Welcome to the commentary magazine daily podcast today is Thursday July 1st, 2021.

I am John Pudhor, it's the editor of commentary magazine with me as always.

Senior writer Christine Rose and high Christine.

Hi John.

Executive editor Abe Greenwald, hi Abe.

Hi John.

And associate editor Noah Rothman, hi Noah.

Hi John.

So I want to start out just talking briefly about the bill Cosby case and the fact

that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled that his conviction was vacated and he has

not there is no possibility of retrying him on the charges for which he was convicted.

And it's a very interesting case because of course if you presume that the facts are not

in dispute that he drugged and drugged women and then slept with them against their will

thereby raping them.

You then have to get to the question of why this decision and if you read the decision it's

very, I don't know how to describe it, very definitive that the case should never have

been brought.

And it's sort of important to look at this and not say well this is just another case

in which women aren't being listened to or it's judicial, some kind of weird judicial

overreach or something like that.

The facts of the case which are interesting are that the district attorney in Montgomery

County, Pennsylvania determined that he could not, it was unlikely to impossible that he

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