About this episode
The episode discusses various legal and political issues including a lawsuit involving Senator Mark Kelly and the DOJ's actions regarding gender affirming care.
Kash Patel is not as think as you drunk he is … again . And if you tell someone about it, he’ll strap you to a polygraph. The DC Circuit seems likely to side with Senator Mark Kelly in his lawsuit against Pete Hegseth for trying to steal his pension. The DOJ subpoenaed a hospital in Rhode Island for medical records of kids receiving gender affirming care. While the parties were negotiating, the DOJ filed a petition to enforce in Texas, which their hand-picked Judge Reed O’Connor instantly granted . Now the hospital has appealed to the Fifth Circuit (ughhh) and the Rhode Island Child Advocate has filed a motion to quash in the District of Rhode Island. Our Doofus of the Day is Chief Justice John Roberts. It won’t always be someone on the Supreme Court, but when you stand up in front of hundreds of lawyers to whine about how unfair it is that people think your obviously political Supreme Court is political, how could we resist? MAIN SHOW: The 11th Circuit has joined two other circuit courts of appeal in ruling that the Trump administration cannot use the mandatory detention provisions of the Immigration and Naturalization Act to hold any immigrant, anywhere in the US, for any…
People in this episode
Host: Liz Dye
Topics covered
- legal issues
- politics
- immigration
- gender affirming care
- Supreme Court
- DOJ actions
Keywords
- Kash Patel
- Senator Mark Kelly
- DOJ
- gender affirming care
- Trump administration
- Supreme Court
- immigration
- Chief Justice John Roberts
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: DOJ, Rhode Island Child Advocate, 11th Circuit, Trump administration
Places: Rhode Island, Texas, US
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