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30:35Now PlayingToday's Supreme Court's Decisions on Trans Athletes and Campaign Finance Explained
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30:35Now PlayingToday's Supreme Court's Decisions on Trans Athletes and Campaign Finance Explained
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Hawk covers the two remaining Supreme Court decisions from June 30th alongside the morning's reactions. First, a brief aside: shortly after the birthright citizenship ruling, NPR mistakenly posted a story by Nina Totenberg, who has covered the Supreme Court since 1975, reporting that Justice Samuel Alito had retired. The post was taken down within minutes. Hawk speculates she had the article pre-written and published it early in error.
On the transgender athlete cases, the court ruled on two separate cases out of West Virginia and Idaho involving trans women seeking to compete on girls' and women's athletic teams. The Title IX holding was unanimous: schools may maintain separate sports teams defined by biological sex, and trans women do not fall under Title IX's protections for women's sports. The equal protection claim was decided 6 to 3 with the three liberal justices dissenting. Hawk walks through both holdings and addresses the polling reality, noting that while roughly 70% of Americans support equal rights for transgender people broadly, the same proportion opposes trans women competing against biological women in sports. Clarence Thomas wrote a concurrence going further than the majority, stating that gender dysphoria is a mutable mental state subject to psychiatric treatment and that trans women are not women.
On campaign finance, the court issued a ruling further deregulating an already permissive system, with Hawk calling it a bad decision that will produce more corruption and more secrecy. Stephen Miller then appears reacting to Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberal majority on the mail-in ballot case. Megyn Kelly follows, calling Barrett a turncoat for counting legally cast votes and expressing frustration that she is not reliably on the right's side. Hawk closes by noting that any day that begins and ends with Stephen Miller and Megyn Kelly being angry is a good day.
#MegynKelly #AmyConeyBarrett #ClarenceThomas #StephenMiller #NinaTotenberg #SamuelAlito #TitleIX #TransgenderAthletes #CampaignFinance #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #MailInBallots #KarlRove #WestVirginia #Idaho #EqualProtection #14thAmendment #BrettKavanaugh #SaveAct #Hawk
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