A one-two punch for the power of federal agencies
Make Me Smart
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A Supreme Court ruling today gives companies a dramatically wider window to challenge federal regulations with lawsuits. We’ll get into why this is particularly important in light of a separate decision to overturn the Chevron doctrine, and how it could impact other federal regulations like the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete clauses. Then, we’ll discuss the Supreme Court’s decision on former President Donald Trump’s immunity case and where the heck we go from here. Plus, what you can do to protect the health of our democracy.
Here’s everything we talked about today:
- “Supreme Court rules Trump has some immunity in D.C. election interference case” from NBC News
- “Supreme Court Extends Time Frame for Challenges to Regulations” from The New York Times
- “Biden to extend overtime protections for 1 million workers” from The Hill
- Post on Bluesky from Squire Boone
- “American democracy is cracking. These ideas could help repair it.” from The Washington Post
- “Five Strategies to Support U.S. Democracy” from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- “How to Protect Democracy” from Protect Democracy
- “Opinion | John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation” from The New York Times
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| 0:00.0 | You're so kind. |
| 0:03.0 | Hello everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today make sense. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Kavrosol. |
| 0:12.0 | Thanks for joining us and I say us because Ms Adams is here in the |
| 0:15.4 | studios. Hello! In the marketplace world headquarters. It is Monday the first day of |
| 0:20.0 | July if you can believe that. Yes today we are going to do some news even though it's |
| 0:24.8 | just kind of the news and then get to some smiles start with the news Mr. |
| 0:30.0 | Rizdahl. I don't know what happens now I don't know what happens now. I don't know what happens now. So we've had a lot of |
| 0:36.8 | Supreme Court activity the last you know three or five days whatever. The big one |
| 0:40.3 | this one, well one of the big ones right, but arguably the biggest of the term is the immunity |
| 0:43.9 | ruling this morning for Donald Trump. Well, for presidents of the United States in the person of Donald Trump, |
| 0:50.9 | saying that basically for all of his official acts he is absolutely immune and I don't |
| 0:56.4 | know where we go now that one person is above the law I don't I don't know. I don't know what happens. Well it kind of depends on what |
| 1:06.2 | happens in November. Well yes it does. Right. But well yes but but not just this |
| 1:10.7 | November right because as Gorsuch said I think it was Gorsuch during arguments |
| 1:14.6 | for this case, we're trying to make ruling for the ages here. |
| 1:17.2 | Right, so if Biden wins or whoever runs instead of Biden, |
| 1:21.4 | but that's a whole different podcast you know well yes and I |
| 1:27.2 | also think that if we do end up with a Democrat in the White House in, you know, after November that the push to |
| 1:35.8 | change the makeup of the Supreme Court will kick into extreme high gear and those |
| 1:42.4 | conversations that have not been super serious |
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