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The Politics Guys

Durham Report, Title 42, GOP Presidential Field, SCOTUS Tech Decisions

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2023

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Mike is joined this week by a new co-host, May Mailman, a Harvard Law graduate and former Trump White House staffer. Mike and May start off with a discussion of the Durham report and accountability in federal law enforcement. May argues that a core problem is federal law enforcement that does too much. Mike isn’t entirely sold on that, but he agrees with her that there should be greater accountability and more severe consequences for anyone in law enforcement who breaks the rules in an attempt to hurt an ideological opponent. Next, they discuss the end of Title 42 and the border surge that hasn’t happened – at least not yet. May agrees with Mike that Title 42 isn’t good immigration policy and makes a case for big changes to asylum status. She also points out that it may be too soon to know how well the Biden administration has done at preventing a surge, and says that in any case, current ‘non-surge’ numbers are concerningly high. After that, they turn to Mike Pence’s expected entry into the 2024 GOP presidential primary. Mike can’t quite figure out why Pence would enter the race unless it’s some Kamikaze attempt to keep Trump out of the White House. May suggests that a sort of overconfidence common to many politicians may be a factor, but agrees with Mike that there seems to be no viable path to the nomination for Pence. Even so, she’s glad he plans to enter the race, as she believes it will help test the eventual nominee before the general election. They close with a look at two related tech decisions announced by the Supreme Court concerning the liability of social media companies for terrorist attacks. The Politics Guys on Facebook | Twitter 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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0:00.0

Is crypto perfect? Nope. But neither was email when it was invented in 1972.

0:05.9

And yet today, we send 347 billion emails every single day.

0:12.0

Crypto is no different. It's new. But like email, it's also revolutionary.

0:17.5

With Crackin, it's easy to start your crypto journey with 24-7 support when you need it.

0:22.6

Go to crackin.com and see what crypto can be.

0:25.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:27.2

This is a high-risk investment, and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:30.9

Atheists, agnostics, long-haired winters, short-haired winters, van roared.

0:35.9

The government.

0:37.2

The government. love the government, love the government, hug the government,

0:39.5

love the government, hug the government.

0:42.0

Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

0:47.8

I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.

0:52.2

My co-host and conservative counterpart today is May Mailman.

0:56.6

May has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, and then she went on to

1:01.8

earn her law degree at Harvard, where she was president of the Harvard Federalist Society.

1:07.6

She taught sixth grade in Kansas City with Teach for America, clerked for the Tenth Circuit,

1:12.6

and worked in the Trump White House, first as a special assistant to the president and

1:17.2

associate White House staff secretary, then deputy assistant to the president and deputy

1:22.3

White House policy coordinator, and finally, Associate White House Counsel. Following that, she was Deputy Solicitor General

1:29.7

of Ohio, and she's currently Vice President for Legal Strategy and Communications at

1:35.4

Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections, as well as a senior fellow with the Independent

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