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Our Body Politic

How the Military is Tackling Sexual Assault and Extremism, and Reviewing the Latest Supreme Court Decisions

Our Body Politic

Diaspora Farms, LLC

News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8658 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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0:00.0

Thanks for listening and sharing Our Body Politics. As we grow and evolve our show, we need lots of input from listeners like you. So I want to ask you a small favor. After you listen today, please head over to Apple podcast on your phone, tablet, laptop, or anywhere you listen, and leave us a review. Thanks to you, Our Body Politics is moving up the ranks in the Top 100 podcast on Apple for news commentary.

0:24.0

We keep getting insightful reviews about what you like most, and we read all of them because your ideas matter to us.

0:31.1

Thanks so much. This is our body politic.

0:49.4

I'm the creator and host, Farai Chodea.

0:51.9

We cover extremism as a beat on this show. Today, we're zooming in on how the

0:56.7

military is attempting to address extremism and other challenges within its existing structure.

1:02.0

But first, our roundtable, sipping the political tea. We have so much to cover in Supreme Court

1:07.8

news. So joining me this week are Tiffany Jeffers, our legal analyst here at Our Body Politics.

1:12.8

Hi, Tiffany.

1:13.9

Thanks, Farai.

1:14.6

It's so good to be back.

1:16.2

And Julia Craven, staff writer at Slate covering race, politics and health disparities

1:20.9

and co-host of Slate's podcast on Gender, The Waves.

1:25.2

Welcome to Our Body Politics, Julia.

1:27.3

Hi. Thanks for having me. So there is so much

1:31.0

going on for us to talk about, and we're going to focus in a bit on the Supreme Court. A few

1:36.2

decisions came down last week. So Tiffany, let's start there. The California v. Texas Affordable

1:42.7

Care Act case. The Supreme Court upheld the ACA, sometimes called Obamacare, and it was a seven to two decision, decided that there was no standing.

1:52.2

Let's start with that, Tiffany. What does it mean to say something has no standing?

1:57.3

So it's a complicated legal doctrine for a right, but it's required in every court of law that a person or

2:05.4

entity bringing a case has standing. And what that means is that that person or entity can prove

2:11.2

that they've actually suffered some type of harm or injury or that some type of harm or injury

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