Lawrence Hurley

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140 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 25 Aug

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Here's the Scoop · The Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship and Bans on Transgender Athletes; What’s in a Heat Wave? · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

inevitable that this would happen.

This was about coordinated spending between parties and individual candidates.

And the court is saying that's unconstitutional under the First Amendment, which is similar to other cases where they ruled that campaign finance restrictions were unconstitutional, including in the famous Citizens United case.

I'm not sure how much of a practical impact it actually does have because there's so much outside spending, you know, by independent super PACs and so on in elections now that the actual money that the individual parties, committees spend on races probably isn't as important as it used to be, which was one of the rationales the court adopted today in striking it down.

Well, I think a key thing to understand is that the court's conservative majority marches to the beat of its own drum, right?

It's conservative, maybe sometimes allied with what the Republican Party or what the president wants to do, but it has its own priorities based on conservative kind of legal arguments that have been going on for decades.

And as part of that, they very much support a strong presidency, and they're also very skeptical of federal agencies wielding power, especially when they're not accountable to the president.

But, you know, the court has also ruled against Trump on the birthright citizenship plan.

It also overturned his sweeping tariffs on imports from overseas.

And you can look at those rulings as being quite conservative too, because they're saying that the president was trying to take power that wasn't clearly given to him by Congress or by the Constitution.

And they have a very expansive view of executive power, but that's a different view that President Trump has, who often says that he thinks he has pretty much unlimited power.

And so the court occasionally does slap him on the wrist, but at the end of the day, the administration probably is still winning more cases than it loses on issues like immigration enforcement and downsizing the federal government and firing agency members and things like that.

So he's still got a winning record and that's probably going to continue.

Thank you.

I look at my app and I'm like, wow, I did 7,000 steps today.

Here's the Scoop · Will Israel Abide by the U.S.-Iran MOU?; Supreme Court Rules on Gun Rights Restrictions · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Hi.

Good to see you.

It's an interesting case, right, because it pits the government's interest in enforcing gun laws against the increasing legalization of marijuana, which is available in many states now.

And the court here kind of pushed back on the federal government and its attempt to prosecute a man in Texas for...

for possessing a firearm after he admitted that he was a casual user of marijuana.

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