Carrie Johnson
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1,251 appearances
127 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4 Sep
Carrie Johnson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a complicated issue in terms of the culture wars and the Trump administration and the MAGA movement have really been on the offense on several of these culture war issues involving trans students and adults for that matter.
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Yeah, this is another important decision considered to be a very big victory for the Republican National Committee, which had pushed quite hard to to get rid of limitations on coordination with candidates and spending for advertising dollars.
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Something that our colleague Mara Liason says the RNC could put into effect within the hour.
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Important because it continues this trend of the conservative Supreme Court viewing these issues on the lens of the First Amendment, that this is free speech, that this money counts as free speech, dating all the way back to Citizens United.
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And in fact, former Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, a Democrat who, if you've been around long enough to know, he passed an important campaign finance law with John McCain back in the day.
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said this is the latest in a series of bad decisions by the Supreme Court that's flooded the political system with unprecedented amounts of money, leading to potential corruption and the idea that billionaires can buy politicians.
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I've been very dissociative, so that's a problem for my future therapist.
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There were ways for the court majority to get here.
One was just to say, look at the words of the 14th Amendment, which are quite clear that subject to the jurisdiction thereof means you're here, you're born here on American soil, you're a citizen.
Another way to get to this result would be to look to a couple of statutes that Congress passed much after the adoption of the 14th Amendment in 1940 and 1952.
These were immigration laws that basically codified the same language that was in the 14th Amendment.
And the justices could have found – could have used those more recent laws as a basis to come to some consensus.
This is actually a pair of cases out of West Virginia and Idaho that deal with when women and girls can participate in high school and college-level sports.
These involve trans girls and women in these states.
And Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing for the majority, has written that schools can determine eligibility for women and girls sports based on biological sex, that that does not violate Title IX, an important federal law.
And here's Carrie Johnson reporting.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh delivered the 7-2 court ruling, which hands a victory to Monsanto and its new owner, Bayer.
The company had been facing billions of dollars in claims over glyphosate, the key ingredient in its popular weed killer.
The court majority says federal law overrides lawsuits in state courts over the company's alleged failure to warn about the product.
Plaintiff lawyers say the Supreme Court's now given a shield to corporate America and slammed the courthouse doors on people sickened by pesticides.
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