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John Yoo returns to usher in SCOTUS opinion season, joining James and Steve for some friendly debates on law, politics and, most controversially, a few matters of taste. For our democrats in the audience, we've got chatter on California vote counting and Alabama map battles. News from the UK reminds us that the royalists are in even worse shape, as authorities there prove to be as confused in dealing with controversial speech as they are with violence (the real kind). John Bolton's deal with the DOJ and a couple of death penalty cases concentrate the fellas' minds further on the subtleties, and unsubtleties, of hard justice. Thankfully, Scott Pelley's bad week brings a much-needed restorative laugh, and the gang finds something to agree on as they count down to the semiquincentennial. That's right: not even petty celebrities can rain on our Independence Day parade!
Sound this week: CBS Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil says goodbye to Scott Pelley while Fox News’ Brit Hume finds it all amusing.
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It would be nice if the insert ads weren't for Planned Parenthood.
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Cheer up. That’s called ad waste. They are literally throwing away money by targeting you.
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It drives me crazy that Derek Chovin, however, you spell his name, is behind bars because of George Floyd's death.
He had over the lethal amount of fentanyl in his system.
He had other drugs in his system.
He fought with the police for 45 minutes.
He was babbling about being out of breath before he even got restrained.
He was very big.
I mean, screw that. The cop should be held harmless totally under these circumstances.
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My Father said "Greatest thing since canned beer."
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In addition, Derek Chauvin didn't receive a fair trial. While the jury was sequestered, and their names weren't released, they knew that anyone who voted not guilty would have their name(s) leaked, and they and their family would have been hounded, if not for the rest of their lives, it would have been years.
The Minnesota attorney general, Keith Ellison, refused to release all the videos of the incident which would have shown exculpatory evidence of George Floyd's death as murder. In doing so, he tainted the jury pool.
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