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The Politics Guys

Justice Thomas, Mifepristone, Leaked Documents, Tennessee House, Trump’s Appeal

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4783 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

The 400th regular weekend episode of The Politics Guys! Trey & Ken start the 400th show with a long investigation into Justice Thomas’ undisclosed gifts from Harlan Crow. Trey, who was initially skeptical of the claims of impropriety, finds there is good reason to find issue. Ken agrees but goes further in his arguments for curruption. Next they turn to the recent rulings on Mifepristone by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeal. The focus is primarily on what, if anything, the FDA can or should do in response to the rulings. Ken sees no functional difference between deference and ignoring the ruling. Trey sees a key difference in that one is a constitutionally consistent principle and the other is not. After that is a long conversation on the papers potentially leaked. Ken floats a novel idea: that the leak is a bit of counter espionage. Trey probes the idea to see if it holds up and works out what would have to continue to be found empirically for the thesis to be true. Then the pair turn to the expulsion of two African American Tennessee House members. The conversation between both focuses on the rightful, if any, action the legislature should have taken given that the rules were violated by three members of that body. Trey & Ken end the show discussing Trump’s latest legal appeals. 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. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, short-haired weirdos, banal bulligans.

0:05.9

I'm the government, huck the government, love, the government, hug the government, love, the government.

0:11.9

Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

0:17.9

I'm Trey Orndorf, a political scientist at Oklahoma Christian University, and I'm joined

0:23.2

by the professor of law at Chase Law School for this historic 400th Politics Guys episode, Ken,

0:33.0

Ken, Ken, welcome to the 400 episode of the politics, guys.

0:38.5

I can't wait until the 800th episode.

0:42.8

Well, you know, Michael told me that we needed to celebrate this, Ken.

0:47.5

So I think we could have a celebration a real good time.

0:51.4

Come on.

0:52.9

Well, he specifically wanted confetti.

0:55.1

Yes.

0:55.6

I don't know what audio confetti.

0:58.6

What do you think?

0:59.8

Well, I mean, I think this is the best that I could pull out was a little cool in the gang.

1:03.7

I don't know what else you go to.

1:06.4

I don't know.

1:06.9

Let's do it.

1:08.1

So bring your good times and your laughter too.

1:12.6

We're going to celebrate your party with you.

1:16.1

Come on now.

1:21.6

Okay, Ken, so I think we probably should turn back some more serious things, but that's a lot of fun

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