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This week, Mike & Jay begin off by discussing the Supreme Court docket’s refusal to halt Texas’ new abortion regulation, the strictest within the nation. They each agree that the regulation has critical constitutional issues, however Jay believes the bulk acquired the ruling proper, and that the proper course is to let issues play out within the decrease courts. Mike sees this because the Court docket’s conservatives (minus Chief Justice Roberts) permitting a blatantly unconstitutional regulation to enter impact.

The main focus stays on Texas for a have a look at the state’s new voting regulation. Mike takes difficulty with quite a few provisions that he believes will suppress possible Democratic votes and have little to connection to election safety. Jay thinks that the regulation is generally factor, declaring that lots of the provisions being rolled again have been solely put in place in response to the pandemic.

They shut with a dialogue of Afghanistan. Mike factors out that there’s one thing to President Biden’s argument about how troublesome it’s to withdraw within the face of enemy forces, and says that some People would have been left behind initially in nearly any withdrawal situation. Jay doesn’t disagree, however argues that this actuality wasn’t initially acknowledged by President Biden, and that he broke his promise that the US would keep in Afghanistan till all People who needed overseas acquired out.

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