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The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Mike Signorelli
"Trump calls Florida heartbeat bill a terrible mistake, and Mike Pence talks war with Russia. So I think if you will allow me to speak critically of Donald Trump for five minutes, I will speak critically. No, no, no, no. Look, you know, and I know, everybody listens who to this program knows that I don't think Trump is perfect. I think he ought to be the next president. And I think that, as you know about me and about many people listening to this program, that we are radically pro -life. We think it's a moral issue. And I think that Trump has made, I think he misspoke. I think it was, I don't know. Well, talk about it so people understand what we're talking about. Donald Trump went on face the nation and said that the heartbeat bill Ron DeSantis bravely signed in Florida was a terrible thing, a terrible mistake. And he said that he wouldn't commit to supporting any kind of federal restriction on the taking of unborn life. And he said with characteristic real estate bravado, well, I'm going to have policies that are going to make everybody happy. Everybody's going to walk away happy from the table. That is not how things work. When you're talking about life and death issues, Mr. President, that is how things might work. If you're negotiating over ownership of a golf course. All right. All right. Each of you is going to get nine holes. Okay. You'll each get nine holes. It's wonderful. You got, you've got half a golf course, half a loaf is better than none. But we remember from the story of Solomon, half a baby is not better than none. In this case, we're talking about cutting the baby in half. Literally we're talking about should abortion, should the pro -life position be, we want a bad abortion after maybe 15 weeks, which would only get rid of maybe 8 % of the abortions in America. If that's the pro -life position, it's not worth a damn thing. That's the law in Germany. That's the law in France. That's the law in Belgium. All these countries where euthanasia is now taking over. Having a 10 week, a 15 week abortion ban solves absolutely nothing. It just means the women who are so dopey, they don't even know they're pregnant until like 18 weeks won't be able to get abortions. That's all it means. He's really just punishing the stupid. It's not saving a significant number of babies. I don't know who Trump is getting his advice from on the abortion issue, but they're not on our side. They are like the Jared Kushner. They're not on our side. What Trump is saying is a complete loser position. It's like saying we're going to build the wall. We're going to build the wall with the Mexican border, except every 20 feet there's going to be a gap. We'll get most of the wall built. There'll guess who will come. I think a couple of things need to be said. First of all, I already said it. Trump is not perfect. So he often has done things that I think are harmful to himself. And saying that I think just politically is a mistake. But we also have to say without a doubt he has been the most pro -life president we ever had in this country. Because of him and standing up for Kavanaugh, Roe v. Wade was overturned. I want to remind people of that. I also want to remind people that he spoke at the March for Life. No other president had done that. And so right now, I guess I find everything with him, not everything, but a lot of stuff just funny. It's almost like he'll say anything Ron DeSantis says, he'll say the opposite. I know. You could be triggered and tripped into that. And it's his Achilles heel that whatever Trump, whatever DeSantis says, Trump will somehow try to spin it. Trump even said that Andrew Cuomo did a better job on COVID than Ron DeSantis. That is literally the most insane thing any American politician has said since Jefferson Davis said I want to secede from the union. It's up to that level of crazy. But Trump, I mean Trump does this stuff for effect. In other words, for political effect to drive people crazy. That's why I guess I find it at least partially entertaining that he'll go out on a limb and say something like that just to trigger DeSantis. The problem is this stuff isn't cute. There were thousands of people murdered in those nursing homes in New York. Abortion isn't cute. This is not something funny. This is not like letting Jared and Ivanka turn the White House into their own little party hut. This is really serious. And our only leverage over Trump is right now during the primaries. If he gets the nomination, he can do whatever he wants because he will be elected president unless they assassinate him, which I do not put past that. I do not put that past the deal. Oh, I know that there have been attempts that we haven't heard about, but obviously they would do anything to get rid of him. We have our leverage now, especially before the Iowa caucus. Trump needs to be told if you keep saying this weak, rhino, wimpy garbage about abortion, maybe we'll hold our noses and vote for you against Joe Biden because we don't want to be put in prison camps. But we're not going to go to the mattresses for you. We're not going to go to the wall for you. We're not going to be fanatical, devoted supporters. We will hold our nose and vote for you the way we held our noses and voted for George W. Bush. Do you want to be the next George W. Bush? Well, no, John, I think it's worse than that. I think what will happen, what will happen is many evangelicals, pro -life evangelicals simply won't vote, which I think is an unbelievable mistake because they feel it's principled not to vote for Trump because he said this about what DeSantis's view. On the other hand, let him think that and maybe it's true and let him act accordingly. It's like if we are so on the reservation, Eric, that they know they have our votes no matter what they do, the Republican Party will keep treating evangelicals and pro -lifers the way the Democratic Party treats blacks. That is, you have no choice where you're going to go, take whatever scraps we throw you. So no, I think it's good. Let him be a little afraid that we will go off the reservation. No, that's why I just said that. That's why I just said that. In other words, I actually believe that that's true because when you look at what happened in the last number of elections, there are many evangelicals who are so pious in the negative sense that they would say, I'm just going to sit home and I'm not going to vote because Trump had three wives and I'm going to let Hillary Clinton or Satan or Adolf Hitler take over America because I'm so pious that I won't pull the lever for somebody who doesn't agree with me on everything or who puts out mean tweets or says things I disagree with. That is effectively how we got Biden because we didn't have a serious situation that we're in. On the other hand, Mike Pence is saying that unless we give long range missiles to Ukraine so it can kill lots of Russians, we'll have to go to war with Russia because it will invade Poland. So in order to avoid war, we have to fight a war. It's exactly what George W. Bush said about Iraq, that we have to fight the terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here so they won't do 9 -11 again. Now we know now Iraq had nothing to do with 9 -11. It had no weapons of mass destruction. So he lied us into the Iraq war. In Vietnam, they told us we had to fight the Vietnam war so that the communists wouldn't take over Japan and then Hawaii. The whole domino theory is something that warmongers and the military contractors they work for, they whip it out every time they want to get us in a useless war. They say, well, remember Neville Chamberlain? Remember 1938? And I always say, remember August, 1914, when they blundered into World War I and destroyed all three of the main governments involved in it, all based on nothing, based on lies, based on garbage. Sometimes it's November, September, 1938. Sometimes it's August, 1914. And you're the idiot warmonger about to plunge the world into destruction because of your silly fantasies private about being a big man. Mike Pence is one of those warmongers and he's very dangerous right now. There's never enough time to talk to you, my friend. We'll get you back as soon as possible. Thank you, folks. We'll be right back. Thank you. For 10 years, Patriot Mobile has been America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. And when I say only, trust me, they're the only one. Glenn and the team have been great supporters of this show, which is why I'm proud to partner with them. 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Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
Fresh update on "kavanaugh" discussed on Morning News with Manda Factor and Gregg Hersholt
"Dollars in restitution and fines against what they said were corporate acts of wrongdoing That helped cancel debt for some 200 million people, so it's made a big impact, and all of that was on the line yesterday at the Supreme Court. And at issue in this case is how the agency is funded. When Congress created it, they did not directly appropriate money to the CFPB. Instead, they put the agency under the Federal Reserve, so they indirectly funded it, meaning they draw money at the CFPB from the Federal Reserve, which in turn gets funds from fees that they charge to banks. And that has been challenged by a number of payday lending groups, conservative groups, business interests that say all of that is illegal, only Congress has the power of the purse, the power to give money, and that the way this is set up is flawed. Oh, and by the way, if it is flawed, everything it's done over the last decade should be struck down. A Federal Appeals Corp said that it's funded illegally. That's effectively what Congress did here, where it authorized the CFPB to spend whatever it deems reasonably necessary in perpetuity, subject only to a cap so high it's almost never relevant. And therefore, it can't exist unless Congress fixes it. And by the way, the appeals court said everything that the agency has done, every regulation on credit cards, mortgages, personal loans, banks, all of that is void, the appeals court said because it's been illegal. And if the Fifth Circuit is right, and there's the prospect that all of these actions should unwound, be it would create profound disruption in various economic markets that would hurt the regulated entities themselves. And it would bring us back in the eyes of some progressives and consumer advocates to square one just right after the financial crisis of 2008. That's the worst case scenario. Yesterday, a majority of the justices appeared skeptical of going that far. We saw the three liberal justices It's joined by, at times, Justice Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in really questioning whether this argument that this is all in a legal funding scheme really holds water. There's nothing in the Appropriations Clause itself or in the word appropriations that imposes the limits that you're talking about. What I'm saying is Brett Kavanaugh noted that Congress created this agency and designed the it way that they did, so if they have power of the purse and they set it up this way, what's wrong with that? He essentially said. ABC's Devon Dwyer Time for our StockCharts .com Today, technology shares stronger than the broader market. The S &P 500 rose 34 points. 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The Dan Bongino Show
Where Are the Arrests of the Portland Rioters Who Burned Courthouses?
"Giving up any of the cookies in the cookie jar. You may think, oh, I get out of the car with a hat, glasses, a mask and a hood on. No one's ever going to recognize me. Well, notice what you just said. Well, I got out of the car. You think a license plate camera didn't pick you up getting out of the car. Well, how would I know where I got out of the car? Because, folks, there's basically ring cameras and doorbells everywhere. One of my best friends, this is what he did for a living with the NYPD. There's not a section of New York City Manhattan in and probably Queens and Brooklyn, too. Probably not so much so in Staten Island. there's But not a section of that city where between ring doorbells, NYPD cameras and business security cameras, you're not covered, basically 100 % of the time. And even if you're not, it doesn't matter. Let's say you show up at a left -wing riot up on Capitol Hill to protest Kavanaugh. How'd you get there? Oh, I parked my car six miles away. They can backtrack and find you from the building. Capitol They can find cameras, even if there's a couple blocks missing. There's only a few blocks you could have come from into the feeder block. Is this making sense? I don't mean to talk over anyone's head. You're all smart. You probably figured it out. There is no way they won't find you. Oh, no, no, he didn't know. No, I got out of an Uber. Yeah, they'll see you get out of an Uber, and then they'll trace the Uber at a time and see who had the Uber account. Just they like traced the January 6th bomber back to the train station in Virginia. Yet it's strange, right? Anyone who was anywhere near January 6th, or even not, Enrique Terrio wasn't even in D .C. What do you mean? No, he wasn't even in D .C. They all find themselves in a prison. You don't find any of this strange. They find themselves in a prison. Yet the people who tried to burn down the courthouse in Portland, and the people who stormed Capitol Hill in protest of Kavanaugh slamming on the doors like violent lunatics, that none of them have been arrested and appeared on an FBI wanted sheet. Why
Available Worldwide
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"It would really be very humbling to not have a lot of that, let's say, at a job at post. I was lucky in that there happened to be an EPAP position that I did apply for, I interviewed, and I eventually got it. That worked out well for me. I'm still waiting on the security clearance, but I was not banking on an EPAP job because my understanding was it's not always available at each post, and sometimes the cycles just don't work with when you're physically there. But then I heard about FERS, the Federal Employment Retirement System, and that EFMs, if they meet a certain hiring mechanism criteria under family employment, for FAM, family appointed employment, I believe, at post, you're entitled to not only all these retirement benefits, you get a pension, you get all these health benefits, you can get survivor benefits. When I saw pension, I was like, oh, this is interesting because that is completely non-existent in the private sector. I know for a fact the annuity from the pension by the time my spouse and I retire, it's not going to be a lot of money each month, but that's something. That completely changed my calculus and my views of the benefits of employment at post, that you get all these benefits, you can continue work experience. It's going to be very different work experience, but you know what? Experience is experience. I truly believe that. A lot of jobs may not be ideal in your mind, but there's always something to learn. I always have believed that. When I realized all this, I was like, I can't be the only EFM that had these assumptions and had no idea about all these different benefits. I just had no idea. I said, why not create an event educating other EFMs at post around this? What was great was I then collaborated with another EFM here who is close to her retirement and her spouse's retirement. She has all this incredible knowledge that she's accumulated through many different tours already. She created this incredible, what she called employment notebook that has all this guidance basically on how to track your employment history, how to get your SF 50 and advice on how do you read a pay stub and statement because that's apparently a responsibility on the employee of state department. You have to track your own pay statements. You don't want to get overpaid or something and have them chase you down 10 years later for some random overpayment. Exactly. You want to make sure your creditable service is also being recorded so that you can get those retirement benefits down the line. Especially if you're working on an hourly basis instead of a monthly basis because those hours, they're nitpicky about that. Yeah, because that's all going to count. If you're off by like an hour, I mean, damn. Don't be in that situation. Don't get close to retirement and you're off a few hours. That would just be horrible. We put together this event. The Consul General agreed to host it and his wife also helped us coordinate the event. The Consul General even showed up and said a few remarks to support the EFM community. It was, I think, a knockout success. I think a lot of the participants there were very grateful for it, learned a lot. I think it also inspired them to reconsider employment at post too. They just didn't know this was available to them. In that sense, it was a huge success. I'm very proud of what we did. And it would be, I think, a really cool event to replicate at other posts too. It's really great information. Is it possible for you guys to make some of these resources available to listeners of Available Worldwide so that if they wanted to do something similar, host an event or do it particular to their posts, they would be able to? I don't see why not. I would say that one of the next steps we were hoping or kind of a follow-on we were hoping for this event was to potentially share maybe with other clothes or starting with Mexico City in particular, with the EFM employment team there, what we did and what our lessons learned were. We even had a survey that we sent to participants to get their feedback on the event and what else they want to see, what other support and resources they need when it comes to career and professional development planning. It's top of mind, just haven't gone through with it, but we would love to make it available to as many of them as possible. I think one of the hardest things about initiatives like this is follow-through, and especially when people transfer posts, whether the enthusiasm is going to be replicated in future leaders of this or who is going to take on the responsibility. As a professional project manager and professional changemaker in organizations, what are your recommendations? Say you did something great at post and you are really proud of this new professional community or the resource that you created, how do you make sure that that gets transferred on and still adopted by somebody in the future? It's the question. It's one of the biggest challenges that I constantly grapple with with my own clients. Let's say from consultant speak, I would say this is an opportunity to really strengthen an organization's knowledge management capabilities. It's about retaining, recording, sharing, and developing a real culture of sharing information and knowledge and ensuring that knowledge is not kept or stored away in a secret compartment. It's really about ensuring that knowledge is diffuse, it's accessible, and it can be built on. It's one of those things where I've always believed, and this is something that I apply and try to instill in the projects I used to manage, that even though this was, let's say, an EFM event, I don't think it's just an EFM event. If we really wanted to, let's say, develop that knowledge management muscle, really incorporate a culture of sharing, really into the DNA of an organization, those lessons learned, that event and what we wanted to achieve and what we accomplished and what we could improve upon, for example, that should be shared with the wider community. Let's say we could involve the CLO and that could be adapted into, let's say, the weekly senior staff meeting, for example, because I personally believe that a lot of what happens at, let's say, the ground level or maybe in an area that maybe you think is kind of irrelevant to you, that's not true. I think these kinds of events, a lot of other divisions or teams at, let's say, any consulate or embassy, they could learn from too, because ultimately, the purpose of this event was to showcase resources, information, and support for a group of people. I think any team could benefit from that. Any division can benefit from that. It's the techniques and the tools that any leader, any manager, any practitioner at any level can benefit from. When you transform your organization to think much more holistically like that, I think that's when you can achieve a lot more success as an organization and achieve your mission. Really hard to do, though. That is so hard to do and that's why I had a job, because it's so difficult and a lot of organizations struggle with it, for sure. It's hard to do. If I were in leadership, that's how I would encourage whoever do these kinds of events, share it with the broader community, make sure it's really retained, that more people know about it. Truthfully, let's be clear, how many of us at POST hear about something not because we read it in something on SharePoint or in a clone newsletter? It's nothing to do with that. It's like maybe that one locally employed staff who has been here for five years, who's like, oh, yeah, I remember five years ago, there was some EFN event. Maybe you should do that. That's how memory works. That's how information is shared. What we need to do is just formalize that a little more. That would be ideal. That's how it works. I've learned so much just by people going, oh, yeah, we did that few years ago. I don't know what happened to it, but I remember that. That's how it works. I love that idea of diffusing the memory because a lot of times we share things with each other in one-to-one contacts and we don't share them in ways that enable other people to be able to access them later. Or if somebody is removed from that one-to-one communication, then where did that memory go? I'm definitely excited about the possibilities of sharing this information, especially the stuff that you've created for this event and making it accessible to anybody. That way they will have it, you will have it, we all have it, and it will be something that could found other similar initiatives in the future. Now that you're at Post, you've been there, I think it was like one year, it sounds like. What are the next steps? It sounds like that EPEP is, you know, fingers crossed, going to get the clearance through soon, but you're probably already bidding for next year, aren't you? That's right. Yeah, we already have our next assignment. Okay. So will the next assignment be a place where you're able to return to your past career or are you going to have to find and explore new possibilities? Yeah. In fact, the former, because we are going back to Washington, DC. So, okay. In fact, my supervisor was like, you can have your old job back. We can't wait to see you. That's brilliant. Okay. Well, there is an EFM career success story. Thank you. Yeah. It's having a job on hold. Yeah. But I will say though, I've learned a lot about through this career employment journey that I've been on as an EFM. And I will say that even though I will have the opportunity to go back to my old job, I have learned at this point, that's always just good to have options available to you as an EFM. You just, you never know what's going to happen in the future. We have no idea what our next post is going to be. Truthfully, while I've really liked my career to date, I've learned so much. I really like working in the private sector before kind of public mission oriented clients. I think that combines a lot of my interests. The best of both worlds. The best of both worlds. Exactly. So yeah, I work hard on projects that I think are for the public good and that really motivates me, but I get paid a lot to do it. So yeah, it's great. I do believe though that by going back to DC, for any other EFMs out there who are maybe not terribly excited about a DC tour or they are and they can't wait to get back, the DC tour does give you an opportunity to think very, I think very critically about trying to get maybe a civil service job that you can convert into a DEDO down the line. That is what I'm thinking about and that would be my ideal kind of scenario by the time we leave for our next assignment after DC. But again, I think you have to be proactive. You have to think ahead. You cannot assume whatever job you have now, you will be able to keep. You have to assume that you may end up at a post where there are very few EFM jobs at post. You don't want to kick yourself saying like, if only I could have gotten that DEDO when I had that chance. You don't want those kinds of regrets and just keep your options open. And if anything, just going through that process of applying to civil service jobs or even federal contractor jobs. I did recently hear by the way that personal service contracts, personal, yes, PSC contracts are now DEDO eligible. So I think there's a new cable on that. So that opens up more possibilities. So you can have maybe truly a portable career wherever your spouse goes. So that is top of mind for me. And while I will say it's been wonderful, I've had learned a lot and it's been nice to spend a lot of time with my daughter. I think having an opportunity to go back to work, to have something of my own that I want to be a role model for my daughter too. Especially in this day and age, there are so many more opportunities to do some sort of paid work, whatever that is to you. I recall when I was growing up, my mom had to give up her job and her career. And especially because my father worked for a private company, yes, they would sponsor his work visa and our ability to live in a country, but the company's not going to give a job to my mom. So that's a huge advantage of the government sponsored missions that they actually provide an opportunity for EFMs to get work at post. That is really unique and a good opportunity to take advantage of. That's not available to, let's say, expat spouses. They don't have that kind of opportunity. But I do see this as my foundation building tour. So once I have all these in place, I've got the approvals, I have the experience, I have it on my resume. I think that's just set me up more for success at each post down the line. And that's what's helping me get through all of it. It's a really great way to look at it because I think a lot of people in their first tour get career stress and it puts such a strain on this choice that they've made to start the foreign service life. Spousal stress, family stress, stress with back home. And because you are setting up this plan of two or three different ways that you can potentially turn your career interests into a career that will be able to come with you, you're making a long-term plan and not just a panic plan because you're in first tour or whatever. My own first tour, I took on a PSC and at the time there was no benefits offered with a PSC. So it was a really great career move as far as pulling me into public service, but I didn't understand how these kinds of things fit together. Retirement plans and other kinds of benefits. I had always worked in academia before, so all of that came with it. It was a totally new and very unproductive as far as long-term goals go job because I didn't know. There was nothing in my mind that said, oh, this is how you're going to need to work through the steps in order to make a future career for yourself. And it actually took me, I think, three tours before I started to concretize all the various parts of me that could become portable and start the business that I now run today. You've given current and future EFMs a lot of great advice. You're going to give us some great resources that we'll host on our website. Is there anything else I should have asked you? No, I thought this was a really great conversation, excellent questions, and I hope someone out there will be able to learn from my experience. It may seem like a lot has happened in my life, so in my one year officially at post, and it may not seem very easy, and I think some people may listen to this going, I don't know why I'd subject myself to everything that Kavanaugh did. That just seems so painful. Why? Each to his own, but I would say in the end, I think in the end, there's no regrets. I think we made the right decision. We're really happy here. The Foreign Service has been, it's just an incredible experience, right? There's just nothing like it. And I think, especially as a family, this is just an amazing adventure. But frankly, I will say that just navigating the US government bureaucracy, all the different options available to you, trying to reach out to somebody who knows something and can help you, it's a maze. It's through it and figure it out. I think anyone can. It takes some time. It takes maybe some practice, some confidence. And maybe that's the difference for me, where as a first-tour EFM, personally, I don't think that's a label that should hold anybody back. If you want to start something, if you want to do something, as long as that doesn't violate the law, policy, or procedure, what's stopping you? You can be a leader in your own community in any way you want to be. This idea that, oh, you're just the EFM, that's so blatantly untrue. And sometimes I feel at EFMs, we have internalized that, unfortunately. But we have so much to offer. We have so much life experience. And I just never thought that being the EFM or being a first-tour EFM especially, that should stop me from doing something that I thought would help the community. I've used a lot of the skills I've learned over my career to apply to my current situation, to do the research, do the work, to do the outreach, to help others. That's what motivates me. It's what I like to do. It gets me out of bed every morning. But I do feel if more EFMs support each other, help each other, regardless of whether we've done five tours or this is our first, we all have something to learn from each other. And the rest of the community as well has a lot to learn from us. There's really if anyone's looking for trying to develop an EFM support group or trying to navigate your own career, trying to figure this whole thing out, you have help, you have support, you can do it. Absolutely. I have no doubt about that. Thanks so much for being on the show today, Kavanagh. It's been great talking with you. Thank you so much, Laura. I totally thought at the end there, you were going to say the exact opposite, that even though it seems like my life has gone so well in my first year, just a caveat, you can do it too. I am not a superwoman. I thought that's where you were going to go. And you're like, no, it's been rough. I'm like, wow. What I heard was it's been empowered and driven and really amazing to have done all that in one year. So two different sides of the same story. Thanks for listening to this episode of Available Worldwide, the podcast that introduces you to the partners of the American Foreign Service who are creating portable careers. If any of the stories you've heard today inspired you to share your story, or made you think of someone you'd like us to interview, please visit our Facebook page to apply or nominate a friend. Visit us at facebook.com slash available worldwide podcast. 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Available Worldwide
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Available Worldwide
"Welcome to Available Worldwide, the podcast by, for, and about the accompanying partners of the U.S. Foreign Service. Little did you know that responding to a post on Facebook was going to get you invited to be on the podcast itself. I thought that was a very clever hook, so I am very impressed. Okay, so you feeling warmed up? Yeah, that's great. This is Lauren Steed, and I'm here today with Kavanagh, who is currently posted in, I believe, Monterrey, Mexico. Is that correct? That's correct. And I invited her here today because she's done a lot of work recently helping support EFM careers in her community, and she has her own career journey that has been just as crazy, I think, as all of the career journeys I've heard about on Available Worldwide. So I'm really excited to talk to her today. Kavanagh, we start our episodes with what we call quick-fire questions. So I'm going to ask you three questions. You answer them in, you know, three to ten words, and we'll get started. So first off, I already kind of spoiled this one, but where are you currently located and who's there with you? I am here in Monterrey, Mexico, and with my spouse, who's a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, and my 17-month-old daughter. Wow. So daughter while posted to Mexico or prior to? We moved here. She was only four months old. Probably baby puts a big crimp in this question, but do you consider yourself a night owl or an early bird? Even with a young toddler now, I still consider myself a morning person. Okay. Well, good. That is definitely what toddlers prefer as well. Do you have a superpower? This is Steph's favorite question, and it's kind of one of the themes of Available Worldwide. What is it that helps you succeed in life? I would say my superpower is that I'm pretty action-oriented. I have an ability to convert ideas into actions, which I think can be an understated skill set, but I think that's been an important part of my success today, career and personal. No wonder you worked in project management then. We'll get to that later. I was excited to read your bio because one of the things you mentioned is that you two grew up in this kind of itinerant lifestyle of moving around a lot. Do you have cherished childhood memories of that, or was it traumatic? All of us parents are afraid it is. Yeah. That's the thing, right? I think every experience is different for every person, for every child. It can be very difficult to move around and leave your friends and move to different countries, but I think precisely because I was young and that was what I was used to so early on, it was a really fantastic experience for me. I wouldn't change it for the world. We lived in countries, mostly in Asia because of my father's job. I lived in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. These are amazing countries to grow up in. You meet people from all over the world. I went to international schools and I'm still really good friends with all the people I graduated high school from. I know it can be hard. It's not for everybody, but I personally really loved living in different countries. That's why I'm really excited that my own daughter will have that opportunity to be, I guess, a third culture kid, as they say. What's the longest you've ever lived in one place? Well, I would say at this point, maybe it's dating me, but probably Washington, D.C. After I graduated from college, I moved to D.C. to start my career and stayed there, lived there until my husband joined the Foreign Service, so we moved to Monterrey. That has actually been the longest so far in my life. I was calculating it out for myself recently and I realized that now that I've hit the three-year point at this house that I live in in China, this is actually the longest I've lived in one place since before I graduated high school. That's amazing, yeah. When you really think about it, it's kind of incredible, right? It's a little bit horrifying, I guess, too, but it is exciting, I agree. I'm looking forward to my children's opinions on TCK life as well. Has living in Monterrey and having an infant affected your sense of self? I know a lot of EFMs are like, I was really career-oriented until I got married to my partner and now I'm in a place where everything is redefined. How has that transition worked out for you from independent person in D.C. to now? It's the question, right? For me personally, I became a mom and an EFM and kind of a stay-at-home mom all at the same time, so a lot of change happened for me very quickly. I think that while it was not easy to go through a lot of that significant change going from, like you said, I was very extensively involved with my employer, I led initiatives, I worked on business development, I did tons of client projects, so that was a lot of my life. Then all of a sudden have this little person consume everything in my whole life, my attention, that it's an extraordinary experience to become a parent, but it's very difficult. It can be very challenging for sure. Here in Monterrey, I was enabled to actually convert my job into a telework arrangement for many reasons that I'm sure a lot of your listeners can really relate to. What I thought was an opportunity after my maternity leave to go back to work, I wasn't able to do that. That has also been another adjustment for me. I'm taking on a lot of change and I'm losing identities I've had, but I've also gained new ones. That's a way to help me, that motivates me to grow through this lifestyle we've signed up for. I also say a lot has happened in this past year alone, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I think while Monterrey is a soft landing into the Foreign Service, as they say, I'm grateful for that too, because I think it's allowed me to adjust to a new identity. That's allowed me to become a lot more familiarized with EFM employment and getting to know other EFMs at post, for example, even getting to make local friends. I don't think I would have had any of that opportunity if I was working full time because I had a very busy schedule. That would have continued, I think, even teleworking from a different country. In the end, I think keep a positive attitude. There's always going to be challenges and difficulty, but those are not permanent phases of your life. The change is always going to be a constant. That is always a given. Once I embrace that attitude, I embrace that idea. That, I think, has helped me a lot, become a lot more resilient, become a lot happier with all this change and what we signed up for. If you find your community, whether online or in person, that helps a lot too. It's definitely been a journey and in some ways, it's only just started, which is kind of crazy. Well, I am curious. What is it that you were doing in your professional career before you made all these transitions? I think that will really help illuminate what your story is. Yeah. I was a management consultant for a very large multinational corporation. I won't name the company, although if I do, everybody would know it. I will just say it's very well known. It's precisely because it has a presence in so many different countries, including Mexico, that really complicated my ability to continue working for the US division. As a management consultant, I did soup to nuts work related to strategy, change management, and knowledge management projects for my clients. Of course, as a consultant, you're not just doing client projects. It's very common. You're taking on what I call the extracurriculars to strengthen our eminence so that we can better deliver and serve our clients, and also to grow the business and ensure that we as a company, as practitioners, are up to date on best practices and the latest technology that we can implement for projects. Basically, a lot of the work I would do is to help clients envision their strategic initiatives and their vision for how they will want to, let's say, transform or implement a large-scale enterprise management system, because the company I work for has a lot of IT projects, or to help them improve a certain process or system, or to improve a certain management practice. I did everything related and supported that. I led teams. I coached junior team members and managed financials. I served as a deputy project manager for a larger project at one point. I do think I'm kind of a jack-of-all-trades. I will say that's kind of why I'm consistently, I think, staffed on federal projects, because I would say there's a complexity. There's technical knowledge, of course, that I need to bring to the table to clients, but there's also, I think, an element of a lot of human empathy, because I felt like the clients who responded to me most and my suggestions and recommendations that we ultimately developed in the end, I think they felt they could really trust me. A lot of them said, I consider you be a good friend. You really listen to my concerns. I think for a lot of public servants, that's kind of a rare opportunity for someone to just listen to them, because a lot of times if there's any large transformation project that at the government level you have to implement, it's always mandated from the top. It can be politicized very quickly. It's always in the news. It's always in the press. You always hear a lot of the bad stories and not a lot of success stories. Just being there to almost guide them. I think it's a bit presumptuous to say I was- A doula? Yeah, a doula. Yeah. You got this. You could push through the pain. Exactly. Just someone there to support you. Even though it's difficult and you're going to have to work more and this will impact your job, all that uncertainty that surrounds change in any workplace, any organization, of course, you're there like your support system. I kid you not, I would say that's a lot of my job. Yes, there was managing a project, setting meetings, creating schedules, managing risks. Yes, that's a lot of the technical knowledge. A lot of it is just checking in, talking with people, saying how they're doing, making them feel better, making them feel like they can do this. I really felt like I was a teacher, like a coach. I think that's a marker of a good consultant too. Someone who really cares about the client and they show that. I can see how you had all of the kinds of tools necessary to do a kind of research and change maker project within the EFM community and Monterey then, which is one of the reasons I brought you here today because I wanted to hear about that project. How did it get started? Why were you pursuing it? Were you invited to do it? What was going on? What started this? Yes. I would say this EFM employment and retirement events that I initiated earlier this year, the inspiration for that was, I will say to be honest, was I needed project management credits to renew my project management certificate, my PMP, Project Management Professional Certification, and not working in an office or having a job. You have to find a lot more creative ways to submit evidence that you're continuing your education and your project management practice. I can tell you that here at Available Worldwide, we are all about the trying to fulfill credits and trying to do career tasks in ways that do not require you to be employed. This is a big part of our mission. I'm glad to hear you have found a way to do it and benefit other people. Exactly. There was an immediate need, but then I said, why not find a project that I can work on that gets me these credits, but then can really benefit myself, of course, and also other EFMs at post. The other part of the genesis of this event was when I wasn't able to bring my job with me to Mexico and work in telework. I started looking at other kind of telework options with US-based organizations. I just kept running into the same issue of like, oh, yeah, we like your experience, but we really can't work with you. Your presence in Mexico is a problem for us. We just don't want to take that tax or liability. I understand. Employment at post seemed like my best option. Initially, I will admit, I was resistant to employment at post. I went in assuming that a lot of jobs available to EFMs at post, I'm sure are good and fulfilling, but I really got used to a certain level of, let's say, compensation in the private sector. I got used to a certain level of responsibility. I was managing people. I was leading teams. I was a certain level of leadership.
Available Worldwide
A highlight from Kavanaugh Livingston - First Time EFM and Management Consultant
"Welcome to Available Worldwide, the podcast by, for, and about the accompanying partners of the U .S. Foreign Service. Little did you know that responding to a post on Facebook was going to get you invited to be on the podcast itself. I thought that was a very clever hook, so I am very impressed. Okay, so you feeling warmed up? Yeah, that's great. This is Lauren Steed, and I'm here today with Kavanagh, who is currently posted in, I believe, Monterrey, Mexico. Is that correct? That's correct. And I invited her here today because she's done a lot of work recently helping support EFM careers in her community, and she has her own career journey that has been just as crazy, I think, as all of the career journeys I've heard about on Available Worldwide. So I'm really excited to talk to her today. Kavanagh, we start our episodes with what we call quick -fire questions. So I'm going to ask you three questions. You answer them in, you know, three to ten words, and we'll get started. So first off, I already kind of spoiled this one, but where are you currently located and who's there with you? I am here in Monterrey, Mexico, and with my spouse, who's a Foreign Service Officer with the State Department, and my 17 -month -old daughter. Wow. So daughter while posted to Mexico or prior to? We moved here. She was only four months old. Probably baby puts a big crimp in this question, but do you consider yourself a night owl or an early bird? Even with a young toddler now, I still consider myself a morning person. Okay. Well, good. That is definitely what toddlers prefer as well. Do you have a superpower? This is Steph's favorite question, and it's kind of one of the themes of Available Worldwide. What is it that helps you succeed in life? I would say my superpower is that I'm pretty action -oriented. I have an ability to convert ideas into actions, which I think can be an understated skill set, but I think that's been an important part of my success today, career and personal. No wonder you worked in project management then. We'll get to that later. I was excited to read your bio because one of the things you mentioned is that you two grew up in this kind of itinerant lifestyle of moving around a lot. Do you have cherished childhood memories of that, or was it traumatic? All of us parents are afraid it is. Yeah. That's the thing, right? I think every experience is different for every person, for every child. It can be very difficult to move around and leave your friends and move to different countries, but I think precisely because I was young and that was what I was used to so early on, it was a really fantastic experience for me. I wouldn't change it for the world. We lived in countries, mostly in Asia because of my father's job. I lived in Taiwan, Singapore, and Malaysia. These are amazing countries to grow up in. You meet people from all over the world. I went to international schools and I'm still really good friends with all the people I graduated high school from. I know it can be hard. It's not for everybody, but I personally really loved living in different countries. That's why I'm really excited that my own daughter will have that opportunity to be, I guess, a third culture kid, as they say. What's the longest you've ever lived in one place? Well, I would say at this point, maybe it's dating me, but probably Washington, D .C. After I graduated from college, I moved to D .C. to start my career and stayed there, lived there until my husband joined the Foreign Service, so we moved to Monterrey. That has actually been the longest so far in my life. I was calculating it out for myself recently and I realized that now that I've hit the three -year point at this house that I live in in China, this is actually the longest I've lived in one place since before I graduated high school. That's amazing, yeah. When you really think about it, it's kind of incredible, right? It's a little bit horrifying, I guess, too, but it is exciting, I agree. I'm looking forward to my children's opinions on TCK life as well. Has living in Monterrey and having an infant affected your sense of self? I know a lot of EFMs are like, I was really career -oriented until I got married to my partner and now I'm in a place where everything is redefined. How has that transition worked out for you from independent person in D .C. to now? It's the question, right? For me personally, I became a mom and an EFM and kind of a stay -at -home mom all at the same time, so a lot of change happened for me very quickly. I think that while it was not easy to go through a lot of that significant change going from, like you said, I was very extensively involved with my employer, I led initiatives, I worked on business development, I did tons of client projects, so that was a lot of my life. Then all of a sudden have this little person consume everything in my whole life, my attention, that it's an extraordinary experience to become a parent, but it's very difficult. It can be very challenging for sure. Here in Monterrey, I was enabled to actually convert my job into a telework arrangement for many reasons that I'm sure a lot of your listeners can really relate to. What I thought was an opportunity after my maternity leave to go back to work, I wasn't able to do that. That has also been another adjustment for me. I'm taking on a lot of change and I'm losing identities I've had, but I've also gained new ones. That's a way to help me, that motivates me to grow through this lifestyle we've signed up for. I also say a lot has happened in this past year alone, but I wouldn't change it for anything. I think while Monterrey is a soft landing into the Foreign Service, as they say, I'm grateful for that too, because I think it's allowed me to adjust to a new identity. That's allowed me to become a lot more familiarized with EFM employment and getting to know other EFMs at post, for example, even getting to make local friends. I don't think I would have had any of that opportunity if I was working full time because I had a very busy schedule. That would have continued, I think, even teleworking from a different country. In the end, I think keep a positive attitude. There's always going to be challenges and difficulty, but those are not permanent phases of your life. The change is always going to be a constant. That is always a given. Once I embrace that attitude, I embrace that idea. That, I think, has helped me a lot, become a lot more resilient, become a lot happier with all this change and what we signed up for. If you find your community, whether online or in person, that helps a lot too. It's definitely been a journey and in some ways, it's only just started, which is kind of crazy. Well, I am curious. What is it that you were doing in your professional career before you made all these transitions? I think that will really help illuminate what your story is. Yeah. I was a management consultant for a very large multinational corporation. I won't name the company, although if I do, everybody would know it. I will just say it's very well known. It's precisely because it has a presence in so many different countries, including Mexico, that really complicated my ability to continue working for the US division. As a management consultant, I did soup to nuts work related to strategy, change management, and knowledge management projects for my clients. Of course, as a consultant, you're not just doing client projects. It's very common. You're taking on what I call the extracurriculars to strengthen our eminence so that we can better deliver and serve our clients, and also to grow the business and ensure that we as a company, as practitioners, are up to date on best practices and the latest technology that we can implement for projects. Basically, a lot of the work I would do is to help clients envision their strategic initiatives and their vision for how they will want to, let's say, transform or implement a large -scale enterprise management system, because the company I work for has a lot of IT projects, or to help them improve a certain process or system, or to improve a certain management practice. I did everything related and supported that. I led teams. I coached junior team members and managed financials. I served as a deputy project manager for a larger project at one point. I do think I'm kind of a jack -of -all -trades. I will say that's kind of why I'm consistently, I think, staffed on federal projects, because I would say there's a complexity. There's technical knowledge, of course, that I need to bring to the table to clients, but there's also, I think, an element of a lot of human empathy, because I felt like the clients who responded to me most and my suggestions and recommendations that we ultimately developed in the end, I think they felt they could really trust me. A lot of them said, I consider you be a good friend. You really listen to my concerns. I think for a lot of public servants, that's kind of a rare opportunity for someone to just listen to them, because a lot of times if there's any large transformation project that at the government level you have to implement, it's always mandated from the top. It can be politicized very quickly. It's always in the news. It's always in the press. You always hear a lot of the bad stories and not a lot of success stories. Just being there to almost guide them. I think it's a bit presumptuous to say I was - A doula? Yeah, a doula. Yeah. You got this. You could push through the pain. Exactly. Just someone there to support you. Even though it's difficult and you're going to have to work more and this will impact your job, all that uncertainty that surrounds change in any workplace, any organization, of course, you're there like your support system. I kid you not, I would say that's a lot of my job. Yes, there was managing a project, setting meetings, creating schedules, managing risks. Yes, that's a lot of the technical knowledge. A lot of it is just checking in, talking with people, saying how they're doing, making them feel better, making them feel like they can do this. I really felt like I was a teacher, like a coach. I think that's a marker of a good consultant too. Someone who really cares about the client and they show that. I can see how you had all of the kinds of tools necessary to do a kind of research and change maker project within the EFM community and Monterey then, which is one of the reasons I brought you here today because I wanted to hear about that project. How did it get started? Why were you pursuing it? Were you invited to do it? What was going on? What started this? Yes. I would say this EFM employment and retirement events that I initiated earlier this year, the inspiration for that was, I will say to be honest, was I needed project management credits to renew my project management certificate, my PMP, Project Management Professional Certification, and not working in an office or having a job. You have to find a lot more creative ways to submit evidence that you're continuing your education and your project management practice. I can tell you that here at Available Worldwide, we are all about the trying to fulfill credits and trying to do career tasks in ways that do not require you to be employed. This is a big part of our mission. I'm glad to hear you have found a way to do it and benefit other people. Exactly. There was an immediate need, but then I said, why not find a project that I can work on that gets me these credits, but then can really benefit myself, of course, and also other EFMs at post. The other part of the genesis of this event was when I wasn't able to bring my job with me to Mexico and work in telework. I started looking at other kind of telework options with US -based organizations. I just kept running into the same issue of like, oh, yeah, we like your experience, but we really can't work with you. Your presence in Mexico is a problem for us. We just don't want to take that tax or liability. I understand. Employment at post seemed like my best option. Initially, I will admit, I was resistant to employment at post. I went in assuming that a lot of jobs available to EFMs at post, I'm sure are good and fulfilling, but I really got used to a certain level of, let's say, compensation in the private sector. I got used to a certain level of responsibility. I was managing people. I was leading teams. I was a certain level of leadership.
The Dan Bongino Show
Prosecutors Cite Trump Post in Protective Order Request
"It's the only way the trump team is finally starting a the legal team the new rules they had a legal filing yesterday trump put out a true social post i don't know if you saw it and the truth social post said you come after me i'll come after you it was actually put out the other day of course special tyrant jack smith whose only goal is to put trump in jail before the and silence them so we can't win jack smith ran into court like a little whiny baby i need a part active order crying crying like a little child keep in mind jack smith is nowhere referenced even in the true social post was it about jack smith i have no idea was it a threat was it any more of a threat than chuck schumer the korsak kamana the whirlwind is coming for you is it any more of a threat than maxine waters you get up in their face was it any more of a threat than the uh... the esters outside of kavanaugh's house and a mikoni bears house the answer is no so the new rules are in effect i don't give a damn about your fake threats because when it's our saying it you're like always a threat but when you're going to say it like this is protected speech man speeches in i'm gonna take that rule now and i'm gonna apply it to you and if you don't like it again take the ellipse and attach them to my ass here it is here's the demo this you see this listen that's my ass you can kiss it because i don't care about your oh fake prison principle donald trump shouldn't be talking like this oh but your people can call all trump a nazi can give speeches outside the supreme court nearly inciting they can do that no i'm not there are no principles so if there are no principles
77WABC Radio
"kavanaugh" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Wow. Now what they've unleashed here of course will be endless lawsuits in state and federal court. So the state legislatures will not have the final say do not the have final say even though according to the federal constitution they're the only state entity that has any say. See how this works? So the Supreme Court the opinion with written by John, Johnny, here's Johnny and support with Barrett and Kavanaugh have completely altered the election process in the Constitution. And they've not only empowered state judges get this they've empowered federal judges but they don't say how exactly or why exactly to also intervene as they see necessary in state decisions. legislative So the state legislature really has no say. The state courts look over their shoulders. Federal courts look over their shoulders. This was a moot case and they took it and they destroyed the whole election process. Extreme activism, extreme activism, just as bad as any activism of the far left. And of course the three radicals of the Republican Party are perfectly fine. And they are being celebrated Mr. Producer are they not? Celebrated today with all the usual a -holes on TV. But what are the three conservatives on the court? The originalists, the Republicans. Breckin Thys, investigative reporter, Washington Examiner,
Mark Levin
Roberts, Kavanaugh, & Barrett Have Empowered Judges Over Legislatures
"Wow. Now what they've unleashed here of course will be endless lawsuits in state and federal court. So the state legislatures will not have the final say do not the have final say even though according to the federal constitution they're the only state entity that has any say. See how this works? So the Supreme Court the opinion with written by John, Johnny, here's Johnny and support with Barrett and Kavanaugh have completely altered the election process in the Constitution. And they've not only empowered state judges get this they've empowered federal judges but they don't say how exactly or why exactly to also intervene as they see necessary in state decisions. legislative So the state legislature really has no say. The state courts look over their shoulders. Federal courts look over their shoulders. This was a moot case and they took it and they destroyed the whole election process. Extreme activism, extreme activism, just as bad as any activism of the far left. And of course the three radicals of the Republican Party are perfectly fine. And they are being celebrated Mr. Producer are they not? Celebrated today with all the usual a -holes on TV. But what are the three conservatives on the court? The originalists, the Republicans. Breckin Thys, investigative reporter, Washington Examiner,
Mark Levin
Mark Levin: We're Being Ruled by Rulers
"Justice. This is a federal constitutional issue, authority granted state legislatures. The framers of the constitution were a hell of a lot smarter than you and there's five others who went with you. They knew exactly what they were doing. They wanted the elected body in the state dealing with the elected body at the federal level. Congress, all the courts in between, to make decisions like this? If they did, they would have said so. They were very reluctant to empower the judiciary. They called it the weakness branch. It's now the most powerful branch. Other than the fourth branch, the unconstitutional mass of bureaucracy. And this is exactly the point of my book. We're being ruled by rulers. The Democrat crack party's all in, but then we have this. They couldn't get what they wanted without those three Republicans. And they got it. And no matter their records in the bureaucracy, no matter their records, they flip the vast majority of them. And I don't want to hear again from old my friend, federal judge Royce Lambert, how wonderful Kavanaugh was on the he sucks. And don't I want to hear from the Federalist Society ever again. How wonderful Barrett was when we took up her cause tear. She sucks.
Mark Levin
Supreme Court Rejects Alabama Redistricting Map
"27 percent of the population let's say is black and it represents one seventh of a state then blacks get two seats that are predominantly black. Go on. Guneer, Lonnie Guneer used to support that position she was a radical leftist and that has been rejected as racist and yet that's exactly what the supreme court did today and incidentally if you pack all blacks or latinos or jews or whatever into single districts so they have a black congressman or latino congressman or a jewish congressman you're not doing them any favors. Why? Because that's one congressman. If in fact that population is distributed more evenly in surrounding districts they could have two or three congressman. Two or three. But if they're packed into one they're one district. This is something the democrat party and minority organizations continue to fight for. They continue to insist that they want these packed districts proportional representation. Because typically they vote democrat. In fact almost always they vote democrat. The Supreme Court today in a 5 -4 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts and supported by Kavanaugh as well as the three leftists on the court abandoned notion altogether. I want
The Charlie Kirk Show
How Democrats Changed the Game for Supreme Court Nominations
"Left has hated clarence Thomas since the moment George H. W. Bush to his credit, nominated him to go to the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, remember, Supreme Court hearings used to not be very contentious. Used to be 98 nothing and 72 ten kind of boring, you know, okay, great. Passerby. But then the Democrats decided across the Rubicon. The Democrats decided to derail one of president Ronald Reagan's nominees. The great Robert bork. Robert bork should have been on the U.S. Supreme Court. He was an unbelievable writer. He knew the constitution through and through, but they went after him, and they went after him very, very hard. They, not just condemned him, they mocked him. They made him seem like a radical, which he wasn't. He was a thoughtful, reasonable person. And the term borking, a nominee, was born. That you could derail a nomination. And they tried to do this Kavanaugh, by the way, and they were unsuccessful. And basically they were able to consolidate 58 Democrats to 42 Republicans to reject a Supreme Court nominee the first of which in over 50 years to be rejected by the U.S. Senate. Joe Biden was the instrumental person. He was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and derailed Robert bork's attempt to go on the U.S. Supreme Court. Play cut one 19. As a nationally known jurist and legal scholar, Robert bork was a mainstay of conservative jurisprudence for more than half a century. Those views fueled a Titanic struggle over his 1987 nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, a fight that became a seminal moment in altering the process for all future nominees. Bork's Supreme Court confirmation hearings unfolded in September 1987, and heralded a historic struggle over the ideological composition of the federal courts. The judges responsibility is to discern how the framers values defined in the context of the world they knew. Apply in the world we know. Brilliant, Ted Kennedy, who was an evil person. How many times can you say chappaquiddick? Was involved. Joe Biden was involved. The same cabal. They never go away.
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Woke Totalitarian Arsonists Hate the Constitution
"We have known for a while that the totalitarian arsonists that are trying to take over the country. You could call them the woke, the Marxist, the American Democrat party. They hate the constitution. We know that. The constitution is the greatest political document ever written. This is exactly why they're doing everything they possibly can to abolish the Electoral College to add new states to give them the power to be able to have HR one. They've been engaging in a hundred year project to destroy the constitution. The promise of the founding fathers. They don't like the idea of separation of powers consent to the governed and independent judiciary. They don't like that. And they especially want the third branch of government, article three of the United States Constitution, the Supreme Court to act and absolute lockstep harmony with the administrative state. You see, Congress largely does the bidding of the administrative state. You want a war in eastern Ukraine. You want the borders wide open. You want to have the military go totally trans. You'll find enough legislators to kind of just turn a blind eye. The executive branch is the administrative state. That fourth branch of government. But the Supreme Court largely thanks to president Donald Trump, by the way, president Donald Trump winning the 2016 election giving us Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, running the table. Three Supreme Court Justices that have largely done a great job. I mean, there's been some decisions I don't like, but it's been a great job. Has changed the game. Now all of a sudden there is a counterbalance to this nonstop blitzkrieg on our freedoms and liberties brought to you by the unchecked fourth branch of government. You see the Supreme Court striking down roe versus wade, reconsidering the Chevron decision, reconsidering the lemon decision, their restoring the constitution as the bedrock authority for the American government and the left doesn't like that.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
How Chevron Doctrine Erodes Separation of Powers in Government
"Let's go to cut number 20. More Paul Clement. But I was going to say, in 1983 to 84, when I clerked on the D.C. circuit, it's before Chevron. And we had different tests. I mean, it was a mass, and no one quite knew what to do with it, but the Chevron deference came in after I stopped actually practicing other than as an administrative lawyer looking for permits. It's completely changed the way that the government operates. And I don't know that do you think the justices understand how absolutely indifferent agencies are to the average person approaching them for help? I think some of the justices do, I think that is really one of the things that the change in personnel on the court over the last couple of years has really made a big difference because I do think that justice Kavanaugh saw this firsthand on the D.C. circuit, even though justice Gorsuch was out in Denver, administrative law was a particular focus of his so he understands these issues. He understands the stakes and I think they have an appreciation that Chevron doctrines problematic, both from the standpoint of the citizen facing the government in a particular case, but I think they also appreciate that it really kind of erodes the way the separation of powers is supposed to work in our system of government.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Why Joe Biden Should Never Be in Office With Victoria Toensing
"Was, well, one main reason, amongst hundreds, why Joe Biden should never be in public office again, let alone the president, and this is the reason. This is a circus. It's a national disgrace. It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks. Who in any way deign to think for themselves? And it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, you will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured, by a committee of the U.S., U.S. Senate, rather than hung from a tree. God bless that man. I love watching that clip, especially with Ginny Thomas in the background looking steely eyed at her husband, supporting him in his refusal, refusal to surrender before the scum, and the bigots of the Democrat party and especially the chairman of that committee, who was who? Joe Biden, a racist who didn't want a black conservative on the Supreme Court. And now Victoria, they're going after him again the same thing. It's his turn again. Right. Because you know Brett Kavanaugh had false accusation of the sexual attack. And the woman couldn't remember where or when. And all of her witnesses denied that they remember anything like that happening. And then Schumer went out in front of the Supreme Court. And said, you've got such and Kavanaugh, you have reaped the world. And then Amy. Was she was mocked for being a handmaiden, which the definition is that you're a woman who's subservient to everyone. I don't think that's quite fitted. And then she was criticized for adopting a black child. And
The Dan Bongino Show
Steve Deace: Liberal Media Is Used to a System of No Accountability
"It's clearly what happened yesterday with dominion and Fox I've been covering it for the first two hours of the show It's not the case the outcome It's the media response on the left that I've got to tell you stuns me and there's nobody more qualified to comment on this than you You've been in the media a lot longer than me I can not believe the victory laps being taken by people on the left wing media where they got documented history of lying on the air who are like this is great We could pay out billions for lies now It's just amazing Well they are used to a system Dan where they're not held accountable for anything Julie switt can go on national TV on MSNBC with Michael Evan Adi and claim that your Brett Kavanaugh is actually a marauding gang rapist Jim how did we not know about the Julie How did we forget the Julie sweaty This is why daisy I'm sorry Steve go ahead That is so right Julie Sweden how did we forget the best example ever Go ahead I mean they're just not held accountable for anything For nothing And so I don't think the old political dichotomy where both Republicans and Democrats were very concerned about going too far left of center and right of center because of the blowback in the reverb from the other side which is a natural relationship in any kind of a duopoly doesn't exist any longer The other side has no fear about going off to the lunatic fringe There is no fear whatsoever that you will find a federal judge of your own and go after them for the lies that they tell and use that as a precedent against them They have no fear And I hate to say it but sadly I'm not really sure at this point Why they would And that's kind of where we are They understand that this is you know this duopoly is a teeter totter brother and it's heavily tilted to one side at the moment
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Why Does the Left Hate Clarence Thomas SO Much?
"The left simply hates clarence Thomas. I mean, they don't like any of the conservative justices, not even Roberts, but they particularly load clarence Thomas, and it's let's think about why that is. I think it's because clarence Thomas is, well, a black man who has left the plantation. Think about the left. The party of the plantations, the Democratic Party, maintained the actual plantations, but even after slavery, they love to keep blacks in political subjugation. And even now. But here's clarence Thomas, and he's sort of like, no, I'm going to think for myself. I'm going to speak my mind. I'm not going to be reined in by you people. And so they despise him. They hate him. They tried what Thomas himself called the high-tech lynching when he was first nominated to the court. They tried to to the Supreme Court. I mean, they tried to topple his nomination. They couldn't do it on substance and so they wheeled out, you know, Anita hill with absurd allegations about clarence Thomas, you know, made inappropriate remarks toward me all, of course, again, unsubstantiated. By the way, we saw a replay of all that later with Kavanaugh, essentially the same playbook and happily it didn't work the second time either, but now they're trying to go after Thomas again and this time on a completely different pretext. There's a nonprofit or sort of research group called ProPublica and they did a big expose and what is the expose show. Clarence Thomas for the last 15 years has been going on extremely luxurious vacations with a big Republican donor. In fact, it's a Republican guy that I happen to know. In fact, pretty well. His name is Harlan Crowe. His father travel crow built much of the Dallas skyline, Harlan crow is a kind of institution in Dallas. He was on the board of the American enterprise institute when I was a scholar there. So I got to know Harlan pretty well and have stayed in touch over the years, and any event, clarence Thomas's friend with this guy. And apparently they do stuff together and this guy buys Harlan Crowe, buys clarence Thomas dinners and takes him on vacation, probably flies him on a private jet. He stays a nice facilities. So what?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Democrats Cross the Rubicon As Trump Gets Indicted
"Country that I grew up in has been dying for quite some time. Many people say, well, Charlie, don't we get our country back easily? Yesterday? The Rubicon was crossed. The river Rubicon, of course, goes to the story of Julius Caesar, deciding to start a Roman Civil War. The Democrats did this. Front page of The New York Times. Trump indicted. There is no going back. There is no reversing it. We are now in a new set of circumstances. The republic that we once enjoyed that we celebrated that we were appreciative of it that we were thankful for, it's over. They decided they killed it. It's not to say that the country is over, but we are in a completely new set of circumstances. A completely new scenario. And yes, I am wearing the hat for a reason because you better believe right now. That this is a direct assault, a direct attack on every single one of you. Those of you that pay your taxes. Those of you that go to church. Those of you that believe that America is the greatest nation ever to exist the history of the world. They hate you. This was a revenge indictment. These people are pathological. They're petty. They're personal. And of course, they're political. They hate the fact that the character that they were laughing about on SNL ever became president. They hate the fact that Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch are on the Supreme Court. They hate the fact that he showed that the border could be secure. The economy started to grow. He brokered Middle East peace, kept China in check, Putin never invaded. Hey, the fact that middle class wages were going up, hated the fact that Donald Trump was creating a beautiful diverse movement of people of all different backgrounds and ages, religions, to believe in the revitalization of America. Hey, the fact that he was able to get violent crime and check, he was going after the cartels. No, all of this is centered on revenge, but more than that, they want to do a Soviet style show trial, a public humiliation. You can not see what happened yesterday with the indictment of Trump and be naive any longer. And I am not an alarmist. I'm not someone who says, oh, you know, this is time to engage in hyperbole. The Democrats have not believed in elections for quite some time.
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Could Trump Be Worse the Second Time Around?
"It's not, it's a little more nuanced than that, but I do think you don't credit evangelicals generally with being smart about their vote. My whole view of the evangelical affair with Trump is that the relentless ascendancy of secularism drove evangelicals into his arm and that that election was really about the Supreme Court. And that evangelicals were quite smart to go with Trump after he published his list, and they ended up with justice, Gorsuch justice, Kavanaugh, and justice Amy Coney Barrett, and that was a good deal for evangelicals concerned about freedom of worship. Response I understand all that, I, you know, my perspective was at the time and remains that he was that Trump was pretty clear about his disregard for the constitution for history for sort of the architecture of our democracy. He made that pretty clear in his comments in different ways. And I think he proved that his words meant something when it came to January 6th. So I think, you know, sure, you got a Supreme Court that you like, and we came to a constitutional crisis where we came closer than I and many others would have liked to. Okay, tangent. Tangent, John. If Mike Pence had done the wrong thing and put aside the ballots, what do you think would have happened? It wasn't a constitutional crisis. It was a riot, and it was dangerous, and I hope they're all prosecuted who broke in, but I've had this argument with Liz Cheney. What do you think would happen if Mike Pence had bought it? Well, we don't know what would have happened. I think there's another scenario where they delay it where lawmakers are killed, where they can't get enough lawmakers to actually certify the election. And I think there was talk, I think, by general milley, of concerns about Trump, you know, declaring martial law or some excuse to take military control of the country. We don't have evidence that I think John Roberts would have gotten the court together and they would have declared count the votes in about 24 hours. Maybe not that long. And they would add a Nixon versus the United States 9 zero vote and we weren't close to a constitutional crisis. In fact, my biggest argument with you about your book is you don't actually have a lot of faith that evangelicals believe in the constitution and that there are concerns about the secularization of the society are overstated when in fact I spend a lot of time talking to the alliance defending freedom, they're out there every day combating anti Christian bigotry. I mean, it's real. I've been reporting on this since 1992. It's a constant, secularization, advance that has triggered a lot of the response that you deal with, although covenant life church is different. That's why I'm trying to, that's a very different part of the general evangelical world, isn't it? You know, in some respects, coming to life was not very political. It wasn't involved with things like alliance defending freedom. And you know, I have no problem with people doing those things in through the system that we have. But I think going back to the point about January 6th, were we at the point of a coup, we don't know the point my point is we were way too close for my comfort level and we're now at a point where the same guy is potentially going to be the Republican nominee again. And if he brought us that close last time, my concern is where do we go from here if he's president again?
The Charlie Kirk Show
The Antichrist Administration With Benny Johnson
"Benny shifting gears here a little bit. You've been on top of this story. I haven't touched it or covered it at all. Let me tell you my little campus stuff and you know this to great detail and you've had some wonderful takes on it. The Garland hearing. Benny, what happened in the Garland hearing? So the public beating has not gone out of style, Charlie. That used to be tar and feather. It used to be running out of town on the rails and the old colonial days. For some odd reason we got rid of the stocks in the middle of the city. But the public beating exists today, just exists in the form of the congressional hearing. And Republicans delivered bombshell after blow after pistol whipping to Merrick Garland and that 70 year old man deserved it. That little keebler elf had his feet held to the fire and not just the fires that cooked the cookies and shot of the tree that he lives in, making cookies. He got burned yesterday. And it was bad. I listen, there was not a single stone left unturned. Hunter Biden, Joe Biden. Attacking Catholics attacking Christians. I think that was probably one of the harshest lines of questioning by Josh hawley. And Ted Cruz went after Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court Justices being threatened, a man wandering through Brett Kavanaugh's neighborhood with full tactical gear on, ready to kill him, admittedly. And the Justice Department doing absolutely nothing. So if you're a meemaw and you have a 25% American flag and the capital police usher you into the U.S. capitol, you get put on the terrorist watch list and you spend the rest of your life in jail. But if you are a man kitted out in tactical gear with deadly weapons and you go up to kill a Supreme Court Justice that was appointed by president Trump, you get a ticket to the chocolate factory, okay? You get to go to go to the candy shop. Merritt Garland kitten club. And look, the more laws the less justice. So Garland is choosing what laws to enforce based on his own political revenge. Look, Merrick Garland is a craven old man who is bitter. He's bitter he never became a Supreme Court Justice. He's bitter that seat remained open. Remember, Barack Obama put Garland up for that seat and the turtle to his great credit, Mitch McConnell refused to put it up for vote. It was one of the great things that the parliamentarian of the Senate from Kentucky ever did and he does deserve credit for it, and we won that shock election in 16 and Gorsuch filled the seat that Garland wanted.
AP News Radio
Supreme Court seems ready to sink student loan forgiveness
"The Supreme Court seems ready to sink President Biden's plan to wipe out or reduce student loans held by millions of Americans. Lower courts have blocked the plan, estimated to cost $400 billion over 30 years. The high court's conservatives appear skeptical of the administration's right to use the COVID-19 emergency to broadly cancel debt from chief justice John Roberts, who several times mentioned the program's cost. Half a $1 trillion to justice Brett Kavanaugh, suggesting the administration simply bypassed Congress's refusal to authorize the program by creating a massive new one. And that seems problematic. The president's only hope for moving forward with the plan appears to be the slim chance that the court rules the individuals and states challenging the program do not have the legal right to sue. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
The Officer Tatum Show
"kavanaugh" Discussed on The Officer Tatum Show
"You can find the Carl Jackson show. There. All right, so I want to get to this issue with Kavanaugh. Did you guys hear about this? Have you guys heard about this? This hasn't made the big news circuit, if you will. But it needs you guys, we're right. We're right. We're right in our political leanings. We're right in our ideas. We're not better than the left we just happen to be right. Sean McConnell made a great point during the break. Is it possible that Don lemon is past his prime they moved him from nighttime prime time to the morning show. Now he's one foot out the door. He's been warned. He's been worn, so one step out the door. They're just looking for ways to get rid of them. I think because they don't want to get rid of a gay black guy in this woke era. I really think that's it. But listen, man, this is why meritocracy is very, very important. Guys, we're right. We're right in what we believe. So don't fall for the left's antics. Let's not practice the left's antics. We love free speech. So Don lemon, if he loses his job, his job should be lost based upon talent or his lack thereof, and his lack of a following or viewers. He is just simply not a good TV host. He's not a good journalist, and the guy believes he's neutral. He's so narcissistic, he really does that believe that. There are literal audio clips. He's oblivious. The guy is totally oblivious to his own narcissism, which probably explains why he is a narcissist. All right, now let me go over this. Hat tip zero hedge. The Kavanaugh accuser emits to lying and faces criminal charges. This story when I read it because we all knew the truth. Remember that lady that gets to fight and she was a mental health therapist and 30 something freaking years later, she was still having all of these emotional problems and she still needed to heal based upon some sexual activity allegedly that occurred between she and Kavanaugh where it wasn't even really a sexual assault and she was so traumatized. I forget her name, but come to find out, you know, she said she was claustrophobic and all this kind of stuff. She was so bent out of shape. She had to have two separate doors built built on her house and then come to find out later, well, one was used as a private residence entrance, another was used for like renters or something like that. That's the way they rolled and her particular community. Her boyfriend came out and said, oh my are her ex, oh my God, she's lying. We used to fly in these small prop planes all the time together these small engine one single engine planes all the time.
The Officer Tatum Show
Justice Kavanaugh Accuser Admits to Lying
"The Kavanaugh accuser emits to lying and faces criminal charges. This story when I read it because we all knew the truth. Remember that lady that gets to fight and she was a mental health therapist and 30 something freaking years later, she was still having all of these emotional problems and she still needed to heal based upon some sexual activity allegedly that occurred between she and Kavanaugh where it wasn't even really a sexual assault and she was so traumatized. I forget her name, but come to find out, you know, she said she was claustrophobic and all this kind of stuff. She was so bent out of shape. She had to have two separate doors built built on her house and then come to find out later, well, one was used as a private residence entrance, another was used for like renters or something like that. That's the way they rolled and her particular community. Her boyfriend came out and said, oh my are her ex, oh my God, she's lying. We used to fly in these small prop planes all the time together these small engine one single engine planes all the time. The lady was a complete and utter fraud, the mission was to make sure the Kavanaugh was not put on the Supreme Court.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Passed a law to correct abusive child welfare practices in which hundreds of thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and placed in institutions or with families who had no ties to their tribes. Now that law which gives preference to Native Americans in adopting and fostering Native American children is being challenged at the Supreme Court and the justices appeared divided on its fate. Conservative justice Neil Gorsuch has been a strong supporter of tribal rights, joined the court's three liberal justices in defending Congress's authority to pass the law, called the Indian child welfare act. Here are justices Gorsuch and ketanji Brown Jackson. I mean, Congress said things like there's no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of Indian tribes than their children. I guess I'm struggling to understand why this falls on the other side of the line. When Congress makes the judgment that this is essential to Indian sulfur. The preservation of Indian tribes. But several of the conservative jaws to question whether the law violates the equal protection clause by drawing distinctions based on race. Justice Brett Kavanaugh called the issue difficult. I don't think we would ever allow as the court suggested in Paul Moore in 1984, Congress to say that white parents should get a preference for white children and adoption or that Latino parents should get a preference for Latino children and adoption proceedings. I don't think that would be permitted. Under that principle of equal justice. My guest is then Kaplan, a partner at Dorsey and Whitney. Then tell us a little about the Indian child welfare act. So ICWA, as it's commonly referred to, was Congress's effort in the 1970s to begin to remedy the historic problem of Native American children being disproportionately taken away from their families in state court child protection proceedings. So ICWA, among other things, allows tribes to participate in child protection proceedings involving their children and includes some placement priority preferences for where, if possible, Native American children should be placed as part of determining who should take care of them in these proceedings. So the laws being challenged at the Supreme Court by the states of Texas, Indiana, and Louisiana, three non native couples, and the biological mother of the American Indian child. On the other side defending the law are 5 tribes and the Biden administration. Tell us about the basic arguments of the challengers. Sure, there are three kind of constitutional principles that the challengers are pointing to for their reasons why they believe ICWA is invalid. One is equal protection. The constitutional idea that we can't discriminate on the basis of race. Another basis that they point to is they assert that in acting ICWA Congress overstepped its authority to regulate Native Americans. And then the third idea is what's called the anti commandeering principle, which is a doctrine that says the federal government only has so much control over things that happen in state courts and that state governments participate in. What's the answer of the Biden administration and the tribes? So on the equal protection point, long-standing Supreme Court law has said that statutes that relate to Native Americans are fundamentally based on political affiliation that is individuals who are members of Native American tribes and not impermissible racial classifications. And so that's the thrust of the response is that the Supreme Court has never treated laws that like this one that are designed around membership status in a tribe as running afoul of equal protection. On the other point, the Biden administration and the responding tribes just point to Congress's broad authority to enact statutes that impact Native Americans and point out that that is something that the Supreme Court has treated as plenary, meaning very, very broad in the past. These arguments went on for three hours, which is long even for the new Supreme Court format. Was there a particular area that the justices were concerned about or was it broad? So there was and I think from that, we can see some of the tea leaves of how this case might turn out. Despite, I think, a lot of interest in this case because of those equal protection, racial classification issues. The justices spent most of their time questioning the attorneys on both sides about the scope of Congress's authority to enact statutes involving Native Americans. So we won't know what the justices are thinking until we get their opinion. But it's interesting that of that three hours, most of it was not spent on equal protection, racial classification issues, and more on how broad is Congress's authority in this area. Coming up, we'll continue this discussion and talk about how the court might rule. This is Bloomberg. The balance of power. It's always shifting
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Believes that. And he also may have more moderate clerks around him. So for example, I think the language that Thomas had in his concurrence in Dobbs about going back to reconsider gay marriage and sexual privacy and contraception, I hear the voice of fairly extreme law clerks that clarence Thomas typically hires. And for Brett Kavanaugh, if indeed he is a slightly more moderate conservative, he may well have slightly more moderately conservative clerks. And let's face it, they do right typically the first draft of the justices opinions. So I hear I think Kavanaugh's agreement with them and the team and his chambers as slightly more moderate in their conservatism, but also it does, in his mind, I'm sure help to separate him from what he must see as the extremism from his colleagues from the Trump era and Alito and Thomas. But still, I mean, even though he says that, and he writes that, he still goes along with the majority and gives them the 5th vote that they need or the 6 vote that they want. Well, yes, and so did the chief justice because I think they all wanted to end. And then you also get to the issue of, you know, fool me once. Shame on you, whatever it was for George W. Bush had trouble saying, but if I'm fooled by, I think it was Susan Collins said, oh, well, Burt Kavanaugh lied to me about upholding roe. Well, if you go back and listen, at least publicly, to what those conservatives were saying about roe, they were spouting, first of all, the party line to get them confirmed because they all said the same thing. And they'd all been coached to say that, which was, yes, it's precedent. Well, that's a truism. Roe was precedent. Should they pay attention to precedent? Yes, that's one of the rules of maxims of self restraint of the court. But they didn't just come straight out and say, I would never under any circumstances, not overturn roe. So nevertheless, they led some people to believe, including Susan Collins, that they wouldn't vote to overturn roe. Hold that thought, coming up will continue this conversation and we'll talk about how Brett Kavanaugh seems to be taking a different tact than clarence Thomas. You're listening to Bloomberg. Deep
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"The team and his chambers as slightly more moderate in their conservatism, but also it does in his mind, I'm sure help to separate him from what he must see as the extremism from his colleagues from the Trump era and Alito and Thomas. But still, I mean, even though he says that and he writes that, he still goes along with the majority and gives them the 5th vote that they need or the 6th vote that they want. Well, yes, and so did the chief justice because I think they all wanted to end roe. And then you also get to the issue of, you know, fool me once. Same on you, whatever it was for George W. Bush had trouble saying, but if I'm fooled by, I think it was Susan Collins said, oh, well, Kavanaugh lied to me about upholding row. Well, if you go back and listen, at least publicly, to what those conservatives were saying about roe, they were fouling, first of all, the party line to get them confirmed because they all said the same thing. And they'd all been coached to say that, which was, yes, it's precedent. Well, that's a truism. Rowe was precedent. Should they pay attention to precedent? Yes, that's one of the rules of maxims of self restraint of the court. But they didn't just come straight out and say, I would never under any circumstances, not overturn roe. So nevertheless, they led some people to believe, including Susan Collins, that they wouldn't vote to overturn roe. Hold that thought, coming up will continue this conversation and we'll talk about how Brett Kavanaugh seems to be taking a different tact than clarence Thomas. You're listening to Bloomberg. At
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"This is Bloomberg law. A divided Supreme Court rejects a religious challenge. Tell us a little about the facts of the case. Either views would prominent attorneys in Bloomberg legal experts. My guest is former federal prosecutor Jimmy Carole joining me as Bloomberg law reporter Jordan Rubin. And analysis of important legal issues, cases and headlines. The Supreme Court takes on state secrets multiple lawsuits were filed against the emergency rule. Is this lawsuit for real? Bloomberg law with June Grasso from Bloomberg radio. Welcome to Bloomberg law, I'm June brasso. A head in this hour, why is Brett Kavanaugh the most hated justice? And the uncharted territory of crypto lender bankruptcies. Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the U.S. Supreme Court's lightning rod, despite the fact that he's at the center of the conservative court, joined the majority more than any other justice. My guest is Barbara Perry, a presidential and Supreme Court scholar at the University of Virginia's Miller center. Barbara from all the protests against Kavanaugh, you'd never know that he was at the center of the court. Well, I suppose we should begin by saying that the center has just so that even keep justice Roberts now seems much more moderate and much more centrist relatively speaking than those like Alito and the three Trump nominees on the far, far right. But it is the case. By whatever measure we're now using, even if the center has shifted, at least Brett Kavanaugh is closer to that than he is to the far right. He's also less confrontational during oral arguments than some of the other justices, like Samuel Alito. Sometimes you think from what he says, he's going to vote with the liberals. Do you think it's deliberate? I think that is probably his personality and
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"In Akron, Ohio, 4th of July celebrations are canceled, instead the city is bracing for protests. Tensions rising this week following the deadly police shooting of 25 year old Jalen walker. Body cam footage of the shooting will also be released today. Police in Washington D.C. say to her dead after a car plowed into a 4th of July fireworks stand. Police say the truck ran a red light killing one bicyclist at a crosswalk then crashing into a firework stand, the owner of the stand was killed several pedestrians were hurt, police say the driver may have been suffering a medical emergency. The head of the U.S. Supreme Court police is asking state officials in Maryland and Virginia to enforce local laws prohibiting protests outside justice's homes. Gale curly is sent letters to the respective governors of the states making a request, noting protesters have gathered outside justices homes in Maryland for weeks on end. A man was arrested last month outside the home of justice Brett Kavanaugh after he allegedly told authorities he planned to kill Kavanaugh. I'm Scott Carr. Embattled Texas school police chief Pete era dondo has resigned from the Yuval city council. Arizona had been sworn in as a new city council member less than a week after the May 24th massacre at rob elementary that took the lives of 19 students and two teachers. He'd faced heavy criticism over the delayed police response to the shooting, Texas state senator Roland Gutierrez says he doesn't place blame solely on the chief. This is perhaps part of that accountability, but it remains to be seen what the Department of Public Safety is going to do. You know, at the end of the day, they have they were the ones that first initiated the narrative that Pete Aragon was the incident commander. The Democrat calls the failed police response a failure at every level. The system failure human error, you name it. Swimmers in Florida are being warned to watch out for sharks after two recent
Bloomberg Radio New York
"kavanaugh" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Divided Supreme Court freed the Biden administration to end at Trump era policy that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their cases to be processed. Chief justice John Roberts and justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's liberals in the 5 to four decision. The chief wrote that in ordering the administration to reinstate the remaining Mexico program, the appeals court had imposed a significant burden upon the executive's ability to conduct diplomatic relations with Mexico, something just as Elena Kagan pointed out vividly during the oral arguments. What do you mean it doesn't require negotiation with the foreign power? What are we supposed to do? Just drive truckloads of people into Mexico and leave them without negotiating with Mexico. Joining me is immigration law expert Leon fresco a partner at Holland at night. Leon, how much of a victory is this for the Biden administration, considering the decision sends the case back to a very conservative lower court judge to determine other questions? Well, it's an interesting victory in the sense that it's a victory that comes with strings attached to it. So the Biden administration, first of all, gets a 90% victory on being able to end the remain in Mexico migration protection protocol program because the order of the lower court and joining the ending of that program is now vacated. The reason why I say it's a victory with strings attached is number one, there may be litigation that changes other things about this program that might hurt the immigrants rights community and the Biden administration. But secondly, now there will be a lot of pressure on the Biden administration to expedite the appeal to and title 42, which is something they may not want to do, which as you may recall is the authority being used to exclude people from entering across the southern border because of COVID, where right now the numbers are pretty high in terms of people trying to enter the southern border. Yeah, and the practical problem has always been that the government just doesn't have the capacity to detain everyone who's seeking asylum. Now what was the chief's reasoning in reaching this decision? The statue very clearly uses the word made, meaning that if you can not detain someone who you encounter at the southern border, you may then place them in this remain in Mexico program and move them into Mexico awaiting asylum hearings. It doesn't say shall. It doesn't say if there's not the pension space you have to use this remain in Mexico program. And so because it's a may, that means that the lower court was wrong saying that you had to use this remain in Mexico program. And so on that basis, the order gets vacated. Does this comport with the DACA decision in 2020? Well, so interestingly, this is kind of a harbinger for a future DACA decision whereby in 2025, let's say there are Republican president who wants to eliminate DACA gets elected. It will make it much easier for a president to do this because it sort of returning the discretion again to the administration to rescind these programs if there isn't an actual clear statutory requirement to do something. So I do think you will be able to draw a lot of parallels between this and DACA. But the question will be in 2023 and 2024 does the Supreme Court end up agreeing to DACA is illegal. So forgetting about whether it could be rescinded by a future Republican president, which I think is pretty clear now, but the answer will be yes. The other question even before then will be whether DACA is a legal program that's permitted under the law. That we're going to have the way the fee. You mentioned title 42, which allows the government to expel migrants without the chance to ask for asylum. In May of federal judge prevented the Biden administration from ending title 42. But would the reasoning in this case allow the administration to eliminate title 42? Absolutely. You could eliminate that decision and actually justice Coney Barrett cites the title 42 litigation about this issue. And says, hey, look, there's going to be a lot of other litigation coming up here on this exact issue. What is it that we're going to do? Are we going to enjoying that? Are we going to let it come up, et cetera, so she was very concerned with that. But it seems now that the Biden administration is going to have a very strong argument for ending title 42 and trying to expedite the decision making process there. And so the question is, if it deliberately continues to choose the flow track, will they get flagged from the immigration advocacy community for doing that? When the issue of title 42 came up a few months ago, the experts were saying that the administration just isn't prepared for the influx of immigrants if title 42 is eliminated. Has anything changed or is the government basically in the same position? I would say they are because they thought that they were going to have the benefit of this entire summer to be able to keep title 42. And so if they were to put it in place now, especially in light of the fact that the numbers on the border keep being reported higher and higher each month and also the fact that what's very interesting is that what you're seeing on the border right now, you're not even seeing Mexicans or central Americans. You're saying people from all over the world coming to the southern border now is that if title 42 were to be eliminated, the demand factor there will be so high that it would overwhelm any administration. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more about this this summer. Thanks so much, Leon. That's Leon fresco of Holland and knight. Coming up next on the Bloomberg law show, victory for the praying high school football coach. This is Bloomberg. Burden Ella? Hear
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"Supreme Court freed the Biden administration to end at Trump era policy that forced asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their cases to be processed. Chief justice John Roberts and justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the court's liberals in the 5 to four decision. The chief wrote that in ordering the administration to reinstate the remaining Mexico program, the appeals court had imposed a significant burden upon the executive's ability to conduct diplomatic relations with Mexico, something just as Elena Kagan pointed out vividly during the oral arguments. What do you mean it doesn't require negotiation with the foreign power? What are we supposed to do? Just drive truckloads of people into Mexico and leave them without negotiating with Mexico. Joining me is immigration law expert Leon fresco a partner at Holland and knight. Leon, how much of a victory is this for the Biden administration, considering the decision sends the case back to a very conservative lower court judge to determine other questions? Well, it's an interesting victory in the sense that it's a victory that comes with strings attached to it. So the Biden administration, first of all, gets a 90% victory on being able to end the remain in Mexico migration protection protocol program because the order of the lower court and joining the ending of that program is now vacated. The reason why I say it's a victory with strings attached is number one, there may be litigation that changes other things about this program that might hurt the immigrants rights community and the Biden administration, but secondly, now there will be a lot of pressure on the Biden administration to expedite the appeal to end title 42, which is something they may not want to do, which as you may recall is the authority being used to exclude people from entering across the southern border because of COVID, where right now the numbers are pretty high in terms of people trying to enter the southern border. Yeah, and the practical problem has always been that the government just doesn't have the capacity to detain everyone who's seeking asylum. Now what was the chief's reasoning in reaching this decision? The statue very clearly uses the word may, meaning that if you can not detain someone who you encounter at the southern border, you may then place them in this remain in Mexico program and move them into Mexico awaiting asylum hearings. It doesn't say shall. It doesn't say if there's not the pension space you have to use this remain in Mexico program. And so because it's a may, that means that the lower court was wrong saying that you had to use this remain in Mexico program. And so on that basis, the order gets vacated. Does this comport with the DACA decision in 2020? Well, so interestingly, this is kind of a harbinger for a future DACA decision whereby in 2025, let's say there are Republican president who wants to eliminate DACA gets elected. It will make it much easier for a president to do this because it sort of returning the discretion again to the administration to refin these programs if there isn't an actual clear statutory requirement to do something. So I do think you will be able to draw a lot of parallels between this and DACA. But the question will be in 2023 and 2024 does the Supreme Court end up agreeing to DACA is illegal. So forgetting about whether it could be rescinded by a future Republican president, which I think is pretty clear now that the answer will be yes. The other question would be even before then will be whether DACA is a legal program that's permitted under the law. That we're going to have the way the fee. You mentioned title 42, which allows the government to expel migrants without the chance to ask for asylum. In May of federal judge prevented the Biden administration from ending title 42. But would the reasoning in this case allow the administration to eliminate title 42? Absolutely. You could eliminate that decision and actually justice Coney Barrett fights the title 42 litigation about this issue. And says, hey, look, there's going to be a lot of other litigation coming up here on this exact issue. What is it that we're going to do? Are we going to enjoying that? Are we going to let it come up, et cetera? So she was very concerned with that. But it seems now that the Biden administration is going to have a very strong argument for ending title 42 and trying to expedite the decision making process there. And so the question is, if it deliberately continues to choose the flow track, will they get flat from the immigration advocacy community for doing that? When the issue of title 42 came up a few months ago, the experts were saying that the administration just isn't prepared for the influx of immigrants if title 42 is eliminated. Has anything changed or is the government basically in the same position? I would say they are because they thought that they were going to have the benefit of this entire summer to be able to keep title 42. And so if they were to put it in place now, especially in light of the fact that the numbers on the border keep being reported higher and higher each month and also the fact that what's very interesting is that what you're seeing on the border right now, you're not even seeing Mexicans or central Americans. You're saying people from all over the world coming to the southern border now is that if title 42 were to be eliminated, the demand factor there will be so high that it would overwhelm any administration. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more about this this summer. Thanks so much, Leon. That's Leon fresco of Holland and knight. Coming up next on the Bloomberg law show, victory for the praying high school football coach. This is Bloomberg. Virginia is
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"kavanaugh" Discussed on The Stuttering John Podcast
"They're just mad that he basically shed light into the fact that, yeah, they probably do have sex parties in store cocaine in front of each other, you know? Oh God, the thought of Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham naked at an orgy. That would just make me vomit. Well, I mean, we know that's not that's not where Lindsey Graham likes to hang out. We know. Ain't no. You know, we've got, we've got plenty of male escorts that have realized that that non disclosure agreement is bullshit when you're breaking the law. You know, you can't keep me quiet when you're making me sign a non disclosure agreement over prostitution doesn't work like that. So yeah. Greg, before that you take off, I do want to ask you, Brett Kavanaugh. What is going on? Where did he get this money? Why isn't anybody looking into this crap? Sheldon whitehouse is trying. I mean, he's been pushing the FBI to reopen the investigation. So, you know, he probably got the money from his dad. His dad is really wealthy, you know? His dad, he's an only child. His dad was a corporate lobbyist for years for toiletries lobby. The cosmetics. And the year before he bought the house, his dad was left and was given roughly $14 million in a golden parachute. So he certainly had it. But when asked, he didn't say it. Kavanaugh Brett Kavanaugh didn't say that under oath. And he made not have said it because he was embarrassed. He may not have said it because he was trolling us, or he may not have said it because it isn't true. And we don't know. And, you know, we can assume that it was his dad. There's a lot of evidence to suggest that it was. In which case, fine. But the not telling us part is disgusting. And I know that there's like, there's certain rules well, you don't have to disclose blah blah blah. But the fact that this has been an issue for all this time. And he hasn't just fucking said it. It doesn't do him any favors. He's making a mockery of the whole thing. And frankly, he's every day, just like Trump every day when he's not indicted, gives, you know, makes the people that believe him with Kavanaugh's the opposite. Like every day that he doesn't come forward and say it, is the day when I think, although he's not saying it because he didn't want to line her oath again. And that it's not true. Because that would be something that would be that somebody could prove. If he said, I got the money from my dad, and then he didn't. They would be able to prove that. If he just dodges the question a little bit, then what can they do? I don't know. But I don't know that they're going to look into it. Either. Could I leave on this note though, John, do you guys play wurtele people in the audience play wordle? I've seen the ad for it. Why? Because if they ever used proper names in wurtele, my last name and Richard's last day would be such good word of words. That's all. So I'm going to say, I like, I like guys who have 5 letter last names beginning with me, Richard Barack Obama. It's all good. It's a small team. It's one part of it..
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"Vowing to stand with the people of Ukraine in the battle for democracy My message to the people of Ukraine is a messy job to deliver today to craze foreign minister and defense minister Who I believe are here tonight We stand with you Terry Speaking in Warsaw he called for NATO unity in the face of Russian aggression Biden noted the economic sanctions the U.S. and allies have placed on Moscow calling them unprecedented and effective and crippling Russia's economy The president also cited the heroism and resilience of the Ukrainian people in defending their homeland Biden is asking Europe to prepare itself for a long fight in the battle for Ukraine's freedom This battle will not be won in days or months either We need to steal ourselves for the long fight ahead He pledged Ukraine will never be a victim of Russian aggression Authorities in lviv are reporting several Russian rockets hit the outskirts of the city the attack wounded at least 5 people flames and smoke were seen at an industrial facility being used as a fuel depot Lviv has been a destination for refugees looking to stay within Ukraine and is largely been spared from Russian attacks The Supreme Court is blocking a lower court order that would have let elite military members opt out of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 The Friday ruling reiterated the Biden administration has the authority to take into account vaccination status when deciding deployment status of military members including elite navy seals just as Brett M Kavanaugh agreed with the Supreme Court saying the president of the United States not any federal judge as the commander in chief of the armed forces A jury is ordering the city of Denver to pay a group of protesters $14 million Fox News reports the jury found the city violated the first and Fourth Amendment rights of those who protested the police killing of George Floyd in 2020 The $14 million will go to the 12 who sued I'm Julie Ryan A new report shows an alarming amount of dangerous forever chemicals in rappers at major fast food restaurants and grocery chains Brad Siegel reports Consumer reports revealed FIFA's which have been dubbed forever chemicals since they do not break down in the environment Were found in packing at Arby's Burger King Chick-fil-A stop and shop and sweetgreen the chemicals are used to keep grease and water from soaking through the wrapper and in the ink on packaging The U.S. Centers for Disease Control has said exposure to pfas are a public health concern after studies found they harm the immune system and decrease a person's ability to fight infectious disease I'm Brad Siegel Analysts are assessing the surge of at home COVID tests during the omicron variant wave of coronavirus Lisa Taylor has more The CDC says at home testing rose much more significantly than it did during the prior delta variant surge newly released statistics also reveals some disparities White people were much more likely to report at home test usage than black Americans meantime people making more than $150,000 a year were more likely to report using at home tests I'm Lisa Taylor The zero tolerance policy regarding unruly airline passengers is here to stay That's according to FAA chief Steve Dickson He told CNBC such incidents have fallen in the last year but there are still too many of them Just under 6000 reports of bad behavior were launched by the FAA last year with most of those involving passengers who didn't mask up the spider mandate being in place Bob Saget's widow is standing behind the autopsy report that says her husband died after hitting his head in his hotel room Has more The report stated the late comedian struck his head on a marble floor in Florida sage family attorney released a statement saying the records released tell the entire story The statement was released after a report claimed Saget had complained he didn't feel well the night he died While Saget did have COVID in his system when he passed away officials said it played no role in his death I'm Julie Ryan And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom As we've been reporting president Joe Biden spoke at the royal castle in Warsaw Poland this afternoon The president recalled the fall of the Soviet Union and the advent of democracy in Eastern Europe telling those who attended Vladimir Putin greatly underestimated the strength and dedication of Ukrainians Europeans and NATO members to democracy Rather than breaking Ukrainian resolve Russia's brutal taxes have strengthened the resolve Rather than driving NATO apart the west is now stronger and more united than it has ever been Of Russian president Putin Biden said for God's sake this man can not remain in power after the Ukraine invasion Amid high gasoline prices New York City ride hailing drivers.
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"This is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio The shadow docket sounds more ominous than it actually is Basically emergency orders of the Supreme Court shorten on signed issued without oral arguments while the shadow docket certainly isn't new it's grown in size and significance In fact justice Amy Coney Barrett was asked about it in her confirmation hearings You know the shadow has become a hot topic in the last couple of years but you know even when I was clicking on the court in 1998 it was not typical for the court to issue opinions explaining why cert was denied I've been talking to Bloomberg law Supreme Court reporter Kimberly strawbridge Robinson and Bloomberg new Supreme Court reporter Greg store about 2021 at the court So Greg is the shadow docket getting attention because the court has been handling a lot more substantive issues on the shadow docket or is there another reason It's all the above The court is handling more cases more substantive cases And the way it's handled some of those cases has been controversial There's really just start with a logistical thing The timing of a lot of these orders they've come out oftentimes in the evening hours sometimes close to midnight to take one example when the court let that Texas abortion law go into effect on September the first It first of all took no action on September 1st itself so that the law went back at midnight And then almost exactly 24 hours later it issued an order saying oh and we're letting the law take effect Again that was close to midnight So that sort of thing gets some criticism from the outside I guess those midnight decisions are not very popular with Supreme Court reporters So Kimberly vaccine mandates which such a divisive national issue the court allowed vaccine mandates without religious exemptions in New York and Maine In the main case justices Barrett and Kavanaugh suggested the court shouldn't grant emergency requests if the justices are unlikely to consider an appeal What do you make of that Are they on the side of the people who are saying too many cases too many substantive issues in the shadow docket Well I think that we have seen some movement from the justices in response to some of the criticism that we have seen over the shadow docket So we saw justice a Leo really laid out some of those criticisms just like Greg mentioned the midnight orders and things like shortened debate and the lack of reason opinion and to some extent we've seen them respond to that I can think of two instances where they just should actually took the unusual step this term of taking cases off of the shadow docket and setting them for oral argument more in line with what they normally do so that includes the Texas abortion case that we already talked a little bit about but also a capital sentence in case that touches on religion But I don't think that they're really grappling with the other criticism that Greg suggested which is that the court has really dealing inconsistently with these cases I do think that the COVID restrictions not just the vaccine mandates but all kinds of restrictions are an example of how these are all playing out on the shadow docket And they're not always consistent with how the court comes out And Greg in a one paragraph order the court left in force a lower court ruling that required the Biden administration to restart the remain in Mexico policy So these are not just cases involving Maine and New York These are cases national implications They are And part of what is leading to this in fairness to the court is and this happened under the Trump administration as well as under the Biden administration is that you have more and more federal trial judges issuing nationwide injunctions that block an administration policy across the country And then it gets up to the Supreme Court in the Supreme Court is asked say by an administration hey you need to let this policy go back into effect rather than have it be blocked all across the country It does put the court in something of a bind every time an administration does something that there's immediately a lawsuit and oftentimes there is an injunction and the court has to decide at least while the litigation goes forward Does the policy go into effect or is it on hold So Kimberly a lot of criticism about the shadow docket how much do the Supreme Court Justices care about public outcry Because I'd say they don't but then you have several justice who came out For example Amy Coney Barrett and said you know we're not a political institution so is it hitting home Well I think it hits home in the sense that we see a lot of calls now about the legitimacy of the court And of course all of the justices are concerned with not really how the public use its individual ruling per se but instead how the public views the court's role in our democracy But I think that the abortion case shows that the conservatives and the liberals are really on different ends of how they think that the justices should respond to those criticisms And so we see the conservatives We talked a lot about Brett Kavanaugh saying that this is sort of a power grabbed by the court to get involved in abortion when the constitution is violent and he says that really strikes at the heart of the legitimacy of the institution and on the flip side we heard justice Sotomayor say that all of this gives the court the stench of a political institution and that's what's causing all these concerns of legitimacy Coming up I'll continue this conversation with Supreme Court reporters Kimberly Robinson and Greg store and we'll discuss the most important Supreme Court decisions of 2021 I'm June Grasso and.
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"This is Bloomberg law with June grosso from Bloomberg radio The shadow docket sounds more ominous than it actually is Basically emergency orders of the Supreme Court shorten on signed issued without oral arguments while the shadow docket certainly isn't new it's grown in size and significance In fact justice Amy Coney Barrett was asked about it in her confirmation hearings You know the shadow delicate has become a hot topic in the last couple of years but you know even when I was clicking on the court in 1998 it was not typical for the court to issue opinions explaining why cert was denied I've been talking to Bloomberg law Supreme Court reporter Kimberly strawbridge Robinson and Bloomberg news Supreme Court reporter Greg store about 2021 at the court So Greg is the shadow docket getting attention because the court has been handling a lot more substantive issues on the shadow docket or is there another reason It's all the above The court is handling more cases more substantive cases And the way it's handled some of those cases has been controversial Let me just start with a logistical thing The timing of a lot of these orders had come out oftentimes in the evening hours sometimes close to midnight to take one example when the court let that Texas abortion law go into effect on September the first it first of all took no action on September 1st itself so that the law went back at midnight And then almost exactly 24 hours later it issued an order saying oh and we're letting the law take effect Again that was close to midnight So that sort of thing gets some criticism from the outside I guess those midnight decisions are not very popular with Supreme Court reporters So Kimberly vaccine mandates which such a divisive national issue the court allowed vaccine mandates without religious exemptions in New York and Maine In the main case justices Barrett and Kavanaugh suggested the court shouldn't grant emergency requests if the justices are unlikely to consider an appeal What do you make of that Are they on the side of the people who are saying too many cases Too many substantive issues in the shadow docket Well I think that we have seen some movement from the justices in response to some of the criticism that we've seen over the shadow docket So we saw justice a Leo really laid out some of those criticisms just like Greg mentioned the midnight orders and things like shortened debate and the lack of reason opinion and to some extent we've seen them respond to that I can think of two instances where they just should have actually took the unusual step this term of taking cases off of the shadow docket and setting them for oral argument more in line with what they normally do so that includes the Texas abortion case that we already talked a little bit about but also a capital sentence in case that touches on religion But I don't think that they're really grappling with the other criticism that Greg suggested which is that the court has really dealing inconsistently with these cases I do think it's the COVID restrictions not just the vaccine mandates but all kinds of restrictions are an example of how these are all playing out on the shadow docket And they're not always consistent with how the court comes out And Greg in a one paragraph order the court left in force a lower court ruling that required the Biden administration to restart the remain in Mexico policy So these are not just cases involving Maine and New York These are cases national implications They are And part of what is leading to this in fairness to the court is and this happened under the Trump administration as well as under the Biden administration is that you have more and more federal trial judges issuing nationwide injunctions that block an administration policy across the country And then it gets up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court is asked say an administration Hey you need to let this policy go back into effect rather than have it be blocked all across the country It does put the court in something of a bind every time an administration does something that there's immediately a lawsuit and oftentimes there is an injunction and the court has to decide at least while the litigation goes forward Does the policy go into effect or is it on hold So Kimberly a lot of criticism about the shadow docket how much do the Supreme Court Justices care about public outcry Because I'd say they don't but then you have several justices who came out For example Amy Coney Barrett and said you know we're not a political institution so is it hitting home Well I think it hits home in the sense that we see a lot of calls now about the legitimacy of the court And of course all of the justices are concerned with not really how the public use its individual rulings per se but instead how the public views the court's role in our democracy But I think that the abortion case shows that the conservatives and the liberals are really on different ends of how they think that the justices should respond to those criticisms And so we see the conservatives We talked a lot about Brett Kavanaugh saying that this is sort of a power grab by the court to get involved in abortion when the constitution is violent and he says that really strikes at the heart of the legitimacy of the institution and on the flip side we heard justice Sotomayor say that all of this gives the court the stench of a political institution and that's what's causing all these concerns of legitimacy Coming up I'll continue this conversation with Supreme Court reporters Kimberly Robinson and Greg store and we'll discuss the most important Supreme Court decisions of 2021 I'm June grosso and you're listening.
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"Ideological aisle not so much a political aisle appointed by George W. Bush He has sided with the minority recently on cases where people would have thought he might have gone straight down the line along with the other Republican appointed justices So people are going to be watching that significantly especially because when the chief judge moves outside his political sort of legacy that's something people have a tendency to watch intently for clues as to what's going to happen in the future In the previous term Jeannie there was a lot of talk about justice Brett Kavanaugh as a possible swing vote How could he play into this next term That's right Another really important development last term is that Brett Kavanaugh and we all lived through his very contentious confirmation hearing He ended up being the justice that was the most in the majority He was in the majority on all but two cases He was followed by Roberts who was in the majority in all but four which leads you to suspect that perhaps Kavanaugh is bucking Roberts for that all important role of the swing vote on the court which would be a lot more in keeping with what we've seen historically because it's not usually the case that the chief justice is the swing vote So you've got Kevin on Roberts but got to keep an eye on Amy Coney Barrett She was not far behind those two last term but it's a little difficult to tell because she wasn't there for ten of the merited signed cases that were heard on the docket So sort of watching to see this term who ends up in that all important swing boat roll And of course if you put those three together they form quite a potential moderating force on the court if they hang together in some of these key cases And that's a big if And of course we're going to be watching I think for developments from this panel on court reform that President Biden enacted through an executive order just a couple of months back We haven't heard much from them heading into this term Rick Davis what kind of developments could we expect there Well I think that runs sort of parallel with this court session And I think you're going to hear quite a bit of discussion about this on Capitol Hill because of course anything that's close to court packing is Genie had mentioned earlier is going to have incredible political opposition by Republicans And so I think that you're going to have an enormous amount of reporting this year on issues relevant to the Supreme Court not just the cases that are historic in nature for this court and what they will hear in the Supreme Court but also the political debate around whether or not this court in the federal judiciary is equipped for the future And what some of those reforms may be including increasing the size of the Supreme Court What about that debate GD Just the idea that panel like this is meeting discussing potential changes to the Supreme Court Does that add even more to the idea that this court has become overly politicized I think it does and I think that's what we are hearing justice breyer just as Coney Barrett and others respond to and certainly chief justice John Roberts and knows this you know fully well and has really taken a lead on this You know this commission is a number of experts in constitutional law and history and political science who are getting together at the behest of the president to look at critical issues like the length of service Should there be a mandatory retirement court packing One of the important things that justice breyer has been saying while he's been on his book tour is something I think worth reflecting on And that is Democrats have to be very very careful because what comes around goes around An enormous amount of power concentrated in 9 men and women in a very interesting term coming up Jeannie chanson of iona college Rick Davis Bloomberg news political contributors both thanks to both of you for being with us And thank you for tuning into this special edition of Bloomberg lawn as we look ahead to the Supreme Court term that begins October 4th June gross will be back next week.
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"Coming up on the Hammer and Nigel Show details about Donald Trump ripping Justice Kavanaugh Plus will have some cocktails was marked from the mark and Rob Show. That's three o'clock 93. W I, B C Hey, not hear the voice of the creature from the backroom calling my name and follow justifying you trace the fan, So Roger Federer is pulling out of the Olympics. Just another story. Just another story of how messed up these Olympics are going to be. Who's going to be watching? Who's gonna be paying attention. This is disaster. Tony Katz, Tony Cats today. It's good to be with you. Facebook. Tony Katz radio. The phone number 833 got Tony 8334688669. Was it and just claiming a knee injury. Is that it now? I I didn't see anything. Of of the of Wimbledon. So I have no idea He does have any injury. If I'm then I'll believe it. But how many in in Olympics past. If you had any injury, would you still have moved forward? Maybe it Federer's age, and it hasn't been a great season for him. Federer's age. You know he's 950 years old Federer's age. But he has nothing to prove. He's one of the greats in the game. So maybe you're saying I'm not so sure My future isn't in any of this. Maybe What I gotta do is, uh, is take a walk here. Maybe maybe I just got to stop for a while and and and see which way it's going to go. I'm not. I'm not sure. All I know is it's bad for the games. Very, very bad for the Olympic Games because they're already going to have a question of who's watching. This only adds to the pile on. Then over in the NFL, Richard Sherman has been arrested on domestic violence charges. And denied bail being investigated as a felony. Remember he was with the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, all mouth very, very good. Uh, what is he a safety reason? Corner quarterback? He's a cornerback. Very, very good. Um, I didn't realize he was a free agent. Had had absolutely no clue. And the charge at least as being discussed and what he was booked for. King County Correctional, burglary, Domestic violence. Oh, my The NFL Players Association, saying We will continue to monitor events closely as more facts are made available to us, which is their way of saying, Don't bother us. We're trying to figure out what this might mean. We don't know what this means. Now he's been trying to come back. He wanted to come back with the Seattle Seahawks. These are I think we need to wait to know what the story is. But there is there is a serious level of of I was going to use the terminology, but I don't want to use the terminology and I don't want to be rude to the thing. You know what? I'm going to hold off idle line. I'm going to hold off here. I don't think the NFL can handle these kinds of things right now because the NFL's handled these kinds of things. In a in a shameful way. In its past, you know, and I know That they have looked the other way on all all sorts of abuse. Time and again. Well, they can play real good. Well, it makes us money. What doesn't mean that? Yeah. That you do the thing Doesn't mean that Yeah. Yeah. You bring you bring them back. Just just one man's point of view, I think is what's going to happen in the Olympics. I was just gonna be Flat out miserable. Then there's a continuing story of critical race theory because there's always a story of critical race 30 because parents are fighting back And rightfully so. And I get that it's difficult to fight back. When you're constantly being attacked, constantly being ridiculed, and there are people out there who really want to hurt you. Right here in Indianapolis. When people were showing up to a school board meeting. To discuss the issues with critical race theory in anti racism, which are bigotry there. They they can say anything they want. Don't tell us that it's only taught in colleges. The people involved those teachers and those unions have bought in. We know that the ahead Who talks about anti racism, which is bigotry. He's teaching your teachers. We're fully aware of what's happening yet. They try and pat us on the head and say, Oh, no, that's not happening. Oh, no, You don't understand. Oh, no. And the superintendents all get together to say, Oh, no, that's not That's not the case sat at all. Please don't be silly. If we're we we see you. We see you in Loudon County. They are highlighting a mother. Anti critical race theory rallies. Protesting the curriculum of the labrum, County public schools, and we talked a lot about what's going on in Virginia could be happening in your neighborhood as well. And somebody sent out a flyer. To her employer, saying You should be ashamed to employ a known and active racist. What is wrong with her? She's a racist. She's a racist because she doesn't believe in critical race theory being taught to our kids. That does not make one racist. That is what people who don't want you to have a say, say. That's why the claim of racist Is such nonsense garbage. It has no, uh, effect. It has no pull. Someone calling you a racist. Someone calling you a bigot. Is meaningless. And you have to treat it that way. It is extremely important. But I didn't say it wasn't difficult. It's incredibly difficult. But you have to walk right through it their plan, their hope their desire. Is that they'll call you racist. You will get so scared that you will stop. And they will be able to continue unabated in their bigotry. The critical race theorists are the biggest The anti Racists are the biggest. Remember what anti racism is based on Confronting discrimination with discrimination. And confronting future discrimination. With discrimination. It is. That is what it's about from beginning to end discrimination. We have seen quite clearly. That critical race theory in the hands of these educators is all focused on the belief that you're just should be soul thankful. You're so lucky. Oh, you get a special deal because of your skin color, and you Another person should.