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🗓️ 2 July 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, it's been a pretty demoralizing week. |
0:03.4 | Three major Supreme Court decisions with far-reaching consequences. |
0:07.3 | One effectively scrapping affirmative action programs. |
0:10.5 | One invalidating President Biden's student loan debt relief plan. |
0:14.1 | And one clearing the way for businesses to refuse service to LGBTQ-plus Americans. |
0:19.4 | I'll talk about that, how Democrats should be fighting back, |
0:22.5 | and the politics of Pennsylvania with the state's governor, Josh Shapiro, who's coming up first. |
0:28.0 | Plus, law professor and former clerk to Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Melissa Murray, will join me to |
0:32.8 | talk about the impact of these Supreme Court decisions. And when it comes to the uncertainty |
0:37.2 | now facing millions of college students and graduates, |
0:39.3 | Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will talk about the next steps for the Biden administration. |
0:45.3 | Also ahead this hour, she's the first openly transgender person to ever be elected and serve in a state legislature. |
0:51.3 | I sat down with Virginia delegate Danica Rome for this week's weekend routine. |
1:04.1 | If you're watching the events of this week and worry that social progress in this country |
1:08.9 | is backsliding, you're not alone. Of course, it doesn't |
1:12.4 | help when the person responsible for the Supreme Court's conservative supermajority Donald Trump |
1:17.7 | is taking a victory lap, and the Republican Party seems intent on renominating him, |
1:23.0 | despite the fact that he could soon be a convicted felon. It's important to acknowledge here that it is a very |
1:29.3 | real possibility he could actually win. Everybody needs to be sober about that. The latest national |
1:35.1 | polling from NBC News shows President Biden leads Trump by just four percentage points, which is |
1:40.4 | barely outside of the margin of error. There's also the looming threat of third party candidates. |
1:45.7 | According to the same poll, 44% of registered voters say they are willing to consider |
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