Hmmm... "THEY WOULD WRITE THE DECISION EITHER IN BLOOD OR IN INK. AND THEY OPTED FOR INK." - no yell

[WillyT]

This is the weirdest way I've ever seen a transcript done, but... It came in ALL CAPS!!!

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Oh... just figured it out... they take their transcripts from their closed captioning software.

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Anywho... watched a discussion on C-Span http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/PowerFr&showFullAbstract=1 involving Jeffery Toobin, and Jeff Shesol, author of the book, 'Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court': http://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Power-Franklin-Roosevelt-Court/dp/0393064743 about the Court Packing Scandal.

Jeff Shesol recalls Franklin Roosevelt's confrontation with the U.S. Supreme Court over objections to vital elements of his New Deal legislation. In 1937 the president announced a plan to expand the court to ensure that liberal justices would outnumber conservatives. Mr. Shesol reports that President Roosevelt's plan failed but helped push through New Deal legislation while it created a fissure in the Democratic Party that the author maintains led to future Republican ascendance. Jeff Shesol discussed his book with Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer at The New Yorker and senior legal analyst at CNN at the New York Historical Society in New York City.

Speaking about how tense/possibly revolutionary things were back then, Shesol bought up this quote from the time:

... <THE> DECISION ON THE WAGNER ACT, AND THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT, THAT THEY WOULD WRITE THE DECISION EITHER IN BLOOD OR AN INK. AND THEY OPTED FOR INK.

Sounds like we're heading right back there.

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