December 4, 2024: Supreme Court Weighs Transition Treatments for Minors, Healthcare CEO Fatally Shot in NYC, TikTok Video Leads to Controversy in TX Over Citizenship Reporting Requirements, and More.

UNBIASED Politics

Jordan Berman

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Welcome back to UNBIASED. In today's episode: Supreme Court Hears Case Dealing Gender Transition Treatments for Minors (0:30) Trump's Pick for DEA Administrator Withdraws from Consideration (7:57) Doctor's Viral TikTok Video About Citizenship Reporting at Hospitals Leads to Controversy in Texas (10:01) Quick Hitters: United Healthcare CEO Fatally Shot, FBI Investigating Drones in New Jersey, US House Race Finally Ends, Cyber Monday Sales Break Records, Speaker Johnson Says Congress Will Vote on Stopgap Measure, Trump Agrees to FBI Vetting, First Democrat Lawmaker Joins DOGE Caucus, Kash Patel Victim of Alleged Iranian Hack (13:30) Critical Thinking Exercise (17:14) Listen/Watch this episode AD-FREE on Patreon. Watch this episode on YouTube. Follow Jordan on Instagram and TikTok. All sources for this episode can be found here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.1	Welcome back to Unbiased, your favorite source of unbiased news and legal analysis.
0:37.0	Welcome back to Unbiased.
0:38.5	Today is Wednesday, December 4th, and this is your daily news rundown.
0:42.1	In today's episode, we'll discuss one of the most controversial cases of the current Supreme
0:45.9	Court term, which the justices heard today.
0:48.5	We'll talk about Trump's DEA nominee withdrawing from consideration, a controversy in Texas
0:53.4	over a doctor's viral TikTok post,
0:55.6	and much, much more. So without further ado, let's get into today's stories. The Supreme Court
1:01.9	heard arguments today, and as I said, one of the most controversial cases of its current term.
1:07.4	The case is called United States v. Scermetti, and the question for the justices is this.
1:12.7	Does a state law, which prohibits all medical treatments intended to allow a minor to identify
1:18.7	with or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the minor's sex violate the equal
1:25.1	protection clause of the 14th Amendment? In other words, is a state's prohibition
1:29.5	on certain gender transition treatments for minors unconstitutional? So this case stems from a Tennessee
1:35.7	law known as Senate Bill 1 or SB 1, and that law prohibits doctors from A, performing surgery on
1:41.9	minors for purposes of gender transitioning, or B, prescribing
1:45.6	puberty blockers and hormone therapy to minors for the purpose of gender transitioning.
1:50.9	Notably, the law allows the use of these kinds of treatments for other purposes, like treating
1:56.3	minors that are dealing with early puberty, delayed puberty, etc. But these treatments cannot be used
2:02.2	for the purpose of gender transitioning. Now, importantly, and please note this, the Supreme Court
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