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Yeah.

But they took me to the Warren Burger courthouse and I asked what I'd been charged with.

And then they showed me the document that said conspiracy to impede or injure federal officers.

And then they took me into a holding cell and I heard the sound of Irish folk music coming from a few cells down.

President Nixon has not yet responded to the sledgehammer decision of the Supreme Court today, which ruled that he must immediately turn over tapes of 64 presidential conversations.

In a unanimous decision written by Chief Justice Warren Burger, the court rejected eight to nothing Mr. Nixon's claim of absolute privilege on those tapes.

At the time of the Supreme Court's announcement, Nixon was at his house in San Clemente, California.

Again, Geoff Shepard.

On June 14, 1982, the Supreme Court agrees to hear Sonny's appeal.

Only four of the nine vote to take it, the fewest the court requires, and the Chief Justice Warren Burger is one of them.

The other three are Justices Stevens, Blackmun, and O'Connor.

A young lawyer on Justice O'Connor's staff had written her in May that the court might turn the case away and hope Congress would just fix the law.

And the title is a quote from Thurgood Marshall in the 1970s when he was hearing these cases and he heard this.

the extent of the authority of the border patrol to stop and search people and and so he he was it's from the oral arguments and he was asking so you're saying you can stop anyone and search their vehicle in this border zone and the the lawyer for the government said yes And so he said, OK, could you stop the chief justice, Chief Justice Warren Burger sitting here beside me? If he's driving in the border zone, you're saying you can stop and search his vehicle without a warrant.

And the lawyer said yes.

And so then he said, OK, what about Richard Nixon? the president of the United States at the time, you're saying you can search his vehicle in this border zone? And the lawyer says, yeah.

It's about serving in a state militia.

In fact, in the 1980s, then Republican Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger went on TV and said the idea that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to bear arms was one of the greatest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people.

A Republican Chief Justice in the 1980s.

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And in fact, that's why Congress wrote the Voting Rights Act the way it did.

And that's why Congress repaired the Voting Rights Act after the court under Bill Rehnquist and Warren Burger tried to dismantle that provision.

Because we know that that's how it works in America, that voting and race are inextricably linked together, and that there's been a longstanding multi-decade effort with various permutations to by the whites in charge, whatever their party may be, to limit the power of black voters.

And so that's what this is about.

In 1971, the Supreme Court ruled for them, unanimously.

Chief Justice Warren Burger wrote it.

Nixon's pick, a Republican appointee.

And the rule he wrote is simple.