Political Gabfest | Let’s Plunge, New York

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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This week, Emily Bazelon and guest hosts Ruth Marcus and James Forman discuss Trump’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities with guest Steven Cook from the Council on Foreign Relations, Zohran Mamdani’s stunning victory in the NYC Democratic mayoral primary, and an astonishing whistleblower report that sheds incriminating light on Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove and defiance of court orders in deportation flight cases. For this week’s Slate Plus bonus episode, Emily Bazelon and guest hosts Ruth Marcus and James Forman discuss how Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s approach differs from the other liberal Justices and her ferocious critiques of the Roberts Court’s processes and opinions. In the latest Gabfest Reads, David talks with author Alison Bechdel about her new book, Spent. Email your chatters, questions, and comments to [email protected]. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.) Research by Emily Ditto Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest.
0:06.7	For Thursday, June 26th, the Let's Plunge New York edition.
0:21.4	I'm Emily Bazelan from the New York Times Magazine and Yale Law School.
0:24.9	David and John are away this week.
0:26.5	But I am thrilled to be joined by James Foreman, a professor at Yale Law School, and the author of
0:31.4	Locking Up Our Own and also Dismantling Mass Incarceration, a Handbook for Change.
0:37.4	Hi, James.
0:38.2	Hey, Emily.
0:39.3	And also joining us is Ruth Marcus, who is a contributor to the New Yorker, a former columnist
0:44.9	for the Washington Post, and the author of Supreme Ambition, Brett Kavanaugh and the Conservative
0:50.3	Takeover.
0:51.4	Hey, Ruth.
0:52.3	Hi.
0:53.2	Okay, we have a very intense lineup of topics this week.
0:56.8	My head, I confess, is kind of exploding. We're going to start by talking with Stephen
1:01.4	Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations about President Trump's decision to bomb Iran.
1:06.8	What do we know about the result? Of course, this is contested and also what is likely to happen next.
1:13.4	Our second topic is the victory of Zoran Mamdani in the Democratic primary in the race for mayor in New York.
1:19.9	What does Mamdani's win mean for the city and also for the Democratic Party?
1:23.9	And third, we're going to talk about some of the clashes in court we've been
1:27.8	following over the Trump deportations. And finally, we'll have cocktail chatter.
1:33.7	My name is Caden Sinclair. Some people call us American royalty. We were liars. A new series on
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