Jon Lovett
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15,055 appearances
44 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Sep
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You know, immigration and crime are sort of tied together in Republican rhetoric these days.
One of the tasks for a Democratic Senate, or just new Democratic senators, is going to be trying to find ways to rein in what is happening with ICE and what the Trump administration is doing with ICE.
We just had another person killed by ICE recently.
How are you thinking about, if you were elected Senate, what you would do with ICE?
How would you reform it, restrain it?
What are you thinking?
Well, first, we need secure borders in this country, and we should deport violent criminals.
And this organization should be working to try and do that.
But we also...
don't need what is happening now with people being picked up just because of what they look like, often American citizens being put in danger, shot on the street.
It seems to me reasonable that
Officers who work with ICE should have the same requirements that state, local, and federal law enforcement officers should have.
And I think that that is something that we need to do, make sure that they have those same requirements.
As we mentioned, your opponent's the former chair of the RNC.
A couple of weeks ago, the Supreme Court had a ruling which now will allow the party committees like the RNC and the DNC to spend unlimited funds on behalf on races like yours.
How does that ruling affect your race with your opponent being the former chair of the organization that can now spend unlimited money?
This is the worst campaign finance Supreme Court decision since Citizens United.
It allows virtually unlimited spending from these joint committees when a candidate is
and a political party or like the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee come together, they don't have any limits as they used to have.
This puts more power in the hands of the very wealthy, of the billionaires,
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