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🗓️ 27 June 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Jim O’Grady and Thomas Brennan discuss Reveal’s episode on the Marines who fought in Fallujah, exploring how the battle’s brutality and moral injuries still haunt them 20 years later. In the Spiel, Haiti’s use of drones against gangs runs up against the oddity of international law experts declaring such violence not technically an “armed conflict.” Plus, a SCOTUS decision that pits lower courts against each other.
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0:00.0 | It's Friday, June 27th, 2025 from Peach Fish Productions. |
0:07.8 | It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. |
0:09.7 | The Supreme Court handed down a big ruling today, and it reminded me of an old Steve Martin joke. |
0:14.4 | He goes to heaven and looks around, and it's all like they said it big. |
0:17.9 | Pearly gates, fluffy clouds, angels. |
0:22.1 | And Steve says, in college, they told me this was all bullshit. |
0:26.8 | I was thinking on the Daily, Adam Liptack told me this was all bullshit. |
0:32.4 | So I listened to The Daily. |
0:33.6 | Whenever Liptack is on, that guy's great. |
0:36.2 | My legal advisory firm is the podcast-based firm |
0:39.6 | of LipTac, Bazelon, French, Isg, and Shaw. So an issue here in this big ruling is, let us say a |
0:46.2 | lower court, perhaps based in Idaho, issues an injunction, and then everyone in the country has to |
0:51.7 | follow it. In Maine, in Florida, I will not name all the states. |
0:54.4 | You know, many of them. |
0:55.6 | The Biden administration did not like this. |
0:58.1 | They did not like it when anti-abortion activists shopped things to a lone West Texas judge, |
1:03.8 | and he made a ruling that had to be followed in Maryland and Hawaii, again, not naming all the states. |
1:08.7 | But they didn't like it. |
1:09.9 | The Trump administration also doesn't like it. |
1:11.6 | They don't like it more because they're constantly being overruled by judges who were |
1:16.3 | selected because they were judges in Maryland or D.C. or Massachusetts that might give a ruling |
1:22.3 | to opponents of the Trump administration, which isn't to say that judges everywhere |
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