All of a Sudden SCOTUS Cares About the Real World Effects of Their Decisions
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🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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OA1231 -
The DHS funding battle is important, but really can't accomplish what you might hope it can. When it comes to the Fed, ALL OF A SUDDEN the court cares about the real world effects of their decisions. And a figure skating related footnote!
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| 0:00.0 | It's unprecedented what the courts are doing to President Trump. |
| 0:04.5 | Yeah, because no one has ever tried to do a kitten Holocaust while in office. |
| 0:17.3 | The notice that Lisa Cook received that she was about to lose her job was a truth social post. |
| 0:22.9 | And Bacomberant actually says, well, what if you're not on truth social? |
| 0:25.1 | How are you going to get notice? |
| 0:30.8 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:32.3 | This is episode 1231. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Thomas. |
| 0:34.4 | That over there is real life immigration attorney. |
| 0:36.1 | Matt Cameron. |
| 0:36.9 | How you doing? |
| 0:37.3 | I just bought my first pair of thermal underwear, not to get a TMI, but... I'm Thomas. That over there is real life immigration attorney, Matt Cameron. How you doing? |
| 0:44.1 | I just bought my first pair of thermal underwear, not to give it to you mine, but it was quite a purchase. |
| 0:49.9 | They look super warm. I can't wait. I'm getting on a plane to Minneapolis in just a couple of hours to go see what's going on. |
| 0:57.6 | Yeah, yeah. I hinted at that. Anything more you can tell folks? Are you just kind of going over to join in the mayhem? |
| 1:05.4 | You know, we just had a snowstorm in Boston, and it is absolutely freezing here, and I thought, why not go to Minneapolis? I just, you know, perfect time, perfect time. |
| 1:07.3 | I got a very cheap round ticket for some reason. |
| 1:09.5 | Nobody wants to go from Boston to Minneapolis in January. |
| 1:10.5 | I can't imagine why. |
| 1:28.4 | But, yeah, no, more importantly, of course, there's, you know, it's been quite a week and another tragedy, another completely horrible, pointless, avoidable tragedy that you've covered at length in that amazing video. That was quite a tour of force there. It was two and a half hours of coverage. It was a lot. Worth a watch. Yeah, no, I really appreciate your passion. |
| 1:48.3 | But, of course, I agree with everything you're saying, and this is the time for people to really pay attention. And that's why I really want to talk about DHS funding today and how that actually works, among other things. Yeah, and it's so interesting that I recorded that. And then like it's all of a sudden, I guess because the backlash was enough, they're at least gesturing at. |
| 1:48.6 | Yeah. |
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