Into left field? America's chief justice
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4.3 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Recent Supreme Court rulings might seem like a leftward shift. But Chief Justice John Roberts is leaving loopholes for future conservative challenges. China’s video-sharing social network TikTok was wildly popular in India, until the government pulled the plug this week. And why high-end Bordeaux wines are so (relatively) cheap.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:17.3 | India was the largest market for the Chinese video sharing app, TikTok. |
| 0:21.6 | But following a deadly border clash last month, India has banned dozens of Chinese apps. |
| 0:27.6 | We look into why TikTok took India by storm and who, until recently, was on it. |
| 0:33.6 | And this year, the very finest Bordeaux wines are selling for cheap, relatively speaking. |
| 0:41.2 | The pandemic only explains part of the price drop. |
| 0:44.7 | Climate change is, for now, causing more good vintages than the market is used to. |
| 0:57.0 | But first... This week, America's Supreme Court ruled on a law that would have sharply limited abortion access in Louisiana. |
| 1:06.0 | Your Honor, this is a law that restricts abortion by regulating the physicians rather than their patients. |
| 1:12.2 | Louisiana's decision to require abortion providers to have admitting privileges |
| 1:16.9 | was justified by abundant evidence of life-threatening health and safety violations. |
| 1:23.7 | People have very strong feelings, and a lot of people morally think it's wrong, |
| 1:29.1 | and a lot of people morally think the opposite is wrong. |
| 1:32.5 | The court struck the law down on Monday. |
| 1:35.4 | It's the latest in a series of decisions that have leaned liberal and dismayed conservatives. |
| 1:41.0 | Last month, the court halted the president's efforts to end DACA, the deferred action for child |
| 1:46.2 | arrivals law that allowed young undocumented people to stay in America. |
| 1:50.7 | This is just the beginning. You are going to become American citizens and great American citizens. |
| 2:07.6 | Another decision barred workplace discrimination against gay and transgender people, and there are more politically contentious cases on the horizon. |
| 2:11.6 | Yesterday, the court said it would hear arguments this autumn in a case about releasing |
| 2:16.6 | an unredacted version of Robert |
| 2:18.0 | Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. |
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