Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Life Podcast in which we take a look at this year,

2024, which is already shaping up to be even more of a disaster than expected. The causes for anxiety

are many and varied, leaving many of us with questions. And we generally try to avoid topics and commentaries that lean directly into the realm of pure speculation,

but today we decided to lean all the way in to answer your most pressing questions about this year.

What about Biden's support of Israel? What about his age?

Should he be replaced at the Democratic Convention? How likely is Trump to do the terrible

things he promises? And what about his court cases, etc?

Sources today include breaking and what about his court cases, etc.

Sources today include breaking points, Democracy Now,

the Tom Hartman program, the Muckbreak political podcast,

all in with Chris Hayes, and Today Explained,

with additional members only clips from Amicus,

and Today Explained.

There was a core case. It hasn't gotten a lot of attention, but here working its way through the US courts, accusing Biden of complicity in genocide, and we actually just got a ruling yesterday.

That is pretty interesting. Let's go ahead and put this up on the screen.

So a federal judge just ruled the Biden administration does appear to be supporting a genocide

They go on to say but he must dismiss the case under the political question doctrine despite preferring otherwise.

So this judge is saying basically like because of the political questions doctrine I can't

actually do anything here but he backs up the ICJ ruling which found

that Israel is plausibly committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. Let me read you a

little bit of the judgment here so that you guys

can hear the way that this judge lays this out. They say similarly the

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