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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Now, you give us the facts of a case. |
| 0:04.0 | One can be found guilty of reckless driving in a number of different ways. |
| 0:08.0 | For intentional infliction of emotional distress. |
| 0:10.0 | And a legal entry without the homeowner's permission. |
| 0:12.0 | Hundreds of thousands of dollars in employment taxes. |
| 0:16.0 | We would make such a finding of burning interstate commerce, |
| 0:19.0 | presumably because we believe we have the |
| 0:20.8 | capacity to figure out what is interstate commerce. |
| 0:23.0 | What we did at the North Pole? |
| 0:24.2 | Well, that's not how we do it here. |
| 0:26.6 | Santa Claus is finished. |
| 0:32.1 | You're listening to Civics 101. |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Necappadice. |
| 0:34.8 | I'm Hannah McCarthy. |
| 0:35.7 | And today on our podcast that explores the basics of how our democracy works, we answer a listener question. |
| 0:42.7 | Elijah Grovener wrote us and asked, would Santa be breaking the law when he enters your house through the chimney? |
| 0:51.2 | Would he be a stalker because he knows everything that you do? |
| 0:58.0 | In short, Hannah, is Santa a criminal? |
| 1:03.3 | The People versus Santa Claus, also known as St. Nick, Chris Kringle, Pair, Noel. |
| 1:05.6 | Babo Natale, Father Christmas. |
| 1:09.5 | Do you remember in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe when Santa just shows up? Yeah, but he was like, well, I guess Santa's here. |
| 1:12.6 | And he's got a sword. |
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