Aliens, Enemies, and Judges Gone Wild
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 9 April 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Case in Point Host Sarah Parshall Perry talks with fellow Senior Legal Fellow Hans Von Spakovsky about deportation orders under the Alien Enemies Act, oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, and some wild judicial decisions that strain a plain reading of the law. Plus, some big changes ahead for Case in Point. All that and more on this week's episode!
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.8 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the card. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to Case and Point and this week's episode on Thursday, April 3rd, 2025. |
| 0:14.3 | I am Sarah Partial Perry, senior legal fellow here at the Edwin Meese, the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at the Heritage Foundation. |
| 0:21.9 | And today I'm very excited to be joined by fellow senior legal fellow and manager of the election |
| 0:27.5 | reform project, Hans von Spikovsky. Welcome, Hans. Well, thanks for having me. And I noticed |
| 0:32.8 | we're not doing this on April 1st. We were afraid I was going to put some kind of, pull some kind of prank on you? |
| 0:39.1 | Let me tell you, I had every one of my children pull some kind of a prank on me, and I am so gullible. |
| 0:45.2 | They just can't believe that I don't get to a point where I sort of doubt them. But you know what? |
| 0:49.6 | I like to think I'm still possessed of sort of that innate innocence that allows me as a mother |
| 0:55.0 | to trust my children when in fact maybe they aren't so trustworthy after all. There's a lot of |
| 1:00.6 | material to cover today. This is a big week at the Supreme Court. There were oral arguments |
| 1:04.5 | in two huge cases. Catholic Charities on Monday, Catholic Charities Inc. versus Wisconsin Department of Industry and Review Board, |
| 1:13.1 | and then on Wednesday, Medina v. Planned Parenthood. Now, the first case that was being heard at the |
| 1:18.9 | Supreme Court, the Catholic Charities case, concerned whether or not the Wisconsin Board of Industry |
| 1:24.2 | had correctly denied a Catholic Charity charity group a state unemployment tax exemption |
| 1:31.4 | because they determined that their conduct was not religious but secular in motivation and |
| 1:38.4 | purpose. They ran a homeless shelter and granted services for the needy and disabled. And what the state of Wisconsin |
| 1:46.3 | had argued was essentially because they didn't engage in worship, education, or proselytizing that |
| 1:53.1 | they could not be deemed to be religious enough for a state tax exemption. And then on Wednesday, |
| 1:58.9 | we heard oral arguments in the Medina versus Planned |
| 2:01.4 | Parenthood case. Now, that's a case concerning whether or not the Medicaid Act of 1965 |
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