Podcasts about Harvard Law Review

Harvard's Use of Tax Dollars: Discussion on Harvard's controversial practices, including rewarding students who targeted Jewish students. Examination of the Harvard Law Review's selection process, which allegedly discriminates based on race and affirmative action policies. Defunding NPR and PBS: President's executive order to end taxpayer subsidies for NPR and PBS due to their perceived partisan propaganda. Examples of NPR's controversial content, including stories on cannibalism, critiques of the Declaration of Independence, and promotion of woke ideologies. Planned Parenthood Undercover Investigation: Live Action's undercover investigation revealing that Planned Parenthood clinics offer cross-sex hormone treatments to minors with minimal oversight. Discussion on the implications of these practices and calls for defunding Planned Parenthood. Tesla Arson Suspect Released: Case of Owen McIntyre, who was released from pre-trial detention due to gender transition concerns after being charged with domestic terrorism for firebombing Tesla vehicles. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening #seanhannity #hannity #marklevin #levin #charliekirk #megynkelly #tucker #tuckercarlson #glennbeck #benshapiro #shapiro #trump #sexton #bucksexton#rushlimbaugh #limbaugh #whitehouse #senate #congress #thehouse #democrats#republicans #conservative #senator #congressman #congressmen #congresswoman #capitol #president #vicepresident #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstatesofamerica#SCOTUS #Supremecourt #DonaldTrump #PresidentDonaldTrump #DT #TedCruz #Benferguson #Verdict #justicecorrupted #UnwokeHowtoDefeatCulturalMarxisminAmericaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harvard's Tax-Exempt Status: President Trump announced plans to end Harvard University's tax-exempt status, citing the university's alleged discrimination based on race and anti-Semitism. The discussion includes the potential legal battle and the implications of revoking Harvard's 501(c)(3) status, referencing the Bob Jones University case as a precedent. Elon Derangement Syndrome: The hosts discuss incidents of domestic terrorism targeting Tesla factories, attributing these acts to what they call "Elon Derangement Syndrome." A specific case is mentioned where a transgender individual involved in firebombing a Tesla dealership was released from federal custody due to the need for gender transition treatment. Patriot Mobile Advertisement: An advertisement for Patriot Mobile, a Christian conservative wireless provider, is included. The ad emphasizes the company's support for conservative causes and offers a free month of service with a promo code. Harvard's Alleged Discrimination: The podcast delves into allegations of racial and anti-Semitic discrimination at Harvard, including a report on anti-Semitism and the university's policies. The discussion highlights the impact of these policies on Jewish and other minority students. Affirmative Action and Meritocracy: The hosts discuss affirmative action policies at Harvard, particularly in the context of the Harvard Law Review. They argue that these policies are racially discriminatory and undermine meritocracy. Cultural and Political Commentary: The podcast includes broader commentary on cultural and political issues, such as the influence of "wokeness" in universities and the legal system. The hosts express strong opinions on these topics, often criticizing liberal and progressive viewpoints. Please Hit Subscribe to this podcast Right Now. Also Please Subscribe to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson and the Ben Ferguson Show Podcast Wherever You get You're Podcasts. Thanks for Listening #seanhannity #hannity #marklevin #levin #charliekirk #megynkelly #tucker #tuckercarlson #glennbeck #benshapiro #shapiro #trump #sexton #bucksexton#rushlimbaugh #limbaugh #whitehouse #senate #congress #thehouse #democrats#republicans #conservative #senator #congressman #congressmen #congresswoman #capitol #president #vicepresident #POTUS #presidentoftheunitedstatesofamerica#SCOTUS #Supremecourt #DonaldTrump #PresidentDonaldTrump #DT #TedCruz #Benferguson #Verdict #justicecorrupted #UnwokeHowtoDefeatCulturalMarxisminAmericaYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@VerdictwithTedCruzSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is this the term when the Court says “see ya” to the Establishment Clause? Leah, Melissa and Kate consider that question in their recap of this week's religious charter school case, Oklahoma Charter School Board v. Drummond. Also covered: Advocate Lisa Blatt's run-in with Neil Gorsuch during oral arguments for a disability rights case, opinions concerning SSI benefits and the Department of Transportation, and the Trump administration's absurd investigation into the Harvard Law Review.Hosts' favorite things:Kate: Sinners; Is It Happening Here? by Andrew Marantz (New Yorker)Leah: Girl on Girl How: Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves, Sophie Gilbert; The Tide is Turning, Dahlia Lithwick (Slate); Trump & Bukele's Concentration Camp, Andrea Pitzer (NY Mag); Just Security Litigation TrackerMelissa: The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live, Danielle Dreilinger; The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice Get tickets for STRICT SCRUTINY LIVE – The Bad Decisions Tour 2025! 5/31 – Washington DC6/12 – NYC10/4 – ChicagoLearn more: http://crooked.com/eventsPre-order your copy of Leah's forthcoming book, Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes (out May 13th)Follow us on Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky

Sarah Isgur and David French are joined by Amy Howe and David Lat, of The Dispatch's extended legal universe, to debate whether the Supreme Court should be more transparent. Sarah and David then separate  fact from the fiction in the arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan. (Also: should there be cameras in the Supreme Court?) The Agenda:—Cameras at SCOTUS?—SCOTUS oral argument goes off the rails—Calling other lawyers the “L” word—The arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan—Immunity doctrine is a mess—Louis Vuitton and criminal contempt—Old Whig No. 5—Trump admin and disparate impact—Harvard Law Review's DEI Show Notes:—Apply to work at SCOTUSblog!—Judge helps criminal escape in 2018 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's Headlines: Massive blackouts hit Spain, Portugal, France, and Germany, disrupting airports, hospitals, and transport, with no clear cause yet identified. Meanwhile, tensions escalate between India and Pakistan following a deadly attack in Kashmir. The conclave to pick Pope Francis's successor is set to begin May 7. In Canada, elections took place amid website outages and a campaign shaken by Trump's threats to annex the country. Back in the U.S., Trump marks 100 days in office with executive orders targeting sanctuary cities, expanding legal protections for police, and enforcing English proficiency for truck drivers. His administration also launched a civil rights investigation into the Harvard Law Review over alleged racial bias. A Senate investigation revealed Elon Musk's businesses could avoid over $2 billion in legal liabilities thanks to influence over federal agencies. Finally, Representative Gerry Connolly announced he'll step down due to a cancer recurrence, opening the door for AOC and others to vie for House Oversight leadership. Resources/Articles mentioned in this episode: NBC News: Cause still unclear after massive power outages in Spain, Portugal, France hinder travel Reuters: Exclusive: Pakistan defence minister says military incursion by India is imminent Catholic News Agency: May 7 papal conclave date finalized as cardinals prepare for election  AP News: https://apnews.com/live/canada-election-updates-results  WA Post: Trump administration focuses on immigration record ahead of 100-day mark NY Times: Trump Signs 3 Executive Orders, Addressing Immigration and Policing  Axios: Trump admin launches race-based discrimination probe into Harvard Law Review Document Cloud: Minority Staff Memorandum Elon Musk Conflicts  Axios: Gerry Connolly stepping down as top Democrat on Oversight Committee Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage and edited by Grace Hernandez-Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Sean Noble of Light Beer Dark Money and Kiley Kipper of Kiley's Corner are joined by two influential voices in their fields. Mackenzie Price, education innovator and founder of Alpha Schools, shares how her revolutionary two-hour school model leverages AI to deliver personalized, mastery-based learning while giving students back time to build life skills, explore creativity, and pursue purpose. Then, economist and American Compass founder Oren Cass joins to unpack Trump's tariffs, how China's authoritarian economic practices undermine true free market trade, and why rebuilding America's manufacturing base is essential to our future prosperity and national security. And in Kiley's Corner, Kiley shares the heartbreaking story of Eli Heacock, a 16-year-old who took his life after being targeted by an online predator using AI-generated sextortion, an urgent reminder of the dangers facing teens online in the digital age. Stream now!www.breakingbattlegrounds.voteTwitter: www.twitter.com/Breaking_BattleFacebook: www.facebook.com/breakingbattlegroundsInstagram: www.instagram.com/breakingbattlegroundsLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/breakingbattlegroundsTruth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@breakingbattlegroundsShow sponsors:Invest Yrefy - investyrefy.com4Freedom MobileExperience true freedom with 4Freedom Mobile, the exclusive provider offering nationwide coverage on all three major US networks (Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile) with just one SIM card. Our service not only connects you but also shields you from data collection by network operators, social media platforms, government agencies, and more.Use code ‘Battleground' to get your first month for $9 and save $10 a month every month after.Learn more at: 4FreedomMobile.comDot VoteWith a .VOTE website, you ensure your political campaign stands out among the competition while simplifying how you reach voters.Learn more at: dotvote.voteAbout our guest:A Stanford graduate in Psychology, MacKenzie Price always knew that education needed revolution, but when her daughters told her that school was boring, she knew that the time for a change was now.And that is why she created the 2 Hour Learning model, empowering students to crush core academics in just two hours a day and giving them the gift of four hours to pursue their passions while mastering life skills.Starting with the first Alpha School, MacKenzie's vision became a reality. Students score in the top 1-2% nationally, and over 90% said they love going to school. This success led to the expansion of Alpha Schools across multiple cities – Miami, Brownsville, and counting. Her model is also used at Alpha High, Sports Academy, NextGen Academy, and GT School, changing the educational landscape for hundreds of students.MacKenzie also hosts the Future of Education podcast and YouTube channel, discussing AI's role in education and how students can align their passions with their skills for personal and academic growth, amongst other topics. As a member of the Forbes Technology Council, she continues to drive discussions on innovative education.MacKenzie lives in Austin, Texas with her family and aims to make 2 Hour Learning a global phenomenon. Follow her on X @mackenzieprice.-Oren Cass is the founder and chief economist of American Compass and editor of the forthcoming The New Conservatives: Restoring America's Commitment to Family, Community, and Industry (June 3, 2025). He is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and the New York Times. His 2018 book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America has been called “absolutely brilliant” by New York Times columnist David Brooks and “A brilliant book. And among the most important I've ever read” by Vice President JD Vance.From 2005 to 2015, Oren worked as a management consultant in Bain & Company's Boston and Delhi offices. During this period, he also earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and oversaw the journal's budget and operations. While still in law school, Oren also became Domestic Policy Director for Governor Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign, editing and producing the campaign's “jobs book” and developing its domestic policy strategy, proposals, and research. He joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow in 2015 and became a prolific scholar, publishing more than 15 reports for MI and editing its popular “Issues 2016” and “Issues 2020” series, testifying before seven congressional committees and speaking on dozens of college campuses. He founded American Compass at the start of 2020. Follow him on X @oren_cass. Get full access to Breaking Battlegrounds at breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com/subscribe

Thanks to the Harvard Law Review, we recorded a live episode in the famed Austin Hall at Harvard Law School. While we hoped to discuss merits cases, the Court gave us far too much shadow docket activity to break down. 

IntroductionPeople with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change; however, they have been traditionally excluded from conversations about national plans and responses to climate change. Including the disabled community in decision making is key to addressing potential harms and designing effective, inclusive solutions. Disabled Community Disproportionately AffectedMany studies provide empirical evidence that climate change poses a particularly great risk for the disabled community. A study in Australia documented that between 2001 and 2018,  89% of heat wave fatalities were people with some type of disability, and actually many had multiple disabilities both physical and mental. Additionally, after Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas in 2017, people with disabilities were disproportionately affected and exposed to harms. Areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey were overrepresented by disabled populations. The highest proportion of people living in public housing being exposed to environmental hazards were people with disabilities. While people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, they have often been excluded from decision-making surrounding climate change, including in  drafting national plans and climate responses. Inclusivity and Accessibility In PracticeEngaging people with disabilities in developing, designing and implementing climate resilient solutions can help protect their livelihoods and autonomy. Meaningful participation can look different in many ways including conducting research to have more data on how people with disabilities are affected and specific ways to help. As well, to develop new technologies and innovations that assist people with disabilities in climate emergencies like early warning systems, communication, and adaptive infrastructure. Spaces can be more inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities. More research is needed on infrastructure design that both reduces emissions and simultaneously will not put disabled people at more risk in climate emergencies, for example, adding ramps and automatic door openers, widening doorways, and having accessible bathrooms. It is also important to host public events in accessible locations to ensure that people with disabilities feel welcomed and valued. Methods of communication should also be accessible like using captions in videos, adding text descriptions and making online materials that work with screen readers so that low vision individuals can also access them. Disability-Inclusive Climate SolutionsIn addition to educating the community about the importance of disability-inclusive climate solutions and for the disabled community to be educated and equipped for climate disaster risk mitigation, it is vital for the disabled community to be part of the large-scale decision making process and promote meaningful participation. By providing people with disabilities with a greater understanding of the impacts that climate change will have on their lives, then they can be more able to respond to effects of climate change and access the resources they need. Expert Dr. Michael Stein points out that everyone knows their own needs and livelihoods best; hence, it is vital to reach out to the disabled community and include them in the conversation and decision making for climate solutions that will support the disabled community who are disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. About our guestMichael Stein is the co-founder of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. As a world leader on disability law, Dr. Stein participated in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Stein became the first known person with a disability to be a member of the Harvard Law Review. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work in disability rights. ResourcesAvci, Bratchell, Browning, Coates, Gissing, and Van Leeuwen, Heat wave fatalities, (2001-2008).Chakraborty, Collins, and Grineski, Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities, (2019).Akyeampong, Alford, Chakraborty, Daniels-Mayes, Gallegos, Grech, Groce, Gurung, Hans, Harpur, Jodoin, Lord, Macanawai, McClain-Nhlapo, Stein, Susteren, Advancing Disability-Inclusive Climate Research, (2024).Szekeres, 8 Ways  to Include People with Disabilities in Climate Action, (2023).Nina D. L, How to Include People with Disabilities, (2021).Hélène T., Disability-Inclusive Approaches to Climate Action, (2023).For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://climatebreak.org/disability-inclusive-climate-solutions-with-michael-stein/.

Why is now the most crucial time to understand trade relations? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Marc Fasteau & Ian Fletcher on their new book Industrial Policy for the United States: Winning the Competition for Good Jobs and High-Value Industries.Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio Affiliate!Marc Fasteau is a former investment banker and founder of an insurance company that is now a division of Progressive. Early in his career, he served on the professional staffs of the US Senate Majority Leader, the House Banking & Currency Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. He was a partner at the New York investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. He has been involved in questions of international trade and industrial policy for 18 years and is a Vice Chairman of the Coalition for A Prosperous America. He has written on international trade and industrial policy in the Financial Times Economist Forum and Palladium magazine.   He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.  https://www.marcfasteau.comIan Fletcher is the author of Free Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace It and Why and coauthor of The Conservative Case Against Free Trade. He was previously Senior Economist at the Coalition for a Prosperous America, on whose Advisory Board he now serves. Earlier in his career, he was Research Fellow at the US Business and Industry Council and an economic analyst in private practice. His writing on trade policy has been published in The Huffington Post, Tikkun, Palladium, WorldNetDaily, The American Thinker, The Christian Science Monitor, The Real-World Economics Review, Bloomberg News, Seeking Alpha, and Morning Consult. He was educated at Columbia and the University of Chicago. https://www.ianfletcher.com https://www.industrialpolicy.usFor more show information visit: www.MariannePestana.com

The Author Events Series presents Chris Hayes | The Sirens' Call REGISTER  In Conversation with Kate Shaw We all feel it--the distraction, the loss of focus, the addictive focus on the wrong things for too long. We bump into the zombies on their phones in the street, and sometimes they're us. We stare in pity at the four people at the table in the restaurant, all on their phones, and then we feel the buzz in our pocket. Something has changed utterly: for most of human history, the boundary between public and private has been clear, at least in theory. Now, as Chris Hayes writes, "With the help of a few tech firms, we basically tore it down in about a decade." Hayes argues that we are in the midst of an epoch-defining transition whose only parallel is what happened to labor in the nineteenth century: attention has become a commodified resource extracted from us, and from which we are increasingly alienated. The Sirens' Call is the big-picture vision we urgently need to offer clarity and guidance. Because there is a breaking point. Sirens are designed to compel us, and now they are going off in our bedrooms and kitchens at all hours of the day and night, doing the bidding of vast empires, the most valuable companies in history, built on harvesting human attention. As Hayes writes, "Now our deepest neurological structures, human evolutionary inheritances, and social impulses are in a habitat designed to prey upon, to cultivate, distort, or destroy that which most fundamentally makes us human." The Sirens' Call is the book that snaps everything into a single holistic framework so that we can wrest back control of our lives, our politics, and our future. Chris Hayes is the Emmy Award-winning host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and the New York Times bestselling author of A Colony in a Nation and Twilight of the Elites. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and children. Kate Shaw is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she teaches and writes about the presidency, the law of democracy, the Supreme Court, and reproductive rights and justice. Her scholarly writing has appeared, among other places, in the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Northwestern University Law Review, and her popular writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. She co-hosts the Supreme Court podcast Strict Scrutiny and is a Contributing Opinion Writer with the New York Times. The 2024/25 Author Events Series is presented by Comcast. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation when you register for this event to ensure that this series continues to inspire Philadelphians. Extra copies of the books will be available for purchase at the library on event night. All tickets are non-refundable. (recorded 3/3/2025)

Is the journal publishing process and the “game” around journal publishing forcing us to give up on big ideas and instead work on small ideas about trivial matters? We are not so sure. We think that science needs many different types of academics, and they have all sorts of different ideas, big and small, and we need outlets for expressing every single one of them. But outlets, like ideas, are not all equal. Journals are an incremental genre leaning toward rigor and thus risk type-2 errors. Book are an expansive genre learning towards big ideas – and thus risk type-1 errors. So the question is rather what type of scholar you are and whether you can handle the very different processes and mechanisms – those associated with big ideas that take a long time to develop, versus the production of smaller ideas and insights that incrementally push our knowledge forward. References Recker, J., Zeiss, R., & Mueller, M. (2024). iRepair or I Repair? A Dialectical Process Analysis of Control Enactment on the iPhone Repair Aftermarket. MIS Quarterly, 48(1), 321-346. Bechky, B. A., & Davis, G. F. (2025). Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI. Administrative Science Quarterly, 70(1), 1-22. Kallinikos, J. (2025). Management and Information Systems (in all shapes and colours) missed the wider significance of computerization and informatization. LinkedIn, . Beniger, J. R. (1989). The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society. Harvard University Press. Zuboff, S. (1998). In The Age Of The Smart Machine: The Future Of Work And Power. Basic Books. Zuboff, S., & Maxmin, J. (2004). The Support Economy: Why Corporations Are Failing Individuals and the Next Episode of Capitalism. Penguin Publishing Group. Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Profile. Zuboff, S. (1985). Automate/Informate: The Two Faces of Intelligent Technology. Organizational Dynamics, 14(2), 5-18. boyd, d., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), 210-230. Zittrain, J. L. (2006). The Generative Internet. Harvard Law Review, 119, 1974-2040. Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Penguin. Parker, G., Van Alstyne, M., & Choudary, S. P. (2016). Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy - and How to Make Them Work for You. W. W. Norton & Company. Harari, Y. N. (2024). Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Random House. Sauer, H. (2024). The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality. Profile Books. Harari, Y. N. (2014). Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Harper. von Briel, F., Davidsson, P., & Recker, J. (2018). Digital Technologies as External Enablers of New Venture Creation in the IT Hardware Sector. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 42(1), 47-69. Davidsson, P., Recker, J., & von Briel, F. (2020). External Enablement of New Venture Creation: A Framework. Academy of Management Perspectives, 34(3), 311-332. Davidsson, P., Recker, J., & von Briel, F. (2025). External Enablement of Entrepreneurial Actions and Outcomes: Extension, Review and Research Agenda. Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship, 12(3-4), 300-470. Safadi, H., Lalor, J. P., & Berente, N. (2024). The Effect of Bots on Human Interaction in Online Communities. MIS Quarterly, 48(3), 1279-1296. Chen, Z., & Chan, J. (2024). Large Language Model in Creative Work: The Role of Collaboration Modality and User Expertise. Management Science, 70(12), 9101-9117. Dumas, M., La Rosa, M., Mendling, J., & Reijers, H. A. (2018). Fundamentals of Business Process Management (2nd ed.). Springer. Harari, Y. N. (2014). Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harvill Secker. Recker, J. (2021). Scientific Research in Information Systems: A Beginner's Guide (2nd ed.). Springer. The Stakeholder Alignment Collaborative. (2025). The Consortia Century: Aligning for Impact. Oxford University Press. 

A bullied boy finds companionship in his animal friends, but as he grows up and finds himself trapped in a soulless career, he discovers a new purpose: freeing animals from captivity and facing the dire consequences. Today's episode featured Wayne Hsiung. You can reach out to Wayne at info@simpleheart.org or on Instagram, YouTube and Substack @waynehhsiung. Wayne Hsiung is an animal cruelty investigator, former faculty member at Northwestern School of Law, and co-founder and Executive Director of The Simple Heart Initiative. He has led teams that have investigated and rescued animals from factory farms and slaughterhouses across the nation – challenging unconstitutional “ag-gag” laws in the process – and has organized successful campaigns to ban fur in San Francisco and California. He served as lead counsel (and, sometimes, defendant) in four “right to rescue” trials in which activists were prosecuted after being charged for giving aid to sick and dying animals in factory farms, garnering media attention from The New York Times. He is also a co-founder and former lead organizer of the grassroots animal rights network Direct Action Everywhere. Wayne's work has been covered by WIRED, ABC's Nightline, and on The Ezra Klein Show. He has published on the right to rescue in Harvard Law Review and climate change's impact on animals in the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Prior to his work as an animal advocate, Wayne practiced law at two national firms and studied law and economics at the University of Chicago, where he was an Olin Law and Economics Fellow, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. He is the proud parent of Oliver, who was rescued from the dog meat trade. LINK TO OUR LISTENER SURVEY! We've come up with a short audience survey, which you can find linked in our show notes and in the bio of our Instagram page @actuallyhappening. We'd love to hear your opinions and feedback, and we'd really appreciate your point of view. Link below:LISTENER SURVEY Producers: Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Jason BlalockContent/Trigger Warnings: bullying, animal cruelty/abuse/torture/killing, domestic animals as food, breaking and entering, arrest/jail/interrogation, explicit languageSocial Media:Instagram: @actuallyhappeningTwitter: @TIAHPodcast Website: thisisactuallyhappening.com Website for Andrew Waits: andrdewwaits.comWebsite for Jason Blalock: jasonblalock.com Support the Show: Support The Show on Patreon: patreon.com/happening Wondery Plus: All episodes of the show prior to episode #130 are now part of the Wondery Plus premium service. To access the full catalog of episodes, and get all episodes ad free, sign up for Wondery Plus at wondery.com/plus Shop at the Store: The This Is Actually Happening online store is now officially open. Follow this link: thisisactuallyhappening.com/shop to access branded t-shirts, posters, stickers and more from the shop. Transcripts: Full transcripts of each episode are now available on the website, thisisactuallyhappening.com Intro Music: "Illabye" – TipperMusic Bed: Cylinder Four ServicesIf you or someone you know is struggling with the effects of trauma or mental illness, please refer to the following resources:National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Text or Call 988 National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-6264National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The start of a new year, the slouch towards the first days of the new semester, the last episode of yet another season of the pod: we're feeling sentimental here at Digging a Hole HQ. As you take down your old calendars and put up the new, we're going to take some time to engage in a tradition of ours at the pod and discuss the 2024 Harvard Law Review Supreme Court foreword, “Curation, Narration, Erasure: Power and Possibility at the U.S. Supreme Court,” with its indomitable author and the Seaman Family University Professor at Penn Carey Law, Karen M. Tani. We begin by discussing the genre of the Harvard Law Review foreword, and how Tani's approach differs from forewords of yore. Next, we dive deeply into each prong of Tani's framework of curation, narration, and erasure. We turn to familiar themes of the law-politics divide and the relationship between law and history, with Tani clarifying how this past Supreme Court term adds to our understanding of these big ideas. Finally, we conclude the pod with a discussion of prophecy (and here's one: you're going to have a ball with this episode, so hurry up and hit play!). This podcast is generously supported by Themis Bar Review. Referenced Readings “A Century-Old Law's Aftershocks Are Still Felt at the Supreme Court” by Adam Liptak “Nomos and Narrative” by Robert M. Cover “Selling Originalism” by Jamal Greene The Prophetic Imagination by Walter Brueggemann “Demosprudence Through Dissent” by Lani Guinier “A Plea to Liberals on the Supreme Court: Dissent With Democracy in Mind” by Ryan D. Doerfler and Samuel Moyn

Good Morning from the Marc Cox Morning Show!! Marc has a great show planned for you. This Hour: * Wesley Bell reopening the investigation against Dennis Hancock * Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Law Review says Dems need to use the 14th amendment to remove Trump * Kim on a Whim. Kim vs. How did Joe Biden make so much money? * Should more pastor have gotten involved in MO Amendment 3? Coming Up: Nicole Murray and In Other News with Ethan

In this week's episode of then & now, we present a recording of a recent event hosted by the UCLA History Department, "Why History Matters: Reproductive Rights and Justice." This event brought together experts to explore the far-reaching effects of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision in June 2022. Hosted by Kevin Terraciano, the conversation delves into the historical misuse of legal doctrines to limit reproductive freedoms and calls for a comprehensive reproductive justice framework that extends beyond abortion to include the right to have or not have children and to raise children in safe environments. Professor Cary Franklin critiques the Supreme Court's "history and tradition" test in Dobbs, arguing it distorts historical perspectives on liberty and equality, while Dean Alexandra Minna Stern discusses the lasting impacts of eugenic sterilization on marginalized groups, emphasizing how patterns of reproductive oppression persist today. Professor Elizabeth O'Brien examines Mexico's recent Supreme Court rulings decriminalizing abortion and highlights grassroots activism's role in shaping a broader framework for reproductive rights in Latin America. In the U.S., maternal mortality and preventable deaths have risen sharply since the Dobbs decision, underscoring the panel's call for historical research to inform advocacy as surveillance and criminalization of reproductive health grow. Through these comparative perspectives, the discussion powerfully illustrates how understanding historical contexts can guide efforts to protect and expand reproductive rights in the U.S.Kevin Terraciano is a Professor and the Department Chair of History at UCLA. He specializes in Latin American history, especially Mexico and the Indigenous cultures and languages of central and southern Mexico. Among many books and translations, he is the author of The Mixtecs of Colonial Oaxaca: Ñudzahui History, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries, a comprehensive study of Mixtec society and their adaptation to colonial rule.Cary Franklin is the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law at UCLA and serves as the faculty director of the Williams Institute at UCLA as well as the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the Harvard Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the NYU Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal.Alexandra Minna Stern is a professor of English and history and the Dean of UCLA's Division of Humanities. She co-directs the Sterilization and Social Justice Lab, which studies eugenic sterilization practices in the U.S. and their impact on marginalized groups. She is the author of the award-winning Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America, and the author of Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America, which was named a Choice 2013 Outstanding Academic Title in Health Sciences.Elizabeth O'Brien is an Assistant Professor in the UCLA Meyer and Renee Luskin Department of History, specializing in the history of reproductive health in Mexico. Professor O'Brien is also a member of the cross-field group in the History of Gender and Sexuality. Professor O'Brien's 2023 book on colonialism and reproductive healthcare in Mexico, Surgery and Salvation: The 

For 49 years, from 1973 until 2022, the Supreme Court declared that the US Constitution protected abortion rights. With this precedent overturned, decision making about reproductive rights now resides with state governments. But the court's 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization relied on a partial and inaccurate understanding of American history, and its claims to be a pro-democracy decision were disingenuous. Dobbs is just one example of the court smashing precedents in the last few years. Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at New York University, where she specializes in family law, constitutional law, and reproductive rights and justice. She has written for a wide range of academic journals and popular publications and regularly provides legal commentary for several major media outlets. Her credits include the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, Washington Post, and many others. She's a legal analyst at MSNBC and is also one of the cohosts of the podcast Strict Scrutiny, which focuses on the Supreme Court. https://crooked.com/podcast-series/strict-scrutiny/ https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250881397/thefallofroe

Jon Michaels is a UCLA professor of law specializing in constitutional and national security law. His award-winning scholarship has appeared in the Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, and Harvard Law Review, and he has written popular essays for the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and Guardian. A Yale Law graduate and Supreme Court clerk, Jon is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the advisory board of UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project. His latest book, co-written with David Noll, is VIGILANTE NATION: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens our Democracy. Jon and I discuss his new book and the increasing use of vigilantism by the Republican Party and red states in targeting vulnerable groups in America to influence cultural, legal and political outcomes. Got somethin' to say?! Email us at BackroomAndy@gmail.com Leave us a message: 845-307-7446 Twitter: @AndyOstroy Produced by Andy Ostroy, Matty Rosenberg, and Jennifer Hammoud @ Radio Free Rhiniecliff Design by Cricket Lengyel

On episode 222, we welcome Jon Michaels and David Noll to discuss the alliance between vigilante groups and governments in the US, the four types of vigilantism and how they affect our lives, how vigilante groups utilize state laws to limit freedom of movement, the roots of vigilantism in the slavery era, the argument of individual liberty as a veil for tyranny, and the societal effects of the merger between business interests and right-wing cultural warriors. Jon Michaels is a UCLA professor of law specializing in constitutional, administrative, and national-security law. His award-winning scholarship has been published in The Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, and the Harvard Law Review; his popular essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, and The Forward. A Yale Law graduate and former Supreme Court clerk, Michaels is a member of the American Law Institute, serves on the advisory board of UCLA's Safeguarding Democracy Project, and is a faculty affiliate of UCLA's Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy. His first book, Constitutional Coup, was published by Harvard University Press. David Noll is the associate dean for faculty research and development and a professor of law at Rutgers Law School. His scholarly writings on civil procedure, complex litigation, and administrative law have appeared in the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the New York University Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, and the Texas Law Review, among others, and his popular writing has appeared in venues including The New York Times, Politico, Slate, and the New York Law Journal. A graduate of Columbia University and New York University School of Law, Noll is an academic fellow of the National Institute for Civil Justice. He clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. | Jon Michaels and David Noll | ► Website | http://www.jondmichaels.com/about ► Twitter 1| https://x.com/davidlnoll ► Twitter 2 | https://x.com/JonDMichaels ► Bluesky | https://bsky.app/profile/david.noll.org ► Vigilante Nation Book | https://amzn.to/3zEjQvM Where you can find us: | Seize The Moment Podcast | ► Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/SeizeTheMoment ► Twitter | https://twitter.com/seize_podcast  ► Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/seizethemoment ► TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@seizethemomentpodcast

We interview Leo Strine on the purpose of the corporation, differentiating between shareholder primacy and stakeholder theory. We discuss ESG and the power of stockholders and workers. Leo Strine applies his perspective on corporate purpose to corporate acquisitions and lays out his hopes for the future of corporations. Some critical articles to learn more about the shareholder primacy vs stakeholder theory debate:Origins of the argument: - Merrick Dodd, For Whom Are Corporate Managers Trustees?, 45 HARV. L. REV. 1145 (1932) - Adolph A. Berle, Jr., For Whom Corporate Managers Are Trustees: A Note, 45 HARV.. L. REV. 1365, 1372 (1932)Shareholder primacy ownership argument: - Milton Friedman, A Friedman doctrine– The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits, N.Y. Times, Sept. 13 1970.Critique on shareholder primacy: - Lynn A. Stout, Bad and Not-so-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy, 75 S. CAL. L. REV. 1189 (2002).Example of Application: - Lucian Bebchuk and Roberto Tallarita, The Illusory Promise of Stakeholder Governance. 106 Corn. L. Rev. 91 (2020).Example of Court Case Application: - Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., 506 A.2d 173, 177 (Del. 1986)A bit about Leo Strine:Leo E. Strine, Jr., is Of Counsel in the Corporate Department at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.  Prior to joining the firm, he was the Chief Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court from early 2014 through late 2019.  Before becoming the Chief Justice, he served on the Delaware Court of Chancery as Chancellor since June 22, 2011, and as a Vice Chancellor since November 9, 1998.In his judicial positions, Mr. Strine wrote hundreds of opinions in the areas of corporate law, contract law, trusts and estates, criminal law, administrative law, and constitutional law.  Notably, he authored the lead decision in the Delaware Supreme Court case holding that Delaware's death penalty statute was unconstitutional because it did not require the key findings necessary to impose a death sentence to be made by a unanimous jury.For a generation, Mr. Strine taught various corporate law courses at the Harvard and University of Pennsylvania law schools, and now serves as the Michael L. Wachter Distinguished Fellow in Law and Policy at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Program on Corporate Governance. From 2006 to 2019, Mr. Strine served as the special judicial consultant to the ABA's Committee on Corporate Laws. He also was the special judicial consultant to the ABA's Committee on Mergers & Acquisitions from 2014 to 2019. He is a member of the American Law Institute.Mr. Strine speaks and writes frequently on the subjects of corporate and public law, and particularly the impact of business on society, and his articles have been published in The University of Chicago Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Duke Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Stanford Law Review, among others.  On several occasions, his articles were selected as among the Best Corporate and Securities Articles of the year, based on the choices of law professors.Before becoming a judge in 1998,  Mr. Strine served as Counsel and Policy Director to Governor Thomas R. Carper, and had also worked as a corporate litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom from 1990 to 1992.  He was law clerk to Judge Walter K. Stapleton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Chief Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.  Mr. Strine graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law Sc

Let us know how we're doing - text us feedback or thoughts on episode contentThe nuclear industry achieved something remarkable in July - full bipartisan support of new legislation aimed at supercharging growth of this clean energy technology.Paul digs into the specifics of the ADVANCE act, why it makes sense for helping to license new reactors faster (and cheaper), and why it garnered rare bipartisan support.For further reference:"Congress votes to advance nuclear energy development in the US" - Verge"The Senate just passed a critical clean energy bill to pave the way for more nuclear" - CNN"Nuclear Power" - Our World in Data"ADVANCE Act Strikes Right Balance for Nuclear Energy Regulation" - Harvard Law Review"Newly Signed Bill Will Boost Nuclear Reactor Deployment in the United States" - DOEFollow Paul on LinkedIn.

IntroductionPeople with disabilities are disproportionately affected by climate change; however, they have been traditionally excluded from conversations about national plans and responses to climate change. Including the disabled community in decision making is key to addressing potential harms and designing effective, inclusive solutions. Disabled Community Disproportionately AffectedMany studies provide empirical evidence that climate change poses a particularly great risk for the disabled community. A study in Australia documented that between 2001 and 2018,  89% of heat wave fatalities were people with some type of disability, and actually many had multiple disabilities both physical and mental. Additionally, after Hurricane Harvey in Harris County, Texas in 2017, people with disabilities were disproportionately affected and exposed to harms. Areas flooded by Hurricane Harvey were overrepresented by disabled populations. The highest proportion of people living in public housing being exposed to environmental hazards were people with disabilities. While people with disabilities are particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, they have often been excluded from decision-making surrounding climate change, including in  drafting national plans and climate responses. Inclusivity and Accessibility In PracticeEngaging people with disabilities in developing, designing and implementing climate resilient solutions can help protect their livelihoods and autonomy. Meaningful participation can look different in many ways including conducting research to have more data on how people with disabilities are affected and specific ways to help. As well, to develop new technologies and innovations that assist people with disabilities in climate emergencies like early warning systems, communication, and adaptive infrastructure. Spaces can be more inclusive and accessible to people with disabilities. More research is needed on infrastructure design that both reduces emissions and simultaneously will not put disabled people at more risk in climate emergencies, for example, adding ramps and automatic door openers, widening doorways, and having accessible bathrooms. It is also important to host public events in accessible locations to ensure that people with disabilities feel welcomed and valued. Methods of communication should also be accessible like using captions in videos, adding text descriptions and making online materials that work with screen readers so that low vision individuals can also access them. Disability-Inclusive Climate SolutionsIn addition to educating the community about the importance of disability-inclusive climate solutions and for the disabled community to be educated and equipped for climate disaster risk mitigation, it is vital for the disabled community to be part of the large-scale decision making process and promote meaningful participation. By providing people with disabilities with a greater understanding of the impacts that climate change will have on their lives, then they can be more able to respond to effects of climate change and access the resources they need. Expert Dr. Michael Stein points out that everyone knows their own needs and livelihoods best; hence, it is vital to reach out to the disabled community and include them in the conversation and decision making for climate solutions that will support the disabled community who are disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. About our guestMichael Stein is the co-founder of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. As a world leader on disability law, Dr. Stein participated in the drafting of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Dr. Stein became the first known person with a disability to be a member of the Harvard Law Review. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his work in disability rights. ResourcesAvci, Bratchell, Browning, Coates, Gissing, and Van Leeuwen, Heat wave fatalities, (2001-2008).Chakraborty, Collins, and Grineski, Hurricane Harvey and people with disabilities, (2019).Akyeampong, Alford, Chakraborty, Daniels-Mayes, Gallegos, Grech, Groce, Gurung, Hans, Harpur, Jodoin, Lord, Macanawai, McClain-Nhlapo, Stein, Susteren, Advancing Disability-Inclusive Climate Research, (2024).Szekeres, 8 Ways  to Include People with Disabilities in Climate Action, (2023).Nina D. L, How to Include People with Disabilities, (2021).Hélène T., Disability-Inclusive Approaches to Climate Action, (2023).For a transcript of this episode, please visit https://climatebreak.org/disability-inclusive-climate-solutions-with-michael-stein/.

In this special bonus episode, Whit Missildine interviews Alex Chen. Alex Chen is the Founding Director of the Harvard Law School LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and a founding member of Polyamory Legal Advocacy Coalition. In this conversation we discuss the legal and historical roots of the nuclear family, monogamy and the challenges and successes in the fight for rights for diverse family structures. Alex is one of the nation's leading experts in LGBTQ+ civil rights law. He also teaches Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law at the Law School. Previously, Alexander served as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Center for Lesbian Rights. He also co-drafted AB 2119, a bill that made California the first state to guarantee access to transition-related health care for trans youth in foster care. Alex received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was the first openly transgender editor of the Harvard Law Review. You can find out more about Alex and his work at PLAC at polyamorylegal.orgProducers: Whit Missildine, Andrew WaitsContent/Trigger Warnings: sexual themes, explicit language Social Media:Instagram: @actuallyhappeningTwitter: @TIAHPodcastWebsite: thisisactuallyhappening.comSupport the Show: Support The Show on Patreon: patreon.com/happeningWondery Plus: All episodes of the show prior to episode #130 are now part of the Wondery Plus premium service. To access the full catalog of episodes, and get all episodes ad free, sign up for Wondery Plus at wondery.com/plus Shop at the Store: The This Is Actually Happening online store is now officially open. Follow this link: thisisactuallyhappening.com/shop to access branded t-shirts, posters, stickers and more from the shop. Transcripts: Full transcripts of each episode are now available on the website, thisisactuallyhappening.comIntro Music: "Illabye" – Tipper ServicesIf you or someone you know is struggling with the effects of trauma or mental illness, please refer to the following resources:National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Text or Call 988 National Alliance on Mental Illness: 1-800-950-6264National Sexual Assault Hotline (RAINN): 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Are you relieved that Gay Pride month is over? Monica Harris, an author, attorney, activist, and the executive director of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) fought for LGBT civil rights in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, she finds herself dismayed by the current state of that movement. In this conversation, Monica talks about how we went from Ellen DeGeneres to drag queen story hours, why gay rights organizations turned their attention to trans issues, and why she believes homophobia lies at the root of much of gender medicine. She also talks about the economic forces driving ordinary people to the ideological fringes, particularly young men who find themselves without job or relationship prospects. GUEST BIO Monica Harris is the executive director of FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She spent over a decade as a business and legal affairs executive at Walt Disney Television, NBCUniversal Media, and Viacom Media Networks. In 2011, she abandoned corporate life and moved with her family to Montana, where she serves entertainment clients remotely through her firm, Big Sky.  Monica is a TEDx speaker, author, and blogger who advocates for balanced, common-sense solutions to systemic problems based on our shared values and goals. Her book, The Illusion of Division, is available on Amazon. Want to hear the whole conversation? Upgrade your subscription here. HOUSEKEEPING ✈️ 2024 Unspeakeasy Retreats — See where we'll be in 2024! https://bit.ly/3Qnk92n

Monica Harris received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She spent more than a decade as a business and legal affairs executive at Walt Disney Television, NBCUniversal Media, and Viacom Media Networks. In 2011, Harris abandoned corporate life and moved with her family to Montana. She currently operates her own firm in Big Sky, where she services entertainment clients remotely. She recently took on the role of Executive Director for the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR).Her new book, The Illusion of Division, is available on Amazon.Conversation starts at 03:35.__________________________________________________________

Ralph welcomes back Bishop William J. Barber to discuss the upcoming Poor People's Campaign March and Assembly in Washington, DC on June 29th, as well as Bishop Barber's new book "WHITE POVERTY: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy." Then Ralph is joined by Phil Mattera from Good Jobs First to discuss their new report on corporate misbehavior, "The High Cost of Misconduct: Corporate Penalties Reach the Trillion-Dollar Mark."Bishop William Barber is President and Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach, which was established to train communities in moral movement building. He is Co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, and Founding Director and Professor at the Center for Public Theology and Public Policy at Yale Divinity School.  His new book is White Poverty: How Exposing Myths About Race and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy.I might add, for our listeners, a lot of these social safety measures have been long enacted and are operating in Western Europe, in Canada, even in places like Taiwan and Japan—like full health insurance, and a lot of the labor rights, the absence of voter suppression, higher minimum wages. And in Western Europe, they have abolished poverty—as we know it in the United States. Ralph NaderOne thing that people are saying why they're interested [in the Poor People's Campaign] is because this is not just a gathering of a day, and it's not just a gathering for a few high-profile people to speak. The messengers are going to be the impacted people, and many of the people are committing to the larger effort of mobilizing these poor low wealth voters.Bishop William BarberIt's not just “saving the democracy”, Ralph. It's what kind of democracy do we want to save?Bishop William BarberWe see the kindredness of issues and oppression— that if these bodies can come together and unite, not by ignoring the issue of race, but by dealing with it and dealing with race and class together and recognizing the power that they have together, there can be some real fundamental change.Bishop William BarberPhil Mattera serves as Violation Tracker Project Director and Corporate Research Project Director at Good Jobs First. Mr. Mattera is a licensed private investigator; author of four books on business, labor and economics; and a long-time member of the National Writers Union. His blog on corporate research and corporate misbehavior is the Dirt Diggers Digest, and has written more than 70 critical company profiles for the Corporate Rap Sheets section of the Corporate Research Project website. He is co-author, with Siobhan Standaert, of the new report “The High Cost of Misconduct: Corporate Penalties Reach the Trillion-Dollar Mark”. This is a big problem with the Justice Department—it has this addiction to leniency agreements and it wants to give companies an opportunity not to have to plead guilty when there actually are criminal cases brought against them. So they offer them these strange deals—non-prosecution and deferred-prosecution agreements. And the theory is that the company is going to be so shaken up by the possibility of a criminal charge that they'll clean up their act, and they'll never do bad things again. But what we've seen over and over again is the companies get the leniency agreement and then they break the rules again. And sometimes the Justice Department responds by giving them another leniency agreement. So it turns the whole process into a farce. Phil MatteraWe're always interested in more transparency about both the misconduct and about enforcement actions. We feel that there's no justification for agencies to ever keep this information secret…I think there needs to be more pressure on companies, particularly high profile companies that have been involved in these offenses. A lot of companies seem to think that they pay their penalty, they just move on, and it's as if it's as if it never happened.Phil MatteraIn Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantisNews 6/5/241.  In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected president in a landslide. Sheinbaum is the hand-picked successor of Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or AMLO, who is termed out but leaves office with an 80% approval rating, per Gallup. Sheinbaum is Mexico's first woman president; she is also the country's first Jewish president. In addition to years of service in government, Sheinbaum is an accomplished climate scientist who worked with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. During her campaign, Sheinbaum published a list of 100 commitments she will pursue as president. Front and center among these are climate-related goals. Sustainability magazine reports “[Sheinbaum] has committed to investing more than…$13 billion in new energy projects by 2030, focusing on wind and solar power generation and modernising hydroelectric facilities.” We urge the U.S. government to follow suit.2. Stacy Gilbert, a senior civil military adviser for the U.S. State Department, resigned last Tuesday, alleging that “The state department falsified a report…to absolve Israel of responsibility for blocking humanitarian aid flows into Gaza,” per the Guardian. Gilbert claims “that report's conclusion went against the overwhelming view of state department experts who were consulted.” As the article notes, this report was a high stakes affair. Had the State Department found that the Israeli government had violated international humanitarian law, and linked those violations to U.S.-supplied weapons, there would have been serious consequences regarding the legality of American military support. In addition to Gilbert, “Alexander Smith, a contractor for the US Agency for International Development… resigned on Monday…[saying] he was given a choice between resignation and dismissal after preparing a presentation on maternal and child mortality among Palestinians.”3. Per the Jeruslam Post, “South African International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor affirmed…that the United States would be next if the International Criminal Court (ICC) is allowed to prosecute Israeli leadership.” Pandor “went on to claim that nations and officials who provide military and financial assistance for Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza ‘will be liable for prosecution…' [and]…noted that a group of 140 international lawyers are currently working on a class action suit against non-Israelis, including South Africans, who have been serving in Israel's military.” International law experts like Bruce Fein have previously warned that the United States' material support for Israel during this genocidal campaign makes this country a co-belligerent in this war and therefore liable for prosecution by the ICC.4. Liberal Israeli news outlet Haaretz has published a shocking report related to the recent revelations concerning Mossad's intimidation campaign against the ICC. According to Haaretz's report, the paper was “about to publish details of the affair” in 2022, when “security officials thwarted it.” Al Jazeera adds that the Haaretz journalist behind the story, Gur Megiddo was told during his meeting with an Israeli security official, that if he published, he “would suffer the consequences and get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside.” This story highlights how deeply Israel has descended into authoritarianism, seeking to bully and silence not only international watchdogs, but their own domestic journalists.5. Prem Thakker of the Intercept is out with an outrageous story of censorship at elite law reviews. According to Mr. Thakker, “In November, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah was set to be the first Palestinian published in the Harvard Law Review. Then his essay was killed. [On June 3rd], he became the first [Palestinian published] in the Columbia Law Review. Then the Board of Directors took the whole site down.” As I write this, the Columbia Law Review website still says it is “under maintenance.”6. Lauren Kaori Gurley, Labor Reporter at the Washington Post, reports “16 [thousand] academic workers at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and UC Irvine will [go on] strike…according to their union… They will join 15 [thousand] workers already on strike at UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis over the university's response to pro-Palestine protests on campus.” We commend these academic workers for leveraging their most powerful tool – their labor – on behalf of their fellow students and those suffering in Palestine.7. More Perfect Union reports “The FBI has raided landlord giant Cortland Management over algorithmic price-fixing collusion. Cortland is allegedly part of a bigger conspiracy coordinated by software firm RealPage to raise rents across the country through price-fixing and keeping apartments empty.” Paired with the recent oil price fixing lawsuit and the announcement from retailers that they are lowering prices on many consumer goods, a new picture of inflation is starting to emerge – one that has less to do with macroeconomic reality and more to do with plain old corporate greed.8. Vermont has passed a new law making it the first state in the nation to demand that “fossil fuel companies…pay a share of the damage caused by climate change,” per AP. Per this report, “Under the legislation, the Vermont state treasurer, in consultation with the Agency of Natural Resources, would provide a report…on the total cost to Vermonters and the state from the emission of greenhouse gases from Jan. 1, 1995, to Dec. 31, 2024… [looking] at the effects on public health, natural resources, agriculture, economic development, housing and other areas.” Paul Burns of the Vermont Public Interest Research Group said of the law “For too long, giant fossil fuel companies have knowingly lit the match of climate disruption without being required to do a thing to put out the fire…Finally, maybe for the first time anywhere, Vermont is going to hold the companies most responsible for climate-driven floods, fires and heat waves financially accountable for a fair share of the damages they've caused.”9. Following months of pressure and a probe led by Senator Bernie Sanders, Boehringer – one of the largest producers of inhalers – has announced they will cap out of pocket costs for the lifesaving devices at $35, per Common Dreams. Boehringer used to charge as much as $500 for an inhaler in the U.S., while the same product sold in France for just $7. Sanders, continuing this crusade, said "We look forward to AstraZeneca moving in the same direction…in the next few weeks, and to GlaxoSmithKline following suit in the coming months,” and added “We are waiting on word from Teva, the fourth major inhaler manufacturer, as to how they will proceed."10. Finally, the Justice Department has unsealed an indictment charging Bill Guan, the Chief Financial Officer of the Epoch Times newspaper with “participating in a transnational scheme to launder at least…$67 million of illegally obtained funds.” The Epoch Times is the mouthpiece of a bizarre anti-Communist Chinese cult known as the Falun Gong, famous for their outlandish beliefs such as that proper mastery of qigong can be “used to develop the ability to fly, to move objects by telekinesis and to heal diseases,” per the New York Times. The Falun Gong is also the entity behind the Shen Yun performances and their ubiquitous billboards. In recent years, the Epoch Times has gone all-in on Right-wing propaganda and fake news, with close ties to the Trump White House and campaign, as the Guardian has detailed. We urge the Justice Department to pursue this indictment to the hilt and shut down this rag that has become a cancer within our republic.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

Watch the video of our conversation on YouTube!This week, I welcome Professor Kate Klonick to the podcast. The name of this episode comes from some amazing swag Kate made for a conference she put on last year on the history of the Trust and Safety profession. (You know how much I love swag.)Kate is among the foremost experts on many things, including platform governance of speech. In 2018, she wrote a paper at Harvard titled “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech,” which was a first-of-its-kind behind-the-scenes look at how platforms handle content moderation.In 2021, she wrote a piece for the New Yorker about how then-Facebook set up the Oversight Board titled, “Inside the Making of Facebook's Supreme Court.”Recently, she has been writing on these topics at her Substack . One of her pieces I cite all the time is about the end of the golden age of tech accountability where in 2023 she makes the point:[F]or all the of the complaining we've done about Big Tech's lack of cooperation with accountability, transparency, and research efforts, I unfortunately think we'll look back on the last five years as a Golden Age of Tech Company access and cooperation.We talk about all of this and more. Enjoy!Kate Klonick teaches Property, Internet Law, and a seminar on information privacy. Klonick's research focuses on law and technology, most recently on private platform governance of online speech. Klonick's scholarly work has appeared in The Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, The Georgetown Law Journal, the peer-reviewed Copyright Journal of the U.S.A., The Maryland Law Review, and The Southern California Law Review. Her popular press writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Lawfare, Slate, Vox and numerous other publications.Professor Klonick holds an A.B. with honors from Brown University where she studied both modern American History and cognitive neuroscience, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center where she was a Senior Editor on the Georgetown Law Journal, and a Ph.D. in Law from Yale Law School. She clerked for Hon. Eric N. Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York and Hon. Richard C. Wesley of the Second Circuit. She is an affiliated fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project and a non-resident fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is on leave for 2022-2023 serving as a Visiting Scholar at the Rebooting Social Media Institute at Harvard University. Get full access to Anchor Change with Katie Harbath at anchorchange.substack.com/subscribe

Kiryas Joel, a chartered municipality in New York State functions as a religious community and American village. Nomi M. Stolzenberg holds the Nathan and Lilly Shapell Chair at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She is a legal scholar whose research spans a range of interdisciplinary interests, including law and religion, law and liberalism, law and feminism, law and psychoanalysis, and law and literature. After getting her J.D. at Harvard Law School in 1987 and clerking for the Honorable John Gibbons, chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, she joined the faculty at the USC Gould School in 1988. There, she helped establish the USC Center for Law, History and Culture, one of the preeminent centers for the study of law and the humanities. She is the co-author with David N. Myers of American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), and the author of numerous articles on law and religion, including the widely cited “He Drew a Circle That Shut Me Out: Assimilation, Indoctrination, and the Paradox of a Liberal Education,” published in the Harvard Law Review, “Righting the Relationship Between Race and Religion in Law,” and “The Return of Religion: Legal Secularism's Rise and Fall and Possible Resurrection.” She is spending the 2022-2023 academic year as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and as a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will be working on a new project on religious exemptions and the theory of “faith-based discrimination.”   David N. Myers is Distinguished Professor of History and holds the Sady and Ludwig Kahn Chair in Jewish History at UCLA, where he serves as the director of the UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy. He also directs the new UCLA Initiative to Study Hate. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books in the field of Jewish history, including, with Nomi Stolzenberg, American Shtetl: The Making of Kiryas Joel, a Hasidic Village in Upstate New York (Princeton, 2022), which was awarded the 2022 National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish studies. From 2018-2023, he served as president of the New Israel Fund.

Dxe Co-Founder and leader of the Open Rescue Movement talks to UnchainedTV about his recent California conviction and the shocking, dropping of all felony charges against him in a 2017 Beagle Open Rescue case in Wisconsin, days before trial was set to start. You could call it a big victory for animal rights. Most people would be thrilled to avoid the possibility of 16 years in prison. But, the incredibly courageous Wayne Hsiung is not happy that he doesn't get to show the world what's happening to beagles in a court of law, arguing the real crime is animal cruelty, not rescuing. Wayne was just published in the Harvard Law Review at the same time as his law license is getting suspended due to his convictions in the Sonoma County Open Rescue trial. Joining him is noted attorney Mirais Holden. For more info, visit: https://www.directactioneverywhere.com/ and https://blog.simpleheart.org/

Hey Pickles!We hope this episode finds you well. This week, we'll let you know about some terrific vegan food that we had over the weekend.In our Noteworthy segment, we update you on the Wayne Hsiung Right to Rescue trial. The Harvard Law Review recently published Wayne's defense!Read it here:   https://harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-137/voluntary-prosecution-and-the-case-of-animal-rescue/Read Wayne's blog here:   https://blog.simpleheart.org/p/the-harvard-law-review-just-publishedOur Main Topic is Veganism & Religion. We explore dietary practices of various religions, biblical views on veganism, cultural influences, and offer opportunities for interfaith dialogue.We were inspired to visit this topic after hearing about the new film, Christspiracy. We're really hoping that we get a chance to see it & review it on the show. Learn more about Christspiracy here:   https://www.christspiracy.comWe have a new Listener Shoutout, a Vegan Org of the Week, and much more!Thank you so much for spending some time with us. Love, Sam & ChristineSupport the showJoin Our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/CompassionandcucumbersSign Up For Our Newsletterhttps://www.compassionandcucumbers.comOur YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@compassioncucumbersveganpod/videos72 Reasons To Be Vegan *paid link https://amzn.to/3W8ZwsUVisit Our Website https://www.compassionandcucumbers.comSam's Etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/CucumberCraftworksJoin the AFA Vegan Voter Hub https://agriculturefairnessalliance.org/vegan-voter-hub/

Kate, Melissa, and Leah preview the cases the Supreme Court will hear this week, explain the latest news in the Trump criminal cases, and survey the significant decisions happening in lower courts.Read Melissa and Kate's article in the Harvard Law Review, "Dobbs & Democracy"Read Melissa's article from the Houston Law Review, "Children of Men: The Roberts Court's Jurisprudence of Masculinity"Pre-order The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary, by Melissa Murray and Andrew Weissmann (code STRICT10 gets you 10% off at check-out!)  Follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Threads, and Bluesky

This week on Conversations with Kenyatta, Kenyatta D. Berry, host of PBS' Genealogy Roadshow and author of The Family Tree Toolkit is joined by author and historian Gregory May. The two discuss his work and his books and research for his latest - A Madman's Will which tells the story of one of the largest and most controversial private emancipations in United States history. About Gregory May Gregory May is a historian who writes about the early American republic. In his first book, Jefferson's Treasure, he used his knowledge of taxes and tax policy to bring a fresh and vigorous perspective to the new nation's financial history. In A Madman's Will, he draws on his past legal experience to tell the story of one of the largest and most controversial private emancipations in United States history.Greg is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After serving as a law clerk for Justice Lewis Powell on the United States Supreme Court, he practiced law in Washington, DC, and New York for over thirty years. He lives in Virginia.Learn more at his website here. The music for this episode, as always, is "Good Vibe" by Ketsa. We are dedicated to exploring and discussing various aspects of genealogy, history, culture, and social issues. We aim to shed light on untold stories and perspectives that enrich our understanding of the world. **Please note that some links in our show notes may contain affiliate links, on which Kenyatta receives a small commission.

Ralph welcomes back Chuck Collins, heir to the Hormel fortune and cofounder of Patriotic Millionaires to discuss his latest report “The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy” which asks the question, “Would society be better off if billionaires just kept their money and paid their fair share of taxes?” Plus, we speak briefly about the situation in Gaza with Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace and Francesco DeSantis keeps us up to date with the latest news with his segment “In Case You Haven't Heard.”Chuck Collins directs the Charity Reform Initiative at the Institute for Policy Studies, where he also co-edits Inequality.org.  Mr. Collins co-founded the Patriotic Millionaires and United for a Fair Economy, and he is the author of Born on Third Base and The Wealth Hoarders: How Billionaires Pay Millions to Hide Trillions.Here's our analysis: for every dollar that Elon Musk or Bill Gates - some of these billionaires - give, the rest of us chip in 74 cents in lost tax revenue. And that's at the federal level... So, these are our tax dollars at work. And yet they're completely unaccountable in terms of where the money goes.Chuck CollinsThe financial industry, the wealth advisors—I call them the wealth defense industry—the tax attorneys and accountants. They have started to capture corners of what we think of as philanthropy with the same kind of worldview—capital preservation, tax minimization, passing on as much wealth to the next generation. So, you see ultra-wealthy people creating family foundations. And the most important thing to realize is this is taxpayer-subsidized private power.Chuck CollinsWe need to change the laws governing philanthropy. The framework that we are living with now is from 1969, which was a zenith of relative equality in the United States. We wouldn't have necessarily known that 50 years later we would be living in an oligarchy where billionaires would use their charity as an extension of their influence and power as aggressively as they are now.Chuck Collins[Shareholder resolutions are] a good way to shine some light on the murky, narcissistic, self-enriching practices of these executives who often do so at the expense of their own companies in a conflict of interest. It would be good if this discussion sparked something like that… It's not a structural reform of our political economy, to be sure. But it does alleviate some of the poverty, some of the health care necessities, the housing necessities in the areas where these corporations operate.Ralph NaderLara Friedman is the President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace. She is a leading authority on the Middle East, with particular expertise on U.S. foreign policy in the region, on Israel/Palestine, and on the way Middle East and Israel/Palestine-related issues play out in Congress and in U.S. domestic politics, Ms. Friedman is a former officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, with diplomatic postings in Jerusalem, Washington, Tunis and Beirut. She also served previously as the Director of Policy and Government Relations at Americans for Peace Now.In Case You Haven't Heard with Francesco DeSantis1. The AP reports Hamas has released a third group of hostages – including 14 Israelis and the first American hostage – as part of a four-day truce with Israel. In return, Israel has released 39 Palestinian prisoners. The Biden administration has expressed that their goal is to extend the ceasefire as long as possible. This about-face in administration policy is a testament to the power of the sustained protest and public pressure campaigns in favor of a ceasefire. However, this truce is scheduled to expire at the end of this week.2. Going further, Vermont Senator Peter Welch has called for an “indefinite ceasefire,” following the horrific shooting of three Palestinian-American students in Burlington, Vermont. Senator Welch writes “The ceasefire must be extended...to stop the bombing and prevent further loss of civilian life. The United States cannot condone a resumption of the bombing when it causes death and injury to so many civilians.” It is noteworthy that the other Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, still refuses to call for a ceasefire.3. The Nation has published a piece on the genocide in Gaza that was pulled from the Harvard Law Review at the last moment. The opening lines of this article read “Genocide is a crime. It is a legal framework. It is unfolding in Gaza. And yet, the inertia of legal academia, especially in the United States, has been chilling. Clearly it is much easier to dissect the case law rather than navigate the reality of death. It is much easier to consider genocide in the past tense rather than contend with it in the present. Legal scholars tend to sharpen their pens after the smell of death has dissipated and moral clarity is no longer urgent.”4. The Intercept's Ryan Grim has shared an excerpt from his new book The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution in which he seeks to explain Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman's intransigent stance in favor of Israel. Essentially, Grim argues that Fetterman made a deal with AIPAC and the Democratic Majority For Israel, with Fetterman pledging opposition to the BDS movement and support for unconditional military aid to Israel, and in exchange, “DMFI and AIPAC stayed out of his race.”5. Independent journalist Séamus Malekafzali reports “A member of Germany's ruling coalition from the Greens wants all German media to sign a pledge to support Israel and its ‘right to exist', similar to how Axel Springer's media organizations (like Politico) do.” To learn more about POLITICO's new ultra-Zionist German ownership, check out the first issue of the Capitol Hill Citizen.6. The Prospect is out with a blockbuster article on the first major anti-trust case in 25 years, U.S. v. Google. This piece traces how what was once billed as the “Trial of the Century” became “the Secret Trial,” and stresses the testimony of Al-Amyn Sumar, legal counsel for the New York Times who “listed the factors that separated this case from any other his legal team had seen before… [including] numerous closed-door proceedings, withholding of public evidence, and extensive confidentiality claims by companies (not just Google, but secondary parties to the case like Microsoft and Apple) that were granted all too liberally by the judge. [Sumar noted] Even access to trial transcripts were scant, trickling out weeks after examinations.” Sumar capped this off by saying “this simply can't be the best way to go about the legal process.”7. The Prospect also reports the Biden-appointed chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Rostin Behnam, is attempting to implement a Trump-era rule that would “roll back Dodd-Frank protections for swap trades, a major class of derivatives that led directly to the 2008 financial crisis, by relaxing margin requirements for certain categories of investment funds.” Several Democrats are coming out in opposition to this move. A letter from Senator Sherrod Brown decries this as “a step in the wrong direction… [which would] undermine the goals of Dodd-Frank.”8. A third story from the Prospect focuses on deceptive Medicare Advantage plans, and specifically how they have been able to legally circumvent ACA protections covering pre-existing conditions. Put simply, if one enrolls in a Medicare Advantage program before age 65, then wishes to transition to traditional Medicare, they can be forced to undergo “underwriting” or medical health screening. As of now, only four states – New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maine – prevent Medigap, the Medicare supplemental insurance that covers the 20 percent of medical expenses not covered by Medicare, from underwriting Medicare Advantage patients attempting to switch back to traditional Medicare. As the article explains “The millions of Americans not living in those states are trapped in Medicare Advantage, because Medigap plans are legally able to deny them insurance coverage.” Yet another instance of the pernicious influence of Medicare Advantage on the health of American seniors.9. The Tuscon Sentinel has published a story which exemplifies the folly of the so-called school choice movement. Last year, Arizona became the first state to offer all families in the state public dollars to spend at private educational institutions. In response, nearly all private schools raised their tuition rates. As the article notes, “Critics…cite the tuition increases as evidence of what they've warned about for years: Universal school choice, rather than giving students living in poverty an opportunity to attend higher-quality schools, would largely serve as a subsidy for the affluent.”10. Finally, radical and cartoonish right-wing Libertarian Javier Milei has won the presidential election in Argentina. According to the AP, Milei has vowed to implement his signature “Chainsaw Plan” for “wholesale reform of the state to slash public spending, scrap half the government's ministries, sell state-owned companies and eliminate the central bank.” It remains to be seen how far Milei will go with this program, but signs point to turbulent times ahead in Argentina.This has been Francesco DeSantis, with In Case You Haven't Heard. Get full access to Ralph Nader Radio Hour at www.ralphnaderradiohour.com/subscribe

In conversation with Dorothy Roberts One of the country's foremost authorities in civil rights, Black feminist legal theory, race, and the law, Kimberlé Crenshaw is a law professor at UCLA and Columbia Law School, where in 1996 she founded the African American Policy Forum. She is the co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women and Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced, and Underprotected, and her articles have appeared in Harvard Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, The New Republic, and The Nation. The coiner of the terms ''critical race theory'' and ''intersectionality,'' Crenshaw served on the legal team of Anita Hill during the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and wrote the background paper on race and gender discrimination for the United Nations' World Conference on Racism in 2001. Including a forward by Janelle Monáe, #SayHerName explains how Black women are especially susceptible to police violence and the ways in which various communities can help empower them. Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts's books include Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention. She has also authored more than 100 scholarly articles and has co-edited six books on various legal issues. The George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania, Roberts is the director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. In her latest book Torn Apart she explains that the abolition of the U.S. child welfare system-which is designed to punish Black families-will liberate Black communities. Because you love Author Events, please make a donation to keep our podcasts free for everyone. THANK YOU! (recorded 11/14/2023)

On this day in legal history, October 5, 1941, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis died at the age of 84. Louis Brandeis was born on November 13, 1856, in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Harvard Law School at the age of 20 with the highest grade point average in the school's history. In 1890, he gained recognition for developing the "right to privacy" concept through an article in the Harvard Law Review. Brandeis was a prominent figure in the antitrust movement and was known for his resistance to monopolies, particularly in the New England railroad sector. He also advised Woodrow Wilson and was critical of large banks and powerful corporations in his writings.Brandeis became active in the Zionist movement, viewing it as a solution to antisemitism in Europe and Russia. He was often referred to as the "People's Lawyer" and took cases without pay to focus on broader issues. He set a new precedent in evidence presentation with the "Brandeis brief," which utilized expert testimony from various professions. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson nominated him to the U.S. Supreme Court, making him the first Jewish member. His nomination was met with significant opposition but was eventually confirmed by the Senate.During his tenure on the Supreme Court from 1916 to 1939, Brandeis became one of the most influential justices in history. He was known for his strong defenses of freedom of speech and the right to privacy. However, he has been criticized for not addressing issues related to African-Americans and for supporting racial segregation in some cases. Brandeis retired from the Supreme Court on February 13, 1939, and passed away on October 5, 1941, in Washington, D.C.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is set to hear a case concerning Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Facebook, and its alleged preference for hiring workers on H-1B visas. The case, brought by appellant Purushothaman Rajaram, questions whether U.S. citizens are a protected class under Section 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. A federal district court previously dismissed the case, stating that the act does not cover "reverse discrimination" claims. Rajaram's lawyers argue that Section 1981 should be broadly interpreted to include U.S. citizens, while Meta contends that the law has traditionally been applied narrowly to race or alien status.The case also brings into focus Meta's hiring practices. The company was one of the top H-1B employers in fiscal year 2022, with over 1,500 approved petitions for new workers. Rajaram, a naturalized U.S. citizen, claims that Meta's hiring policies favor workers on H-1B visas over equally or more qualified U.S. citizens. If Rajaram wins, it could discourage companies from prioritizing H-1B workers over U.S. citizens.The Department of Justice and the Department of Labor have previously scrutinized Meta's H-1B hiring practices. The company settled those claims by paying over $14 million in civil penalties without admitting any wrongdoing. Rajaram's lawsuit aims to address citizenship discrimination in hiring more broadly, not just positions earmarked for visa workers.Experts note that the structure of the H-1B program itself may contribute to competition between visa holders and U.S. workers. Companies have little incentive to pay H-1B workers more than the prevailing wage, leading them to file as many petitions as possible for minimally qualified candidates. The case began with oral arguments yesterday. Meta's H-1B Hiring Spurs Ninth Circuit Look at Citizenship BiasA federal judge has ordered the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to withdraw a Trump-era rule concerning copay assistance programs. The rule had been challenged by patient advocacy groups, including the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute and the Diabetes Leadership Council, who claimed it allowed health plans to increase out-of-pocket prescription drug costs. Judge John D. Bates stated that the rule conflicted with the Affordable Care Act's definition of "cost-sharing" and must be set aside.The 2020 rule had stated that pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), who manage prescription drug benefits for insurers, were not required to count drugmaker copay assistance toward patients' out-of-pocket costs. The patient groups argued that this allowed PBMs and health plans to collect funds from both patients and drugmakers without using the money to ease the financial burden on patients.The ruling is seen as a victory for these patient advocacy groups, who filed the lawsuit in August 2022. Carl Schmid, the executive director of the HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute, expressed satisfaction with the court's decision and called on the Biden administration to enforce it immediately.The advocacy groups are backed by pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Laboratories, Eli Lilly & Co., and Merck & Co. While these companies can offer assistance to patients in commercial plans, such programs are prohibited in government-funded health insurance due to the Anti-Kickback Statute.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had previously argued that manufacturer coupons could add long-term costs to the healthcare system, outweighing the short-term benefits. Both the Department of Justice, representing CMS and HHS, and a CMS spokesperson declined to comment on the ruling. The case is titled HIV & Hepatitis Policy Inst. v. Dep't of Health & Human Servs. and was filed on September 29, 2023.Judge Strikes Down Trump-Era Medicare Copay Assistance Rule (1)The trial of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange, has begun with both sides presenting differing views on the reasons behind the company's failure. Bankman-Fried is accused of using FTX customer funds to support his hedge fund, Alameda Research, as well as for personal expenditures like luxury real estate and political donations. He has pleaded not guilty to these charges. His defense lawyer, Mark Cohen, portrayed him as a "math nerd" from MIT who may have overlooked risk management but did not engage in theft.Prosecutor Thane Rehn, however, argued that Bankman-Fried took more than $10 billion from FTX customers and used the funds to build his empire through fraudulent means. Rehn stated that the defendant "doubled down" on risky investments when Alameda began losing money. The prosecution plans to call three former associates of Bankman-Fried, all of whom have pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate, to testify against him.The defense suggested that these witnesses might retrospectively portray Bankman-Fried's decisions as deceitful, even though they had agreed with those decisions at the time. The jury for the trial includes a diverse group of individuals, including a retired investment banker, a school librarian, and a train conductor. Bankman-Fried has been in detention since August 11 for likely tampering with witnesses.The trial comes nearly a year after the collapse of FTX, which had a significant impact on financial markets and damaged Bankman-Fried's reputation. It promises to offer an inside look into the operations of a cryptocurrency exchange and the legal boundaries within which such businesses operate.Sam Bankman-Fried trial jurors hear competing explanations for FTX collapse | ReutersJudge Arthur Engoron, overseeing Donald Trump's civil fraud trial in New York, expressed frustration with Trump's legal team for what he termed as "ridiculous" and redundant questioning of a witness. The trial is centered on allegations by the New York attorney general's office that Trump inflated his net worth by billions to secure better loan and insurance terms. Engoron, who is the sole decider of the case's outcome, has already disciplined Trump's lawyers for making "frivolous" arguments.Earlier, Engoron had imposed a gag order on public comments about court staff after Trump criticized the judge's top law clerk on social media. Trump, who has been present in court, has consistently attacked both the judge and New York Attorney General Letitia James, labeling them as "corrupt" and the case as a "sham."Last week, Engoron ruled that Trump, his two adult sons, and 10 of his companies had committed fraud. He revoked the business certificates for key assets, including Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street, and said he would appoint receivers for their dissolution. Trump's lawyers have appealed this decision.The trial mainly concerns the assessment of damages, with James seeking at least $250 million in fines and various bans against Trump and his sons from conducting business in New York. The trial is expected to continue until mid-December. Trump also faces other legal challenges, including four criminal indictments and a civil damages trial scheduled for January. He has denied wrongdoing in all cases.Judge chides Donald Trump lawyer's 'ridiculous' questioning in civil fraud trial | Reuters Get full access to Minimum Competence - Daily Legal News Podcast at www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

In this compelling episode of Faithful Politics, Political Host Will Wright goes one-on-one with Professor Caroline Mala Corbin of the University of Miami School of Law. While Faithful Host Pastor Josh Burtram couldn't join in, the episode doesn't skip a beat in addressing some of the most intricate legal and social issues facing America today. A central theme is the U.S. Constitution—specifically, its role in shaping modern American society and safeguarding individual freedoms. Caroline offers unique insights into how the Constitution isn't just a historical document but an evolving tapestry that continually informs our civil liberties.The conversation then shifts to the First Amendment, dissecting its two main clauses: the Establishment Clause and the Free Speech Clause. This segment is a goldmine for anyone interested in the delicate balance between state and religion, as well as the boundaries of free speech in an increasingly polarized world. Caroline illuminates these topics with examples, case studies, and personal viewpoints, making complex legal jargon accessible to all. Another enriching theme touched upon is feminism, particularly its relationship with both faith and law. Caroline delves into the complexities of gender issues within religious and legal frameworks, offering a nuanced perspective that is both academic and relatable.This episode is a treasure trove of knowledge for anyone at the intersection of faith, politics, and law. Whether you're a law student, a legal practitioner, a faith leader, or simply someone intrigued by the complexities of American society, this episode has something for youGuest Bio:Caroline Mala Corbin is Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. She teaches U.S. Constitutional Law I, U.S. Constitutional Law II, First Amendment, the Religion Clauses, the Free Speech Clause, Feminism and the First Amendment, and Advanced Topics in Reproductive Rights. Her scholarship focuses on the First Amendment's speech and religion clauses, particularly their intersection with equality issues.Professor Corbin's articles have been published in the New York University Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Northwestern University Law Review, Boston University Law Review, and Emory Law Journal, among others. Her writing has also appeared in the online editions of the Harvard Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Michigan Law Review, California Law Review, and Virginia Law Review. As well as writing for Take Care Blog, ACSblog, and NBC Think, Professor Corbin is a frequent commentator for local and national media on First Amendment questions.Professor Corbin joined the Miami law faculty in 2008 after completing a postdoctoral research fellowship at Columbia Law School. Before her fellowship, she litigated civil rights cases as a pro bono fellow at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and as an attorney at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project. She also clerked for the Hon. M. Blane Michael of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.Professor Corbin holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Columbia Law School. She was a James Kent Scholar while at Columbia Law School, where she also won the Pauline Berman Heller Prize and the James A. Elkins Prize for Constitutional Law.Support the showTo learn more about the show, contact our hosts, or recommend future guests, click on the links below: Website: https://www.faithfulpoliticspodcast.com/ Faithful Host: Josh@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Political Host: Will@faithfulpoliticspodcast.com Twitter: @FaithfulPolitik Instagram: faithful_politics Facebook: FaithfulPoliticsPodcast LinkedIn: faithfulpolitics

The National Constitution Center, in partnership with a coalition of leading free speech organizations, convened a National First Amendment Summit on September 13, 2023, to discuss the increasing threats to freedom of expression and to celebrate the opening of the Center's new First Amendment gallery. The third panel of the event, “The First Amendment on Campus and Online,” examined the increasing conflicts involving free speech on campuses and online in an age of social media, artificial intelligence, and other new technologies. Speakers included Will Creeley, legal director at FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression; Jeannie Suk Gersen, professor at Harvard Law School; and Nadine Strossen, emerita professor at New York Law School and former ACLU president. The program was moderated by Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center.   Resources:  Will Creeley and Geoffrey R. Stone, Restoring Free Speech on Campus, The Washington Post (Sept. 25, 2015)    Jeannie Suk Gersen, What If Trigger Warnings Don't Work?, The New Yorker (Sept. 28, 2021)  Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Trouble With Teaching Rape Law, The New Yorker (Dec. 15, 2014)  Jeannie Suk Gersen, Shutting Down Conversations About Rape at Harvard Law, The New Yorker (Dec 11, 2015)   Jeannie Suk Gersen, The Socratic Method in the Age of Trauma, Harvard Law Review ( 2017)  Nadine Strossen, Free Speech: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oct. 2023)   Nadine Strossen, Hate: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018)    Questions or comments about the show? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.  Continue today's conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr.  Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. You can find transcripts for each episode on the podcast pages in our Media Library.

Today on Killer Women, our guest is Angie Kim. Angie moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics' Award, and the Pinckley Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the Today show. Angie Kim lives in northern Virginia with her family. Killer Women is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #angiekim #happinessfalls

Today on Killer Women, our guest is Angie Kim. Angie moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics' Award, and the Pinckley Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the Today show. Angie Kim lives in northern Virginia with her family. Killer Women is copyrighted by Authors on the Air Global Radio Network #podcast #author #interview #authors #KillerWomen #KillerWomenPodcast #authorsontheair #podcast #podcaster #killerwomen #killerwomenpodcast #authors #authorsofig #authorsofinstagram #authorinterview #writingcommunity #authorsontheair #suspensebooks #authorssupportingauthors #thrillerbooks #suspense #wip #writers #writersinspiration #books #bookrecommendations #bookaddict #bookaddicted #bookaddiction #bibliophile #read #amreading #lovetoread #daniellegirard #daniellegirardbooks #angiekim #happinessfalls

Jason and Brett talk to Angie Kim (Happiness Falls) about the importance of managing expectations, maintaining your happiness baseline, and of all things, their favorite musicals. Warning: This episode may or may not include a sing-along. Okay, it definitely does.As always, Gays Reading is spoiler-free, so you can listen whether you've read the book or not!Angie Kim moved as a preteen from Seoul, South Korea, to the suburbs of Baltimore. After graduating from Interlochen Arts Academy, she studied philosophy at Stanford University and attended Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Her debut novel, Miracle Creek, won the Edgar Award, the ITW Thriller Award, the Strand Critics' Award, and the Pinckley Prize and was named one of the best books of the year by Time, The Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and the Today show. Angie Kim lives in northern Virginia with her family. @angiekimaskLearn more about Angelman Syndrome HERE. **BOOKS!** Check out the list of books discussed on each episode on our Bookshop page:https://bookshop.org/shop/gaysreading | By purchasing books through this Bookshop link, you can support both Gays Reading and an independent bookstore of your choice!Join our Patreon for exclusive bonus content! Purchase your Gays Reading podcast Merch! Follow us on Instagram @gaysreading | @bretts.book.stack | @jasonblitmanWhat are you reading? Send us an email or a voice memo at gaysreading@gmail.com

Carynn Rudolph is a disabled Marine Corps veteran who has a fascinating set of broad experiences that, at first glance, might seem paradoxical. On the one hand, she is a strong proponent of keeping guns available for all without restrictions as to type, size, or capacity. She also is a strong advocate and heavily involved with the concept of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, JEDI. During our discussion, Carynn will discuss how and why she feels that her beliefs and work in both of the above areas are not diametrically opposed. We do get to spend some time talking about guns, gun control, and how she feels we can address the problems we face and read about all too often today. Today she works as a program manager at a youth center in Colorado. I love listening to her talk about how she is helping today's youth discover and learn how they can become more responsible in their lives and how they learn how to take responsibility for their actions. Make no mistake, Caryn has a deep ethical values concerning right and wrong. I believe you will find our discussion intriguing and quite informative. I personally learned a lot and I hope you will as well. About the Guest: Carynn Rudolph, a disabled Marine Corps veteran and MST survivor, is a passionate advocate for community service and empowerment. As a pastor for nine years, she founded the Urban Youth Initiative in 2016 to support urban youth pastors and leaders in mental health crises. Carynn's commitment to service extends to correctional work and founding Goliath Tactical Firearms Training in 2019. She works with women who have experienced trauma and is a program manager at a youth homeless shelter in Colorado. Carynn is a mother of two, wife to Tara, and enjoys reading and gardening. Ways to connect with Carynn: Goliath Tactical Firearms Training Website: www.gttactical.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoliathTacticalColorado?mibextid=LQQJ4d Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/GoliathTacticalColorado?mibextid=LQQJ4d TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@goliathtacticaltraining?_t=8bUIJssr49q&_r=1 About the Host: Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog. Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards. https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/ accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/ https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/ Thanks for listening! Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page. Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a comment in the section below! Subscribe to the podcast If you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. You can also subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Leave us an Apple Podcasts review Ratings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on Apple Podcasts, which exposes our show to more awesome listeners like you. If you have a minute, please leave an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Transcription Notes Michael Hingson ** 00:00 Access Cast and accessiBe Initiative presents Unstoppable Mindset. The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i  capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:20 Well, hi, this is Mike Hingson, and once again, welcome to an episode of unstoppable mindset. Today, we get to interview someone that I got a chance to know fairly recently, Carynn Rudolph, and she is a a disabled, military and Marine Corps specifically veteran, she's got a lot of different kinds of experiences. And now she's among other things working to help a home for youth in Colorado, we're gonna get to all that I don't want to give much away. And that's what makes it tough to describe because if I start talking more, she won't have anything to say. And we don't want that. So, Carynn , welcome to unstoppable mindset. How are you?   Carynn Rudolph ** 02:04 I'm doing well. Thank you so much for having me today.   Michael Hingson ** 02:08 Well, a pleasure. And we're really glad you're here. And I hope people will enjoy what you have to say. And I'm sure they will. And we'll kind of make it as fun as we can make it. And as always, it's it's always fun to ask people to talk a little bit at first of all, what it was like growing up what what, what was Carynn, the younger person like and tell us about your growing up experiences and all that.   Carynn Rudolph ** 02:33 Sure. Um, well, my name is Carynn Rudolph. I am originally from Savannah, Georgia. I grew up in Colorado, Aurora, Colorado. My dad was in the Army is what kind of brought us to Colorado traveled back and forth as a kid between Colorado and Georgia. Every summer we spent our summers in Georgia and with my like my grandparents, I have a twin brother and a little sister. Yeah, I I lived, you know, normal, normal, young person life, I suppose. And went off join the military kind of fall within my father my grandfather's footsteps. I when I turned 18, I was going to join the army and went off to the Marine Corps. Instead, they they convinced me because I was able to do a couple of pull ups. They told me that I was hardcore. And that was that was what allowed me on the Marine Corps versus in the army.   Michael Hingson ** 03:36 So they don't do pull ups in the army. Is that what you're saying? I don't know.   Carynn Rudolph ** 03:39 The that was all that it took 17 year olds to convince 17 year old Kirinda to go to the Marine Corps. So army though so   Michael Hingson ** 03:49 good for you. How long were you in the Marine Corps?   Carynn Rudolph ** 03:53 I did four years on active duty and got got out in 2012.   Michael Hingson ** 03:58 Wow. And what did you do after that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 04:02 I did a number of different things. So I had a daughter shortly after I got out of the military got married and all that stuff went to school. I pastored for about nine years after I got out of the military. And I started a nonprofit organization in 2016, called the urban youth initiative that was focused on helping urban youth pastors specifically. Like by equipping them with the skills and the ability to be able to support a young person who expressed that they were experiencing like suicidal ideation. And then I became a correctional officer. I did that for about four years and now I work as a program manager at a youth homeless shelter.   Michael Hingson ** 04:55 I have some friends who retired from being In the federal correction officer business, she was a pastor. But they both had been involved in doing correctional officer kinds of things. We knew them in New Jersey. They've retired out of Florida, but it was really fascinating to talk with them, and certainly not a position I envy a whole lot.   Carynn Rudolph ** 05:20 Yeah, I always tell people, people think I'm like crazy when I say this, but that was one of the best jobs I ever had. I worked with us specifically in like a secured facility. But it was a lot of fun. You get to build really cool relationships with young people and help them not, like make the same mistakes that got them landed there, you know, hopefully anyway, but just by having those those relationships and running groups and things like that, so   Michael Hingson ** 05:53 yeah, well, really, you were pretty successful at it. And people didn't go back to what they were doing before.   Carynn Rudolph ** 05:57 I hope so. I definitely hope so. I haven't run into anybody that I worked closely with yet. But yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 06:06 Did you do that in Colorado?   Carynn Rudolph ** 06:08 I did. After I got out of the military. I came back to Colorado. That's where I met my, my ex husband. And we had a couple of kids and all that sort of stuff. So no, it's Tara. So Tara is my wife. Now. There's a whole story behind all that. But yeah, Tara is my wife. I met her during COVID after I had gotten my divorce from my ex husband and all that after leaving the church.   Michael Hingson ** 06:41 So what, what got you into pastoring? After leaving the Marine Corps? What What made you decide to go that route, as opposed to going to school or any number of other things that you could have done?   Carynn Rudolph ** 06:54 It's a great question. I did go to school. As I was like, kind of by vocational I went to school and pastored. But I took that route, because when I was on active duty, I experienced I went through a sexual assault incident when I was on active duty. And you know, I started going to church after that. And that was something that really helped me as I like navigated that, like trauma experience and all that. And, yeah, so I started getting involved in church more and stuff like that. I was like, I think this is something I really want to do. And started working in ministry. After that.   Michael Hingson ** 07:44 Did, did the powers that be if you will handle the sexual assault at all reasonably well, or was it just like a lot of things that we hear kind of covered up? Or? It was   Carynn Rudolph ** 07:57 one of the those kinds of cover up? That was, you know, yeah, it was it wasn't? They didn't handle it that well. And I think that since my discharge, since I got out of the military, they have really done a lot to recognize that, like military sexual trauma is something that a lot of females, female veterans, specifically experience, not just female veterans, but you know, female veterans, a lot of them tend to experience that. And so I think that the ratio is like one in five, or the statistic is like one in five women who serve will experience some form of military sexual trauma in their time in service.   Michael Hingson ** 08:43 Yeah, it's, it's so unfortunate that there is so much of that that goes on, guys thinks that they're so tough. And the reality is, it's, I think, more a sign of weakness, but nevertheless, they think they can take things out on people and that's too bad. Deed indeed. Well, so did you get a college degree than when you got out? And we're doing that while pastoring?   Carynn Rudolph ** 09:06 Yes, yeah, it took some time I pursued higher education seeking, like for psychology with an emphasis on substance use and addiction. And that was kind of what drove my passion to like work with with youth, like learning about psychology and wanted to be able to help support people who are experiencing different degrees of a mental health crisis so   Michael Hingson ** 09:33 well, but why youth as opposed to working with older people? Do you think that you could, did you feel you could have a greater influence if you're working with younger people or just kind of was your, your sort of style?   Carynn Rudolph ** 09:47 I think that it's a little bit of both. I think that part of it is that I want to be able to make a difference before before folks get kind of stuck in their ways. As as young adults as adults, and I like to think that I'm a pretty cool person. So that's why I've stuck around working with young people for as long as I have.   Michael Hingson ** 10:16 My wife was a teacher. And she always said that she loved the younger grades like third grade, because by the time kids were in the fifth and sixth grade, they were starting to get more set in ways and they were harder to really have as much of an influence on so I can imagine that the older kids got when you got them in those teenagers. And then if you saw people later on in life, you have exactly what you said. They're very set in their ways, and they're not going to be very willing to change.   Carynn Rudolph ** 10:46 Absolutely, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 10:48 Well, so did you pastor for a church, how to how did all that work out? Or how did you get started in that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 10:56 Yep, I pastored. I started working in church I went through we had a Bible college at the church that I, when I moved back to Colorado, I joined this ministry called The Rock Church of Denver, and they had a Bible college. So I started attending the Bible college while I was there, and went through their ordination program. It was a three year program, got I got ordained and was serving as a youth pastor serve as youth minister, I got licensed through them after about a year and then the next two years, just worked as youth minister and then got ordained as a pastor serve as their youth pastor, and then did some associate pastor duties as well. So did like youth ministry and worked with their like evangelism department and immediate sound department and things like that.   Michael Hingson ** 11:55 It sounds like from what you said a little while ago that you kind of were drawn more to God after the whole sexual assault incident? Yes, that's correct. And there's a lot of value in doing that. And of course, you know, God is a part of all of our lives and in so many ways, so. You have a relationship that still goes today, I trust? Yes, yeah. But what got you to get out of being a pastor after nine years,   Carynn Rudolph ** 12:25 wow, I went through kind of a deconstruction journey. deconstruction slash, like a reconstruction journey, if you will, where I really started to evaluate certain, like, parts of the Bible that, that I couldn't reconcile. One of those verses was from Deuteronomy, chapter 22, verses 28 and 29. That said, that if a man finds a, like a virgin, and he rapes her, you can marry her. And I just couldn't reconcile that. And so it took some time. And, you know, I was like, I also was going through my divorce, took some time backed away, and, you know, really kind of reevaluated my own personal values and where, where the Scripture stood with me and all that sort of stuff. And yeah, that that is that as I went through that deconstruction process, I just, I realized that I was at a place where I was really learning a lot more. And I didn't feel like I had the capacity to lead people as effectively as I would have wanted to. Or believe was necessary for you know, a person in a ministry position so I stepped away   Michael Hingson ** 13:50 stepped away. Well, you the I hear what you're saying. What's what's really a challenge, of course, is that the Old Testament is in so many ways so different than the New Testament. And Jesus brings a whole different point of view or standpoint to a lot of it, but I hear what you're saying with, with justification logical or not. So if you rape a woman and a virgin, you can marry her, you know?   Carynn Rudolph ** 14:23 Yeah, I mean, that was just one piece of Yeah. You know, I think that you know, Paul's admonishment to the church and, you know, slaves obey your master and like, think about how, like, the Bible was weaponized against marginalized folks. Yeah. I just, I didn't it didn't sit right with me. And so I still believe in God, I still have a relationship with God. And I think that through some work, and some time, I've been able to maintain that relationship. And that that honor for who? The person of Jesus just, you know, with a different respect and value for the Bible.   Michael Hingson ** 15:11 Yeah, well, and Bible was written by people and absorbed. So there's there's a, there are a lot of challenges and you know, it's no different for the Bible than the Koran or anything else there are. There are a lot of paradoxes. And it's it's unfortunate, and sometimes people greatly misuse them as well. Absolutely. I agree, which is never any fun. But anyway, so you got a degree and you you were in the Ministry for a while and all that. One of the things that I know you talk a lot about, is this whole concept of justice, equity, diversity and inclusion Jedi. You don't know the power of the light side of the forest. I'm not gonna go with Vader. But anyway, tell me more about Jedi. And what got you into doing, talking about that or being involved with that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 16:03 Absolutely. I think there were a number of different things that really got me into that work. When I was on active duty in the military, I experienced some racism and things like that. And as a result of the things that I experienced, while on active duty, I, I wanted to find ways to ensure that I could support people who had experienced the same things that I did. That's part of the reason why I pursued a degree in psychology, right. And I just got really hungry to learn more and more about like the justice, equity, diversity and inclusion, kind of principles. And that tied into some of the other work that I do. I'm also a firearms instructor and I own a business as a as a gun instructor. And I learned a lot about like how even certain parts of our Constitution were weaponized against black folks and indigenous folks, and how that translates to today. The work that I do now, I'll go back even to the work that I was doing in corrections, looking at how black and brown people are disproportionately represented. And the justice system was something that, you know, I wanted to learn more about and, you know, find ways that we can reconcile, like the the justice system, to make it more equitable. The child welfare system, I work with young people, I sit on a board for the state of Colorado, child welfare, equity, diversity inclusion, to evaluate the child welfare system in the state of Colorado, and then the work that I do for the homeless shelter where I work. We, you know, I look at the, you know, how black and brown youth specifically because I work with young people are over represented in our programs, and like, evaluating how we can better support and serve those folks. Does that kind of answer your question? So, yeah.   Michael Hingson ** 18:39 And so you you continue to do it? And have you ever thought of, also, if you're going to talk about the system and so on studying the law and doing anything in the law world?   Carynn Rudolph ** 18:51 Absolutely. Absolutely. I studied the law quite a bit. You know, especially in the work that I do, both at together, which homelesses organization that I work for, but then also for Goliath tactical firearms training, which is my business. There's so there's so much that we do there. I would say like, for the firearms industry, specifically, I look at how red flag laws or how magazine capacity limits have disproportionately affected black folks. And anytime there are opportunities to testify. I tried to seek out the opportunity to do just that. This past Wednesday, as a matter of fact, Colorado had a, an assault weapons ban bill that they were, you know, we had had an opportunity to testify was able to give a testimony. And, you know, present how those the gun laws that they have proposed would have disproportionately affected black and brown folks. or, you know, prevented folks who are disabled from being able to gain access to the tools that they need to be able to protect and defend themselves and things like that. So it was really good opportunity.   Michael Hingson ** 20:12 Tell me more about that when you're talking about assault weapons and so on. So are you not in favor of banning assault weapons in any way? Or what kind of is your stance on that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 20:22 Yeah, so I am not in favor. No. And the reason for that is because first and foremost, I, I, when I presented this on Wednesday, one of the things that I brought up was that that kind of legislation would create increased surveillance and lower income and bipoc communities. First and foremost, there's, there's statistics from like the Harvard Law Review, that have demonstrated that when people went when there were laws passed about, like magazine capacity limits, for example, it created increased surveillance in black communities, and gave law enforcement officers free rein to be able to go and question black folks. More, and then by black folks were arrested more, and it you know, and I'm a gun person. So I know that we aren't the only ones who are carrying around high capacity magazines, right. You know, so I think that it would create increased surveillance in bipod communities, number one, and then I believe that everyone should have equal fair access to the tools that they need to be able to protect and defend themselves however they see fit. Because being able to protect yourself as a human, fundamental human right, pistols can be really hard for folks who have pistols can be really hard for folks who have like, arthritis, or like carpal tunnel and other sort of pologize the word escapes me right now. But like folks who have a hard time being able to, like rack slides back, or manage recoil and things like that. And what what people are calling an assault rifle would be better is really an ArmaLite rifle, those would be easier for a person to manage the who's like in a wheelchair, for example, they would be able to better manage that recoil, because it's absorbed, like the shock is being absorbed and bodies and things like that. So, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 22:48 but what's the solution? You know, I, I, I hear people saying, well, we got to really deal with the people who have mental illness. Well, it's not just about that. And I think that the other part of the discussion has to be not just why we shouldn't ban assault weapons, and I think that's a topic to discuss, but, but more important, what's the real solution to address the issues? Because it seems like, really, the genie has come out of the lamp or the cat's come out of the bag. And it's very difficult to get any control over any of this. And we're seeing an increasing number of people. And yes, a lot of them are certainly minorities, but a lot of people who are being shot and killed, because to a large degree of the so called assault weapons and some of the higher end weapons that people deal with, what's our solution to that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 23:50 Well, I think so. That's, that's a lot to unpack in that question.   Michael Hingson ** 23:59 But I know it's a, it is a complex issue. I know.   Carynn Rudolph ** 24:03 It's a complex issue, for sure. I would say first and foremost, we should look at the poverty rates in America. First and foremost, we need to address the root cause because addressing a tool is not going to get rid of the problem, especially in a country like America, where we have so much access to illegal guns, illegal weapons that are being used to commit crimes on a regular basis. So I think that being able to address root causes, okay, poverty, folks not having equal fair access to health care, or behavioral health services. I think that in order to address poverty, right, like I actually posted a tic tac video about this today. And someone had asked that exact question. They They compared America to Switzerland and said, well, Switzerland has like gun registrations, you know, blah, blah, America, the median income for an American citizen is around $31,000. In a place like Switzerland or other developed nations, it's anywhere from like, $7,000 up, okay? People are going to do what they feel is necessary to be able to provide for their families and for themselves. People need equal access to food, people need access to medicine to health care, they need access to behavioral health services, if we can find ways to increase funding, and I have ideas about ways that we can do that, we were to find ways to increase funding and access for folks to be able to get health care, first and foremost, okay, universal health care. I'm one of those weird people that believes that we should have universal health care. Okay. I'm not I'm not saying it's a weird thing. I'm saying like, I believe we need to have universal health care. I think that, you know, there needs to be there needs to be more funding, or access to behavioral health or social service programs in America. You know, I worked for the youth homelessness organization, like I mentioned, and we, we have, like, back, I went to DC, and in March, I was asking for the government to fund the runaway homeless youth services act, so that we can continue to provide services, and they were like, I don't know, you know, our legislators Where's and so, you know, providing funding for programs like that, to address the root causes that contribute to gun violence would be great. I've heard folks say things like, well, single, single parent, home groups also have like higher rates of gun violence and things like that I don't have the data. I'm not looked into that at home. But being able to address the mental health care, or the mental health problems that folks might deal with, as a result of coming from a single parent home to me would suffice. So yeah, addressing those big items, would be how I would attack the beast called gun violence.   Michael Hingson ** 27:30 I guess my my thought would be that some of that may help. But I still haven't really seen the connection, that, that even if we provided a higher mean income for people, and even if we provide health care, and so on, there are some other issues like the whole racial issue. So many times, black people are shot by white people. And it's oftentimes white people who have at least apparently a better income. And now, we've seen in fairly recent times, some people who have shot other people who got in the wrong car or a basketball that went into somebody else's yard. And so the bottom line is that it has become so indiscriminate that it seems to me, there is still got to be more to it than that. And there has to be some issue or some way to address the gun wielders, a little bit in the process, because it can't all be put at the feet of a lack of income and other things. And I agree that that there is a good amount of that. But I think there is more to it than that. And that B has become so easy. And our judicial system has not addressed some of the issues with some of the people who have shot other people. And they haven't done it very well. It would seem to me at least.   Carynn Rudolph ** 29:00 I agree with that. We saw the young man just this last week, who was shot in the head by a person he went to knock on this man's door. He thought his younger siblings were there. And he was shot in the head. Fortunately, he hasn't passed away. No, he's surviving, surviving, which is very fortunate. I would say that I would encourage I'm the type of instructor I offer a ton of free classes. I would encourage other like instructors to offer those kinds of services as well. Doesn't have to be like all of your classes. All your classes don't have to be free, but you can create like a tiered system to ensure that we're producing well trained and responsible gun owners in America, you know, maybe it's some thing where we create some sort of legislation that folks need to complete some sort of a training. But again, if they if we create legislation that says like, you've got to complete this training, I think that it needs to be accessible, even for lower income folks, if that's something that they're interested in, we don't want to. Yeah, we?   Michael Hingson ** 30:21 Absolutely, if you're gonna do something, it has to be available and relevant to all, no question about that, for sure.   Carynn Rudolph ** 30:28 And maybe there's like, maybe there are government offices, or like police officers who offer free classes and doesn't have to fall on instructors like myself, who offer to offer those free classes. Again, I offer a ton of free class, I teach at least one free concealed carry class among I have a free developing a defensive mindset workshop that I offer all sorts of different things. Everybody doesn't have to be like me, but it shouldn't be accessible.   Michael Hingson ** 31:00 Yeah. And I think there's, there's no question that that makes a lot of sense, and that it needs to be but I think that somehow, it's very difficult to legislate responsibility and people, and I still kind of think that, we're going to have to look at some other options to deal with some of the indiscriminate shootings and, and in general, misbehaviors of people in this country, we think that basically, we have the freedom to do whatever we want, and too many people deal with that and go ahead and do it. And that creates challenges too. Absolutely.   Carynn Rudolph ** 31:45 Yeah, I'm above the fold just coming from corrections. I am, I do believe that if a person wants to commit a crime, they're going to do it regardless. But I do. I mean, coming from the jail, like I saw so many young people who would seek out opportunities just to victimize other people. I don't think we should just do away with guns at all. You know,   Michael Hingson ** 32:13 and I would not suggest that either I'm, I'm not convinced yet that high capacity. Firearms, add value to our ability to protect and I heard what you said about pap, people in wheelchairs can't handle particular kinds of guns and so on. But I think we need to look at ways of making firearms available. But I think that we also do need to look at the realities of how many things are, are being done by high end high caliber, not high caliber, but high end high capacity, rapid fire weapons, that aren't really adding value in society to do it.   Carynn Rudolph ** 33:00 So they aren't rapid fire will say, Well, no, they, they will, unless somebody does sort of like create it has a modification of some sort. They fire one round at a time. And I do want to just clarify, I didn't if I if I misspoke and said that I think that folks in wheelchairs can't handle a handgun.   Michael Hingson ** 33:23 No, I wasn't saying that. You were saying that I but I appreciate what you were saying.   Carynn Rudolph ** 33:27 Okay, yeah, I just I want to make it as accessible as possible. I think that however folks into it, maybe it's at the time, maybe it's just pepper spray, maybe it's a crossbow, you know, however a person determines that they believe they need to protect themselves. I think we should all have equal and fair access to whatever it was we determined. Sure, necessary for ourselves, we need that autonomy.   Michael Hingson ** 33:50 What prompted you initially while you're in your organization is what Goliath tactical firearms training?   Carynn Rudolph ** 33:59 Yes, that is correct.   Michael Hingson ** 34:00 And what prompted you to start it I mean, I appreciate your beliefs and so on, but did something specific happened that caused you to want to have this organization and really teach people?   Carynn Rudolph ** 34:13 So I, like I mentioned I, I was sexually assaulted when I was on active duty. I have been in a relationship that was not necessarily abusive, but we like they they put their hand hands on me when I was younger. I was still in the military when this happened as well. After I got out of the military, I was exposed to a number of different things like I saw. I've seen witness people have their purses snatched. I have had someone try and carjack me. I've had a situation when I was pregnant with my youngest daughter where somebody I was pulling into my parking spot at home And a guy comes downstairs and starts banging on my car hood. And he's banging on my window, I had to call my my ex husband and he came to the window and helped me out, you know, it's a get the guy to go away. But all those sorts of instances that I experienced, I knew that I wasn't the only person in the world. And definitely not the only woman who had experienced that kind of those kinds of situations, I've experienced a lot of different things. And so being able to equip other women and men, individuals, with the tools to be able to protect and defend themselves has been something that was just something that like I wanted to do, I wanted to make sure other people felt like they could adequately defend themselves, if they were ever faced with the same kinds of things that I was. And so I teach firearms safety, I also teach hand hand combat, so self defense that way, and I also teach first aid.   Michael Hingson ** 36:04 So So do you operate a training school? Or do you also sell firearms? Or are you primarily in training?   Carynn Rudolph ** 36:12 I'm in training only. I don't want to sell firearms. I thought about it at one point, but I, I don't want to get into any of that sort of stuff. I just want to do the training stuff. That's all I've got the capacity for right now.   Michael Hingson ** 36:26 Well, in my opinion, that's the most important thing that really needs to be done. And I really wish more people would take advantage of truly learning what it's all about. We, we oftentimes things think we know things that we don't know, or we don't know what we don't know. And that can be a real challenge to so how long have you been training?   Carynn Rudolph ** 36:54 Um, so I have been glide tack fire training has been in business since late 2019. My, I used to teach with my ex husband as well, under Bravo ops concealment, so I used to do that. And then I wanted to do it on my own and started that in 2019. After we split, so   Michael Hingson ** 37:25 keeps you busy.   Carynn Rudolph ** 37:26 It does, it does something that I enjoy quite a bit. And I he sells firearms, so I send all my people who want to buy guns to him. And then he says to the people who want to take classes to me, so we've got a pretty good partnership still.   Michael Hingson ** 37:41 Well as a Marine Corps veteran, and you know, certainly an MST survivor, and so on. How do you use your Jedi training, if you will. And again, for those who may not have picked up on it Jedi is wants you to find it again.   Carynn Rudolph ** 38:01 It is justice, equity, diversity and inclusion,   Michael Hingson ** 38:04 right just to make sure we say that, right? So how do you use your experiences to really inform people and help empower them.   Carynn Rudolph ** 38:14 Um, I share a lot of stories, not necessarily about like the MST stuff in my classes, but I share a lot of stories with folks. And I provide free classes to women who have experienced like domestic violence or sexual assault, like Free Self Defense courses to those to folks who have experienced that. Yeah, I try to provide as much education as possible about how gun control legislation has been historically used weaponized against black folks, indigenous folks, and other people of color. I provide a lot of training on like how folks can get involved in advocacy work in their communities, and things like that. Yeah, so those are the big ways that I do that. And I have some more information on my website about like, ways that we do that. In Depth, I offer a course called the Fair fire workshop as well, that really integrates Jedi principles into the firearms training that we do.   Michael Hingson ** 39:36 Have. So can you elaborate on that a   Carynn Rudolph ** 39:38 little? Yeah. So we've talked about ways that. Again, my concealed carry law has been used to disproportionately affect black and brown folks and how folks can get involved in advocacy work in their communities, and how we can create collaborate To give solutions to get like that goal of that goal of ending gun violence together on both sides of the aisle. So the goal is to have folks who are not super familiar with firearms and stuff like that to come out and take that course, as well. So   Michael Hingson ** 40:24 if I were to make an observation about the whole issue of gun violence, gun control and everything else, I think my chief observation would be it's been way too politicized.   Carynn Rudolph ** 40:35 Yeah, I agree.   Michael Hingson ** 40:37 And so we're not dealing with any of the real issues. And it is just become so politicized on on all sides that it makes it really difficult to have a discussion, it's sort of the nature of what seems to be going on in, in the world, or at least in the US, and probably elsewhere, as well. But that we are, we're getting away from being able to have conversations and learning, which is too bad.   Carynn Rudolph ** 41:04 It really is too bad. And I think that that, you know, I wish that more folks would be open to listen and learn. And that's really one of the goals of that workshop is to get folks from all backgrounds to like to get them to the table so that we can all participate in and contribute to this conversation about ending this epidemic of gun violence. But then also to provide education and resources so that people can equip or excuse me protect and defend themselves.   Michael Hingson ** 41:43 Yeah. Tell me a little bit more, if you would, about the urban youth initiative that you're working on a mental health relating to that, and so on, because mental health is, of course, a buzzword that we hear a lot. And but at the same time, there is a need for really addressing issues of mental health. But tell me more about the European Youth Initiative. Let's go from there.   Carynn Rudolph ** 42:03 Absolutely. That started in 2016. So shortly after I had had my youngest daughter, I was still working in ministry. And I saw several youth, I don't want to say a lot of us, but I had several young people who were involved in my ministry Come Come to me who had been experiencing mental health crises, young people who ran away from home on young people who would report it to me that they, you know, maybe had experienced abuse and things like that. And what I found was that there was not a lot of training from my, like Bible College around like the pastoral care piece that went into supporting people who were experiencing mental health crisis. And so I built a course, in a small workbook called Suicide Prevention for the urban youth worker, and shared that with a ton of youth pastors across the nation and provided training and information and resources to help people who maybe weren't super familiar with or didn't have the tools in their tool belts who handle like crisis de escalation, in that capacity. I helped help them like navigate that. Pastors from all over all over America, utilize that workbook, I shared it with quite a few folks after or in 2020, during COVID, that that like disbanded just because we It wasn't sustainable anymore. But the workbook is still available. And I still share that, that resource in some of the youth pastor and church communications groups that I'm a part of, on social media and stuff so.   Michael Hingson ** 44:08 So is that workbook something that's on your website that people can access?   Carynn Rudolph ** 44:14 Um, yes, it's still on the urban youth ministry. website. I believe I have got to double check. I've got to double check on that.   Michael Hingson ** 44:24 So clearly, je di and firearms training to a lot of people would probably seem like two diametrically opposed concepts. How do you explain that to most people? I think we've talked about that some, but just to sort of sum it up or maybe delve into it a little bit more.   Carynn Rudolph ** 44:44 Absolutely. So what a lot of folks don't like there's not a lot of education around like, the history that, like the history of gun control legislation, the history of the Second Amendment. And a lot of di work, at least the work that I've been involved in, has been learning about the history behind these laws, how they came to be. And then strategically created ways to eliminate the barriers that folks might experience while trying to gain access to certain resources. And so I have, I think that those two intersect, because because a lot of folks don't know the history behind, again, the history behind the Second Amendment and gun control legislation, and so being able to provide that history, but then also share information about how that affects folks today. And then creating strategic solutions to be able to resolve those issues is how those two kind of intersects those two things marry.   Michael Hingson ** 46:06 You know, something I'm just thinking about, is that if you look at the Second Amendment, it basically says that people need to have the right to bear arms to sustain a militia and protect themselves. But then you also got people who would say, but do we really need the kinds of today at least, guns that tend to be more and more appearing in our world in order to fulfill the the the provisions of in the commitment of the Second Amendment? Or is there? Is there some limit to all of that? How do you answer that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 46:50 The Great question, there is gentleman, his name is Tom Gibbons. And he did just a ton of like resource research and stuff like that, if I'm not mistaken, he worked for the FBI, please don't quote me on that. But Tom Givens did a ton of resource research and things like that as data is available, you can find books, things like that. That helps to identify like he studied gun guns, like, like use of force incidents, gun laws, and things like that. One of the things that he found was that on average, it takes 4.5 shots to successfully stop a threat. And so having access to a semi automatic firearm, or you know, sometimes that's more than 4.5 shots, sometimes a little bit less. Having access to a firearm that can, that has the capacity to carry more than four rounds is really important. But then also, having access to a firearm that is easier to manage than a, like a revolver. Like I have some mild dexterity issues from the military. With my my right hand, which would be my dominant hand when shooting, and it makes it really challenging for me to be able to handle a revolver. I don't like shooting revolvers, they're really hard for me to grip with my hand and things like that. Some folks like them, but revolvers are not super easy for me to shoot. And those if we were to get rid of like awesome automatic weapons altogether, we would get rid of everything but a revolver basically. And so it would be really challenging. I'd say for some folks who do have dexterity issues like like myself, to be able to use the tools that they need to to be able to successfully eliminate a threat. Yeah, I apologize. I don't know where I was going with that. Well,   Michael Hingson ** 49:05 but again, are there are there limits? Again, it's still the issue of how do you reconcile the whole issue of what the Second Amendment says it was for at least as I'm assuming that I'm reading it reasonably correctly, with the pleura for proliferation of more and more high capacity and other kinds of enhancements to guns without having any kind of limit at all on what we what we make available to people? It just seems like there. We know that a lot of people don't tend to be very responsible. So is there some limit? Is there some process or governor that we can provide on all of that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 49:52 That's a very subjective statement to say that not Yeah, that one is super responsible. But I would say that Um, high capacity magazines, folks should have access to whatever capacity magazine, they determined to be necessary just because there could be multiple threats or whatever the case is, maybe it takes more than five shots. That's what I was getting at is it sometimes it takes more than five shots to eliminate a threat, or to have a threat stop. And so I think that, you know, taking into consideration the question you asked about, like the history of it, and, you know, looking at like all the well regulated militia, etc. I think that, we also have to consider that historically speaking, black folks, we're not allowed to possess guns, because we were told that we weren't citizens, right. And so the language and that can be really elusive. But yeah, at any rate, I think that, you know, high capacity, folks should have access to whatever capacity to be necessary,   Michael Hingson ** 51:01 it can be elusive. And I do appreciate that. But again, what we're also seeing are a lot of times where people are being shot where there isn't a threat. And how do we deal with that? Um, do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, can   Carynn Rudolph ** 51:23 you give me an example?   Michael Hingson ** 51:24 Well, okay, I mean, the ones that we talked about the father and daughter who were shot, just because they went to get a basketball, or the young man, the 16 year old who went to a house, who, just looking for relatives, and it happened to be the wrong house, but without any questions. The the person in the house open fire, or any number of other examples where we're or any of the school shootings, where people have gone into schools, and they've opened fire, and there have been a significant number of those. But there wasn't a threat in any way, or the guy who, what, two weeks ago in Memphis went into a bank conference room, because apparently, he heard he was going to be fired. And so he killed a number of people and so on.   Carynn Rudolph ** 52:19 All those instances that you mentioned, was specifically thinking about the ones of the lot of school shootings, school shootings, and the gentleman in Memphis, who went into the into his job, shot the place up place like that those places are the those folks targeted those places, because they knew that those people would be unarmed. Now,   Michael Hingson ** 52:44 polling point exactly. How do we deal with a lot of that, though, that because it's an increasing number, and that's the issue is that the bottom line is there, there was no threat there. Right? And so how do you reconcile that kind of thing with the whole issue of a discussion of Second Amendment rights just for anyone to be able to have any gun and so on?   Carynn Rudolph ** 53:06 I think that we there, it's twofold because to address the, like, school shootings and the general like people going into, like, targeting their workplaces and things like that, is one thing. But then like the issue of like, people who were scared scared gun owners just like taking fire on people like the 86 year old guy who shot the kid, the 16 year old kid last week. Like though that's a separate to me that when you deal with that a different way, right, by providing education and then tearing down stigma, addressing racism, addressing unconscious biases that folks might have, and things like that providing education is how you would deal with that issue on that side with folks who are just walking around scared with firearms. On the side of where people are targeting people because they know that they are unarmed school shooting specifically. We'll start there. I think that I'm a I'm a proponent proponent of having SROs in schools. The schools that I went to that I grew up in, all of them had locked exterior doors, like the main egress doors, were all all secured. And we had SROs on site on campus   Michael Hingson ** 54:41 SRO, a security resource officer, yes, school officers security   Carynn Rudolph ** 54:45 resource officer. We had we had them on campus. So ensuring that we have like we're protecting folks in that regard, which is one Same, right? If a person, my I have a twin brother, like I mentioned earlier, he's a teacher. He's an Army veteran, he's a teacher, my mom was an educator for 26 years. And I have a little sister who's also a teacher. So we work with kids a lot in my family. But that said, my mom and my brothers specifically have expressed interest in being able to have that ability to protect and defend themselves, in case they're posed with a direct threat to their lives. So maybe arming teachers who would be interested in being able to protect carry on site, you know. And same thing in workplaces, I actually dealt with a disgruntled employee just earlier this year, and he was making threats to come back and harm me. And with that, like, you know, people were like, are you going to carry your gun? They, you know, and asking those kinds of questions. And so I would say, like, if a person, you know, making sure that people feel like they have the right to carry, if they can, you know, doing away with with gun gun free zones, could be an effective solution.   Michael Hingson ** 56:17 Yeah, I, I mentioned, my friends earlier, they were federal corrections or parole officers. And one of the things they said, was that at night, both of them sleep with their pieces under their pillows. They said, they have to do that, because they never know. Yeah, I believe they're very responsible people, however, but I do appreciate that they have to have that concern.   Carynn Rudolph ** 56:43 Yeah, working in the jail, we would get a lot of, like threats to, like, we're gonna shoot staff on their way out of the building or on the way on their way off campus. And in response to that, we have long, like increased law enforcement presence, in the parking lot to ensure that if someone was going to try and attack one of us, we were protected.   Michael Hingson ** 57:09 All I know is I have a guide dog who says if I don't get my bones on time, you're in serious trouble.   Carynn Rudolph ** 57:14 That's right.   Michael Hingson ** 57:18 Yeah, he's a wonderful lab. He's He's a cutie. Has your background and experience affected or helped you in formulating what you do with the the youth center that you're working at now in Colorado?   Carynn Rudolph ** 57:36 Um, you know, I think that my background and my experience, I love working with young people. And so I don't bring I don't, you know, I don't disclose, of course, to the youth that I work with that I'm a firearms instructor at all. But I use a lot of my behavioral health experience, my my experience from working in corrections, my experience in crisis de escalation, I utilize those that experience quite a bit, I was able to develop a restorative justice program for our youth at our shelter. Because we have like an accountability system. And I was able to revise that accountability system to make it a little bit more equitable, by introducing this restorative justice program so that we could prevent, strike you striking out just due to behavior issues, or whatever. And like, going back onto the streets and things like that. So yeah, I've used I've used a lot of my experience, to be able to better support the young people that   Michael Hingson ** 58:45 I work with. You feel you're making progress, I assume. Yeah.   Carynn Rudolph ** 58:49 It's a really, it's a really rewarding   Michael Hingson ** 58:52 career. Yeah, there's nothing like working with kids. Yeah. And even adults who are like kids, but you got to have the right adults for that. But there's nothing like working with kids. I love to teach and interact with kids. That is so much fun. But I but I know that there's a lot of challenges for kids today. And I know that when I was a kid, it was a whole lot different than it is now. And I wouldn't want to be a parent or a kid today with just so many uncertainties that we all face. Absolutely. Well, Carynn, I've got to tell you, this has been much more fun, and for me a great learning experience than I expected. And I hope and I really appreciate you coming on and hope that you enjoyed it as well. And we'd like to definitely keep up with you and what you're doing. If people want to reach out and learn about what you're doing or talk with you maybe learn about the firearms training program or other things about you. How do they do that?   Carynn Rudolph ** 59:52 You can find me on LinkedIn. It's just Carynn Rudolph on LinkedIn. You can connect with   Michael Hingson ** 59:58  C a r y n n R u d o l p h.   1:00:01 Yes and Rudolph the spell just like the reindeer R U D O L P H Right. Um, if you are interested in learning more about the firearms training that I do, you can look up goliathtactical firearms training that way. And you can find me on all social media platforms. I'm on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok, building a Twitter page and all that sort of stuff just so that folks can stay connected. Cool.   Michael Hingson ** 1:00:35 Well, I really appreciate you being on here and and helping us have a better understanding of what it is. And I believe you absolutely have done that. So thank you. And for you listening out there really appreciate you listening. We'd love to hear your thoughts about this and just and all the things that we do. So please feel free to email me Michaelhi at accessibe A C C E S S I B E.com. 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Can Congress take away SCOTUS jurisdiction? Can states defy SCOTUS? Has SCOTUS lost its power and prestige? Is SCOTUS a political institution? Do its holdings bend to popular culture? Can universities consider race in their admissions process? No, they cannot... because the U.S. Supreme Court said so on Thursday, June 29th. Can a web designer refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages based on her First Amendment rights? Yes, she can... because the U.S. Supreme Court said so on Friday, June 30th. Can a web designer refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages based on her First Amendment rights? Yes, she can... because the U.S. Supreme Court said so on Friday, June 30th. But where does the Supreme Court get its power? And where does it get its prestige? And are the Supreme Court's power and prestige eroding? Now that everything is so polarized! Now that serious allegations of ethical misconduct have been raised about Justice Clarence Thomas, and to much lesser extent regarding Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Neil Gorsuch! To better understand this history, the history of the US Supreme Court's prestige and power, and to better understand its politics, as in, is the highest court in the land inherently a political institution? And whether or not it bends to America's popular sentiments? I spoke with Dr. Michael Klarman, who digs deeps into centuries past, going back to the Court's early years, to answer these important questions in the historical context with vivid examples and familiar stories that you thought you knew but I bet you may be surprised to learn otherwise now. I know I was surprised many times by what I learned during this conversation. For example, did you know that the U.S. Congress can take away the Supreme Court's jurisdiction on a case pending before it? A 'wow" is warranted here, right? What about separation of powers? What about our systems of checks and balances? Dr. Klarman is the Charles Warren Professor of Legal History at Harvard Law School. He has won numerous awards for his teaching and scholarship, which are primarily in the areas of Constitutional Law and Constitutional History. In 2009 he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2020, he authored the Foreword to the Harvard Law Review's annual Supreme Court issue, which is titled “The Degradation of American Democracy—and the Court.” He is author of many books, including this one: The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution, a book that was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize. To learn more about Dr. Klarman, you can visit his academic homepage. Also, you should definitely check out my conversation with Dr. Gideon Rahat of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem about Israel's Supreme Court and Mr. Netanyahu's attempts to reform his country's judiciary. Dr. Rahat is a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute, and he draws important distinctions between Israel's democracy and ours. He talks about how integral Israel's Supreme Court is to that country's democracy because it's the only check on Israel's government. I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Host of the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠History Behind News⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ podcast ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠SUPPORT⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Click here⁠ and join⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ our other supporters in the news peeler community. Thank you.

“One of the stats we're most proud of and aligned with our mission as an organization is that our clients have given over 200 million dollars back to charity. It's great evidence of how generous and charitable entrepreneurs are, and I don't know that they get enough credit for that… ”In this episode, although we mainly talk about dealmaking, investment banking, exit planning, and wealth management, we also touch on a topic that not often gets discussed - empowering entrepreneurs.This week's guest shares his unique take on the topic by integrating personal and business planning, and taking a holistic view of the entrepreneur's journey...ABOUT OUR GUESTChris Younger co-founded Class VI in 2005 with a mission to Empower the Entrepreneurial Spirit. Sharing a passion for what entrepreneurs mean to our community, Chris felt Class VI could do a better job for business owners by integrating personal and business planning, and by taking a holistic view of their journey.Prior to Class VI, Chris spent more than 20 years gaining experience in executive management, marketing, sales, law, and mergers and acquisitions. He is the co-author of Harvest: The Definitive Guide to Selling Your Company.Chris was a co-founder and President of Expanets, the nation's largest provider of converged communications solutions. During his tenure with Expanets, Chris led the acquisition and integration of 27 companies, ranging in size from $2 million to over $1 billion in annual revenues, ultimately leading to its acquisition by Avaya in late 2003.Prior to Expanets, Chris was an associate with the law firm of Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosati, and clerked for the Honorable Jesse Eschbach of the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.Chris is a graduate of Miami University and Harvard Law School and has also studied at The London School of Economics. While at Harvard, he was the Managing Editor of the Harvard Law Review.You can learn more about Chris and his work here:https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-younger/https://www.classvipartners.com/ABOUT OUR HOSTKen Eslick is an Entrepreneur, Author, Podcaster, Tony Robbins Trainer, Life Coach, Husband of 35+ Years, and Grandfather. Ken currently spends his time as the President & Founder of The Leaders Lab where he and his team focus on Senior Leadership Acquisition. They get founders the next level C-Suite Leaders they need to go from being an Inc. Magazine 5000 fastest growing company to $100,000,000 + in revenue.  You can learn more about Ken and his team attheleaderslab.coListen to more episodes on Mission Matters:https://missionmatters.com/author/ken-eslick/

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass and Author of the forthcoming book "Rebuilding American Capitalism," to discuss all the problems with globalization, how it is destroying capitalism, and what policy makers can do to rebuild American Capitalism.#OrenCass #AmericanCompass #Economics #Labor #Jobs #Immigration #Trade #Capitalism #ChinaOren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (2018). He is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and his work also appears regularly in publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Previously, Oren worked as a management consultant in Bain & Company's Boston and Delhi offices. During this period, he earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and oversaw the journal's budget and operations. While still in law school, Oren also became Domestic Policy Director for Governor Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He then worked as a Senior Fellow for the Manhattan Institute. In 2020, he founded American Compass.Learn more about Oren Cass's work:https://americancompass.org/––––––Follow American Moment across Social Media:Twitter – https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrgFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrgInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4TcgRumble – https://rumble.com/c/ammomentorgOdysee – https://odysee.com/@AmMomentOrgCheck out AmCanon:https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/Follow Us on Twitter:Saurabh Sharma – https://twitter.com/ssharmaUSNick Solheim – https://twitter.com/NickSSolheimAmerican Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Center in Washington DC, produced by American Moment Studios, and edited by Jake Mercier and Jared Cummings.Subscribe to our Podcast, "Moment of Truth"Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-truth/id1555257529Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5ATl0x7nKDX0vVoGrGNhAj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Oren Cass, Executive Director of American Compass and author of "The Once & Future Worker," to discuss the so-called "labor shortage" in America, how massive amounts of legal and illegal immigration are suppressing American wages, and what Washington can do to fix it.#OrenCass #AmericanCompass #Economics #Labor #Jobs #Immigration #Trade #Capitalism #WallStreetOren Cass is the executive director of American Compass and author of The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America (2018). He is a contributing opinion writer for the Financial Times and his work also appears regularly in publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Previously, Oren worked as a management consultant in Bain & Company's Boston and Delhi offices. During this period, he earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was elected vice president and treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and oversaw the journal's budget and operations. While still in law school, Oren also became Domestic Policy Director for Governor Mitt Romney's 2012 presidential campaign. He then worked as a Senior Fellow for the Manhattan Institute. In 2020, he founded American Compass.Learn more about Oren Cass's work:https://americancompass.org/https://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-once-and-future-worker/––––––Follow American Moment across Social Media:Twitter – https://twitter.com/AmMomentOrgFacebook – https://www.facebook.com/AmMomentOrgInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/ammomentorg/YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4qmB5DeiFxt53ZPZiW4TcgRumble – https://rumble.com/c/ammomentorgCheck out AmCanon:https://www.americanmoment.org/amcanon/Follow Us on Twitter:Saurabh Sharma – https://twitter.com/ssharmaUSNick Solheim – https://twitter.com/NickSSolheimAmerican Moment's "Moment of Truth" Podcast is recorded at the Conservative Partnership Center in Washington DC, produced by American Moment Studios, and edited by Jake Mercier and Jared Cummings.Subscribe to our Podcast, "Moment of Truth"Apple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/moment-of-truth/id1555257529Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/5ATl0x7nKDX0vVoGrGNhAj Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Jen's guest is Professor Steve Vladeck, author of the sensational new book: The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic.  The Shadow Docket is a must-read book, not just for court-watchers and garden-variety nerds, but also for anyone and everyone who wants to sound smarter on Twitter. Okay, maybe that's a low bar. But, you get the drift. Don't just trust me. Publisher's Weekly said “This insightful and accessible account raises an important alarm.” Plus, Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Purdue the Pharma book, Empire of Pain praised Steve for using “elegant, accessible prose” to “expose[] the degree to which significant battles, from abortion to immigration, are being adjudicated behind closed doors, in unseen, unsigned, unexplained decisions.”  Steve Vladeck is professor at the University of Texas, at Austin School of Law where he holds the Charles Alan Wright Chair In Federal Courts. He is a nationally recognized expert on the federal courts, constitutional law, national security law, and military justice. But, anyone can claim to be an expert. On paper. Steve is the real deal. Not just in the classroom and prestigious academic journals (like the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal) but also in courtrooms. He has argued over a dozen cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Texas Supreme Court, and various lower federal civilian and military courts. But most importantly, he's a really nice person.  Contact Booked Up: You can email Jen & the Booked Up team at: BOOKEDUP@POLITICON.COM or by writing to:  BOOKED UP  P.O. BOX 147 NORTHAMPTON, MA 01061 Get More from Steve Vladeck Twitter | Website | Author of THE SHADOW DOCKET Get More from Jen Taub: Twitter | Follow the Money Substack | Author of BIG DIRTY MONEY 

Jeff and Lason are joined by Scott Hershovitz, author of Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids. We discuss philosophy and how it applies to everyday life, his experience working for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and his love for the Atlanta Braves. ====================================================================================================================== Scott Hershovitz is the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He directs the University's Law and Ethics Program. And he co-edits Legal Theory.Hershovitz writes about law and philosophy. His academic work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Ethics, among other places. In addition, he writes occasional essays about philosophy for the New York Times. Hershovitz has two books in progress. The first — Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids — will be published by Penguin Press in 2022. The second — Law is a Moral Practice — will be published by Harvard University Press in 2023. Before joining the Michigan faculty, Hershovitz served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and an attorney-advisor on the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. Hershovitz earned a J.D. at the Yale Law School, a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford (where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar), and a M.A. and A.B. at the University of Georgia. He lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, Julie; his kids, Rex and Hank; and his dog, Bailey. He loves baseball, barbecue, and tacos.

Shermer and Thusi discuss: how she gained access to police and sex workers in Johannesburg • what it was like patrolling brothels in Johannesburg • what sex work is, exactly (street-based, brothel-based, escort services, private, dance hall, and hotel sex work) • why sex workers are mostly women and patrons mostly men • why sex work is illegal in many places and whether it should be legal and regulated like any other trade • the liminal nature of sex work (mostly illegal, mostly goes on anyway, difficult to police) • Critical Race Theory • racism and antiracism • President Barack Obama • her response to Shelby Steele and Jason Hill's “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” philosophy • why we are not living in a post-racial society (yet) and why race matters (still). India Thusi is a Professor of Law at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law with a joint appointment at the Kinsey Institute. Her research examines racial and sexual hierarchies as they relate to policing, race, and gender. Her articles and essays have been published or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, NYU Law Review, Northwestern Law Review (twice), Georgetown Law Journal, Cornell Law Review Online, amongst others. She has worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and — most recently — The Opportunity Agenda, a social justice communication lab that collaborates to effect lasting policy and culture change. She served as a federal law clerk to two social justice giants: the Honorable Robert L. Carter, who sat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and was the lead counsel for the NAACP in Brown v. Board of Education; and the Honorable Damon J. Keith, who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is lauded for his prominent civil rights jurisprudence. She also clerked for Justice van der Westhuizen at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the country's highest court. She was recognized as a Top 40 Rising Young Lawyer by the American Bar Association in 2019. Her book is Policing Bodies: Law, Sex Work, and Desire in Johannesburg.

Hello friends!  We're back with a new episode. Tune in as Professor Steve Vladeck and Dean Bobby Chesney chat about (1) the fate of Twitter, (2) the national security implications of the election results, (3) a just-released 2016 NSA IG report, (4) the latest GTMO transfer, (5) Bobby's just-published Harvard Law Review piece (concerning two SCOTUS cases last year which touched on the state secrets privilege), (6) Steve's brand-new substack newsletter--One First--exploring all things SCOTUS, and (7) House of the Dragon.

Scott Hershovitz is the Thomas G. and Mabel Long Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He directs the University's Law and Ethics Program and he co-edits Legal Theory.  Scott writes about law and philosophy. His academic work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, The Yale Law Journal, and Ethics, among other places. In addition, he writes occasional essays about philosophy for the New York Times.  Before joining the Michigan faculty, he  served as a law clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the United States Supreme Court and an attorney-advisor on the appellate staff of the Civil Division of the United States Department of Justice. Eric and Scott discuss his new book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy withMy Kids But wait, there's more! The episode is not quite over!! We continue the conversation and you can access this exclusive content right in your podcast player feed. Head over to our Patreon page and pledge to donate just $10 a month. It's that simple and we'll give you good stuff as a thank you! Scott Hershovitz and I Discuss What We Can Learn By Thinking Like a Kid and … His book, Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids Defining philosophy as the art of thinking How kids are natural philosophers and ask interesting questions Learning to think critically about our own ideas Distinguishing between what we think we should do and what we want to do The story of the Ship of Theseus and how we can compare it to our own identity How identity can be used as a tool in how we see ourselves in the world in both a negative and positive way Relativism and how we each get our own truth Epistemic bubbles and echo chambers  What we can learn when we talk to people who think differently than us  How we can look at other people with both objective or participant attitudes, depending on the circumstances Tempering our perspectives when we learn about others' circumstances Scott Hershovitz Links Scott's Website Twitter By purchasing products and/or services from our sponsors, you are helping to support The One You Feed and we greatly appreciate it. Thank you! If you enjoyed this conversation with Scott Hershovitz check out these other episodes: What We Know But Don't Believe with Steve Hagen Everyday Courage with Ryan HolidaySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today, we're re-airing one of our most timely debates from earlier this year: Reforming the Supreme Court. This episode originally aired before the Dobbs decision was released this summer.2022 is a big year for supporters of Supreme Court reform. Roe v. Wade, the landmark case that gave women nationwide the right to have abortions, has been overturned, and the debate around changing the way we structure the bench — in particular, packing the court — is getting only more heated.The past decade has brought a shift in the makeup of the court — from Brett Kavanaugh, appointed despite sexual assault allegations, to Merrick Garland, blocked from confirmation, and Amy Coney Barrett, rushed to confirmation.It's the culmination of decades of effort by Republicans to make the courts more conservative. And now Democrats want to push back by introducing some radical changes.Today, Jane Coaston brings together two guests who disagree on whether altering Supreme Court practices is the right call and, if yes, what kind of changes would make sense for the highest judicial body in the nation.Russ Feingold is the president of the American Constitution Society and was a Democratic senator from Wisconsin from 1993 to 2011. Russ Miller is an attorney and law professor at Washington and Lee and the head of the Max Planck Law Network in Germany.Mentioned in this episode:“Americans No Longer Have Faith in the U.S. Supreme Court. That Has Justices Worried,” by Russ Feingold in The Guardian, published in October 2021.“We Don't Need to Reform the Supreme Court,” by Russ Miller in Just Security, published in February 2021.“The Future of Supreme Court Reform,” by Daniel Epps and Ganesh Sitaraman in Harvard Law Review, published in May 2021.