Gary O'Donoghue
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1,054 appearances
15 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 1 Jul
Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know, but it didn't choose to punt.
Yeah, quick rundown.
So there were a couple involving President Trump's power to fire people in the executive.
In other words, you've got this problem in America.
The executive is one part of three parts of the governing system, along with Congress and the courts.
But the executive also contains these so-called independent agencies.
Now, if they're part of the executive, does Trump have the ability to fire people on them or are they independent?
That was one of the things it was deciding.
And in one case with the Federal Trade Commission, it agreed with him he could fire someone.
But in another case, it said, hang on, you can't fire someone from the Federal Reserve, the central bank, because they hadn't had proper due process and they sent that back to the court.
So they sort of carved out this Federal Reserve case as opposed to what now will appear the case with other executive agencies that he can do that.
The other big one this week was transgender people, transgender women playing in women's sports in schools and colleges.
And they came down.
This wasn't a Trump administration case.
This was brought by two states that had bans on transgender women playing in college and school sports.
Those bans were upheld.
There are similar bans in 25 other states.
So they are effectively upheld by that.
But they don't impose that on other states that don't have those bans, if that makes sense.
So you've got a country where half of the states say, if you're a transgender woman, you can't play in sports for women.
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