Fox Settles, Should Feinstein Resign, SCOTUS & Religious Protection

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Ryan & Mike kick off the show with a discussion of Fox’s $787 million settlement with Dominion over claims that the news network defamed the voting machine company. They get into why Fox felt compelled to settle, what this may mean for other defamation lawsuits, and if it will have a chilling effect on defamatory speech by the news media. Next they consider whether 89 year old California Senator Diane Feinstein should resign her seat after being away since February recovering from shingles and for several years showing clear signs of cognitive impairment. This leads into a discussion of Feinstein’s important role on the Senate Judiciary Committee and President Biden’s judicial appointments. They end by looking at Groff v. DeJoy, a case in which an evangelical Christian former USPS employee is arguing that the Postal Service discriminated against him because of his religion. Based on past precedent and oral argument before the Supreme Court this week, Mike expects the Court to rule for the Postal Service but to do so in such a way that may expand religious protection. Ryan wonders what sort of effect the ruling will have on protection for other religious practitioners and if media reports fearing the worst are overstated. 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. Interested in starting your own podcast? Check out RedCircle, home of The Politics Guys. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	atheist agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired winters, vandal,
0:05.6	Gula.
0:05.8	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government,
0:11.8	hug the government, hug the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.7	I'm Michael Baranowski, Professor of Political Science at Northern Kentucky University.
0:22.1	I'm joined today by my co-host, political scientist, Ryan Teaton. Hey, Ryan.
0:26.8	Hey, Mike. How are you doing? I'm doing okay. I'm glad to have you back again. And, you know,
0:31.8	we have a lot of stuff to talk about this week. We're going to be talking about that big Fox settlement with
0:38.7	Dominion. Diane Feinstein and the Judiciary Committee, the problems there, an important
0:44.7	free expression case before the Supreme Court. And how could we not talk about Bud Light and
0:51.2	Dylan Mulvaney, maybe some stuff on Justice Thomas and corruption. It's a really
0:56.4	full slate, and we're going to get started with it in just one second.
1:01.9	All right, Ryan, so, you know, you've done the show a couple of times now, and I thought
1:06.2	it was, well, you had more than enough experience now to jump in the driver's seat and I I appreciate you doing
1:13.6	that and I can just kind of kick back and sort of you know a pine at my leisure sort of thing and so I
1:19.6	am looking forward to it and so why don't you get it started off today well I mean my goal is to make you
1:25.9	not regret anything you just said in that regard.
1:29.4	You know, the first story.
1:30.8	So I'd like to get us started.
1:33.6	Fox settling with Dominion.
1:35.8	So I'd like to start with a political article that said that lawyers for Dominion announced that Fox News and the parent company Fox Corporation had agreed to settle the case for
1:44.8	$787 million, less than half of Dominion's claim of $1.6 billion in damages.
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