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On the recordAugust 1, 2024
Madam President, I am here for the 34th scheme speech on the right-wing billionaires' covert scheme to capture and control our Supreme Court. And I am here to report real progress in our work to restore the integrity of the Court, and wrest it from special-interest control. This Court, captured and corrupted by right-wing special interests, has imposed deeply unpopular and harmful policies on the American people. It needs reform. And--good news--commonsense reforms to take back the Supreme Court received a significant boost from the President and the Vice President this week. The right-wing ``Fed Soc'' Justices have done unprecedented damage to America's democratic institutions and to our government's ability to protect ordinary Americans' health, safety, and well-being. The right-wing Fed SOC Justices also took away women's right to an abortion, leaving millions of women unable to make basic decisions about their own reproductive health and endangering women experiencing troubled pregnancies. They overturned longstanding and overwhelmingly popular gun safety laws leaving our communities exposed to the epidemic of gun violence. They eviscerated the government's ability to fight climate change and to protect consumers from corporate profiteering, and they invented, out of thin air, the idea that former Presidents are absolutely immune from being held accountable for using their office to break the law, to commit crimes, even to commit treason.…
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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