Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.

December 8th, 2022, the Can We stop talking about Georgia Now edition? I'm David Plotz of CityCast. I'm in Washington, D.C.

I'm joined by my beloved John Dickerson of CBS Primetime from New York City. Hello, John.

Hello, David. And Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine in Yale University Law School from New Haven.

Hello, Emily.

Hello, David and John.

Not today, not from the New York Times Magazine.

Emily Bazelon of the silence in Yale University Law School, because Emily's on strike today.

Yes, today it is true.

The New York Times Union, which I'm part of, is on a one-day strike because we do not have a contract. We have

not had a contract for 20 months, and we need and deserve a fair contract. So we walked out for one

day. This week on the Gab Fest, the narrow victory of Raphael Warnock in the Georgia Senate race

and its implications for the Senate. Then the Supreme Court, here's the case of a woman who does not want to make websites for gay couples for their weddings. Then a second spicy Supreme Court argument over the independent state legislature doctrine, the dreaded ISLD. I just made that up. Plus, of course, we'll have

cocktail chatter. Georgia, no longer on my mind, a midnight train to anywhere but Georgia, finally,

John, after two years, five general elections, probably the worst major party candidate in recent history.

Georgia has two senators, two Democratic senators, who don't have to get up off their couch for

another four years.

Raphael Warnock defeated Herschel Walker that settles the Senate with a 5149 Democratic majority.

It's the last spasm of the Republicans' really bad

midterms. So, John, what happened on Tuesday night? Well, what happened was that Rapha Warnock

won by about three points. Hershawker was a very bad candidate, but he did better in some areas of the state than he did in the election in November.

But Raphael Warnock did better in his areas.

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