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So the theme for this season is who gets to be a person.

We talked about that with respect to trans people last week. And this week, we're going to talk about people

with disabilities, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and how the Supreme Court that could,

but probably won't, but maybe, but could still interfere with the ability of people to become

civil rights testers there. Okay. So first off, we should probably tell our listeners what a civil

rights tester is because you know, because you used to do this kind of stuff back when you worked

in housing discrimination law, right? Right. We talked about it a little bit in our preview episode of

the Supreme Court term and for this case. So when I worked as a lawyer in Minnesota, we would send

testers out to see if landlords

were turning away families under Section 8 housing. That was public housing assistance for folks

in the state. And in Minnesota, family status is a protected status under state law. You can't

discriminate against someone for having kids. And these testers were literally people who would just go out

and like, you know,

try to rent an apartment and say they had a family and see if the landlord would give them a

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