Heard Tell w/ Andrew Donaldson for 18FEB22

Clownshow Judicial Hearing, Essential/Non-essential Businesses Revisited, Arbery, guest Attorney Zeke Webster

Heard Tell for Wednesday, February 17th, 2022 is turning down the noise and getting to the information we need about a senate confirmation hearing for three district court nominees that turned into an utter clown show when three US Senators started equating The Innocence Project working to free wrongfully convicted folks as being responsible for rising crime rates. Guest Zeke Webster returns to Heard Tell, and as an attorney and public defender talks about the work of the Innocence Project, the asinine correlations of freeing the innocent and being “soft on crime”, how such attitudes permeate every layer of the criminal judicial system, and how concepts like freedom and justice mean nothing if the wrongfully accused and convicted lose their rights. Also, we take a question on Twitter from a member of the audience to re-examine the designations of “essential” and “non-essential” businesses during the COVID pandemic, how such designations had vast and real consequences, and how some states are pushing back legislatively to prevent such arbitrary rulings under emergency powers from picking and choosing which businesses can and cannot be open. Plus, we check in on the Ahmaud Arbery federal hate…