Political Gabfest - When Is Government Speech Coercion?
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court’s busy week on government speech and immigration authority; Donald Trump’s bond issue and words problem; and COVID learning loss. Join us for Political Gabfest Live in Washington, D.C. on March 27! Tickets are on sale now; get ‘em before they’re gone.
Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:
Amy Howe for SCOTUSblog: Court sympathetic to NRA’s free speech claim and Supreme Court skeptical of restricting government communications with social media companies
Lindsay Whitehurst for AP: Supreme Court appears receptive to NRA free-speech lawsuit against a former New York state officia
Hogan Gore for the Austin American-Statesman: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals leaves SB 4 on hold after dueling orders on Texas immigration law
Ben Protess, Maggie Haberman, and Kate Christobek for The New York Times: Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment
Ruth Marcus for The Washington Post: Fair’s fair: Trump should be able to appeal the judgment against him and Catherine Rampell:Trump can’t find anyone to spot him $424 million. Would you?
Sarah Mervosh, Claire Cain Miller, and Francesca Paris for The New York Times: What the Data Says About Pandemic School Closures, Four Years Later
Slate Political Gabfest: The “Stop Counting Now” Edition
Here are this week’s chatters:
Emily: Small Game: A Novel by Blair Braverman and Small Game: A Novel at the DC Public Library
John: Ramishah Maruf for CNN: MacKenzie Scott donates $640 million after open call for nonprofits and Ahjané Forbes for USA Today: Ticketless passenger found in Delta flight’s lavatory, forcing plane to turn around
David: Sarah Zhang for The Atlantic: DNA Tests Are Uncovering The True Prevalence Of Incest and City Cast: Work with us.
Listener chatter from Joshua Weaver in Austin, Texas: Matthew Brown for AP: Montana man used animal tissue and testicles to breed ‘giant’ sheep for sale to hunting preserves
For this week’s Slate Plus bonus segment, David, John, and Emily talk about The Mysterious Case of The Reappearing Princess. See Karla Adam for The Washington Post: Will Princess Kate video put an end to royal communications mess? and Mark Landler for The New York Times: The Royals Tried to Control Their Image Online. The Internet Had Other Ideas.
In the latest Gabfest Reads, Emily talks with Tana French about her book, The Hunter: A Novel.
Email your chatters, questions, and comments to gabfest@slate.com. (Messages may be referenced by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)
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Research by Julie Huygen
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the slate Political Gapfest. March 21st, 2024, the when is government speech coercion addition. I'm David The When is Government Speech Coercion Edition? |
| 0:24.0 | I'm David Plots of City Cast. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:28.0 | Still in my new home. |
| 0:30.0 | Sounds pretty good last week. |
| 0:31.0 | So I stayed here. I stayed. The mild chuckle was from John Dickerson of |
| 0:38.3 | C. B. S. Prime time in New York City. Hello, John. |
| 0:41.1 | Hi. I was laughing because we've been talking about the judicial fortunes of SB4, which seem to go up and |
| 0:47.6 | down with the rising and setting of the sun. |
| 0:51.1 | So what if like your living condition was the same as as before you would be in a |
| 0:55.2 | new location every time we reported. |
| 0:57.8 | Whoa. John's previewing the show already. |
| 1:01.8 | Not previewing the show, just looking bemused is Emily |
| 1:05.8 | Baslan of the New York Times magazine and Yale University Law School from |
| 1:08.4 | Vermont today, always a new in New England England not a new haven though. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah I found a reporting trip to do in Vermont glad to be here. |
| 1:17.0 | Hey John, hey David. |
| 1:18.0 | This week on the Gapfest, March Madness, Supreme Court style, |
| 1:21.0 | the Supremes consider whether government speech is coercion or when it might be coercion and when it might be just persuasion and they also weigh in on SB4 Texas's new immigration law and we'll talk about the ups and |
| 1:34.5 | downs the twist and turns the convolutions the mobious strip that is the |
| 1:38.7 | state of SB 4. Then former president Trump is having a hard time raising the hundreds of millions of dollars |
| 1:46.7 | he needs for a bond to appeal one of the judgments against him. |
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