Disqualifying Trump, Social Media Blocking, Tuberville’s Fight, The ACA at 10

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The preview of this supporters’ midweek episode opens with a discussion of the multiple state lawsuits concerning whether or not Donald Trump can even appear on the ballot. Some are arguing that he’s ineligible because he’s either engaged in or aided insurrectionists, which under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment makes him ineligible. Mike and May are skeptical of this line of reasoning and explain why they expect Trump to be on the ballot in all 50 states. Next, they look at two Supreme Court cases involving public officials blocking citizens on their private social media accounts. Is this impermissible viewpoint discrimination, or are the officials exercising their 1st Amendment rights as private citizens? Mike and May agree that when it comes to non-governmental social media accounts, officials should be able to block anyone they want, which wouldn’t be permissible on official government social media accounts. Then they turn to Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville’s hold on military promotions, which has both Democrats and many Senate Republicans increasingly frustrated. May is sympathetic to Tuberville’s policy position but thinks he should consider backing off at this point. Mike agrees, though he’s less in agreement with Tuberville’s methods than May is. They close the episode with a look at how successful the Affordable Care Act has been now that it’s been in effect for a decade. Mike thinks it’s not perfect but has worked fairly well, while May sees things very differently. One thing they do agree on is that the U.S. healthcare system is a big, expensive mess. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.8	I love the government, hug the government, love the government, love the government, the government of the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
1:17.8	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
1:22.3	I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, attorney and former deputy assistant to President Trump, May
1:27.9	Mailman.
1:29.1	Hey, Mike.
1:29.9	Hey, May.
1:30.5	So I am looking forward to jumping right into all of those things that we didn't get a
1:36.2	chance to talk about on our weekend show.
1:40.4	And the first one of those is something that we talked about on the show when it first came
1:46.1	up, but now it's become more of a reality, those potential disqualifications of Donald Trump
1:52.5	or is not being able to appear on the ballot in certain states. So maybe you can lead us off on this
1:57.3	story. Yeah. So there's been challenges in multiple states. Some of have
2:02.2	been already kicked on standing or other grounds. But the challenge is that the 14th Amendment,
2:11.4	Section 3, prohibits Donald Trump from being president.
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