A Court of Drugs and Guns
· 1 h 18 min · S7 E22 · Explicit
Episode A Court of Drugs and Guns
Kate, Leah, and Melissa break down the oral arguments in United States v. Hemani, a Second Amendment case which challenges a law prohibiting “unlawful users” of controlled substances from possessing a firearm. Then, they cover two truly heinous shadow docket rulings–a case out of New York where SCOTUS’s conservatives seem to have found an impermissible racial gerrymander they believe in, and another on the outing of transgender children–before speaking with California Attorney General Rob Bonta about standing up to the Trump administration on issues like tariffs, federal law enforcement overreach, and antitrust. They also pour one out for Krispy Gnome’s (née Kristi Noem) generationally awful tenure at the Department of Homeland Security. This episode was recorded live at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.
Favorite things:
• Kate: This judicial order in Urquilla-Ramos v. Trump • Leah: Upcoming Sarah J. Maas books; Melissa’s upcoming book (link below) •
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- https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928.28.0.pdf
- https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-court-of-thorns-and-roses-6-sarah-j-maas/c20f2b47abde88ba?ean=9781639739134&next=t
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- https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-constitution-annotated-for-the-contemporary-reader-melissa-murray/8e7f0dfa472fc3ca?ean=9781668221938&next=t&
- https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lawless/Leah-Litman/9781668054628
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