#34 Why Dick Durbin Won’t Confront a Radical Supreme Court With Gabe Garbowit

Gabe Garbowit, former Senate staffer for Tina Smith, joins me to help explain why Senate Democrats, especially in leadership, have responded to a radicalized Supreme Court and GOP in ways that don’t make a lot of sense to us common folk.
This is part one of a two-part episode. You're welcome.

In this part, you will hear:

• How things have come to become so radicalized within the U.S. Supreme Court
• How Dick Durbin has not been checking the Court with the tools at his committee’s disposal
• Why is the leadership for the Democratic party so lax in handling seemingly obvious corruption?
• The difference between how Republicans and Democrats use their resources to get what they want
• The downside of taking the high road or being the adult in the room when things go sideways
• What would the polls look like if Biden were running against someone other than Trump?
• And more!

Guest Info: 

Gabe Garbowit is the former Digital Media Specialist for Senator Tina Smith and found his way to the Hill sort of by accident — but has been invested in carving out his own space in the Senate’s digital landscape since his arrival in 2018. Garbowit left Congress and took a sharp turn away from politics. He worked briefly as a meat cutter at a Washington barbecue joint and then moved back to Minnesota.

He’s more than 1,000 miles away from the Capitol now, but the challenges he experienced working on the Hill are still top of mind. Garbowit decided to do something he hopes will improve conditions for former compatriots still working in the Senate and those yet to join. In 2023, he launched SenateUnionTracker.com, which, true to its domain name, tracks the union support or opposition of all 100 senators.

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