Mayorkas Impeachment, Social Media, Alabama Execution, Biden’s Judges

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Mike and Ken open the episode with a discussion of the move by House Republicans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. They examine the articles of impeachment and agree that they’re not very convincing, and consider how the Senate might proceed if the House votes to impeach Mayorkas. Next, they turn to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on online harm to children. While there’s a bipartisan consensus that more should be done to keep kids safe online, Ken points out the problems with simply eliminating legal protections for social media companies. Mike contends that much of the harm done to kids online is unlikely to be addressable through legislation. After that is a discussion of capital punishment in the wake of Alabama’s first-in-the-nation use of the nitrogen hypoxia execution method, followed by a discussion of whether it’s time for the Senate to speed up judicial confirmations by ending the “Blue Slip” home-state Senator veto for district court judge nominations. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:27.1	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:33.7	I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski.
0:37.8	I'm joined today by, well, not my conservative counterpart, but my counterpart slightly to the left,
0:43.8	Professor of Law at Chase Law School, Ken Katkin.
0:47.7	Hey, Michael.
0:48.5	Hey, Ken, how are you doing this Groundhog Day morning?
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1:03.0	episode with you. As listeners know, they had sort of the conservative takeover last week.
1:08.8	And now we get to hear from the left on this episode,
1:13.6	and we have a lot of things to talk about.
1:16.7	But before we get to that, I'd like to start off first by thanking Natalie, Stephen, Robert,
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