A Threat to Democracy? The Battle to Defeat the National Popular Vote Compact
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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On this week's episode of Case in Point, host Sarah Parshall Perry talks SCOTUS updates, cert petitions, and the push for the national popular vote interstate compact with Michael Maibach, Distinguished Fellow on American Federalism at the Save Our States. What is the national popular vote compact? Is it - as some have said - a threat to democracy? And how close is it to ratification? All that and more on this week's episode of Case in Point.
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.8 | Chief Justice, may it place the card. |
| 0:08.0 | It is Thursday, February 6, 2025. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to Case and Points, the legal show for regular people. |
| 0:14.7 | I am your host, as always, Sarah Partial Perry, here at the Heritage Foundation, making the law accessible, paired down without the |
| 0:23.0 | policy won't speak, not a bunch of Washington lawyers talking to each other. |
| 0:27.1 | This is a show for you. |
| 0:28.6 | Why? |
| 0:29.1 | Because the law matters. |
| 0:30.5 | And there is a lot going on in the law. |
| 0:32.7 | In fact, let me tell you about two new review grants just up at the Supreme Court. Now, we don't know when we'll |
| 0:39.3 | hear them yet, but these are two cases that implicate parental rights, religious liberty, |
| 0:45.0 | education, and gender identity curriculum. Okay. Now, we've got porn, free speech, social media |
| 0:51.2 | regulation, gender medicine bans for minors, state funding restrictions for abortion, and ghost gun regulation. |
| 1:00.1 | The justices are killing me right now, okay? |
| 1:04.0 | First cert grant. Case called Oklahoma Charter School Board versus Drummond. |
| 1:08.1 | Our religious public charter schools constitutional? Big question. |
| 1:14.9 | We know obviously how the Supreme Court has rolled on questions about whether or not private |
| 1:19.5 | religious schools are entitled to government benefits. And the answer is yes, they are. But this is |
| 1:26.2 | the first time the justices are going to be faced with a question |
| 1:29.0 | about charter schools, which by their very nature are generally organized under state law. |
| 1:35.5 | The question here, does a state violate the Constitution's First Amendment free exercise clause, |
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