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California's Assault Weapons Ban Overturned

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The Dispatch

News, Government, Politics

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Today on the podcast, our hosts walk us through a bit of Supreme Court drama involving Sonia Sotomayor and some historical revision of a 1987 Supreme Court immigration case. They then dive into last week’s 94-page ruling from a federal judge striking down California’s assault weapons ban, a decision that includes references to COVID vaccines and the Swiss Army knife in its robust defense of gun rights in America. Finally, David and Sarah discuss whether civic education can reduce negative partisanship in America. Show Notes: -United States v. Palomar-Santiago -United States v. Mendoza-Lopez -Sotomayor’s statement on the Draft -California assault weapons ban ruling Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Deflated and underwhelmed, Sarah, those are the exact words of a commenter on scotus

0:12.5

blog live on the live blog this morning when the much anticipated opinion day turned into

0:20.6

a bit of a fizzle, a bit of a fizzle one case, an immigration related case, how many immigration

0:26.9

cases can there be in one term?

0:29.2

Sarah.

0:30.2

The answer is clearly a lot and there's more to come actually.

0:33.3

But look, listeners, if you feel deflated, disappointed, angry, just imagine what it's

0:39.8

going to feel like.

0:41.2

We have a limited number of days left.

0:43.1

So all that's happening is that we're packing better and better cases into single days

0:48.5

to come.

0:49.6

You will be feasting on fizzle and fish and bison and all sorts of all the meats will

0:56.2

come in a single meal and it will be delicious.

1:00.0

So delayed gratification.

1:01.2

It's the marshmallow test, David.

1:03.8

Supreme court marshmallow test.

1:05.6

This is like when you know you're going to have a really great meal and you decide I'm

1:10.0

not having the afternoon snack.

1:12.2

That's right.

1:13.2

Yes.

1:14.2

Yeah.

1:15.2

But okay, so we're going to talk about the one case very briefly that was decided, but

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