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The Politics Guys

Ukraine War, Student Debt Forgiveness, Alabama IVF Ruling, Diversity Admissions

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Mike and May open with a discussion of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the latest US sanctions as the war reaches the two-year mark. May is unclear as to the US's goals and argues that this is reflected in declining public support for Ukraine. Mike believes the lack of support breaks down more along partisan lines, with Democrats more supportive than Republicans, and that the US goal is clear - to prevent Russia from overrunning Ukraine and to send a strong message to our allies and adversaries around the world. Next is a look at the Biden administration's latest student loan debt forgiveness. Neither Mike nor May feel this is the best policy, but Mike sees it as one of the few economic relief levers the administration can pull without getting buy-in from congressional Republicans. They also consider student loan debt forgiveness in light of more fundamental problems with higher education costs. Following that they get into the ruling by Alabama's supreme court that a wrongful death suit can go forward against a person accused of destroying frozen embryos at an IVF facility. They agree that the court made the right call based on Alabama's constitution and the state's Wrongful Death of a Minor statute, and debate the larger implications of this ruling as well as what legislative action they expect to see in response. They close by considering why the US Supreme Court declined to take up an appeal to an equal protection challenge to a Virginia high school's admissions program, as well as how schools across the country can factor diversity into their admission decisions without having their programs invalidated by courts. The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo we’re @PoliticsGuys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Atheists, agnostics, long-haired widows, short-haired widows, vandal,

0:04.9

hooligans.

0:05.1

I'm the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government,

0:09.8

love the government, hug the government.

0:12.0

Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy.

0:18.7

I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael

0:21.4

Baranowski. I'm joined today by my conservative counterpart, attorney and former deputy assistant

0:26.6

to President Trump, May Mailman. Hey, Mike. Hey, May. How are you this morning? I am good. How are you?

0:34.7

I'm doing okay. And while we're talking about our states of being, I want to let

0:39.8

listeners know that Trey, who many of you know, has been battling Crohn's disease at multiple

0:47.5

surgeries over a number of years now, just recently had his latest one, but I have heard from him

0:53.6

that he is recovering well

0:56.0

and the overall long-term trajectory looks positive. And so, Trey, if you're listening and I know

1:02.2

you are, get well soon, hope you recover very quickly. And also, before we begin, I just want

1:09.7

to say thank you to one of our new trial Patreon supporters.

1:13.6

Matt, thank you very much for becoming a supporter.

1:16.4

We really do appreciate it.

1:19.2

And we have a lot we want to talk about today, but I thought we would start with, we're recording this on February 24th, and that is, as many listeners know, the second anniversary

1:30.9

of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. And the day before, the Biden administration announced a new

1:37.5

round of more than 500 sanctions, and a lot of those were already in the works, but they're also

1:42.8

tied as well to the death of Alexei Navalny, which if not directly caused by Russian authority certainly was pushed along through his treatment over the years.

1:56.5

And also on Friday, President Biden called on House Republicans to approve that $95 billion

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