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National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

Episode 434: Emergency Episode — SCOTUS Affirms California Parent Rights

National Review's Radio Free California Podcast

National Review

Politics, News, National Review, Conservatism, Government, California, Conservative

4.8708 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 93 minutes

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0:00.0

B.N. Venidos. That's California for welcome to this March 6th edition, an emergency edition

0:18.8

of National Review's Radio Free California Podcast. I'm Will Swain,

0:22.2

CEO of the California Policy Center. You can find my colleagues and me at California PolicyCenter.

0:27.7

David Bonson is traveling, but he'll be back in a few days, and you'll get our regular

0:32.7

catalog of Gallo's humor and California news stories. But in the meantime, we're going to go deep on a recent

0:38.9

Supreme Court decision that would seem to be the end of Gavin Newsom's attempt to take over the

0:44.5

parenting of your school kids. Joining me to do that is my colleague, Attorney Emily Ray, president of

0:49.8

our California Justice Center. Hello, Emily. Hello. Hello. And also here is the man of the hour. That's Paul Jonah. He's the

0:56.4

attorney who battled his way through the Southern District of California and San Diego and into the U.S. Supreme Court this week. Hello, and congratulations, Paul. Thank you. Thanks so much for having me. Oh my gosh, thanks to you for making her.

1:08.6

I hope I'm not violating HIPAA when I say that you have fought

1:11.0

your way not only through the Supreme Court, but through a family bout of the flu. So really

1:16.0

grateful you could make it. Well, Paul is calling in to the show from San Diego. Emily, as I say,

1:23.2

as our attorney at the California Justice Center. And Paul, I guess, you know, I'm going to start

1:28.2

with just one of the most recent headlines here and then we'll unpack the meaning of what's

1:31.7

going on here. But here's from Scotus blog over at the dispatch and kind of a conventional headline.

1:37.7

Court sides with parents in dispute over California policies on transgender students.

1:44.0

Paul, what happened with Supreme Court

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earlier this week? Well, it was a groundbreaking, first of its kind ruling. We had six

1:52.0

Supreme Court justices weigh in substantively on the merits of this case and on the posture

2:00.0

of an emergency application,

2:01.6

just to remind your listeners, so we had obtained a class-wide,

2:07.6

statewide, statewide, permanent injunction on behalf of all parents

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