Gene Demby
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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We talked with Don Tamaki.
government during World War II.
His family and those like his that were imprisoned waited for
46 years before they eventually got a formal apology and got financial redress from the government.
And yet on the flip, we had this proposal to compensate anyone who believes that they were prosecuted for political reasons, including January 6th defendants.
And that came together fairly quickly under this administration.
That's wild to me.
This blew my mind.
Like, I did not know this before going into this reporting, but the money that the anti-weaponization fund would draw on
comes from something called the Judgment Fund.
And that's basically the government's account for paying settlements.
And the machinery to pay those settlements, it exists in large part because indigenous people, native nations, spent more than a century building it.
They had no way to sue the U.S.
government directly.
So they fought to create these legal tools to do so.
And so when the DOJ announced the fund, they cited a case called Keepsiegel as precedent.
So Keep Segal was this case where Native American farmers sued the USDA for discrimination back in 1999.
I talked with a legal scholar, Maggie Blackhawk, whose fond elect banned Ojibwe, and she explained the significance of citing their precedents like this.
Everyone's antenna would twitch.
It's like, hey, wait a second.
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