Slate: The Gabfest Assignment Desk
Political Gabfest
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🗓️ 29 June 2007
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The GabFest Assignment Desk. Hi, this is the Slate Daily podcast for Friday, June 29th, 2007. I'm June Thomas. |
| 0:14.2 | This week we're back to the classic GabFest crew. John Dickerson, Emily Bazelon and David Plots |
| 0:20.7 | have gathered in the DC.C. conference room |
| 0:23.1 | to discuss this week's Supreme Court decisions, Dick Cheney's attitude problems, and the final |
| 0:29.8 | fate of the immigration bill. And David Plots just couldn't stop hatching great story ideas. |
| 0:36.1 | Here's John Dickerson. Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gap Fest. |
| 0:39.5 | We're all back in the conference room, which is normally a dreary place hidden from the elements. |
| 0:45.3 | But today, that's great because there is a massive thunderstorm going on outside. |
| 0:49.3 | And so if any of us expire here from a bolt of electricity... |
| 0:53.1 | Let it be you. |
| 0:56.3 | So our first topic is... |
| 0:58.6 | Wait, we want to first say that Morgan Smith, our wonderful intern, is sitting in today. |
| 1:02.5 | We are so excited that someone actually wanted to sit in on the Gab Fest. |
| 1:05.7 | Who would have thought? |
| 1:06.3 | Yes. |
| 1:06.7 | Our number of listeners has increased by 50% today. |
| 1:29.5 | Are you supposed to also say who we are? I know that being away on vacation has maybe gotten you out of practice. That's true. That is, for those of you who don't know, that's David did your job well last week, I'm sure. Got a lot of complimentary email. Mostly it was actually about how good June and Tim were as subs. Well, you stuck with us this week emily Bazelon it can be very confusing and that was of course Emily Bazelon who's going to basically run the whole show this week |
| 1:36.4 | David Plotz was speaking before her Emily start on the court There were 738 decisions this week. |
| 1:44.9 | Tell us what they were and why they're important. |
| 1:47.9 | There were a whole bunch of five, four decisions this week, and almost all of them came down with conservatives winning with Justice Kennedy as the fifth vote and the liberal moderates losing. |
| 1:58.6 | On Thursday, the case, I think, was basically the most expected one this term, |
| 2:04.0 | was decided. That is the school. I'm interrupting. Give us the other ones before you get. I just want |
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