John Oliver returned to his desk after a month-long break – and an Emmy win – to focus on the furor in Washington over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor. He offered few jokes in bet…
John Oliver returned to his desk after a month-long break – and an Emmy win – to focus on the furor in Washington over Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s successor. He offered few jokes in between his long-winded objection over Trump’s nomination ofOliver started his segment with the GOP’s efforts to rush the Supreme Court justice confirmation process of Barrett. Oliver was unhappy that the legacy of liberal stalwart Ginsburg was being replaced by the extremely conservative Barrett.
After playing a clip of Senator Mitt Romney saying the court should represent the center-right politics of the national population, Oliver used his statement to springboard most of the issues the segment covered.Oliver pointed to the genesis of all our nation’s ills: Senator McConnell . “The only thing to come out of Kentucky more shameless than the KFC menu,” Oliver jabbed.
“I’ve got an answer for you Joe. No! You can’t!,” Oliver said. “That is not just dumb. That’s dumb on the level of James Cameron going ‘You know what people want? Four moreNoting the rosy possibility that Dems win elections and unrealistically abolish the filibuster, Oliver laid out the uphill battle against a newly installed conservative Supreme Court. He added that Dems should consider passing radical legislation to add Supreme court justices to the bench.
Oliver moved onto the abolition of the electoral college – an idea which was even privately endorsed by tricky Dick, even coming close to reality in 1970 before being ultimately blocked by a filibuster. Oliver perused possible ways in which the electoral college could be reformed with or without constitutional amendment and the effect of setting term limits for Supreme Court justices.
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