What You Need To Know About 4 Pivotal Supreme Court Cases This Term

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🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Supreme Court is hearing some major cases this term that could have longstanding implications. The cases span a variety of issues: President Donald Trump’s financial records, the Electoral College, and religious liberty. and more. Tom Jipping, deputy director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation, joins the podcast to break these cases down. We also cover these stories: The Trump administration is calling out the Chinese for trying to “illicitly obtain” research related to COVID-19. Paul Manafort, a former campaign chairman for Trump, was released Wednesday from prison. Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., says the the protests in her state are “racist and misogynistic.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, May 14th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:09.7	And I'm Rachel Del Judas. Right now, the Supreme Court is hearing some exceptionally important cases,
0:15.8	including cases on religious liberty,
0:18.1	President Trump's financial records, the Electoral College,
0:21.0	and more.
0:22.1	Tom Jipping joins the Daily Signal Podcast to break them down.
0:26.0	Don't forget.
0:27.0	If you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple
0:32.1	Podcasts and encourage others to subscribe.
0:35.0	Now on to our top news.
0:37.0	President Trump's administration is calling out the Chinese government for trying to illicitly obtain research related to COVID-19.
0:46.0	Chinese actors have been observed attempting to identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing from networks and personnel affiliated with COVID-19 research, according to a press release from the FBI.
1:04.2	The potential theft of this information jeopardizes the delivery of secure, effective, and
1:09.0	efficient treatment options.
1:11.3	On Wednesday, Trump tweeted,
1:13.0	As I've said for a long time,
1:15.0	dealing with China is a very expensive thing to do.
1:19.0	We just made a trade deal.
1:21.0	The ink was barely dry, and the world was hit by the plague from China.
1:25.6	100 trade deals wouldn't make up the difference, and all those innocent lives lost. There are new developments in the court case involving Michael Flynn, former National Security
1:37.7	Advisor to President Trump.
1:39.8	In February of 2017, Flynn resigned from his position as National Security Advisor after
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