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To address that, we’d have to either get the Supreme Court to reverse this whole line of thinking, which it’s a hard thing to imagine. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: To address that we would have to get the Supreme Court to reverse this whole line of thinking

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2 months ago
96% of Americans thought it important to reduce the influence of money in politics. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: 96% of Americans thought it important to reduce the influence of money in politics.

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2 months ago
91% didn’t think it was possible. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: 91% did not think it was possible.

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2 months ago
You’ve got to have a populist hammer that breaks up everybody in the federal government and everybody in these universities and then a set of aristocrats that is common good oriented who’s connected t... 0.700

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: You have to have a populist hammer that breaks up the federal government and universities and then a set of aristocrats.

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2 months ago
It levied a surcharge on any income over basically a million dollars. 0.900

👤 Ralph Ranalli 📋 Podcast

Simplified: The Fair Share Amendment levied a surcharge on income over a million dollars.

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2 months ago
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is actually instrumental to the ideology of this 20 percent in that they get to feel that they are on the side of justice and inclusion at the same moment that they ar... 0.800

👤 Archon Fung 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Diversity equity and inclusion is instrumental to the ideology of the 20 percent.

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2 months ago
Economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U. S. government policy while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little o... 0.900

👤 Ralph Ranalli 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Economic elites and business groups have substantial impact on US policy while average citizens have little influence.

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2 months ago
They’re happy to change the way primaries work. 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: They are happy to change how primaries work.

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2 months ago
The wealthiest in society will support reforms that don’t hurt them. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast

Simplified: The wealthiest in society will support reforms that do not hurt them.

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2 months ago
It will take a very long time. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law

Simplified: A lawsuit will take a very long time.

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2 months ago
It will cost more than you’d ever get. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Finance

Simplified: A lawsuit will cost more than you would get.

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2 months ago
Many of these policies seem to alienate a very broad constituency, everyone from the Chamber of Commerce to a whole set of professional organizations in public health, in medicine, in law, in higher e... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 Podcast

Simplified: Many policies seem to alienate a broad constituency.

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2 months ago
It’s legal, according to existing jurisprudence. 0.950

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law

Simplified: Legality is determined according to existing jurisprudence.

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2 months ago
Will they continue to do what they’ve done before, which basically means they get away with whatever they’re doing. 0.700

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Government

Simplified: Will courts continue to do what they have done before?

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2 months ago
Many people inside of the law school are terrified that if a court gives an order—“You must do this”—that the president will just say: “No, I’m not going to do it.” 0.800

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Government , Law

Simplified: Many people inside the law school are terrified the president will disobey a court order.

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2 months ago
I don’t think Donald Trump has a clue about what the constitutional order is. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Government , Law

Simplified: Donald Trump does not have a clue about the constitutional order.

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2 months ago
There’s a great interview of Chief Justice Berger, who was the Chief Justice when the court decided United States versus Nixon. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Government

Simplified: There is a great interview of Chief Justice Berger.

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2 months ago
That’s the case where the court ordered the President to turn over the tapes, and because he was ordered to turn over the tapes, he knew he would have to resign because the tapes revealed he had engag... 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Government

Simplified: The court ordered the President to turn over tapes in United States versus Nixon.

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2 months ago
Berger is asked by the interviewer like so what would you have done if Nixon had said no? 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Government

Simplified: The interviewer asked Berger what he would have done if Nixon had said no.

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2 months ago
Nixon was a lawyer and, for all his flaws, he had a deep respect for the integrity of the American legal constitutional order. 0.900

👤 Lawrence Lessig 📋 Podcast 🏷️ Law , Government

Simplified: Nixon had a deep respect for the integrity of the American legal constitutional order.

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