The Many Legal Fights Facing Dem AGs
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🗓️ 11 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Supreme Court announced Monday it will hear a challenge to Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids. It’s the latest example of how Democratic state attorneys general are fighting a multi-front fight right now. They’re the top law enforcement officials in their respective states, responsible for protecting their laws and policies. At the same time, they’re pitched in a near-daily battle against the Trump administration’s push to upend the federal government. Colorado Democratic Attorney General Philip Weiser talks about how he’s managing both tasks.
And in headlines: Ontario’s premier announced a 25 percent surcharge on electricity exports to the U.S. in response to President Trump’s tariffs, Elon Musk blamed Ukraine for outage problems at X/Twitter, and the White House revamps a government app to help undocumented migrants self-deport.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, March 11th. |
| 0:03.9 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is Weddeday, the show that felt pretty okay, until it heard |
| 0:08.1 | Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville talking to Larry Cudlow on his Fox show Monday, |
| 0:13.1 | where he said this. |
| 0:14.7 | We have no chance unless he does tariffs and holds people accountable to what's been going on. |
| 0:20.7 | I don't like where this is going. |
| 0:28.3 | On today's show, the Trump administration is asking undocumented immigrants to self-deport |
| 0:33.3 | using the Customs and Border Patrol app. |
| 0:36.0 | And more than a million Americans could expect to see a hike in their utility bills as the tariff war on the northern border heats up. |
| 0:43.1 | But let's start with our series of conversations with Democratic Attorney General, currently tasked with dealing with all of this. |
| 0:50.7 | On Monday, the Supreme Court announced that they decided to hear a case challenging Colorado's ban a conversion therapy for LGBTQ kids. |
| 0:58.3 | The plaintiff, a Christian therapist, argues that it is a violation of her First Amendment rights for the government to prevent her from helping her patients stop being gay, lesbian, or transgender. |
| 1:10.4 | Of course, conversion therapy is stupid because there is absolutely nothing wrong with being LGBTQ. |
| 1:16.9 | Also, it doesn't work, and it causes real and lasting harm to the people who have endured it. |
| 1:22.9 | But the Supreme Court says, eh, let's hear this out. |
| 1:27.0 | As we've said, Democratic attorneys general are |
| 1:29.5 | fighting a multi-front war. First, they're the top law enforcement officials in their states. |
| 1:34.7 | That means they are handling criminal cases and working on behalf of their constituents to stop, |
| 1:38.8 | say, robocalls or debt collection fraud schemes. But they're also having to battle the Trump administration's efforts |
| 1:45.8 | to limit the ability of states to determine how their citizens live their lives. From cases on |
| 1:50.8 | birthright citizenship to arguments over the administration's efforts to stop federal funding for |
| 1:55.1 | services, from wildfire prevention to helping rural communities access much-needed services, |
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