Chris Taylor: “State courts are more important than ever, certainly more…”

“But it's going up the food chain, and it gets to the US Supreme Court, which has been so politicized, and they have abandoned their role in providing a meaningful check on the power of the executive. So State courts are more important than ever, certainly more important than in any time in my lifetime, because we are going to have to have our state courts protect our rights, protect our democracy, protect our elections, and protect us from this overreach of the federal government that we're seeing. I mean, right now, Donald Trump was on, did an interview with NBC, and he talked about, yeah, we're looking at sending, you know, troops into five other cities.” (13:51–14:11)

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