Trump's Unconstitutional Twitter Feed, The Supremes & Arbitration, House GOP Mini-Rebellion, Is Mike Too Moderate?

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5 • 772 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Jay kick off the show by discussing a federal court ruling that President Trump was violating the 1st Amendment by blocking some critics from his Twitter feed. Neither of the Guys is exactly comfortable with the courts telling people how to run their social media lives, but they agree that because President Trump is using Twitter as an essentially official presidential communication tool, different rules might apply. Then it's a look at the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling permitting companies to require employees to settle disputed through individual arbitration instead of banding together. Jay says it was the right call and a good policy, and while Mike agrees that the conservative majority made the right interpretation of the law, he absolutely hates the policy outcome and wishes Congress would act to make things less unfair to workers. After that, the Guys discuss the move by around 20 moderate House Republicans to force a series of votes on immigration, in the hope of giving permanent status to Dreamers. They've been opposed by the House GOP leadership, which doesn't want to risk a politically dangerous vote before the November elections, as well as the House Freedom Caucus, which wants nothing to do with even an indirect path to citizenship for Dreamers. Finally, Mike responds to a listener who says he's too easy on Republicans like Paul Ryan who support policies that will hurt and potentially even kill Americans. Our new host company, Libsyn, has put together a super short and very important survey which will help them help us reach a larger audience and keep the show sustainable. If you haven't already filled it out, we hope you will. You'll find it here: survey.libsyn.com/politicsguys Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to politicsguys.com/support. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for a bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.
0:05.4	I'm Michael Barronowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.
0:09.2	With me today for our midweek show is my regular co-host, Cleveland Area Attorney and Republican Factotum, Jay Carson.
0:16.4	How are you, Jay?
0:17.3	Hey, I'm doing good. How are you?
0:18.8	I'm doing just fine, actually. You know, I thought for this
0:22.8	show, well, it's been a busy week, and there were some things we didn't get through on the weekend
0:27.9	show, so I thought we could start by getting to some of those things that aren't exactly as, you know,
0:33.6	time sensitive, but I think we both felt were important to talk about, you know.
0:39.1	So to start off, I thought we could talk about the federal court ruling that said that
0:45.8	President Trump can't block certain people from his Twitter feed because it's a violation of the
0:53.2	First Amendment. And that basically the president's
0:56.5	attempts to silence these critics isn't okay because Twitter, at least in this instance,
1:05.5	this specific instance, is a public forum, which seems kind of weird in a way, because, of course, Twitter is a
1:12.7	private sort of thing, private company with its own rules. And so I was a little, maybe not
1:18.8	perplexed, but I was maybe a little bit surprised by this. And I thought, Jay, as our resident
1:23.6	attorney, you could weigh in on this. What did you think about this ruling?
1:32.8	Well, this is not the first of this kind of type of ruling in the country.
1:34.5	This is something there have been a couple others.
1:38.8	I want to say the Third Circuit had a case on this.
1:42.3	And I could be wrong on the circuit, but I'm right on the holding of the case.
1:54.7	The gist of this is, you know, typically, if the government creates a public forum for speech,
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