really hard pressed to be the lawyer saying no, eighty to zero it's just a bunch of flukes. She hopped in to take over for him with the Federalist Society. Josh Brahm analyzes the documentary “Reversing Roe” and exposes the biased editing tricks and responds to the pro-choice arguments made. In this litigation he said, "We want to terminate health care under Obamacare." Same thing. Showtimes. That's a really simple equation to run.The Republican brief in June Medical said Roe should be overruled. You've got the campaigns that I've talked about where they take 17 million dollar contributions - that's a big check to write, 17 million dollars - to campaign for supreme court nominees. Josh Brahm analyzes the documentary "Reversing Roe" and exposes the biased editing tricks and responds to the pro-choice arguments made. 45 years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. Here's Donors Trust, 23 $million to those brief writing groups. So that raises the question what are they getting for it? And we've got one coming up now. Transcript: A Justice for All ... Take the question of abortion and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision upholding a woman's right to choose. Now, I've had a chance to have a look at this and I was in a case actually as an amicus myself. The legal groups, all the same funders over and over again, bringing the cases and providing this orchestrated chorus of amici. “Reversing Roe” is merely one documentary that will soon be lost in a myriad of films, articles, and speeches. As reproductive rights grow more embattled, award-winning filmmakers Annie Sundberg and Ricki Stern (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, The Devil Came on Horseback) trace the legacy of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision. Citizens United is the famous one but it's continued sense with McCutcheon. "Reversing Roe ," released on Netflix in September, charts the period leading up to the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Roe v. Wade and the pro-life opposition that has followed ever since. I refer to that group as the Roberts Five. Since it is not based on truth, it will not last. The debate was moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. ... is go through with the people who are watching this now, the conversation that you and I had when we spoke on the telephone. Whittle it down to a nub. case. Carrie Severino made the hop. So Center For Media And Democracy done a little bit more research. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. Why would we not take him at his word? Reversing Roe Directed by Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg Documentary 1h 39m. That's where the contest is. "That's long gone.And our chairman made his famous hold the tape promise "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term we'll wait till the next election. They win, everybody else loses and if you're looking at who might be behind this, let's talk about people with unlimited money to spend and a motive to do it we'll see how that goes.- next: knock the civil jury down. Spencer Averick is an American film editor and producer. The Bradley Foundation is reviewing a grant application asking for money for this orchestrated amicus process and what do they say in the staff recommendation it is important to orchestrate - their word, not mine - important to orchestrate high caliber amicus efforts before the court. That's where they lost but with another judge that could change. Reversing Roe (2018) Plot. ", economist and author of Plunder and Blunder, False Profits, and Taking Economics Seriously, national radio commentator and author of Swim Against the Current, the American people should have a say in the court's direction, the American people shouldn't be denied a voice, If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term we'll wait till the next election, We want to terminate health care under Obamacare, I will vote only for nominees who acknowledge that Roe v. Wade is wrongly decided, which foundations funded the brief writers, Only public trials and humiliation can save the American experiment from the Trump/GOP coup attempt. Transcript; Enlarge this image. They're getting money from the same foundations; from Donors Trust 16.7 million dollars, from the Bradley Foundation 1.37 million dollars. And Source Watch and Propublica did some work about this.Here's Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund and here's the Bradley Foundation and they totaled giving 45 million dollars to the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen groups that filed amicus briefs pretending to be different groups. That's where the Republican party platform tells us to look, at how they want judges to rule to reverse Roe, to reverse the Obamacare cases and to reverse Obergefell and take away gay marriage. They're about power. This more and more looks like it's not three schemes but it's one scheme with the same funders selecting judges, funding campaigns for the judges, and then showing up in court in these orchestrated amicus flotillas to tell the judges what to do.On the Judicial Crisis Network you've got the Leonard Leo connection obviously. Senator Cruz said, "You don't do this in an election year. And in those states you send a delegation to Congress that has a huge majority of Republican members like 13 to 5 as I recall in a state where the five, the party of the five, actually won the popular vote. Senator Collins, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hoeven, Senator. Showing all 1 items Jump to: Summaries (1) Summaries. And I thank my colleagues for hearing me out. The civil jury was in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, in our darn Declaration of Independence. This is a conservative activist behind the scenes campaign to remake the nation's courts and it's a 250 million dollar dark money operation. A very small group, the ones who have unlimited money to spend and a motive to spend it in politics. Funded by Donors Trust, funded by Bradley Foundation in Janus. And by the way, the Judicial Crisis Network funds the Republican attorneys general. This email comes from an individual at the Bradley Foundation and it asks our friend Leonard Leo, who used to run the selection process, is there a 501(c)(3) non-profit to which Bradley could direct any support of the two Supreme Court amicus projects other than Donors Trust I don't know why they wanted to avoid the reliable identity scrubber Donors Trust but for some reason they did. Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg’s “Reversing Roe” is not a history of abortion itself, or a meditation on the morality of the procedure or the people who fight for and against it. Senator after senator, including many in this committee, filed briefs saying that the Affordable Care Act should be thrown out by courts.Why is it surprising for us to be concerned that you want this nominee to do what you want nominees to do.One quick stop on NFIB v. Sebelius because a lot of this has to do with money. So he's in with the Republican attorneys general.But here's the Judicial Crisis Network campaigning for Supreme Court nominees, writing briefs for senators against the Affordable Care Act, supporting the Republicans who are bringing this case and leading this election process for this nominee. The Republican party platform says it will reverse Roe. And what if, if you're a big polluter, what do you want? Then the same group also funds the Federalist Society over here.The Washington Post wrote a big expose about this and that made Leonard Leo a little hot a little bit like a burned agent so he had to jump out and he went off to go and do anonymously funded voter suppression work. You can't bribe them, you're not allowed to, it's a crime to tamper with the jury. A lot of this money, I'm convinced, is polluter money. We have colleagues here who supported you, this nominee, before there was a nominee. And it goes beyond just the briefs, it goes beyond just the amicus presentations. But overall, racial disparities and their impact on communities were mentioned sparingly in the film; and while I enjoyed this documentary … We use cookies (why?). A behind-the-scenes look at how entrepreneur Daniel Ek and financial partner Martin Lorentzon founded Spotify and revolutionized the music industry. Over and over again his White House counsel said so. Trump joined them because he didn't want to defend. In their timely new documentary Reversing Roe, filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg (The Devil Came on Horseback, Marathon: The Patriot's Day Bombing) present a deeply illuminating look of the state of abortion and women’s rights in America. Because Trump has said so. "That's gone too.So there is a lot of hard to explain hypocrisy and rush taking place right now and my experience around politics is that when you find hypocrisy in the daylight, look for power in the shadows.Now, people may say, what does all this matter, this is a political parlor game, it's no big deal. All five-four, all partisan, all this way. You have said that's what you want to do.So how are people going about doing it? By interacting with this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Somebody - perhaps the same person - spent 35 million dollars to influence the makeup of the United States Supreme Court.Tell me that's good. So something is not right. The woman who helped choose this nominee has written briefs for Republican senators attacking the ACA. Mitch McConnell and on through the list. So if you have a family member with an interest in some autonomy over their body under Roe versus Wade, the ability to have a marriage, have friends marry, have a niece or a daughter or a son marry someone of their same sex they have, you've got a stake.And if you're one of the millions and millions of Americans who depend on the Affordable Care Act, you've got a stake.It's not just the platform. The Koch Industries is a polluter, the fossil fuel industry is a polluter, who else would be putting buckets of money into this and wanting to hide who they are behind Donors Trust or other schemes? They bring cases to the court. Receive our daily rundown of news, show highlights and random musings. And then over here you have a whole array of legal groups also funded by dark money which have a different role. Well, there's some pretty high stakes here that we've been talking about here on our side and I'll tell you three of them right here: Roe versus Wade, Obergefell and the Obamacare cases.Here's the GOP platform, , the Republican platform, the platform of my colleagues on the other side of this aisle says that "... a Republican President will appoint judges who ... will reverse, ... Roe, Obergefell and the Obamacare cases.". Through interviews with abortion rights supporters and opponents, this film lifts the lid on a decades-long political campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade. Synopsis. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. Republican platform says it wants to reverse Obergefell and the Republican brief filed in the case said same-sex relationships don't fall within any constitutional provision. What is the scheme here? "Thom Hartmann is a creative thinker and committed small-d democrat. [09:00:23] ... as part of a multistate strategy to do away with Roe v. Wade. This is an interesting comparison. Click on the embedded playlist below to watch the video series, or click on the button on the top left of the player to … Don’t miss out again. Reversing Roe is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Ricki Stern and Anne Sundberg.Through interviews, the film analyzes the abortion laws in the United States and the effects of the 1973 Roe v. Wade case. Full transcript of the first 2020 presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. For employees of the Deep State, conspiracies aren't just theories — they're fact. Here's the page off the brief. By Ben Kenigsberg. It doesn't have a business, it doesn't have a business plan, it doesn't do anything, it's just an identity scrubber.And this group here the Bradley Foundation funded eight out of the 11 briefs. That seems weird to me when you have amicus briefs coming in little flotillas that are funded by the same groups but nominally separate in the court. Now 2020 Democrats are seizing on the issue. And both of the lawyer groups in the case. You've sent a delegation to Congress that is out of step with the popular vote of that state and court after court figured out how to solve that and the Supreme Court said 'nope'. So actually attach this to my brief as an appendix. They don't wind their way to the court, your honor, they get shoved to the court by these legal groups, many of which ask to lose below so they can get quickly to the court to get their business done there.And then they turn up in a chorus, an orchestrated chorus of any key. Somebody deserves a thank you.So, let's go on to Roe v Wade. ", "If you wonder why and when giant corporations got the power to reign supreme over us, here’s the story. 250 million dollars is a lot of money to spend if you're not getting anything for it. On so badly targeting African-Americans that two courts said it was surgically, surgically tailored to get after minority voters.And gerrymandering, the other great control. Same thing.The President has said that reversing Roe v Wade will happen automatically because he's putting pro-life justices on the court. A new Netflix documentary, Reversing Roe, claims to provide an "illuminating look" at the state of abortion and women’s rights but features pro-choice women 13 … You're not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here.And you're certainly not going to understand forces outside of this room who are pulling strings and pushing sticks and causing the puppet theater to react.So first let me say why do I think outside forces are here pulling strings.Well, part of it is behavior. This is what President Trump said. Over and over and over again you see the same thing.Eighty decisions, Judge Barrett, 80 decisions. And it's not just in the Consumer Financial Protection Board case. An 80 to zero sweep. And guess who works for the Judicial Education Project? What followed state after state after state passed voter suppression laws. Republican attorneys general. 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