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🗓️ 7 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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OA1205 - It’s another good news Friday! Voting rights expert Jenessa runs down some of the highlights of the off-year blue sweep in this week’s elections, as well as some recent unsung national victories for voting and disability rights. Matt then checks in on the Supreme Court’s oral arguments from the challenge to Trump’s unprecedented tariffs and why it is looking like he might actually lose his administration’s first attempt to defend one of his second administration’s policies on the merits.

Finally, in today’s footnote: Why a federal judge recently decided that a lawsuit brought by the man whose penis was once featured on the cover of the most important albums of 1990s smelled like summary judgment.

Supreme Court oral arguments in Learning Resources, Inc v. Trump (11/5/2025)
The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977
“Regulating Imports with a Reciprocal Tariff to Rectify Trade Pratcies that Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits,” The White House (4/2/2025)(executive order on tariffs)
Solicitor General John Sauer’s brief in Learning Resources
Plaintiff’s second amended complaint in Elden v. Nirvana LLC et al
D.C. federal judge Coleen Kollar-Kotelly’s opinion in combined litigation challenging Trump’s executive order on citizenship requirements for voting (10/31/25)
DC federal judge Amir Ali’s order in National Association of the Deaf v. Trump (11/4/25)
Order granting defendants’ motion for summary judgment in Elden v. Nirvana, LLC (9/30/2025)

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0:00.0	I'm starting to think that maybe people don't like it when there's, you know, secret police in the streets wearing masks, kidnapping people and selling them to torture camps.
0:17.7	Bucks County, Pennsylvania, which is the swingiest county in that swing state, the single county with the largest number of people charged for being in January 6th.
0:28.2	They elected their first ever Democrat district attorney.
0:42.1	Hello, and welcome to opening arguments. I'm Matt Cameron, and with me is Janessa Seymour,
0:44.0	and I think we've got some good news this Friday.
0:48.6	I agree, yes, lots of good news to share. Very excited.
0:51.3	I think we may actually have nothing but good news.
0:52.1	I think so.
1:11.8	Been a while since we had a good news Friday, but I think we earned this one. America earned this one. Good work, everybody, on Tuesday. We'll talk about how that plays out and what that means for the future and the law and everything else. We've got some exciting updates from Voting Rights, Attorney, Janice Seymour. I'm going to do my best to explain a complex argument this morning in front of the Supreme Court that really isn't all that complicated.
1:28.5	I think it's actually about as easy as it gets about whether or not the president gets to do something that's unconstitutional. We'll talk about the tariffs, and I will do my best to explain the state of things with the tariff case and why it looks like it's very likely the Supreme Court is actually going to go against the president on this one. And then we've got a fun footnote that I'm calling Smells Like Summary Judgment.
1:28.5	And it is about... is actually going to go against the president on this one. And then we've got a fun footnote that I'm calling Smells Like Summary Judgment.
1:34.2	And it is about one of the most famous album covers in history and some litigation that recently resolved over the cover of Nirvana's Nevermind.
1:38.4	Oh!
1:38.9	So, good times.
1:40.4	I might know the tiniest bit about that.
1:43.3	There is something very tiny involved.
1:44.9	Oh, no.
1:45.3	All right.
1:45.7	We'll come back in just a moment to get started with some good news from the week.
1:55.0	As we're recording this, it's the day after election day, Tuesday, November 4th, and I woke up to some amazing results. Not that I'm
2:02.3	surprised, I have to say, but I'm a little surprised. So what's the top line here? What's the
2:05.9	takeaway from this week of elections? Pretty much universal good news. I'm really excited about this.
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