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The Modernist Perspective Podcast takes a look at the latest in culture, politics, and the arts bringing a fresh take to the latest events and stories shaping the world of news and entertainment.

02/10/2022

I was reviewing Gideon's Trumpet the 1980 TV film. Required watching for any high school law class covering Gideon vs Wainwright which for those who don't know provides right to an attorney for those who cannot afford one in criminal trials. Back then Abe Fortas was a great lawyer who argued a fair trial could not take place without a defense attorney. The opposing lawyer stated that this would open the doors to socialism and asked what the court would plan to indulge defendants with next. He also argued it was a right of individual states in how they wanted criminal trials adjudicated. The Supreme Court unanimously sided with Fortas who argued that the previous case on the matter Bett's vs Brady should be overturned for the unfair burden it placed on defendants and it's backward step on civil rights.

This got me wondering how would this have played out if the Robert's court heard Gideon vs Wainwright. I think we all know the answer to this question. Republican's have been "law and order" hardliners on defendants (unless you happen to be a capitol storming insurrectionist) and this partisan position would no doubt have filtered down through special interests. All conservatives would have voted against Gideon because it went against ideology and the right to attorney for defendants a dead issue. Afterall the Robert's Court is the same one that just restricted Miranda Rights a long established set of civil rights. The Warren Court was an honored beacon of justice for it's time and defined and expanded the Supreme Court's role in defending civil rights in accordance with constitutional norms. The Robert's court has been the opposite and has shown more than a willingness to abandon civil rights and liberties for special or partisan interests.

Putting this all together I think it's ridiculous that Justice Alito thinks this Supreme Court must be held in as high honor as older courts without having earned it's stature. That it's existence itself proof enough of moral fortitude. If we know they would not have defended the legitimacy that made the legal system we have today then what honor and respect do they think we should have for this corrupted institution?

20/07/2022

The doctor said the patient was “screaming—not from pain, but from the emotional trauma she was experiencing."

27/04/2022
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Both pediatricians and psychologists agree that physical punishment causes a lot of harm to a child, both physically and mentally. According to a survey, 25 years ago, 80% of parents were spanking their children. Nowadays, 67% do so. Even though the number is decreasing, there’s still a long way t...

13/04/2022

Make billionaires finally pay their fair share...or raise taxes on middle-class Americans? 🤔 We know what side we're on.

12/04/2022

Americans when it comes to health insurance.

10/04/2022

Jerry Windle, a single gay man, was constantly told by people that he would never be a father. He hardly believed himself that he would ever become a dad, but one day his life changed completely. His parental journey seems like a fairytale come to life, and it’s proof that a merciful heart can win...

06/04/2022

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News  Physicists Just Found a Loophole in Graphene That Could Unlock Clean, Limitless Energy April 27, 2018 Science By all measures, graphene should not exist. The fact it does comes down to some neat loophole in physics which sees with an impossible 2D sheet of atoms behave like a good 3D material...

26/03/2022

Truth.

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09/03/2022

Dear freedom convoy: if you were dumb enough to drive your F-250’s to DC from out of state 🤣 have a nice drive home!

26/02/2022

13 died to defend their country on a small island.
Their last words before the Russians fired upon them.
RIP

16/02/2022

American sprinter Sha'Carri Richardson called out the hypocrisy over the ruling in favor of Kamila Valieva skating despite a failed drug test.

13/02/2022
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07/02/2022

Conservatives are pushing to ban books from school libraries. At a time of crisis, a group of Pennsylvania teenagers are fighting back

The Republican's have lost their minds.
04/02/2022

The Republican's have lost their minds.

The Republican National Committee voted to censure Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for participating in the inquiry into the deadly riot at the Capitol.

04/02/2022

Texas high school students spoke out against school districts potentially banning books about race, gender identity and s*x from school libraries.

03/02/2022

Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite." "Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years. So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a s**t in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable. People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble? He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people! When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction. He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! F**k you!" - George Clooney actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

03/02/2022

Retired Lt. Col.

03/02/2022

An accurate meme I captured in the wild

02/02/2022

Facing pressure from parents and threats of criminal charges, some districts have ignored policies meant to prevent censorship. Librarians and students are pushing back.

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