Ep 222 — Chief Justice Roberts Burned Down Democracy To Save Coal Plants

About this episode

The episode discusses various legal and political issues including voter rights, Trump's legal battles, and environmental policies.

The Onion’s plan to take over Infowars looks to have succeeded at last. A judge in Rhode Island became the fifth to reject the DOJ’s voter roll grab. But Harmeet Dhillon, head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, is undeterred. Now she’s trying to snatch ballots from Wayne County, Michigan.  Trump’s Justice Department is negotiating with Trump’s lawyers to decide how much taxpayer money to pay Trump for the illegal disclosure of his tax returns in 2020. The statutory max is $1,000 per return. He wants $10 billion.  The DOJ has hired Joe diGenova, a Reagan-era US Attorney, to spice up the grand conspiracy investigation into all Trump’s enemies taking place in Florida under the watchful eye of Judge Aileen Cannon. And Pennsylvania’s intermediate appellate court rules that the state’s ban on abortion coverage under Medicaid violates both the Pennsylvania Equal Rights Amendment and the state constitution's equal protection provisions. MAIN SHOW: FBI Director (for now) Kash Patel is big mad over an article in The Atlantic reporting that his drinking is freaking out everyone around him. He’s rounded up wonderweasel lawyer Jesse Binnall and filed a defamation trollsuit in DC…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Dye

Topics covered

• voter rights
• legal battles
• Trump administration
• abortion coverage
• judicial decisions
• environmental policy
• defamation lawsuits

Keywords

• voter roll
• DOJ
• Trump tax returns
• abortion
• shadow docket
• Kash Patel
• defamation

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Onion, Infowars, DOJ, New York Times, FBI

Places: Rhode Island, Wayne County, Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania

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