Cars and the Law with Greg Shill
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, October 30th, just days before the U.S. presidential election, a Biden-Harris campaign bus on I-35 in Texas was followed and surrounded by a "Trump Train," a caravan of SUVs and large pickups displaying "Make America Great Again" flags and other pro-Trump signs. In video posted online, one vehicle can be seen crashing into a white SUV which was said to be transporting members of the Biden-Harris team. Thankfully, no injuries were reported.
While neither Joe Biden nor Kamala Harris were on the bus, other candidates for office were and the incident motivated Texas Democrats to cancel three campaign events due to safety concerns. Beyond that, it marked a frightening escalation in the use of vehicles as instruments of political violence, something that seems to be occurring with increasing frequency in this country.
To make sense of it all, Doug talked to Greg Shill, an associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. Greg has written extensively on the ways in which the right to drive at the expense of nearly all other forms of transportation is written into America's legal system. (Read his longer paper on the subject here.) On Election Day, The Atlantic published his take on the Texas incident and why the drivers in the "Trump Train" had every reason to expect immunity.
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| 1:27.0 | Aaron Sarah and I discuss the many ways in which cars and trucks played an oversized role in the presidential campaign. |
| 1:34.1 | If you haven't heard that one, you might want to go back and give it a listen. |
| 1:37.4 | This episode does stand on its own, but you can consider this one a companion piece or a deeper |
| 1:42.3 | dive on one of the subjects we talked |
| 1:44.4 | about a couple of weeks ago. So if you were paying attention in the week prior |
| 1:49.3 | to the election and let's face it who could tear themselves away from the news or refreshing their phone, |
| 1:54.8 | then you probably saw a video from Friday, October 30th of a Biden-Harras campaign bus on I-35 in Texas, |
| 2:02.4 | and it was surrounded by a Trump train a caravan of |
| 2:06.0 | pickups and SUVs many flying Make America Great Again flags in videos posted, the drivers of these trucks are seen |
| 2:15.0 | getting really close to the bus. One even crashes into a white SUV, maybe |
| 2:20.6 | intentionally. This SUV was later reported to have been carrying |
| 2:24.5 | biding campaign staffers. |
| 2:26.2 | Politically motivated vehicular violence is sadly nothing new in this country |
| 2:31.6 | but something about this particular incident |
| 2:34.0 | seemed like a major escalation it was something we hadn't quite seen before and |
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