Carrie Johnson
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143 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, the court majority seemed to think this was pretty settled and it's been settled for like 160 years.
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But interestingly enough, Justice Katonji Brown Jackson, a Biden appointee, felt strongly enough to write about this separately.
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And she basically said for certain people, being born on U.S.
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soil is not going to be enough to confer citizenship.
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But she says the 14th Amendment should forever be the death knell for that kind of claim.
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And I think the reason she went out of her way to write that is because she knows the political process.
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She knows this is going to continue to be an issue in American politics, even though the court decided this way today.
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You know, one of the things that struck me today is the reaction from some of the people who helped bring this challenge, like at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.
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Janae Nelson, who runs that group, basically said this was supposed to be an easy, easy case.
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It was supposed to be, in some ways, nine to nothing, a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court to reaffirm law.
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our understanding of the law for over 100 years and look at how divided the Supreme Court opinion is on the issue.
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So I don't think we're done talking about this, but I do think the court has taken a stand here.
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This was a pair of cases out of West Virginia and Idaho raising the question about whether state bans were
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on trans athletes playing on girls' and women's teams violated the law.
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Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the majority opinion here.
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About half of the states have these kinds of bans, and according to the court majority, they're okay.
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These bans do not violate Title IX, which is an important federal law that governs
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programs that receive, educational programs that receive federal funding, and they're not supposed to discriminate on the basis of sex.
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And the court majority also found this doesn't run afoul of the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.
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So for now, schools that receive this kind of federal funding can maintain women and girls sports for biological girls and women.
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