Supreme Court Rules Against Texas' Border Razor Wire
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🗓️ 23 January 2024
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Summary
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that the Biden administration has the authority to remove parts of a barbed wire barrier erected by Texas officials at the U.S.-Mexico border. The high court ruled for Biden in a 5-4 decision, with Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Amy Coney Barrett siding with the three liberal justices.
More than 300 L.A. Times journalists walked off their jobs last Friday for a one-day strike to protest potential layoffs. Then on Monday, a group of ten California lawmakers said in a letter that they’re concerned about how possible cuts might impact “the availability of essential news and the strength of our democracy at large.”
And in headlines: New Hampshire officials are investigating robocalls that used AI to impersonate President Joe Biden, a Georgia judge unsealed documents in a divorce case that involves prosecutors in the election interference case against Donald Trump, and we learn about the science behind heartbreak.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 23rd. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. |
| 0:08.8 | And I'm Travel Anderson, and this is what a day. The pod that wants the kids to know you don't need |
| 0:14.7 | mirrors to enjoy a tick type yeah in North Carolina school removed bathroom |
| 0:19.3 | mirrors last week to cut down on kids leaving class to film tic talks and it apparently worked. |
| 0:24.0 | What happened to just a tripod or something? |
| 0:26.5 | The youth are fancier than us or maybe less fancy. |
| 0:31.0 | On today's show we talk about the union fight by LA Times journalists to keep |
| 0:35.4 | their reporting strong. Plus Josie puts on her lab coat to learn all about |
| 0:40.5 | the science of heartbreak. |
| 0:42.6 | But first, on Monday the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration has the |
| 0:46.4 | authority to remove parts of a barbed-wyer barrier erected by Texas state officials. |
| 0:51.8 | The ruling is a victory for Biden. |
| 0:53.6 | Wad listeners have heard us report about this several times so you know how |
| 0:57.0 | contentious it's been between the administration and Texas recently. |
| 1:00.3 | Yeah, and this specific battle has gone on for a while now. |
| 1:05.0 | Can you recap how exactly we got here? |
| 1:08.0 | Well, in just the past two years, Greg Abbott has spent billions of dollars |
| 1:11.5 | building infrastructure at the border to deter migrants. |
| 1:15.4 | All of this infrastructure is cruel. |
| 1:17.6 | Much of it pushes the limits of what states are really permitted to do. |
| 1:21.7 | I mean, we heard just last week that Texas officials |
| 1:24.4 | blocked federal agents from saving the lives of a woman |
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