Mar 27 2013
The Constitutional Monarchy in the United States
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT:
HARTMANN: We have a constitutional monarchy here in the United States. We no longer have a representative democracy or a democratic republic. There are nine people who sit in a building about three blocks from where I am sitting right now who decide what the laws of this land are or are not, and in many cases even make up laws out of whole cloth.
A great example of that is Roe v. Wade, the doctrine of fetal viability. I’m neither speaking for or against it, but merely pointing it out. Another one in 2010, and actually this was a much longer time in the making than Roe v. Wade, was Citizen’s United which said corporations are people and money is speech. These are things that literally came out of the imagination of the Supreme Court and frankly, in my opinion, they have no right to imagine. It is not in the Constitution but that’s a whole other rant.
The Supreme Court got together and heard arguments about Prop 8 and California, which the Mormon Church and Mitt Romney’s buddies spent a fortune to get passed to ban gay marriage in that State. And now, they’re going to hear arguments on the Defense of Marriage Act or DOMA. Shane Farnan, the Associate Producer of our program, is also our Supreme Court reporter for the Talk Radio News Service as well as an attorney and a law school graduate. He is a guy who knows this stuff far better than I do.
FARNAN: I know it somewhat. What you were speaking about, Justice Scalia actually articulated that today about the Supreme Court deciding what the law is. Check this out.
SCALIA: We decide what the law is.(audio clip)
FARNAN: We decide what the law is.
HARTMANN: So, as I said, ever since 1803 in Marbury vs. Madison. Really, they didn’t start asserting this right and using it until after Dred Scott in 1856. But the Supreme Court is saying that they are the kings. In any case back to Prop 8, what were the arguments?
Listen to the rest of Thom Hartmann’s discussion with Shane Farnan about the Supreme Court’s hearing on gay marriage.
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