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Landmark Battle: Skrmetti Defends Law Protecting Minors | 12.7.24

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🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti shares insights on defending Tennessee’s law protecting minors from irreversible transgender treatments before the Supreme Court. Get the facts first on Morning Wire. Birch Gold: Text "WIRE" to 989898 for your no-cost, no-obligation information kit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's being called the most significant case of the current Supreme Court term, U.S. v. Scermetti.

0:09.0

In this episode, Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Scermetti sits down with us to discuss his pivotal role in the case and his defense of a state law aimed at protecting minors from transgender medical procedures. I'm DailyWire,

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Joining us now is Tennessee's Attorney General Jonathan Scurmetti.

1:10.6

Attorney General, thank you so much for coming on.

1:12.8

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on what is setting up to be a landmark case on

1:17.7

transgender medical procedures on minors. Your name is on this marquee case. It's you against the

1:23.9

federal government, the U.S. v. Scrametti. So safe to say, no one is more attuned to what happened this week than you. First, how did you against the federal government, the U.S. v. Scrimetti. So it's safe to say, no one is more attuned

1:28.0

to what happened this week than you. First, how did you feel the day went for your case?

1:33.5

I thought it went very well. I can't predict outcomes. You don't know what the court's going to do,

1:38.5

and the justices have months to deliberate. So without talking, you know, horse race here, I thought the day went well for us.

1:46.5

My Solicitor General Matt Rice did a great job making our case.

1:49.8

I was very happy with his oral argument.

1:52.8

The argument went long, which I think reflects that the justices care a lot about this,

1:57.5

recognize there are some complexities here from a legal perspective and that this

2:01.9

could be a very consequential precedent. And so they want to get it right. So I thought they

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