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. Over and over and over again these decisions are targeted at regulatory agencies to weaken their independence and weaken their strength. 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. Through interviews with abortion rights supporters and opponents, this film lifts the lid on a decades-long political campaign to overturn Roe v. Wade. Carrie Severino made the hop. “Reversing Roe” is merely one documentary that will soon be lost in a myriad of films, articles, and speeches. That's a really simple equation to run.The Republican brief in June Medical said Roe should be overruled. With Donna Howard, John Seago, Brigitte Amiri, Troy Newman. Directed by Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg. 99 min. 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. We use cookies (why?). A deep historical look at one of the most controversial issues of our time, highlighting the abortion debate from various points along the ideological spectrum in a winding story of abortion in America. We have colleagues here who supported you, this nominee, before there was a nominee. Somebody deserves a thank you.So, let's go on to Roe v Wade. Don't say the ACA's not an issue here. Reversing Roe Directed by Ricki Stern, Anne Sundberg Documentary 1h 39m. And in that case there were one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven amicus briefs filed and every single one of them was a group funded by something called Donors Trust.Donors Trust is a gigantic identity scrubbing device for the right wing so that it says Donors Trust is the donor without whoever the real donor is. Bulk gerrymandering where you go into a state like the REDMAP project did in Ohio and Pennsylvania and you pack Democrats so tightly into a few districts that all the others become Republican majority districts. One lane of activity is through the conduit of the Federalist Society. Here's the President talking about this litigation that we're gearing up this nominee for, for November 10th. The grand total across all the donor groups was 68 million dollars to the groups that were filing amicus briefs pretending that they were different groups. So Center For Media And Democracy done a little bit more research. So we have an anonymously-funded group controlling judicial selection run by this guy Leonard Leo.Then in another lane we have again anonymous funders running through something called the Judicial Crisis Network which is run by Carrie Severino and it's doing PR and campaign ads for Republican judicial nominees. The civil jury was in the Constitution, in the Bill of Rights, in our darn Declaration of Independence. With winter behind them, Bheem and his townspeople usher in a sunny new season in all their favorite ways during the Makar Sankranti festival. So, don't act surprised when we ask questions about whether that's what you're up to here.And finally, out in the ad world that you have spared yourself, wisely, Judge Barrett, the Susan B Anthony Foundation, is running advertisements right now saying that you are set, you are set to give our pro-life country the court that it deserves there is the ad with the voice over, "she's set, she's set".And then, Roe, Obamacare cases and Obergefell - gay marriage. Here's Janus, the anti-labor case that had a long trail through the court.through Friedrichs and through Knox and through other decisions. Guess who jumped in to take over the selection process in this case, for Judge Barrett? Reversing Roe is clearly on the pro-choice of the debate, but it gives the abortion opponents their fair day in court and their opportunity to tell their side of the story and motivations. Well, I showed the slide earlier on the Affordable Care Act and on Obergefell and on Roe versus Wade. The Federalist Society, remember this group that is acting as the conduit and that Donald Trump has said is doing his judicial selection. They just decided that that was a problem that was over. Five to four again, nope we're not going to take an interest in that question. We have some very awkward 180s from colleagues. So actually attach this to my brief as an appendix. 250 million dollars is a lot of money to spend if you're not getting anything for it. If you're used to being the boss and swaggering your way around the political side you don't want to be answerable before a jury and so one after another these eighty 5 to 4 decisions have knocked down, whittled away at, the civil jury, a great American institution.- third: first was unlimited dark money, second was demean and diminish the civil jury, third is weaken regulatory agencies. Rank him up there with Jon Stewart, Bill Moyers, and Paul Krugman for having the sheer persistent courage of his convictions. Here's how the Washington Post summed it up. And if you look at those 80 decisions, they fall into four categories over and over and over again.- one: unlimited and dark money in politics. In all these areas where it's about political power for big special interests and people who want to fund campaigns and people who want to get their way through politics without actually showing up, doing it behind Donors Trust and other groups, doing it through these schemes. Let me start with this one.In all cases there's big anonymous money behind various lanes of activity. Oct. 13, 2020 3:58 pm ... 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. "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. This is what your party platform says - reverse the Obamacare cases. By Ben Kenigsberg. Netflix supports the Digital Advertising Alliance principles. Here's the Bradley Foundation, for $5.6 million to those groups. I don't, I don't think you've tried cases, but some cases the issue is bias and discrimination and if you're making a bias case as a trial lawyer, Lindsey Graham is a hell of a good trial lawyer. That's where they lost but with another judge that could change. So once again ties right in together. Funded by Donors Trust, funded by Bradley Foundation in Janus. It got 17 million, single 17 million dollar donation in the Garland/Gorsuch contest. SEN. KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Reproductive rights are human rights. But it's annoying to big corporate powers because you can swagger your way as a big corporate power through Congress, you can go and tell the President you put money into to elect what to do. Reversing Roe (2018) Plot. Click on the embedded playlist below to watch the video series, or click on the button on the top left of the player to … The film is internationally distributed by Netflix, where it … 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? So something is not right. The Consumer Financial Protection Board. Transcript: A Justice for All ... Take the question of abortion and the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision upholding a woman's right to choose. Citizens United is the famous one but it's continued sense with McCutcheon. 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. I've never seen this around any court that I've ever been involved with where there's this much dark money and this much influence being used. They bring cases to the court. It was an 80 to zero, five to four, partisan route, ransacking.And it's important to look at where those cases went, because they're not about big public issues like getting rid of the Affordable Care Act, undoing Roe versus Wade and undoing same-sex marriage. I refer to that group as the Roberts Five. 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. What is the scheme here? REVERSING ROE. Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. The Republican party platform says it will reverse Roe. Josh Brahm analyzes the documentary “Reversing Roe” and exposes the biased editing tricks and responds to the pro-choice arguments made. case. Somebody - perhaps the same person - spent 35 million dollars to influence the makeup of the United States Supreme Court.Tell me that's good. On no record, with no basis, because it got them to the result that we then saw. The woman who helped choose this nominee has written briefs for Republican senators attacking the ACA. You have said that's what you want to do.So how are people going about doing it? "Thom Hartmann is a creative thinker and committed small-d democrat. Spencer Averick. A lot of this money, I'm convinced, is polluter money. So Leonard Leo writes back on Federalist Society address, so don't tell me that isn't Federal Society business, on Federalist Society on his address he writes back, "Yes, send it to the Judicial Education Project which could take and allocate the money. Now 2020 Democrats are seizing on the issue. So that raises the question what are they getting for it? Over and over and over again you see the same thing.Eighty decisions, Judge Barrett, 80 decisions. They have an obligation under the law to be fair to both parties irrespective of their size. No idea who that is or what they got for it. I'd be really hard pressed to be the lawyer saying no, eighty to zero it's just a bunch of flukes. And both of the lawyer groups in the case. Forty-five years after it revolutionized abortion law in America, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade is once again at a crossroads. What followed state after state after state passed voter suppression laws. Don’t miss out again. Same thing.The President has said that reversing Roe v Wade will happen automatically because he's putting pro-life justices on the court. Roe v. Wade, Obergefell, and the Obamacare cases. A deep historical look at one of the most controversial issues of our time, highlighting the abortion debate from various points along the ideological … Netflix uses cookies for personalization, to customize its online advertisements, and for other purposes. … Carrie Severino who also helped select this nominee running the Trump / Federalist Society selection process.So the connections abound. But since then, the court's composition has moved inexorably to the ideological right, with the court's three newest justices appointed by President Trump. You want weak regulatory agencies, you want ones that you can box up and run over to Congress and get your friends to fix things for you in Congress. This is an interesting comparison. 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'. The Thom Hartmann Reader will make people both angry and motivated to act. 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. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. 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. And we've got one coming up now. And they make decisions based on the law. "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. Around the court and dark money has a lot to do with it, special interests have a lot to do with it, Donors Trust and whoever's hiding behind Donors Trust has a lot to do with it and the Bradley Foundation orchestrating its amici over at the court has a lot to do with it.So, I thank you Judge Barrett for listening to me now a second time and uh I think this gives you a chance for you and I to tee up an interesting conversation tomorrow. Short List: Features. It's standard practice to tamper with Congress. You can change cookie preferences; continued site use signifies consent. Trump joined them because he didn't want to defend. 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.". 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. By interacting with this site, you agree to our use of cookies. Reversing Roe 2018 TV-14 1h 39m Political Documentaries Through interviews with abortion rights supporters and opponents, this film lifts the lid on a decades-long political campaign to overturn Roe … SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER, D-NY: But right now, as a person, would you endorse the court's reversing Roe v. Wade at the first opportunity. National Organization for Marriage, the big group that opposes same-sex marriage says in this proceeding, "all our issues are at stake". Republican attorneys general. Now, I've had a chance to have a look at this and I was in a case actually as an amicus myself. Synopsis. Here's Donors Trust, 23 $million to those brief writing groups. He'll put your stooges at the EPA, it's all great until you get to the civil jury because they have an obligation, as you know, Judge Barrett. Why would we not take him at his word? 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. And then over here you have a whole array of legal groups also funded by dark money which have a different role. Because Trump has said so. That is the President's statement.So, when we react to that, don't act as if we're making this stuff up. National Federation of Independent Businesses, until it filed the NFIB v. Sebelius case, had its biggest donation ever of twenty one thousand dollars. 80 cases under Chief Justice Roberts that have these characteristics:- one: they were decided five to four, by a bare majority- two: the five to four majority was partisan in the sense that not one democratic appointee joined the five. THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. Transcript; Enlarge this image. Why would we not comment on that and take you at your word? 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. In this litigation he said, "We want to terminate health care under Obamacare." Ultimately, it does not care to pass moral or other judgment in either side’s views or positions, but to highlight what is at stake for both sides and how we got here. Over and over again his White House counsel said so. ", 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. And if you're a big polluter a weak regulatory agency is your idea of a good day.- and the last thing is in politics, in voting, why on earth the court made the decision, a factual decision, not something appellate courts ordinarily are supposed to make as I understand it, Judge Barrett the factual decision that nobody needed to worry about minority voters in pre-clearance states being discriminated against or that legislators would try to knock back their ability to vote.These five made that finding in Shelby County against bipartisan legislation from both houses of Congress, hugely passed, on no factual record. Reversing Roe documents how the Religious Right became politicized over their conflicting desire to both maintain segregated schools and the different organizations’ tax-exempt status, and began using abortion as a rallying cry when they could no longer openly discriminate using racist tactics. 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