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Speaker 2: This is the most partisan, corrupt Supreme Court in modern
Speaker 2: American history. How we got here is clear. Decades ago,
Speaker 2: far right mega donors hatched their plan to pour millions
Speaker 2: of dollars into their secret scheme to hijack the courts
Speaker 2: for their own aims. They built secret societies to stack
Speaker 2: the courts with ideological allies. They stole a seat from
Speaker 2: President Obama, confirmed a justice credibly accused of sexual assault,
Speaker 2: and ran through Amy Coney Barrett after an election had
Speaker 2: already started. They bring those justices along on private yacht
Speaker 2: trips and free vacations. And what do they get for
Speaker 2: their years of trouble and their millions of dollars? They
Speaker 2: get decision after decision after decision, silencing working Americans and
Speaker 2: empowering far right wing billionaires. Shelby County beginning their assault
Speaker 2: on the Voting Rights Act, Citizens United allowing unlimited money
Speaker 2: to distort our elections. Janice silencing the voices of union members,
Speaker 2: Dobbs ending the legal right to abortion, Trump Births the
Speaker 2: United States granting a convicted felon president immunity, and now
Speaker 2: Calais completing their assault on the Voting Rights Act and
Speaker 2: everything that MLKA and John Lewis fought for. We must
Speaker 2: reform the most unethical partisan Supreme Court in modern American history,
Speaker 2: and until we do, democracy will not be safe in America.
Speaker 2: Reforms should include a binding code of ethics, requiring the
Speaker 2: court to use Congress's fifty dollars gift ban, reforming the
Speaker 2: shadow docket, eighteen year term limits, expanding the size of
Speaker 2: the court to match the numble number of judicial circuits,
Speaker 2: and more.
Speaker 3: That was Congressman Greg greg Cizarre from Texas. And you know,
Speaker 3: this isn't the first time, second, third, fourth, or fifth
Speaker 3: time that I have heard Congressmen and senators and law
Speaker 3: experts talk about this Supreme Court and you know how
Speaker 3: corrupt it is. And personally, here is what I'll say,
Speaker 3: I have been shocked, very shocked at some of the
Speaker 3: rulings of this Supreme Court lately. You heard him talk
Speaker 3: about how they are dismantling the Voting Rights Act. Now,
Speaker 3: one thing that I was very surprised on was how
Speaker 3: they reversed Roe versus Wade now I was. I was
Speaker 3: very shocked about that because it had been the law
Speaker 3: of the land for so long and now all of
Speaker 3: a sudden, you know, it's not. And so I was very,
Speaker 3: very very surprised about that. But he makes he makes
Speaker 3: some interesting points. He really does very very very interesting
Speaker 3: points about about this Supreme Court. And I don't know
Speaker 3: what do y'all think. Let me know what y'all think.
Speaker 3: You know, do you think this Supreme Court is corrupt?
Speaker 3: Or I don't know? You know, I don't know. Thanks
Speaker 3: for tuning into the show. Welcome to it. My name
Speaker 3: is Eric Lee, and thank you, Thank you for spending
Speaker 3: some of your time with me. The music industry lost
Speaker 3: a giant this week with the passing of music mogul
Speaker 3: Clive Davis. He passed away at the age of ninety four.
Speaker 3: His family said he died of age related illness. David
Speaker 3: was named president of Columbia Records in nineteen sixty six,
Speaker 3: and by nineteen seventy four he had launched Arista Records,
Speaker 3: where he achieved massive success, steering the careers of Carly Simon,
Speaker 3: The Grateful Dead, and Aretha Franklin. David is credited with
Speaker 3: evaluating I'm sorry not evaluating for elevating musical talent and
Speaker 3: to landmark artists including Janis Joplin, Santana, Barry Manilow, Chicago,
Speaker 3: Pink Floyd, Earthwind and Fire, and Aerosmith. One of his
Speaker 3: biggest discoveries, undoubtedly was the great Whitney Houston. In Davis's
Speaker 3: twenty thirteen memoir The Soundtrack of My Life, he wrote
Speaker 3: that not even he could successfully intervene to curb her
Speaker 3: drug use, despite the pair sharing a long professional relationship
Speaker 3: throughout her career. And you know, we were hearing about
Speaker 3: things like that. He never really kind of talked about that.
Speaker 3: People like would ask him questions about, you know, how
Speaker 3: do you feel, And no doubt he felt bad because
Speaker 3: you know, he you know, Whitney was his Whitney was
Speaker 3: his girl, not you know, romantically, but and it had
Speaker 3: to hurt him to build her up into this icon
Speaker 3: this iconic star, and then to watch her down. It
Speaker 3: had to have it had to have hurt him. Davis
Speaker 3: left Arista in two thousand after learning that executives at
Speaker 3: BMG Entertainment, the label's parent company, were planning to replace
Speaker 3: him with La Reid. That same year, he was inducted
Speaker 3: into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, before going
Speaker 3: on to found Jay Records, where he discovered Alicia Keys.
Speaker 3: He also served as co producer of the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two Houston biopic I Want to Dance with Somebody, in
Speaker 3: which Stanley Tucci portrayed him. I saw that movie. Davis
Speaker 3: previously told USA Today that the film was one of
Speaker 3: his most meaningful projects. Now, apparently not everyone is celebrating
Speaker 3: Clive's life now. Some people are saying that he is
Speaker 3: not or was not a good person. And I'm sure
Speaker 3: you've seen, just like I've seen the post on social media.
Speaker 3: And what's funny to me is that, undoubtedly it's probably
Speaker 3: from people who didn't even know Clive Davis, and they
Speaker 3: are only going by, you know what they hear other
Speaker 3: people say, like some of these people, oh he did this,
Speaker 3: Like y'all don't even know Clive Davis. You didn't even
Speaker 3: know him. Most of you never even laid your eyes
Speaker 3: on Clive Davis, And people have so much to say,
Speaker 3: you know, about him, And I just always think it's
Speaker 3: interesting how people have so much to say about somebody
Speaker 3: they never met. There is one singer in particular that's
Speaker 3: speaking out and that's india Irie. Now here's what USA
Speaker 3: Today is reporting that. She said Davis was at the
Speaker 3: top of the dominant record labels that hurt lots of artists.
Speaker 3: She said, mark my words, Watch what kind of archival
Speaker 3: interviews are about to come out. She went on to say,
Speaker 3: I would tell my story too, but mine is minimal
Speaker 3: compared to what you are about to hear. She said,
Speaker 3: when people talk about the music industry so awful, it's
Speaker 3: the record label executives that do that. Now, I know
Speaker 3: that when India Irie first came out, she was on
Speaker 3: Motown Records, and I you know Motown. I don't think
Speaker 3: Motown was ever under Arista, So but it still doesn't
Speaker 3: mean that she didn't have some type of dealing with
Speaker 3: Clive Davis. Now again, I'm willing to bet that if
Speaker 3: Whitney were alive today, she would probably have a different
Speaker 3: opinion of Clive. And I bet you if you were
Speaker 3: to talk to somebody like Alicia Keys, I bet you
Speaker 3: she might have a different opinion than Clive. I don't know,
Speaker 3: you know, I don't know, and we all know a
Speaker 3: lot of times, you know, everything that glitters ain't gold.
Speaker 3: But this is what I'll say a lot of artists
Speaker 3: jump into the music industry without understanding how it works.
Speaker 3: They will sign anything to be famous without having any
Speaker 3: legal consultation. Then when it comes time to pay the piper,
Speaker 3: they want to yell that they were robbed. Now, on
Speaker 3: the other hand, we also know that there are predators
Speaker 3: in the industry. So the best way, the best thing,
Speaker 3: is protect yourself. I remember reading that Bruce Springsteen signed
Speaker 3: his first contract on the hood of a car in
Speaker 3: a Junkyard, and in doing that he didn't realize that
Speaker 3: he had signed half of his publish in a way TLC.
Speaker 3: They signed a contract with Pebbles, who at the time
Speaker 3: was La Reid's wife, and they signed that without legal consultation.
Speaker 3: I remember watching their movie and I remember one of
Speaker 3: the girls said, don't we need a lawyer to look
Speaker 3: at this? And I remember Pebble saying something like we
Speaker 3: ain't got time for that or something she said. Anyway,
Speaker 3: she discouraged them going to get legal consultation. And what
Speaker 3: I say is they should have known something was up then,
Speaker 3: like I would have said something like, oh, no lawyer,
Speaker 3: no signature, Like I would have known that something was
Speaker 3: Why don't you want us to get legal consultation on
Speaker 3: this binding contract that would have that would have you know,
Speaker 3: that would have set off some alarms with me. But
Speaker 3: like I said, sometimes they want to be stars so
Speaker 3: bad that they signed stuff. And we we all know
Speaker 3: TLC struggle with Pebbletone that was Pebbles's Pebble's company, and
Speaker 3: we all know how that went. And I just think
Speaker 3: that sometimes, well not sometimes, I think most of the time, Look,
Speaker 3: you're either gonna say, Okay, this is probably going to
Speaker 3: you know, not be a favorable contract here, but I
Speaker 3: want to get out there, so I'm gonna sign it.
Speaker 3: But you know, we you know, I'm I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 3: get some some legal representation or start from the beginning.
Speaker 3: What record label would not want you to get a
Speaker 3: lawyer to look over the contract like something something is
Speaker 3: you know, know that something's not right. There's something in
Speaker 3: that contract that they don't want you to know. But
Speaker 3: y'all got to get these lawyers to read the fine
Speaker 3: print because most of us don't come knowing that stuff,
Speaker 3: you know. But I think that you you can, you
Speaker 3: can read books on the music industry. I've met, I've
Speaker 3: read several books. I know that there are several books
Speaker 3: out there on the entertainment industry that you can read.
Speaker 3: So Clive he was. He was a mogul. Clive was
Speaker 3: huge in the music industry, and he he discovered a
Speaker 3: lot of talented people. And look, nobody's perfect. Now I'm
Speaker 3: not saying that he was. You know, I don't know
Speaker 3: of any predatory you know things you know, I don't know,
Speaker 3: but I don't know. Clive Davis was pretty big. So
Speaker 3: our hearts and our prayers go out to his family
Speaker 3: and friends. A former United States Marine reservist and seven
Speaker 3: others were sentenced to decades in prison after a shooting
Speaker 3: last year that wounded a police officer during a demonstration
Speaker 3: at the Texas Immigration Detention Center. Benjamin Song, the Marine reservist,
Speaker 3: was sentenced to one hundred years in prison, which is
Speaker 3: the maximum punishment, for opening fire during a July fourth
Speaker 3: demonstration outside the Prairie Land Detention Center near Dallas. Seven
Speaker 3: other defendants received prison terms ranging from thirty to seventy years.
Speaker 3: Prosecutors called the crime an act of terrorism and said
Speaker 3: the eight were linked to the leftist activist group Antifa,
Speaker 3: which is a loosely knit anti fascist government movement that
Speaker 3: Trump designated a domestic terrorist organization, of course he did.
Speaker 3: The defense meanwhile denied any Antifa ties. Now, so that
Speaker 3: means that they don't have proof that these people had
Speaker 3: ties to Antifa. Family members expressed shock and anger over
Speaker 3: the stiff sentences. I am livid, said Lydia Koza, whose wife,
Speaker 3: Autumn hel was sentenced to fifty years in prison. The
Speaker 3: government wants to take her entire life of way because
Speaker 3: she attended a protest. No one died, but somebody was
Speaker 3: shot though, but no one died. US District Judge Read O'Connor,
Speaker 3: one of the two just judges overseeing the proceedings, said
Speaker 3: what happened was not a protest, but an assault on democracy.
Speaker 3: All but one of the eight defendants sentenced on Tuesday
Speaker 3: were convicted on terrorism charges. He said the need to
Speaker 3: deter this type of conduct is high. The case drew
Speaker 3: attention beyond Texas, as critics warned it could have a
Speaker 3: wide reaching impact on protests and free speech rights under
Speaker 3: the First Amendment meant of the US Constitution. Now, in
Speaker 3: my opinion, that's what this is all about. I believe,
Speaker 3: trying to stop people from protesting against what they are
Speaker 3: doing to immigrants, that's honestly what one hundred years, my lord.
Speaker 3: The Justice Department called it the first sentencing of defendants
Speaker 3: affiliated with Antifa after Trump signed an executive order designating
Speaker 3: it as a terrorist organization on September twenty second. Prosecutors
Speaker 3: told jurors during the trial that the group's actions, including
Speaker 3: bringing firearms, first aid kits, and wearing body armor, were
Speaker 3: signals of nefarious intent. According to the Justice Department, Song
Speaker 3: had yelled get to the rifles and open fire, striking
Speaker 3: a police officer who had just pulled up to the center.
Speaker 3: Lawyers for the defendants have said there was no planned
Speaker 3: ambush and that protesters who brought firearms only only did
Speaker 3: so for their own protection. They also argue that the
Speaker 3: gathering was planned as a late night demonstration with fireworks
Speaker 3: to show support for immigrants being held at Prairie Land
Speaker 3: before gunshots broke out. H Now, y'all know, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: tell you what I think. I think this is setting
Speaker 3: the stage for anyone who dares protest against ice. They
Speaker 3: are going to brand you Antifa and give you stiff sentencing.
Speaker 3: That's what I think. All they got to do is say, oh,
Speaker 3: you're in TIFA with no proof. These people here are saying,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not in TIFA. I was just protesting
Speaker 3: the mistreatment of immigrants. The January sixth rioters, if you remember,
Speaker 3: beat the crap out of officers and got pardoned.
Speaker 4: HM.
Speaker 3: Kyle Riddenhouse brought an AR fifteen to a protest and
Speaker 3: shot people, but he got off. So just because somebody
Speaker 3: brought a firearm to a protest, HM, So was Kyle
Speaker 3: Rittenhouse up to nefarious intent when he brought the AR
Speaker 3: fifteen to the protest but he got off. I don't know,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I I think, I just
Speaker 3: I just I. I just think that this is this
Speaker 3: is one of the ways that they are going to
Speaker 3: try to squash any type of protests that're just gonna
Speaker 3: say you're you're Antifa. That's that's honestly, That's honestly what
Speaker 3: I think. Here is another video that I want to
Speaker 3: play for you.
Speaker 4: I made a video yesterday about the Trump administration requesting
Speaker 4: large cuts to the WICK program, particularly the part of
Speaker 4: the program that helps babies and young kids get access
Speaker 4: to fruits and vegetables. Sue, whose bio reads God is
Speaker 4: good all the time, All the time, God is good,
Speaker 4: sent me a DM that said they need to get jobs,
Speaker 4: pay for fruit and berries and not beer and SIGs.
Speaker 4: Berries are fruits, Sue. But more importantly, the video was
Speaker 4: about programs helping to feed infants, children under five, pregnant
Speaker 4: post part of mom's and seniors. Feels like something God
Speaker 4: would care about, Sue. Feeding the children also really tired
Speaker 4: of this narrative that people should just get jobs and
Speaker 4: then they won't need nutrition assistants. Millions of full time
Speaker 4: workers rely on nutrition assistance, Sue. I bet you think
Speaker 4: you're super supportive of the military. Did you know that
Speaker 4: about a quarter of active duty service members are considered
Speaker 4: food and secure. Lots of military families rely on nutrition assistance,
Speaker 4: including Wick. Perhaps, Sue, we should ask ourselves, well, first,
Speaker 4: why someone who makes such a public show over faith
Speaker 4: seems to act in direct opposition to its most basic teachings.
Speaker 4: But then why a country with this much wealth makes
Speaker 4: working families, military families, pregnant moms, little kids, and seniors
Speaker 4: struggle this hard for basic nutrition, And why we have
Speaker 4: a president enriching himself, his family, and his billionaire friends
Speaker 4: while trying to cut the programs that actually help the
Speaker 4: American people.
Speaker 3: So everybody that's on Wick isn't unemployed. So all of
Speaker 3: you who think that people who get wicked are just
Speaker 3: sitting around watching soap operas completely not true. Studies have proven.
Speaker 3: And she just said, this is the same woman, by
Speaker 3: the way, last week when she did the I did
Speaker 3: a Lord. I don't even remember the video I did
Speaker 3: last week, but anyway, it's the same woman. And I
Speaker 3: think she was talking about, Oh, she was talking about
Speaker 3: how Stephen Miller was talking about how you could just
Speaker 3: say your child is hungry and get assistance, and he
Speaker 3: was just saying, they don't check for anything. This is
Speaker 3: the same woman that I played. So not everyone, Sue,
Speaker 3: whoever Sue is that's on Wick is unemployed. So let's
Speaker 3: just remember that a lot of military are on Wick
Speaker 3: as well. Do you all remember when I brought y'all
Speaker 3: the story about the judge who was reprimanded for having
Speaker 3: sex in her chambers. Well, according to Bloomberg law dot
Speaker 3: com website, Eleanor Ross is the federal district court judge
Speaker 3: who was subject to a private reprimand for having sex
Speaker 3: with a police officer and chambers in earshot of law clerks. Now,
Speaker 3: this is a according to a person familiar with the situation.
Speaker 3: She is of the Atlanta based US District Court for
Speaker 3: the Northern District of Georgia. She previously served as a
Speaker 3: state court judge, a federal prosecutor in the district, and
Speaker 3: a prosecutor in the Fulton County District Attorney's Office. Ross
Speaker 3: and other court representatives didn't return requests for comments sent
Speaker 3: through phone calls to Chambers and via email, so they
Speaker 3: try to get interudge with them, but she ain't answering
Speaker 3: nobody's home. The officer was identified by a person familiar
Speaker 3: with the situation as Atlanta Police Department Deputy Chief Kelly Collier,
Speaker 3: who commands the department's Community Services Division. According to the
Speaker 3: department's website. The report said the officer had worked for
Speaker 3: the police department since nineteen ninety eight, serving as the
Speaker 3: commander of a certain division since twenty twenty five. Those
Speaker 3: years aligned with Collier's biography on the police Department's website
Speaker 3: and his now deleted LinkedIn profile. According to the committee report,
Speaker 3: the judge didn't preside over any case in which the officer,
Speaker 3: the or the police department was a party between January
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two and October twenty twenty five. So there
Speaker 3: you go. She has been named, and you know, I
Speaker 3: really do hope that she, you know, learns her lesson
Speaker 3: because you up here doing that in your chambers, and
Speaker 3: you're a judge and you're judging other people's stuff, and
Speaker 3: you're making bad decisions yourself. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan
Speaker 3: put Donald Trump's most racist and inflammatory remarks over the
Speaker 3: last decade about Haitians into permanent record Thursday, blasting her
Speaker 3: conservative colleagues on the bench for refusing to put them
Speaker 3: in print. So she's saying they were trying to hide
Speaker 3: the racist statements he made. On Thursday, the Supreme Court
Speaker 3: ruled in a six y three which we know who
Speaker 3: the six was and who the three was, majority, to
Speaker 3: allow the Department of Homeland Security to end Temporary Protected
Speaker 3: status TPS for roughly three hundred and fifty thousand migrants
Speaker 3: from Haiti and Syria, delivering a landmark win for the
Speaker 3: Trump administration. In a blistering dissent in the and versus Doecase,
Speaker 3: writing for the liberal minority, Kagan quoted Trump directly and
Speaker 3: noted remarks the conservative majority found too repellent to include.
Speaker 3: She said the evidence they have offered includes statements by
Speaker 3: the president so repellent and racially inflicted that the majority
Speaker 3: declines to put them in print. Her discent included when
Speaker 3: Trump said Haitians probably have aids. Haiti is an shole country.
Speaker 3: Haitians are poisoning the blood of America. Now you know
Speaker 3: what poisoning the blood means, meaning they're mingling with, you know,
Speaker 3: people and having insurance. I said, Shermans having Churan's Haitian
Speaker 3: immigration is like a death wish for our country. Other
Speaker 3: statements resurfaced by Kagan included excuse me when Trump confirmed
Speaker 3: at a twenty twenty five rally the remark he made
Speaker 3: during his first term, saying, why is it we have
Speaker 3: own we only take people from s whole countries like
Speaker 3: Haiti and Somalia. Why cannot we have some people from
Speaker 3: Norway and Sweden? Now, y'all know I told you all
Speaker 3: about that. I talked about that when I saw him
Speaker 3: make that statement. So, in other words, while we keep
Speaker 3: having all these minority people come to the country, why
Speaker 3: can't we have more white people Norway and Sweden? Now,
Speaker 3: he definitely said that. Because I don't remember what episode
Speaker 3: it was, because it was last year, but I know
Speaker 3: he definitely said that. Kagan also cited Trump's baseless claims
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty four that Haitians and Somalians in Springfield,
Speaker 3: Ohio were abducting and eating pets. Now, y'all remember that
Speaker 3: they're eating the cats and dogs. They're eating the cats
Speaker 3: and dogs. The amplification of those rumors led to physical
Speaker 3: threats and disrupted daily life for thousands of immigrants. And
Speaker 3: I remember the Ohio leaders coming out and saying, there
Speaker 3: is no proof that Haitians and Somalians are eating cats
Speaker 3: and dogs. But see, I told y'all how Demigod work,
Speaker 3: right right. They They they come to power because they
Speaker 3: make up this this this problem. And then they say,
Speaker 3: but only I can fix it. You gotta elect me
Speaker 3: because only I can save you. Only I can fix this.
Speaker 3: They're eating the pure cats, and they're gonna steal your
Speaker 3: cats and steal your dogs, and then they're gonna eat them.
Speaker 3: I've told you before. People have to make a smear
Speaker 3: campaign out of you. People have to get people on board.
Speaker 3: In order for them to treat certain people the way
Speaker 3: they want to treat them. They gotta start a smear campaign.
Speaker 3: They gotta get people to to be to come against you,
Speaker 3: and in this case they're eating your cats and dogs. Wow,
Speaker 3: well that's my show. I thank you guys for tuning in.
Speaker 3: We'll see you next time. Bye for now. And I
Speaker 3: ain't gonna stand, Bobby, and I ain't gonna stand by.
Speaker 2: And I ain't.
Speaker 4: Gonna stand.
Speaker 3: Now, and I ain't gon understand Bobby.
Speaker 1: I ain't gonna stand