Stone Commutation, Opening Schools, SCOTUS on Trump’s Finances & the Electoral College

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, Mike & Jay discuss the commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence by President Trump, the Trump administration’s push to open up schools this fall, international student visas, and big Supreme Court rulings on the release of Donald Trump’s financial records and whether presidential electors can be punished or replaced for being “faithless”. Mike’s Weekly Recommendation Zoe’s Extraordinary Playlist Jay’s Weekly Recommendation The First Salute. Barbara Tuchman Be part of the discussion on the Politics Guys ‘BipartisanPolitics’ community on Reddit. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the podcast, go to patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Atheists, agnostics, long-haired, weirdos, short-haired winters, vandal,
0:05.6	Gooligans.
0:05.9	I'm the government, hug the government, love the government, the government, love the government.
0:12.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:17.5	I'm Michael Baranowski, a professor of political science at North Dakota University. I I'm joined today by Cleveland Dairy Attorney and Republican Fat Codam Jay Carson.
0:25.4	Hey, Jay.
0:26.6	Good morning. How are you doing this morning?
0:29.4	Well, I'll tell you, after, as we'll discuss later today, in light of some of these Supreme
0:34.2	Court rulings, I am as jubilant as Thomas Moore, high-fiving Thomas Beckett in the afterlife.
0:41.1	Wow.
0:41.6	Well, that's a, now that's a reference that a lot of people might be scratching their heads at,
0:46.4	but I'm proud to say.
0:47.6	Our list is very well read, and they will get it.
0:51.4	There you go.
0:51.9	Okay.
0:52.3	I'm actually doing, I think, okay today as well.
0:55.9	You know, I recently unfollowed President Trump on Twitter.
1:00.2	And I got to say that was one of the smarter things that I have done.
1:04.2	You know, there was this every morning I would check my, I would check tweet deck, and I would see the president's feed, and I would get upset.
1:11.0	And then I'd like, you know, life's really too short for this sort of thing.
1:14.9	And I don't really necessarily want to invest too much time and energy about whether or not he should have called for Bobba Wallace to apologize for something or other.
1:23.5	And it's kind of been, it's been sort of a relief to me, I got to say. So, yeah, I've never followed President
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