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101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS

The Al Franken Podcast

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Can We Spend as Much as We Like?

When he had his confirmation hearing, Obama was talking about how sort of conservative he was going to be in terms of rulings and making very narrowly. And the thing is, is that the strike zone was just different for corporations who had a very teeny when they're up the bat,. His strike zone would be like, okay, I need to see your wheelhouse. Show me exactly where you want the ball. That'll be the strike and then with labor, it was a huge strike zone. He on Citizens United. They took a question about showing a movie and used it to completely upend the entire campaign finance system of the country. It's no point putting in dark money if all

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