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#437: The Pivotal Gun Case Likely Going to the Supreme Court, Explained

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🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Could the manufacturer of the gun used in the tragic Sandy Hook shooting be sued? That's what at stake in a new case that the Supreme Court has been asked to hear. Heritage Foundation legal expert Amy Swearer breaks down this case, plus what needs to be done to make our schools safe. We also cover these stories:•Attorney General William Barr addresses "spying" on Trump campaign during hearing.•Sen. Bernie Sanders introduces Medicare-for-All legislation.•New Zealand's parliament has voted 119-1 to change its gun laws. The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, April 11th. I'm Rachel

0:10.6

Del Judas and I'm Kate Trinko. Today we're going to talk to legal expert Amy Swear about a pivotal gun case that could have big ramifications and that may now head to the Supreme Court. Plus we'll talk about a new article encouraging people

0:25.0

to not share a cartoonist's work just because he's pro-life.

0:29.7

By the way, if you're enjoying this podcast,

0:32.0

please consider leaving a review or a five-star

0:34.4

rating on iTunes and encouraging others to subscribe. Now on to our top news.

0:40.9

In testimony on the Hill Wednesday, Attorney General William Barr said he thinks they're

0:48.6

spying on the Trump campaign in response to questions from Senator Jean Shaheen, Democrat of New Hampshire.

0:55.0

I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal.

1:00.0

It's a big deal.

1:01.0

A generation I grew up in, which was the Vietnam War period, you know, people were all

1:07.3

concerned about spying on anti-war people and so forth by the government.

1:13.5

And there were a lot of rules put in place

1:15.1

to make sure that there's an adequate basis

1:17.5

before our law enforcement agencies

1:20.0

get involved in political surveillance.

1:23.8

I'm not suggesting that those rules were violated,

1:27.4

but I think it's important to look at that.

1:30.0

And I'm not just, I'm not talking about the FBI necessarily but intelligence agencies

1:35.2

more broadly.

1:36.6

So you're not you're not suggesting though that spying occurred? I don't well. occurred.

1:43.0

I don't, well, I guess you could, I think there was a spying did occur.

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