35 Burst results for "Diane"
Mike Gallagher Podcast
DeSantis-Aligned Group Publishes Ad on Trump's Gun Policy
"This is a new ad from a desantis aligned political action committee. Attacking Donald Trump. Trump promised in our members he'd have their back. But when Second Amendment rights came under attack, Trump abandoned us and stood with liberal Democrats. You guys have for yourself afraid of the NRA. We have to fight them every once in a while. That's okay. Some of you people are petrified of the NRA. You can't be petrified. They have great power over you people. They have less power over me. I don't need it. I don't what do I need? That is why I have called for red flag laws. Take the firearms first and then go to court. I like taking the guns early. Take the guns first, go through due process. He and I introduced another assault weapons Bill. And you have some very good ideas, Diane, if you could add what you have also, and I think you can into the Bill, show where you're ready. Can you do that? Joe, can you do that? Can you add if you help? Well, no, I'll help, but can you add what Amy and what Diane have can we add them in? We're talking about rules and regulations for purchasing, talking about changing an age from 18 to 21. I mean, I say that it should all be a 21. You do strong background checks. We're getting rid of the bump stocks. Trump cut and run like a coward. Trump the gun grabber doesn't deserve a second chance.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Ro Khanna Calls for Dianne Feinstein's Retirement
"So folks one of the funniest members of the house is Democrat ro Khanna Ro Khanna will say anything to try to look like a moderating force in the party He goes on Fox a lot I think he does it to try to appear like oh look I'm reaching out to the other side The guy's a total phony He's a phone He's an epic level phone Here he is User O'Connor queue up for me cut H him He goes on CNN and he's like listen keep in mind Ron is a Democrat He's talking about Democrat senator from California dianne Feinstein He's like listen I really think she needs to step aside Step besides she's getting old Then say anything about Biden stepping aside but Diane Feinstein But is there an agenda here Yeah take a listen Why are you asking dianne Feinstein to resign First of all let me just say this I have an enormous amount of respect for senator dianne Feinstein She has had an extraordinary career in public service She's been an icon on issues of gun violence and women's rights But it has become painfully obvious to many of us in California that she is no longer able to fulfill her duties as she doesn't have a clear return date We haven't been able to confirm judges at a time where women's rights and voting rights are under assault Oh wow principal position I wonder where again why isn't he calling for Biden to resign It was clearly as cognitively compromised as Feinstein He's not calling for that
AP News Radio
Teacher shot by 6-year-old files $40 million lawsuit, claims warnings ignored
"The first grade teacher shot by a 6 year old at her school in Virginia has filed a $40 million lawsuit. The suit filed by 25 year old Newport News teacher Abbey's Werner accuses school officials of gross negligence for allegedly ignoring multiple warnings on January 6th the day she was shot in the chest and hand by a first grader who brought his mother's gun to school. This tragedy was entirely preventable. The Werner's attorney Diane toscano addressed the issue at a news conference on January 25th. Three times. School administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him at the school. So Werner spent nearly two weeks in the hospital and has had four surgeries, the suit says the defendants knew the boy had a history of random
The Eric Metaxas Show
What James Tour Can Do With Molecules Will Blow Your Mind
"You did was you met. In other words, it's conceivable maybe that you can make molecules or manipulate molecules. But you made molecules where each molecule, I know, look, you did this 14, 15, 16 years ago. This is like no big deal to you. But you made molecules that each molecule is a car. Yes. So let's go back to that, describe molecules that are effectively cars. You were able to do this. Yes. So each molecule is one molecule, they're very small. You can part 50,000 of them across the diameter of the human hair. 50,000 of them on the Diane. Side to side. Yes. Parked. Since their cars. Yes. 50,000 of them across the diameter of a human here. Yes. Okay, so they're that small. Yes. But you were able to manipulate things so that they function as cars. How do you mean that? Okay, so they all have four wheels. They all have four axles. They have a chassis. And on that chassis is a motor. Okay, what kind of a motor? I mean, what do you mean? There's a motor. It is light activated. You shine a light and the motor spins at 3 million rotations per second. And what is the motor comprised of? Carbon hydrogen and sulfur. Is there a glove box? No? We can put one in. A teeny bite. A teeny weeny. We could. Anyway, I just wanted to give you all a sense. I mean, so imagine a single molecule that has four wheels under there. And it's one molecule. And you're telling me it's so small that it can fit across, that 50,000 of them would fit across a human hair. So that's the scale at which you are working.
Mark Levin
Catherine Herridge Implies U.S. Government Paid for Research in Wuhan
"Catherine herridge is on CBS mornings today She's actually a great reporter She used to work for Fox And she's going at it a bit over these projects at China's Wuhan lops through the NIH and the USAID And I want you to listen to some of this if you would Cut 15 mister producer go Sources tell CBS News and investigation of this complexity could take at least 6 months to reach a conclusion about whether U.S. government agencies were billed twice for projects in Wuhan China The probe kicked off after new information came to light from Congress We are collecting evidence here And collecting facts Former federal investigator Diane cutler spent two decades combating white collar crime in healthcare fraud During the pandemic cutler turned her attention to U.S. government grants that supported coronavirus related research in China How many records have you viewed My collection is certainly well over 50,000 documents Records reviewed by CBS News indicate the U.S. government may have paid twice for projects at the Wuhan labs through the national Institutes of health and the U.S. agency Jesus sick So basically it was like pulling teeth to find that our government the Fauci and their hemorrhoids did in fact pay for these projects at the Wuhan lab Now the question isn't whether they pay by whether they pay twice Well I can see why they want to increase my taxes Can't you mister producer If they're not experimenting on beagles I guess they're doing this sort of thing
The Charlie Kirk Show
What's the Deal With Biden's Clueless FAA Nominee?
"Charlie, did you see Phil Washington? Oh boy, this is a great topic. Biden's pick to lead the FAA. Completely fail under scrutiny of senator Ted Budd, from North Carolina. Why on earth does Biden insist on unqualified nominees? And Diane from Oxnard, California. By the way, Oxnard right next to not next to you, but right near Santa Barbara. And so thank you for the question. She said, didn't we just have a breakdown of air travel over the holidays? You know, it's interesting. Tucker Carlson deserves a lot of credit for this. Tucker years ago would do monologue after monologue trying to warn people that woke ism, one of the first things woke ism will, in fact, and it will harm your day to today life is infrastructure. The ability to get from one place to another place to get goods from one place to another place. This is one of the most painful clips I think you'll ever see. And one of the reasons this keeps on happening is because the Biden regime does not believe competency is the top priority or the reason to be in a leadership position in government. Here's Phil Washington, the nominee to run the FAA he goes zero for 7. It's an extraordinary clip play cut one 13. Mister Washington, can you quickly tell me what airspace requires an ADS-B transponder? Not sure I can answer that question right now. So what are the 6 types of special use airspace? Sorry, senator, I can not answer that question. So what are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under basic med in senator? I'm not a pilot. So can you tell me what causes an aircraft to spin or to stall again, senator? I'm not a pilot. Okay. Let's keep going. What are the three aircraft certifications FAA requires as part of the manufacturing process that the three types? Okay. Let's just keep going and see if we can. Get lucky here. So can you tell me what the minimum separation distance is for landing into parting airliners during the daytime? I don't want to guess on that senator. Are you familiar with the difference between one O 7 and part 44 8 O 9 when it comes to unmanned aerial? No, I can not it's okay. Senator Ted Budd, I got to give him credit. He did a fabulous job. He's totally wrong on Ukraine. That's not even a topic because I've been a little bit hard on him recently, but that is a masterclass in how to just run a Senate hearing.
The Officer Tatum Show
Kari Lake Loses Appeal in Arizona Governor Race Challenge
"Carrie Lake. I love Carrie Lake. I think she ran an incredible campaign. For the most part, I think she won, I thought she ran a winning campaign. Obviously, it did not turn out that way. I thought she was running a winning campaign. But from her campaign, I realized that we have to switch strategies, right? The strategies of being trumpeted Trump, Trump, Trump Trump Trump, and also, you know, coming out against other Republicans who are not trumpers or who are probably what they call never trumpers or establishment Republicans coming out against establishment Republicans probably isn't a good way to win. It may be a good way to feel good. It may activate the base, but maybe it's not a good strategy to win because in the primary, if you alienate half of the voting block in the Republican Party, you can see a dismal turnout. And I'm saying this with all love, respect, and honor for Carrie Lake. Carrie Lake has brought the ballot election issue to Arizona Court of Appeals. And she was denied. And if Republicans and conservatives and arizonans don't pay attention to what the ruling said, I just, we have no hope.
The Officer Tatum Show
The GOP Is Starting to Plot Against Donald Trump
"So desantis and my opinion, I'm going to reiterate this. And the reason why, because I want to put it out in the atmosphere, I'm so confident that I have the sermon in this. And I hope the guy that I'm wrong. But I have confident I have discernment. I want to put it out as much as I can. So whenever it occurs, I can say, go back and look at the show that I did. I told you guys that this was going to happen. I really do think that we should be mindful, even though George Soros is a nut job and I think he's evil. We should be mindful that some of the things that he just said because a broke clock is right twice a day. And there have been major Republican donors that have decided they're not going to support Donald Trump. And could that be, that could be inconsequential? But I think that to me, I want to know why. I want to know what their opinions are. Because everybody that disagree with Trump isn't a rhino. But these people, Republican donors, two of them gave $53 million to Republicans in the primary and gave millions of dollars to Trump in 2020. What is their articulable reason as to why they're not supporting Trump anymore? They weren't never trumpers. These are people who gave millions of dollars to president Trump and his campaign.
The Officer Tatum Show
Free Speech? It Depends
"I ain't never in my life thought about one of these lame Democrats coming and speaking somewhere. And I'm like, they shouldn't be able to speak here. It's like, man, their ideas are dumb. I don't care what they say. By all means, come here and speak. And I would love to have a seminar alongside yours that debunk everything that you're talking about. And I'm not saying every Democrat I'm saying that the Democrats are most familiar with. And so when they butts hurt over me coming to the university to speak, is mind-blowing to me. Because they get up on their pedestal and say, Black Lives Matter. I'm here for black voices. It's not enough to be racist. You gotta be antiracist. You gotta be against racism. Black and brown voices don't get divorced. It's like white people do. And then a black man come to university and you're trying to cancel him. And I bet you it's nothing but white people. It's crazy to me. Stephen Davis and Stephen Davis. Isn't the last name Davis? I got Stephen Davis as a football player too. They call America home Steven. He was at a university as well and he's trying to speak in antifa is in the background interrupting him. And he pretty much called him out and exposed him. He said, I thought y'all were for black voices. And he said, in the guy said, sometimes, he said, oh, oh, so you told the truth. So you're not always a black voice. You only black for black voices sometimes. But y'all out here claiming that you were advocates and allies for black people, and you support black people having a chance to speak.
The Officer Tatum Show
Trans Activist Claims It's 'Offensive' to Compare Men to Women
"I want to play this clip from this trans activist that literally made the reference to say that it is offensive. In a world of everybody getting offended, even conservatives, all offended, feelings hurt. Don lemon needs to be fired. Man, why y'all? Really? That man can be dumb all he wants. He can say whatever he wants to say. We want to be able to say we want to say but then Don lemon said, we jump on the band wagon and just like they do. He should be fired. How dare he say that about Nikki Haley. It's like, bro, you can say whatever you want to say, and if what you say is not resonate with the people, then let capitalism do its job. All right, I want to play the clip of this trans activist and I want you to think and process to yourself what you think about what she said because I know y'all can't like and subscribe and all that other stuff. But road clip three. Today, my name is Taryn Jones and I am the lobbyist for equality Kansas and a lifelong cans in. I am here to testify an opposition of SV one 80. SB one 80 talks about how there's differences in biological sexes between men and women and how men are stronger and taller. I find that incredibly offensive.
The Officer Tatum Show
Going Through Changes
"Now, if that was Don lemon 100% wrong, no he wasn't. Because if just say that Nikki Haley was experiencing menopause, now it's not her fault, but if you become more irritable, if you are depressed, if you have mood swings, your sex drive is gone pretty much or at a lower level, then that means you ain't getting on. I mean, come on. These are problematic things that a woman could be experiencing. But instead of society saying, okay, if a woman gets to this point, we should be supportive of this woman we should be, we should love on our understand that we have differences. Men don't have to go through this. We should do that in society instead, they want to act like it don't happen. The women on the panel get in their feelings because he said a woman ain't her prom. You can say all day to the couch come home that a man ain't in his prime. If he's in his 50s or 60s, and nobody will say anything. You won't have to apologize. You won't have to do anything. But let's just be honest. And these are things that women have to go through, and I think some women would admire the fact of saying, hey, acknowledge that I'm going through these things and don't pressure me into trying to do things that literally make life harder on me. I would argue that a woman in her 50s or 60s or woman is going through menopause, if a husband structures his situation correctly, his woman should not have to be working while experiencing these things. She should be able to sit at home, put her feet up, and if she's having these mood swings or whatever, then you can be there to support her and she don't have to go slave over somebody's job, experiencing these things that she's not that she can not control.
The Officer Tatum Show
Don Lemon Says Women Over 50 Are Not in Their Prime
"All right, let me get into two things I want to talk about. The Don lemon shenanigans. And I'll say this in y'all going to be mad at me, but I don't care 'cause I'm about the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help me Jesus of Nazareth. Don lemon was right. What he said about Nikki Haley, at least his commentary on Nikki Haley. He was right. I'm gonna show you why he was right, but see the funny thing is, and I'm not trying to be rude to women, but women y'all can't sometimes y'all can't take responsibility, y'all don't want nobody to say nothing that makes sense that hurts your feelings. You know, women that are past 50, Don lemon said that when you are in your 50s as is Nikki Haley that you're not in your prime, he wasn't lying. He didn't say that you can't achieve goals you can't do great things. He said you're not in your prime. Now I'm going to tell you after I let you listen to Don lemon's clip and I'm going to read something to you about things that women go through after they in a 50s and you tell me is this a woman in her prime? Let me play the clip of Don lemon roll clip one. About age makes me uncomfortable. I think that I think it's the wrong road to go down. She says people, you know, politicians or something and not in their prime. Nikki Haley is in a prime. Sorry. When a woman is considered to be in her prime in her 20s and 30s and maybe 40s. What are you talking about? That's not according to me. Prime for what? It depends. It's just like prime. If you look it up, if you look, if you Google, when is a woman in her prime, it'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s. I don't necessarily think I agree with that. So I think she has to be careful about saying that politicians are in their prime. We need to qualify. Are you talking about prime for like child labor or are you talking about? Are Google and everybody at home? When is a woman in her prime? It says 2030s and 40s, and I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians are not in their prime and they need to be in their prime when they serve because she wouldn't be in a prime, according to Google. Google or whatever it is.
AP News Radio
‘Torso Killer’ admits killing 5 women decades ago near NYC
"A convicted serial killer in New York has gotten another life sentence behind bars after confessing to 5 more killings on Long Island in the 60s and 70s. 76 year old Richard cottingham is considered one of the most prolific serial killers in America, already jailed for 11 homicides. This defendant has caused irreparable harm to so many people and so many families. There's almost nothing I can say to give comfort to anyone. That's our county district attorney and Donnelly on WABC TV, says cottingham has confessed in court to 5 more killings. In exchange for a conviction on just one additional count. 23 year old Diane Cusick, who was accosted and killed, after buying shoes at the green acres mall in 1968. John Moyes spent decades wondering who killed his mother. He thanks the detectives who never gave up. The sun shines brightly. Because justice has been served. I'm Jackie Quinn
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Matthew Perry Is Still Using
"So I'm watching the show the view to see how Matthew Perry sounded and appeared to me because he was on the view the other day and this would be the third time I saw him since the Diane Sawyer interview. And some of you people on the free show don't know that I said, I think he's still using. I don't think this is a good ending. I can feel he's not being honest with us. I said that. About a week ago, maybe four days ago. And I said, I don't care what anybody else thinks. This is what I think about being around addicts, my whole life. I know they talk. I know their answers. I know the way they think. I don't believe him. He's trying hard, but I don't think he's straight. Sorry. And I'm going to hold hold firm on that. So today, I get an email from one of my patrons, and it goes AJ based on your recommendation. My wife and I watched the Diane Sawyer interview with Matthew Perry. My wife is a 30 year substance abuse nurse with a master's degree, she lost a child to addiction. But she's worked in several hospitals and built several hospitals in multiple states. So this is not just somebody who dabbled. It is what this woman knows. I say all this to inform you of her breath of experience and knowledge. As we watch the show, no less than every 5 minutes she told me to pause the TV so that she can let me know that all of Matt's mannerisms, speech patterns, words, stumbles, and chubby fingers. Hands, yes, they are 100% indicative of a non sober person. He said, we have no doubt that Matt is currently using and my personal prediction is that he will over those before New Year's Day 2023. Well, let's not. I hope not. And he closed by saying you did excellent reporting back when he was in the hospital. Better than Diane Sawyer did on that interview. That's good. Yeah, it's the way I feel. I'm happy to have somebody with so much knowledge in this field back me up, but those of you who have been with me for 5 years on the Patreon show know that I stick my neck out, I go out on limbs and I'm often right.
AP News Radio
'Change has come': Mississippi unveils Emmett Till statue
"A Mississippi community unveiled a larger than life statue of Emmett Till on Friday not far from where white men kidnapped and killed the black teen in 1955 over accusations he flirted with a white woman Hundreds cheering and clapping some wiping away tears seeing the 9 foot tall bronze statue of Emmett Till in Greenwood Diane west grew up hearing cautionary tales about his murder We just have to be here because justice is being served State senator David Jordan who was instrumental in getting the statue says he remembers attending the murder trial in 1955 and vowing to make a difference It made a mockery of justice And I swore then that if I ever get a chance I would do my best to make my best For African American The Emmett Till statue was a short drive from a confederate monument outside the county courthouse I'm Julie Walker
AP News Radio
How Florida officials are working to mitigate floods ahead of Hurricane Ian
"The White House is urging floridians to take hurricane Ian seriously Get ready From fema administrator Diane griswell to President Biden who says the storm could be very severe Life threatening and devastating in its impact The administration's pleading with Florida residents do not underestimate Ian but griswell knows some will I do have concerns about complacency In dunedin along the Gulf Coast I'm a Floridian and we know how to deal with hurricanes Kelly Johnson says she's staying home Two blocks from the beach This is what we do And has a generator ready in
AJ Benza: Fame is a Bitch
Songwriting Legend Diane Warren Shot Down for Having a Good Question
"So Diane Lauren decides to weigh in on this whole renaissance nonsense. I'm so glad she did because she brought something up that really needs to be discussed. Diane Warren prolific songwriter has worked with Beyoncé before. The song I was here, she wrote that for Beyoncé, but because she spoke up, members of Beyoncé's beehive just, you know, they don't think she's anybody. They think she's some out of touch white lady who doesn't understand the songwriting process. No, because she's probably the best of all time, assholes. But you know, she rightfully questioned why in God's name on the 25 writers on one of Beyoncé's tracks. This is the first time that's happened. Beyoncé's known for crazy. Remember, her daughter Blue Ivy got a producer credit? And it was basically up for a Grammy at like four years old, whatever the fuck? The song they're talking about. I'm done. There's something to answer. It's called alien superstar. It's basically Beyoncé bragging about how she's the best and all you are the hose need to get out of her way, standing stuff from Beyoncé lately. Now, Beyoncé has got a super producer called the dream, he had the response back to Diane on Twitter, and he made it racial in a nanosecond. For no reason. He wrote back to Diane, you mean how does all black culture have so many writers? Well, it started because we couldn't afford certain things thought. Now, so we started sampling and it became an art form. A major part of the black culture in America had that era not happened. Who knows? You good? This tweet is filled with grammatical errors and bad spelling. Just 5th grade level of correspondence. Not that it matters. The guy's got 25, 30 million in the bank, but still. And then this little condescending prick goes further. He says, I know it's not a one on one songwriting contest. You looking far from no one over here. You don't want that smoke. And you know I love you, but come on, stop acting like your records haven't been sampled. Then of course, all white lady gets very scared of said black man and has to bow down because, you know, we can't, you can't go toe to toe with anybody that's not white. It's racist. So the end bows down. I didn't mean that as an attack or as disrespect. I didn't know this. Thank you for making me aware of it. No need to be mean. I meant under suspected Beyoncé, I work with it before. I admire her. I'm sorry for the missing the standing. Have a backbone, Diane Warren.
AP News Radio
Some Democrats voting in GOP primaries to block Trump picks
"Some Democrats have been voting in Republican primaries to keep Donald Trump backed extremists from winning control of state and federal governments In Georgia Diane Murray says it made her feel icky but it had to be done The Democrat voted in the GOP primary for Secretary of State Brad raffensperger to stop a Trump backed election denier from winning raffensperger probably would not have won the primary without people like Murray An AP analysis of early voting records from data firm L two found an unusually high number of so called crossover voters who were key to beating Trump's hand picked candidates dozens of states allow the practice and its playing out in multiple primaries but it's often ineffective In some cases Democrats were too focused on their own competitive races to vote in GOP primaries Sagar Meghani Washington
The Diane Rehm Show
"diane" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"That will maybe even escape vaccine effectiveness and then they will travel to the united states So it's it's it's morally right and it's in our best interests but there is a middle way and i'm surprised that we're stuck in two different camps in one says just boost everybody and the other says boost nobody. I think there's a there's a way for us to kind of have arcachon to it. So to speak for eric gosden before we close. Is there anything else you'd like to add. I would just say this diane that a lot of people who who haven't been vaccinated they're good decent people. I i think that particularly the progressive left has been too quick to to blame to shame and to want to punish. I'm not in that camp. I think we need to have sympathy. Incompassion but i do say this. There's such good reasons to roll up your sleeves and get the job dude for yourself. Do it for your your family and your neighbors do it for the health workers when you go into hospital and do it for the for the common good. It's the ethically right thing to do. But it's also really in your best interest and everybody's best interests to do it professor and thank you so much. Thank you diana great admirers of yours as you know and i was really pleased to be refused. That was long and scott. Stint professor at global health at georgetown university hadn't authorized a new book global health security and that talk for today. You can find us on facebook and twitter. Where's is heading data xanten the email d. our podcast at w. amu dot org are theme. Music is composed. By jim brent. Bergen inlands verka wonder late. This show is produced by alison. Brody with help from. Sandra baker are engineered. Today is michael kidd. Thanks for listening all the well stay safe. I'm diane ream..
The Diane Rehm Show
"diane" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"Should we prioritize. Booster shots for americans or should we make sure those letting other countries gave the first dose. Lawrence austin is an expert on global health law at georgetown university. He joined named friday afternoon. They help explain legal and health implications of those decisions professor. Gosden we've been asking. We've had social distancing we done lots of things to try to slow down or halt virus but it keeps roaring back plus the delta variant. Tell us what's happening in terms of numbers and white hugh thing that is well you know. We've we've got over seventy percent of our population at least partially vaccinated. But there's still a large swath of people who are not vaccinated. And so that is as you said diane. We've really tried everything we've you know. We've we've distanced. We've masked we've even locked down in. The virus does keep roaring back And vaccinations are are way out. They are way back to doing what we all yearn to do. Which is go out with a friend or family to to a restaurant or a cafe. Go to a concert go to movie. Get on a plane and feel safe. We can't do any of these until we really boost the vaccination rachel effectively now we are in a an epidemic because the united states of the unvaccinated. We have ample supply it's free. We've made it accessible. We've used every health education tool that we possibly can but there's still a large resistance and we've politicized what is truly just a neutral scientific tool. It's not intended to punish or blame. It's only there to help us be healthy and there's no reason that should be a political football but it is and it's even more than ad- somehow the resistance coming from. Some people seem so personal. Seems as though. I don't trust the experts are saying so. It's even more than political. I think there's a lot of political opportunism and that. Republicans who want to get out of this pandemic as much as democrats do of used it as kind of a political tool to try to gain favor with their base. But you're right. There are a lot of good decent caring people who just don't trust. It's hard to know what to do because the evidence really couldn't be more clear we've had twenty to fifty thousand people in clinical trials shown it to be safe and effective in the united states. We've given literally hundreds of millions of doses highly safe and effective worldwide. We've given over two billion doses safe and effective. It's hard to know what more we can do to encourage people to say. Listen it really is safe. And i think that they're getting. They're getting pushed from below by social media and disinformation and they're being pushed from above by opportunistic politicians. That no better or should know better but are fanning the flames and it's a toxic brew particularly here in the united states. Where just about everything. Political even putting on a mask is political and So where we go from here. So that brings me to the question of mandates and my question for you is about the history of vaccine mandates in this country we are were. The first vaccine mandate Down and by whom my surprise you. The truth is that this is part of the american story. Part of the american history knows a lot of politicians like jim jordan said that it's un-american the mandates but in fact they go back a long way even before edward jenner had discovered the idea of a vaccine in seventeen ninety six when he injected cowpox into somebody to prevent smallpox. And that's what we call it. A vaccine inoculation because it actually comes from the idea of a cow because it was cowpox but even before that general george washington when when when he was fighting the revolutionary war ordered his troops to be inoculated with smallpox. This was before jenner even discovered the idea of inoculation. It was basically taking the kind of rough patchy skin of a smallpox victim and then scraping it onto the arm of a soldier and all soldiers did that. No there was a reason for vaccine hesitancy then not now and so it went back then And i have to say that within a few years after seventeen ninety six. When when edward jenner did this in eighteen hundred nine there was the very first vaccine mandate in the united states for smallpox. And ever. since then we've been mandating vaccines. Initially for smallpox. The supreme court has upheld compulsory vaccination. Not once but twice and right now and for the last half a century. Every child who goes to school is required in every state of the union to get a series of cdc recommended childhood. Vaccinations so foreign to americans. Very american so first of all. I have to ask you did george. Washington's approach six aid. Yes no though. Obviously there were people who contracted smallpox from from the wild from from the battlefield. Nanny contracted actually from the inoculation itself but often it was just a very mild illness and then they became immune to smallpox so it was part of the continental army's strategy to live and is not very well known to americans but actually more people die of infectious diseases and infections during war including world war one in world war. Two then die of bullets. So that's why we routinely have for a long time require.
The Diane Rehm Show
"diane" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"I think that has been a a stress producer for this all forces well of course as we mark nine. Eleven is really so much about what happened on that day. And we're not thinking so much about what happened afterwards. And as you said the one percent hers who followed orders and went first to afghanistan then to iraq. Which you and i were totally against. I'm so glad you've written as to remind us People who went to afghanistan to iraq to help maintain the safety of this country for the twenty years since absolutely and of course. We've all been watching these horrific images from afghanistan. And i'm i'm getting questions from people who serve as saying you know. Was this in vain. You know the taliban sweeping back and my comment is always know is your service was not in vain. I was in washington on nine eleven and reporting about the tag on the pentagon and in new york every counterterrorism person. I talked to expert. And i talked to many of them Over over the years after nine eleven. They all said that you know we're going to get hit again with a terroristic tacklers similar to nine eleven. It's it's going to happen. It's inevitable because we have to be on the defensive. You have to be perfect all the time. The terrorists only have to be perfect once But that didn't happen didn't happen because we sent the military over there. And they put constant pressure they decimated the leadership of al qaeda. They decimated the leadership of al qaeda and iraq. They killed every leader of isis. The leader of al qaida leader of al qaeda in iraq So they'd kept intense pressure on these groups and it's not in the reason they haven't it is not because they quit. Tryin is because we were constantly Pressuring them denying them. Sanctuary in places like afghanistan. And that's why we haven't been hit for the last twenty years so that service is definitely not been in vain as kept this country safe now now. The question arises can we continue to keep our country safe now. The taliban back enough ghanistan her honor. Where were there. In those wars twenty-five they call themselves recipients. Because i said that to to one of them too young referred to him as a winner and i was i was i was told you know this is not a something you win. This is something you earn and And it's a weighty award diane for these guys because in almost every case it reminds them of the worst day of their lives and so they don't like to talk about. You know what happened that day And they described it as a very weighty burden because they see themselves as as a as a stand in for the people who didn't come back in the colleagues that were lost and So they bear this award and do some public speaking about it frequently because they want to draw attention to their colleagues who were also Showed extreme valor and especially the ones who came back injured or didn't make it back at all sank many if not most were resentful abbvie nonmilitary population when they return. I did not get that from them. You know the we one reason why it was the country..
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
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"Diane. If you on my mind recognizing the men and women on the front lines had that narrow. Because longest wars the men of honor is the military's tribute for your bravery established in the eighteen sixties. Now warded more than thirty five hundred times. Twenty five those in the conflicts since nine eleven james kid field is a journalist who covered the wars in iraq and afghanistan as the twentieth anniversary of nine eleven approached. He began gathering stories that these most reefs medal of honor winners. What emerge webs a picture of rave ary camaraderie and a unique on the ground view of america's longest wars. His book is.
Entrepreneur Perspectives
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"Just go in these different directions and say keep pursuing it and i think someone like you and you specifically give the people the ability to say that you can do this and it doesn't have to be what everyone thinks it should be. It could be one hour a day honestly. Not i mean it's just and you can stop you know what it's funny because i have a blog post coming out soon. That talks about how you can start a business just dedicating fifteen minutes a day. I mean like there is no magic timetable to starting a business. This is your life right. Yeah i mean. I have a client. I worked with for years and she wanted to keep her business small. She was a consultant also in a different more on operation side of things and she kept her business small purposely for the same reasons i did but then again when her kids were out of the house and grown and flown she really decided to focus on growing it and we work together to change the focus and really seriously grow her business. I mean things changed life evolves. Everyone circumstances change. I think the theme is nothing. Stays the same offense as a say. That now is has been great. Diane and i appreciate it all because it's just like you said before new like we're just gonna walk and secure son and sitting there and like just having a conversation just talking through things and we can do it for hours you know. Who's reaching out to you or the types of people that should be reaching out to you and who do you wanna talk to play. you know. it doesn't matter what industry doesn't matter where you're located but you've got an idea and you wanna make it real or you started is stock in you. Need some help getting unstuck. Those are the people. I wanna talk because awesome..
The Diane Rehm Show
"diane" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"I hope it leaves. The course will settle on the side of the courts are. Let's go back to abortion. If in fact in texas it becomes virtually impossible to get an abortion because some person might site A an abortion clinic or a doctor or a person seeking at an abortion and that person or site might be fine ten thousand dollars. I mean where does this leave abortion as we go forward. Is this away a route by which to do away with roe v. Wade hit the short answer is it is a route by which states can at least temporarily make road gut letter And that is a especially problematic because women seeking to vindicate their right under row did not exactly have a lot of time And so even temporary Efforts like this will be enormously successful and prevent him a very very significant group of women from obtaining a lawful abortion the tricky part before melissa. But i don't think it's quite right to say that it's therefore do away with row in the sense that the right kind of lawsuit should be able to block this right that indeed. I think it's a matter of time before the texas state courts start saying that. Sba is unconstitutional. The problem is that those rulings are not going to open. The clinic's doors overnight because again of this procedural rube goldberg device that the state legislature has has has has built a has concocted. And so i think there really is a distinction here between ro- being for the moment functionally dead in texas which is an enormous problem and row as a precedent where i still think that the supreme court has not yet relegated to the historical dustbin. The question diane is. How do we square those two things And that's why i for one was especially disappointed at the supreme court on wednesday night did not intervene. Because i you know the court can say as a matter of pure legal analysis that we are not getting rid of ro even though we're allowing us to go into effect on the ground in texas today. That's a distinction without a difference. Show there is a piece of is an awful lot. I don't understand about this but one. Pac in particular in heard dissent justice. Elaine kagan specifically highlighted the cords erratic shadow duck decision making. Explain what this shadow doc is so. This is absolutely something that i've been reading about for a while but it's kind of weird that now. It's it's theme. The shadow docket is. It's a term that was invented in twenty fifteen by chicago law professor in will bode but it actually has been around forever and it's not as nefarious as it sounds. I mean it's really a term. Diane that law lawyers and law professors use to describe that part of the supreme court's work that is less visible to the public Most of which is fairly anodyne case management where the court is issuing orders about when cases. We're going to be heard or which cases are going to be heard or who's going to participate in the case of them. Not no one's gonna lose sleepover. There's a very small slice of this orders. Docket that involves what are called requests for emergency relief and this is a party has lost in a lower court. The appeals gonna take some time and the question is while that appeal is go him. What's the law on the ground. Going to be. What is the status quo going to be. And it's there that we've seen in the last five. Six years in norman uptick not just in the number of cases where the supreme court is issuing emergency. Relief is change in the status quo pending appeal. But also diane in what kinds of cases we're seeing so as opposed to say the nineteen nineteen ninety-two thousands where most of those emergency applications dealt with death. Row inmates on the eve of their execution. Those righteously important but they weren't making statewide or national law. Now we're seeing numbers. The applications about the fiction moratorium or the texas abortion law or president trump's immigration policies and. Whatever the court is due in this context is therefore affecting so many more people than was true historically so why has the e number of cases that have been considered. This way is so cold shadow. Docket how come that's gone up so much in the past few years ya know. Diana's it's the right question. And i think reasonable people are going to disagree a bit about some of the causes but here are a couple. I we have the trump administration and the trump administration radically increased. The number of times the supreme court was asked to provide this kind of relief so here just as a data point across the george w bush and obama administration so sixteen years. Two very different presidencies The justice department asked the supreme court firm urgency relieve it times so once every other year on average in four years the trump administration asks for centrally forty one times. So now you're going to hear different things about whether they were reacting to sort of unfair resistance from lower court judges or whether it was actually there problematic policies. That were an issue. I think we know where people are gonna fall on that just descriptively. Though the volume of cases where the supreme court was asked to. Intervene rose dramatically. And i think once the court started intervening more it became easier for the court to intervene more that the sort of the snowball started running down the hill. So this actually started as very much a trump administration phenomenon but it has not remained one We saw a number of very high profile shadow. Docket rulings last fall around the election. we've seen a bunch of very high profile shadow. Dr rulings This year and late last year with regard to stay kovin policies. Give me an example of some that were considered during the election. Sure so i mean. In the months leading up to the election. There was a fight over south carolina and the signature requirement on absentee ballots Where the court actually blocked lower court rulings that had suspended with the signature requirement. There was pennsylvania where there was a fight over whether the pennsylvania supreme court could allow for the council of late. Arrive in mellon absentee ballots where the court actually split four two four with justice ginsburg seat of course having been vacant since her death on september eighteenth after the election. There's an effort by congressman. Mike kelly to get the supreme court to freeze a lower court ruling that had a refused to block pennsylvania from certifying its electoral votes and the supreme court rejected kelly's application so these were all high profile. Diane shadow dot rulings in the sense that they were orders. Don't opinions in the sense that the supreme court dealt with most of these through one sentence of unsigned analysis and that's sort of in some respects inevitable it election cases but sort of to the point that this has become more common as it's become more common. I think it was. It felt less weird to the court to be getting all of these election cases in this context given how much time they've spent over the last four.
The Diane Rehm Show
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"I've known diane ream for at least twenty five years. I've been a guest program. What i appreciate about the podcast is. She is still up today and she still keeps her listeners up to date with. What's in the news right now. I'm really glad that she still has this forum that we still have this opportunity to process the us. I think. A lot of flying diane's voice our conflict. that's why she's so good at what she does. Hi it on.
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
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"Was low. But now fan man. I well ours Found while but now i see he. Nah i see. The book is titled men have constant sorrow. Dr ralph stanley. Thank you so much. Thank you robert enjoyed talking with you. And i you thank you. Thanks for listening. Oh i'm diane Won't just to Well what is is an hvac school hand taken. Hold of me he will. I am has none canny. How open the door to have an hour. Ooh that was my two thousand nine conversation with dr ralph stanley award winning singer and banjo player. He died in two thousand sixteen at age. Eighty nine toll for today. We hope we've act with eight new episode on fridays timber. Hit in the meantime you can find this all tastes again. Twitter for san nail de our podcast had wmu. Four kids can pose by jim. Brandenburg landsberg of one year late. This show is reduced by alison brody. Our engineer today is michael. Thanks for listening on be. Well stay safe. I'm diane rick.
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"Thanks for joining us. I'm diane rehm. A woman steps forward on stage as orchestra plays and introduction. She opens her mouth. And a beautiful sound flows out as easily as water from mcchrystal pitcher. This out and fills the entire concert hall as she stands relaxed and poised. It looks entirely natural. But that's not quite how it works. Acclaimed claim soprano ren slamming has written a book to offer a more accurate picture of how the operatic soprano sound is produced and how that woman gets on the stage in the first place her book his titled the inner voice renee fleming is now appearing at the new york metropolitan opera house in handel's wrote linda. She's here in the studio with me. we all. here's some of her glory as music. What a pleasure to see you thank you. It's a pleasure to be here so glad you could make down you performed last night. The flight down this morning going to be performing again sunday night. Is that correct. Yeah i think it saturday night. Oh yeah it's not a bad week actually just to be. I was just here for the kennedy center honors and i had Our operas quite long. We finished close to midnight. I see him. Ads read linda right. Tell us about road. Linda and why you chose road. Linda is a handel opera He wrote Forty plus operas he. He was a very prolific composer. So we don't know very many of them that well but he's enjoying an incredible renaissance and the last several Really decades but it's heating up now because there's so many fantastic handle singers And musicians and musicologists have brought shed light on this music to make it so much more modern and exciting than It was being performed even thirty years ago. Why did you personally choose well. I had a huge success with handles cina at the paris opera which we then brought to chicago and It wasn't just the fact that it was successful because both the audience and the critics love did it was also that I decided that it's honey for the voice. It's.
On Mic Podcast
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"The law here is. The rest of my conversation was singers. Hung writer judy collins. She joined a on. The diane ream show on october. Second two thousand three to discuss her book titled sanity and grace. Judy counts just before the break. You've talked about the fact that you down and a bottle of aspirin and then head since nafta call your friend and the doctor came and you put your finger down your throat do through What did you feel afterwards. Remorse regret my father was very sensitive to this. He he realized he always pushed us as far as he could. You know he always was a a driving Influence on us and he wanted us to be our best. You wanna just perform. He wanted us to be super super type. A. people and a lot of that has rubbed off on us you know. He was simply so drug driven himself to overcome his blindness and to do what no other blind people did operate without a cane without a dog. Have a big career. Be the center of attention. Do and be and and create and so there were a lot of demands but he realized that he wrote me a quite a touching letter that in which he said he was sorry that he had pushed me so hard so he taught me a lesson. Tommy lesson first of all that. I had to learn to say no i can't that's very important loss laundries or so important ended especially for young woman fourteen but by fifteen you began drinking. I did at. How soon did you actually understand. That would become an alcoholic. I probably knew it very early. On only because of the reflection of his drinking and how i knew he was but i didn't think that would be a problem because he was blind and i wasn't. Isn't that interesting. I figured we're we're so different. Alcoholism is a a is of course a disease and involves so many of the mental the issues of mental health. I was fortunate to come to terms with the suicide ideology in therapy with a very very good therapist in new york and i started therapy when i was in my early twenties and i feel. I feel strongly that that being able to talk all of that through every single bit of it was true deeply deeply healing for me. Whatever it was that grabbed told of me at fourteen. I've never thank. God had to to deal with that question again but then of course my son had to. Well let's talk about your son and his life The struggle win. In fact you were divorced from your husband and you did not get custody of your son. I've a feeling that was a.
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"diane" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"I slugged down one hundred hundred aspirin and waited for the final curtain. But then i started to get sick and it was. That's something i couldn't handle the other part. I could handle not getting sick so my my impulse was to call. My best friend's father was a doctor and He came his his wife said. Put your finger down your throat. Try to throw up and we'll be right. There judy collins her new book is called sanity and grace castle. Out of quick break. Went might come back. The rest of my conversation with judy. Collins would love scott in my way. Somehow i really don't know is are we last gras qila. Here's the rest of my conversation with singers. Hung writer judy collins. She joined diane ream show on october. Second two thousand three to discuss her book titled sanity and grace two counts just before the break..
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"diane" Discussed on The Diane Rehm Show
"Thanks for joining us. I'm diane rehm. You've been listening to one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written being performed by wanted. This generations most acclaimed recording artists. Yoyo ma has been playing the cello since he was four today. He travels the world seeking out new audiences new ideas and new understanding of how music nights s and they help says communicate. He joins me to talk about his silk road project. His latest recordings and the how music helps bring together people different cultures. What a pleasure to meet you dianne. It's so wonderful to be on your show and really love the work you do. And they'll love to talk music. You tell me what. This particular work of bah means to you. Well i think it was the first piece of music that i actually learned when i was. I started cello at age four. I'm fifty two now. So i've kind of had a forty eight year long experience with this work and obviously it's changed a lot and in the beginning. Was you know knowing the patterns and figuring out that gee i can learn the species really exciting but if you are four years old. This was a huge instrument in front view. Wealth diet i i. I have to confess that. I wanted to play the hugest instrument. Which was the double bass having failed on the violin at an earlier. Age decided you know as a four year old big was good but try to double bay..
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"diane" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"And create connection uh-huh Thanks for joining us. I'm diane rehm. You've been listening to one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written being performed by one. This generations most acclaimed recording artists. Yoyo ma has been playing the cello since he was four today. He travels the world seeking out new audiences new ideas and new understanding of how music nights s and they help says communicate. He joins me to talk about his silk road. Project his lay district coatings and the how music helps bring together people different cultures. What a pleasure to meet you dianne. It's so wonderful to be on your show and really love the work you do. And they'll love to talk about music. You tell me what. This particular work of bah means to you. Well i think it was the first piece of music that i actually learned when i was. I started cello at age four. I'm fifty two now. So i've kind of had a forty eight year long experience with this work and obviously it's changed a lot and in the beginning. Was you know knowing the patterns and figuring out that gee i can learn the species really exciting but if you are four years old. This was a huge instrument in front view. Wealth diet i i. I have to confess that. I wanted to play the hugest instrument. Which was the double bass having failed on the violin at an earlier. Age decided you know as a four year old big was good but try to double bay. But i couldn't because it was too big. So i i. We compromised slightly less big but possible. What happened with the violin. You know a lot of people talk about musical talent as if this were you either talented or not and an actually. I think music is more. It has has other things going on for example. I wasn't talented for the violin. I play piano. I love the piano. But i'm not a really good pianist. I have a great feel for the instrument..
Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"diane" Discussed on Diane Rehm: On My Mind
"Susan glasser staff writer for the new yorker. I think it's wonderful that diane has pivoted to podcast because it allows her to go deeper and longer with an individual guest into really sort of unpack more than you're able to do in a traditional radio segments. So i think it's a great format for an interviewer as skilled as diane and it gets us to still have a connection with her. I know that diane loves having you as a listener and if you feel so moved as to donate is easy to do you. Just go to diane ream dot org slash tony on my mind. I've covered this company for a long time. And this is the first time that any prosecutor has charged with a crime to me that was a pretty significant development what to make the charges announced last week against trump organization and ditch cheap enchila- on thursday new york prosecutors announced at first charges at their grand jury investigation into the.
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"Of mexican soldiers was scheduled to storm the compound. Suddenly you get this great mass of humanity. It's like a who concert. Diane with a thousand mexican soldiers rammed up against this wall and the only thing there is a bunch of americans on the top shooting down into them so there is this desperate moment where the mexican soldiers physically climb this twelve foot wall and there's just so many of them many were killed but eventually they got over and wants the first mexicans get over and granted. The accounts of this are kind of flashes in the dark night of fact. We know a lot about what happened. But we don't know everything happened but it's very clear that wants the first mexican soldiers get over. It's not quite a massacre. Because the americans are able many of them to retreat to this concrete building the long barrett which the mexicans them storm the mexicans turned the americans own artillery on that building and begin blasting away. It was a furious hand-to-hand fighting in the dark of night and ultimately a slaughter. So what were the early accounts that battle. What we're people reporting about that battle. Well you know there are two key channels here. of course. there's the mexican channel and the anglo channel may tell very different stories. Santa ana just thought of it as a minor skirmish his officers were kind of disgusted. Because it had gone so poorly. They were also discussing because they'd captured davy crockett and a number of other anglos and executed them in front of the chapel. And you know under national law. These people were considered pirates. They were not considered a foreign military force. So you can. Execute pirates and criminals and santa. Anna's perspective on the texans santana dim released an anglo woman named suzanne dickinson and joe Travis is slave to go tell the americans what happened to describe the massacre and describe his army and make it very clear that if they wanted to live. They needed ahead for louisiana as fast as they could. That was the message that a lot of anglos got. That's what we call. The runaway scrape once word reached houston and washington on the brazos that the mexican army had committed this massacre bloody victory and san antonio everyone was on the run sam houston who's in charge of forming texan army. He seized on an idea. He said within seventy two hours. The newspaper's printing that the defenders the alamo died like spartans at the battle of thermopylae they sacrificed their lives to slow the army. The you know this was the nineteenth century. The spartans were concerns the height of manhood and courage and bravery and this message just really resonated and that was the beginning of the myth. But sam houston. He was just looking for a way to stop the runaway scrape. Keep his men from deserting and explain why he had failed to send reinforcements to san antonio despite a week of letters from travis begging for them and we should say diane houston's idea of turning the.
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"My. Name's nick cardigan i. Listen to the diane ream show for many decades and now my son is listening with me to diane ream on my mind makes me think of when i listened to the diane ream show with my mom. It takes a lot of work to produce podcasts. Like on my mind gets made because of the members of wmu so if you love it then you can support it. You can make sure it keeps getting made and you keep hearing diane on the air make a donation at wmu dot org high it. Diane i hope you join me for this. Month's virtual book club clara and but nobel prize winning author. kenji. Goro is our book. The meeting will be on wednesday. June twenty third at one. Pm eastern find out more at w. a. m. u. dot org slash etfs. Here's the rest of my country with janie. Nelson associate director counsel of the nwa c. p. Legal defense and educational fund talk about the voting rights. Act pre clearance perversion. And why that's so important. So the voting rights act of nineteen sixty five had a pre clearance provision called section five that required certain jurisdictions certain places in this country that had a history of discrimination to seek federal pre-clearance to seek basically preapproval either from the department of justice or a district court in washington. Dc before they could implement a new voting law and the purpose of pre-clearance was to make sure that we were going in the right direction and our democracy that any new voting law was not going to put minority voters in a worse position than they were so would either maintain the status quo or improve the ability of minority voters to cast an equal ballot and elect candidates of their choice. Ultimately the supreme court decided in two thousand thirteen in a case called shelby county vs holder that the way in which the voting rights act identified the jurisdictions that should be subject to this federal preapproval was outdated chief justice roberts said that it didn't reflect current conditions and while we've disagreed very much with the analysis in that opinion and with that idea that section five doesn't reflect current conditions. We did believe that it was an opportunity. for congress. to take chief justice roberts up on his offer to update the voting rights act and create a more robust voting rights act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act is just that it is an update to the voting rights. Act that responds to the concerns. Raised by chief justice roberts in the shelby county decision and also expand some of the best provisions of section five and and allows some of the work that it did for to improve our democracy to extend nationwide. And it's a very exciting update to the voting rights act. It's a necessary complement to the four of the people. Act if we want to truly modernize and our election system so that it is more uniform to that. It is more accessible to that. It is more secure and most importantly that it is more fair so valiant new stanton that would mean a nationwide pre-clearance program it would require a pre clearance for certain known practices. That typically result in racial discrimination so there are two sorts of pre-clearance that are proposed in the voting rights advancement. Add one is based on practices that we know typically harm minority voters in disproportionate numbers. So that would be stringent voter. Id laws or voter purge or other laws that we have challenged routinely on the basis of racial discrimination we also have another provision of the voting rights act the voting rights advancement act that allows for states to be put under a pre clearance mechanism for all of their voting rights laws if they have a proven history of constitutional violations of the right to vote and other violations under federal statutes. So that's important because it now doesn't limit pre clearance to just particular jurisdictions based on the history of the right to vote back in nineteen sixty five. It now allows for more flexibility for different jurisdictions to come under the pre-clearance regime based on their current voting record and based based on recent violations that they may have engaged in so whereas section five was concentrated on a lot of states in the south primarily not exclusively but primarily the new updated voting rights advancement act could potentially apply to jurisdictions across the country if they have a record of voting rights violations so on tuesday. The supreme court heard arguments in an era zona case that might further weaken the voting rights act..