John Oliver Rewrites ‘You Have the Right to Remain Silent’

On Last Week Tonight, John Oliver tackled what’s wrong in the world of our legal system, specifically public defenders. “Fifty years after the Supreme Court gave everyone the fundamental right to an attorney even if you can’t afford one, we now have a system where the most vulnerable people are potentially being charged for access to a hideously broken system. And we either need to fix that, or at the very least update the Miranda warning in our cop shows to reflect reality.” And they updated the Miranda warning, via a short video that spliced together scenes from a number of cop shows.