It Could Happen Here - Samuel Alito's Wife Is a Nazi & Other Supreme Court News

Episode Date: June 17, 2024

Mia and James go through a flurry of Supreme Court news ranging from history's worst legal arguments in the Mifepristone case to a reversal of the bump stock ban.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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like a pirate situation is like samuel alito like with your one leg and a patch coming in uh to hijack there they are not cool to be fair i made a mistake here because the supreme court justices are not cool enough to take up the nobility of the piracy that that is that is a grand and noble tradition dating back millennia uh yeah we we've been compulsory. What's it called? Civil asset forfeited by the Supreme Court. Yeah, theft bad. Yeah. So originally, this is going to be an episode about how messed up Clarence Thomas's and Samuel Lito's wives are because, oh, my God, are they a bunch of right wing fanatics? We haven't really covered it on this show. But then this episode got hijacked by a bunch of other supreme court news so we're gonna talk a bit about samuel alito's

wife we'll put off clarence thomas's q anon wife for another day uh but yeah so so this this is going to be a sort of roundup episode of the 16 million pieces of supreme we're not even gonna get to them all there's supreme court Court news that we can't even cover. There's too much of it. But yeah, let's start with the Mephepristone case. So, okay. I think people... We've talked about Mephepristone before on this show,

and there's been a widely sort of dreaded case where a group called the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine have been trying to see the FDA. Yeah The amount of these fucking pretend medical organizations I'm sorry I'm derailing the episode that it's like the American College of Pediatrics is another one like a wait till you find out who these people Actually are because it's amazing and to I think you you haven't seen any of these legal arguments, right? No, oh, I'm hoping that't seen any of these legal arguments, right? No.

Oh, I'm hoping that we get to Bohemian Grove. That's the only thing I followed from the Supreme Court. Amazingly, Bohemian Grove did not make the cut, amazingly. Damn. Okay. I'm ready for some high tier shit. I'm so excited. You are about to see some shit. You are about to see what I genuinely believe to be the worst legal arguments ever made in a court of law

and like i say this having watched like probably four listen to probably 40 hours of alex jones trial depositions from different trials and i i genuinely believe these to be the worst legal arguments anyone has ever made so all right i'm i'm gonna quote from an article in the nation here no alliance so this is uh this is about who uh uh the alliance alliance for hippocratic medicine is alliance for hippocratic medicine is a mishmash of anti-abortion doctors nurses and dentists yes dentists amazing who so though none of them have ever prescribed the pill claim that they are being they have been harmed by its existence their theories of standing weight range from comical to inept to offensive to contemptible they include arguments such as doctors who do not perform

abortions are harmed when they have to work in the emergency room where alleged complications from the abortion pill arise and by the way we should mention this by the way so part of part of this whole thing is that there's been the right has been trying to like make up this fake argument that this abortion well okay master person can be used for a number of things but they've been trying to make up arguments that like there's like scary side effects with fake studies and like even the right-wing court was like this is bullshit so so again they're saying that again having a doctor who has to do work in a place where there's fake side effects that aren't happening they're saying this is this is an injury um the second one obstetricians who do not perform abortions are harmed because they feel

complicit in the abortions that take place even if they are not a part of the procedures what the fuck literally one of the justices was like what do you mean a complicit are you handing them a bottle of water or something like yeah i'm the water boy at the abortion clinic that's what i do I'm on the hydration team. Fucking Planned Parenthood. Three, medical staff are hard via complicity also. And four, and this is the best one. This one, I...

Random people who do not perform abortions nonetheless suffer from quote-unquote aesthetic injury of being deprived of seeing pregnant people jiggle around with sore backs this is also this is a direct quote from the thing i'm not making this theory up this is what fifth circuit judge james ho wrote when upholding the ban on mephhipristone. Okay, what the fuck? Like, this is like they're being deprived of... It's just like a kink thing? They can't see pregnant people? No, no, apparently the theory is that

being able to see pregnant people is like good and healthy for you or something, and if you don't do it... There's another one. There's another one that wasn wasn't in this article but that wasn't some other things is that i one of their other cases is that uh doctors enjoy working with unborn patients and that this is this is an injury to them yeah i think you may want to examine your fucking social skills a bunch of fucking dentists are being like, I can't work on the teeth of pregnant people.

Yeah, yeah. I've been deprived from doing fetus orthodontics and therefore I will take it to the Supreme Court. What a wild fucking case. What an incredible system that this made it to the Supreme Court. Okay, the absolute funniest part about this, the right-wing dipshit lawyer for the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine is Josh Halley's wife i think josh halley like uh like popular front salute to the january 6th

people yeah that little yeah that one yeah i will not use an adjective that we cannot broadcast okay and so sort of i mean not that surprised so people who are following the trial i think expected this well they expected probably like a 72 or an 81 but this was a 90 no that's clean this is bullshit like i i think i think you know so there's been a lot of like good coverage about the sort of legal aspects here and i i guess we should we should before we go further we should mention so what this ruling does like effectively is that okay, so there's not going to be a national ban on Mephepristone. However, comma, the states that have outlawed Mephepristone, that doesn't change anything there. So there are still a lot of people who cannot access this drug, who cannot access their life-saving medical care because they're ruled by a bunch of fucking right-wing bigots and like

christian extremists etc etc but this this case has established something extremely important which is that there is actually a legal limit to the amount of bullshit you can do even if you are a right-wing lawyer who like the court agrees with like josh haley's wife used to be a clerk for for justice john roberts so she was like she's like embedded embedded in this whole right wing ecosystem she's one of the big sort of right yeah yeah yeah like grooming her for success but these people finally, for the first time ever, made a set of legal arguments so bullshit, even the Supreme Court

was like, what the fuck? I think... We're going into Mia's bullshit theory here. But the reason this was thrown out was that... This is the part that is obviously real. So in American law... I mean, I think this is this is the part that's like obviously real so in in

american law i mean i think this is true of most legal systems i don't know any that don't function like this but in order so in the u.s it is very easy to sue someone you can sue someone over 20 dollars it's in the constitution it fucking rules it's very funny we are extremely litigious country but you you need you need what you need, something called standing to sue in order to do this. There's some kind of complicated parts of this that, you know, evolve around jurisdiction and what courts,

blah, blah, blah, blah. But the important thing is that someone has to have done an injury to you. And this, this is the part where this entire case fell apart because they could not

find a single person, but had suffered an actual injury from yes outstanding just incredible stuff like yeah yeah well i mean that's because they could sue on behalf of unborn people mia it didn't work well i mean to be fair this this one technically wasn't this this one was on behalf of these doctors and dentists and shit. I think there's been an important legal standing here.

We have covered on this show the case 303 Curator vs. Alanis, which is the one where the Supreme Court ruled that it's legal to discriminate against queer people on religious grounds as long as your business is quote-unquote creative and it's like a speech act.

That's the one where... It's a cake one, right? No, this is a wedding website one. This is the more recent one that was like, some woman was like, I was forced to make a wedding website for a gay person. Now, okay, so what we talked about in that case is that importantly,

this never happened. This woman was never forced to make a website for a gay person, right? Like, that never happened. But, you know, the court still upheld that and like let them, you know, like let them basically institute a bunch of like insane, you know, like potentially like states can institute a bunch of like insane laws now about this. you know like potentially like states can institute a bunch of like insane laws now about this but okay so so what we have in in in the wedding website case is you have a real person who a fake injury happened to and that apparently is good enough for standing for the for if you're a right-wing like activist for the supreme court you can have a real person that an injury did not happen to you but they can imagine an injury that could

have happened to them. And that's good enough. Now there's an important legal precedent being set here, which is that, okay, again, nothing has to actually have happened to you. You can make up what happened to you, but you have to have a, an actual person who would injury could have happened to, and B you could have a fake injury but if the injury was real it would have to be a real injury like so you can you can you can march up the supreme court with a person who said i was thrown into a volcano because of woke and obviously they weren't they weren't thrown into a volcano but you know you you could have woke outlawed because they said they were thrown into a volcano because of woke but what you can't do apparently the actual line is you have no person right it's you are a group of people who are suing who have

said that because of woke uh someone somewhere like hypothetically it might become impossible to flap your wings and fly and that's apparently the line to the sarlacc pit because of woke no no no that's not true though because the the sarlacc pit could conceivably you you could build a sarlacc pit right right okay yeah like if you're you're the the fake injury you're imagining if it were real like would have to be a real injury what you can't do is have is not have a person and then also have the injury you're talking about not be a real injury even even even if it did happen which is what's happening in this case so that's the line that has been drawn

in the sand for conservatives is like you absolute clowns like we are going to let you break every single law but the thing you're pretending happened if it actually did happen has to has to be a real injury so this is the line in the sand that's been drawn right by huge win for democracy yeah i mean also like i mean obviously there's some sort of poison pill stuff in this that's kind of more legally complicated that we're not going to really get into i mean there's some stuff in here that because this is a kavanaugh ruling right so there's some stuff in here that like is kind of is basically cavanaugh being like okay if you want to do this again but like bring a real case like here's how

you might be able to do it yeah where he like coaches him through yeah i mean there's like a little bit of that and there's some stuff here basically trying to make it harder for civil rights groups to like do cases where like they have one of their people pose as a right like someone trying to buy a house or whatever so there's some stuff this ruling is still fucking over some people's civil rights like less you think the supreme court did something good but we have to establish the alliance for hippocratic medicine standard of a fake injury uh do you know what else do you know what else will give you fake injuries but not real injuries well can we say categorically that that's i mean what if we get like uh black rifle coffee right that could

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and we are back so speaking of products and services there was also a very bad supreme court ruling in a case about the national labor relations board and starbucks so i don't know if we i don't think we specifically covered this we've covered a lot of cases on this show of people being fired and retaliation for sorry we we covered a different case of a worker being fired in retaliation for union organizing from starbucks um but great stuff yeah but so this specific case the nlrb national labor relations board if your opponent like breaks labor law, or for example, firing someone in retaliation for union organizing is in fact a violation of labor law. If this happens, you can file something called an unfair labor practice. Eventually, you go before the National Labor Relations Board and they make a decision. But one of the things that the NLRB can do, because this process takes an extremely large amount of time, and if this process goes into like the regular courts it's going to take years and years and years

and during that time you're still going to be fired so you know one of the things that the NLRB can do is issue an ask a judge to issue an injunction to force to like basically a judge can tell Starbucks like no fuck you you like until this

court case is resolved you have to rehire this person and so basically what happens, Starbucks sued over this. It got to the Supreme Court. And the question that basically came to like, what standard of evidence does the NLRB have to have that this workers rights are being violated before they can issue an injunction? The Supreme Court said it has to be like a really high standard, which is bullshit. This was an eight one decision. So it's not. That's the thing. which is bullshit this this was an 8-1 decision uh well so it's not that's the thing so okay this this this is important here this is being reported as an 8-1 decision it's actually not because katisha brown jackson filed a concurring opinion with slightly

like slightly better logic but also still bad logic about this so in fact effectively this was a 9-0 agreement with starbucks with like slightly differing like reasons for concurring right so yeah and this is you know as as i told james yesterday this is in fact definitive proof that cop that workers are not cops and cops are not workers because if this if this were a decision about cops it would be 90 in the other direction yeah yeah so this is very bad it's already like almost impossibly difficult to get the national labor relations board to intervene to like stop this shit from happening it can happen it's just a really really long process and they almost never file any of these injections in the first place i'm going to read a quote from the APA that I disagree with. The NLRB requested fewer than 20 injunctions last year,

but they serve as a powerful deterrent against firing workers trying to unionize, said Sharon Block, a professor at Harvard Law School and a former member of the NLRB. With a stricter standard in place to win the reinstatement of fired workers, more companies may feel empowered to crack down on unionization efforts. Miss block said now all offense to miss block. I think the fact that you were on the fucking NLRB and you weren't out there trying to fucking organize unions makes you in fact, not a particularly good person to ask about how effective the nlrb's efforts have actually been

here because i like the number of people i know personally unrelated to any of the work that i do who have been fired in retaliation for union organizing is extremely high and yeah like obviously this is going to make it you know this is going to make companies more like like more willing to do it but it's not like the completely half-assed efforts that the NLRB was making before were actually really seriously deterring companies from firing you, right? And we have other...

It's not like there are no other tools at the disposal of organized labor to respond to a retaliatory something like this, right? Yeah, the best way to get your boss to not retaliate against you is to be well organized enough that if they fucking try this you breathe you bring your shot to a stop and i i have seen that work right like it is possible to get people reinstated it's it's hard

but you know you probably have a better shot of like doing it by being well organized than you do with the fucking nlrb ever getting to your case so right you know i i i like and you know i i don't want to be completely doom and gloom about this because it's like no like you can still definitely organize unions right like this hasn't made it impossible to like do any of this stuff it's just that the legal apparatus is weighted towards the boss and the counteraction to legal apparatus being weighted towards the boss is you and how well organized you are so we're going to go from that to what this episode was originally supposed to be about which is supreme court wives uh yeah and again we were going to do more of this but we're making reality tv show about it instead yeah it's it's nuts okay, so the current big story, basically,

is that Samuel Alito's wife can't stop flying deranged right-wing flags. I do love a flag person. Yeah, so, okay, Samuel Alito, like... Okay, so the story that has been run within the media, and again, it's not clear how true any of this is. Samuel Alito, so we're going to talk about a bunch of deranged right-wing flags have been flying outside the house of alito property samuel alito claimed that this is his wife and he has nothing to do with it now do we the public trust the word of a supreme court justice and i think the answer we i'm not going to give you the answer

for you but i'm gonna lay that out in front of you so all right so the first one of these was she flew an upside down u.s flag which i had always remembered as being an anti-war thing yeah i think the chuds have tried to take it back like yeah it's very sad yeah they're doing it uh because of course, Joe Biden is destroying the Constitutional Republic. And so they're signaling for help from other chads. Yeah, originally it was a like January 6th, the US election has been stolen thing. Right. Yeah. I saw someone flying the thin blue line flag upside down the other day. Unclear if they had to fuck the police flag as well.

So like, I guess once i saw that the situation was clarified but i was like is this incredible is a cop in danger like what's happening yeah so and by the way the other thing i want to point out about this is that there were like a bunch there were a bunch of journalists who knew about this like in 2021 and then just sat on it and didn't talk about it until like this year the fuck is wrong with you yeah and this is this is this is this is why I refused. I like, I largely refused to call myself a journalist because these people are fucking hacks and frauds who just sit on this stupid thing for their fucking book releases.

Yeah. I mean, those people ought not to be called journalists, right? It's pathetic. Like your job as a journalist is to hold power to account. And if you're not doing that because you want to sell more books or yeah start grift university and again fuck you this this would have been fucking useful to know in that actual like in the in the because in the immediate aftermath of january 6th there was an actual sort of a desire to do something about it and maybe if if you know people had fucking known

that the wife of a supreme court justice was fucking flying the shitty ass flag again probably actually a supreme court justice like was flying this shitty ass the election was stolen flag so that's part one of the flag news now apparently partially what's going on is she's been getting into a bunch of fights with her neighbors you fucking hate her because she's an asshole and she's i wonder why the mavis hate her yes if you live within eyesight of her house i will ship you one be gay do crime flag they they apparently have been doing that shit and trolling like stuff like that which is fucking heroes heroes we're gonna get how to how mad this made her later um But one of the other flags that she's been flying is a flag I had forgotten about, which is the, do you know the Appeal to Heaven flag?

Oh, yeah. No. Yes, unfortunately, I do, Mere, because I drive around East County, San Diego. Yeah. Yeah, a little tree flag, for those who are not familiar, a little pine tree on a white background. Yeah. So, okay.

So this flag has been taken up by so it's been spread around basically Brightwing move, but it's kind of more generally now, but it was originally sort of re, this is a revolutionary war flag that nobody has flown in like 200 years, but it's been taken back up by the new epistolic reformation which is

You're familiar with these guys? Oh boy Oh boy Okay, so they are a like a deranged christian nationalist like organization of churches that has combined the most deranged principles of the most deranged christian sex which is to say pentecostalism charismatic christianity and like a very specific kind of insane dominionism and they have combined all of them together to form like the super ideology that's like right it's it's the fucking like it's it's it's the it's the dragon ball z fusion of like literally the worst parts of every insane right-wing christian ideology and so they they have come out with the belief that like they have been basically chosen

by god to like seize control of the u.s and turn it into a theocracy okay they're like the power rangers of uh of christian chads yeah yeah like it's like marjorie taylor green's involved with um like larry leo is one of the big federalist society guys uh like also was flying this flag and the federal society has funneled a bunch of money to like a bunch of like right-wing legal cases and stuff so this is this is very good sorry you used to see a lot in the pacific northwest among that kind of white separatist christian yeah like yeah they'd wear it on their plate carriers a lot and stuff that's kind of what i associated with yeah so this is this has been like, last year this was flying over Samuel Alito's beach house. So, great things happening here.

Yeah, so there's also a third piece of Mrs. Alito's flag news, which is that she got Project Veritas'd by a liberal documentary filmmaker. She did a sting operation, bought a ticket to one of her dinners and

pretended to be a conservative and filmed her. I'm going to read this quote from Ruling Stowe. That's about what she said. You know what I want, Miss Alito says? I want a sacred heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across a lagoon at the pride flag for the next month. Referencing her

husband, Miss Alito said, he's like, oh, please don't put up the flag. I said, I won't do it because I'm deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I'm putting it up and I'm going to send them a message every day. Maybe every week I'll be changing the flags. There'll be all kinds. I made a flag in my head. This is how I satisfy myself. I made a flag. It's white and yellow and orange flames around it and in the middle is the word begonia in italian means shame vergona v-e-r-g-o-g-n-a vergona shame shame shame on you she adds so she's so mad about gay people that she is making up flags in her head yes and she's gonna fly to

own them yeah homophobic vexillology thatology. That's a new level of fucking, like, having your brain broken by gay people existing. It's nuts. Mia, do you know what hangs over my head, like a flag that says shame? Is it the Fox Services that support this podcast? It's the obligation to pivot to adverts, yes. Hey, I'm Jack B. Thomas, adverts yes hey i'm jack peace thomas the host of a brand new black effect original series black lit the podcast for diving deep into the rich world of black literature i'm jack peace

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products you love keep getting worse and naming and shaming those responsible. Don't get me wrong, though. I love technology. I just hate the people in charge and want them to get back to building things that actually do things to help real people. I swear to God things can change if we're loud enough, So join me every week to understand what's happening in the tech industry and what could be done to make things better. Listen to Better Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever else you get your podcasts. Check out betteroffline.com. On Thanksgiving Day, 1999, a five-year-old boy floated alone in the ocean.

He had lost his mother trying to reach Florida from Cuba. He looked like a little angel. I mean, he looked so fresh. And his name, Elian Gonzalez, will make headlines everywhere. Elian Gonzalez. Elian. Elian. Elian. Elian.

Elian. Elian Gonzalez. At the heart of the story is a young boy and the question of who he belongs with. His father in Cuba. Mr. Gonzalez wanted to go home and he wanted to take his son with him. Or his relatives in Miami. Imagine that your mother died trying to get you to freedom. At the heart of it all is still this painful family separation.

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when I say this out loud, but I'm like, every single year you need to be asking for a raise of somewhere between 10 to 15%. I'm not saying you're going to get 15% every single year, but if you ask for 10 to 15 and you end up getting eight, that is actually a true raise. Listen to this week's episode of Let's Talk Offline on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. okay so there is one last part of of this story that hasn't been getting any coverage at all that i'm very alarmed about because and maybe this is the thing i should have i should have led with

okay i'm gonna read you this and i am going to ask you for a conceivable possible alternative explanation that is not Samuel Alito's wife is openly saying she is a Nazi. Quote, when Windsor, Windsor is the name of the filmmaker who did the sting. When Windsor tells Miss Alito she's being persecuted and depicted as a convenient stand in for anybody who's religious, the justice's wife gets quieter and her tone turns more serious. Look at me. Look at me. I'm German. I'm from Germany. My heritage is German.

You come after me. I'm going to give it back to you. And there will be a way. It doesn't have to be now, but there will be a way they know. Don't worry about it. God, you read the Bible. Psalm 27 is my psalm. Mine.

Psalm 27. The Lord is my Psalm. Mine. Psalm 27. The Lord is by God and by rock. Of whom shall I be afraid? Nobody. No! Yeah. A lot of, a lot of, a lot of, a real emphasis on being German.

What, what possible? And I genuinely, I defy anyone to come up with a possible explanation of what the sentence, look at me, look at me. I'm German german i'm from germany my heritage is german you come after me i'm gonna give it back to you what possible she is just straight up saying i am a german nazi and this is something that the entire fucking media has access to and no one is leading with a story that says Samuel Alito's wife says that she's a Nazi I'm going insane

fuck it, I've actually banged my microphone, we're fucking leading this episode with the title Samuel Alito's wife admits she's a Nazi and other Supreme Court news because fuck them, someone's gotta do this, this is insane, this is nuts, what the fuck this is

this is a bizarre thing to say like to someone she knew this person was a journalist no no no she thought that they were a conservative activist so i so what's happening here i think is like okay like basically like kind of in private like like in conservative circles she's trying to signal to people that like no like i'm a fucking nazi like i'm down with you fucking right yeah yeah it's sort of they're not saying the thing but saying the thing yeah like like it's it's like it's not even dog whistling it's just very openly telling selectors to people like hey this is where i stand so that is not good and again this guy is one of the one of the unelected people who can at any moment moment strip any right from you for effectively any reason so that's great yeah great wonderful i'm still yes mind boggled at this like

yeah i mean yeah even if yeah we're german what are you gonna do like you have a two for two l rate in world yeah you're gonna lose a third War? Get your ass handed to you again? Get divided and half of you given to Russia? What are we going for? We have not done much coverage of how insane Germany has gotten right now, but there are entire mobs of people in dance clubs chanting Germany is

for Germans. Their Nazi party is about to take control disband a number of like police and special forces units oh yeah this happens nazis yeah yeah well it's not just they're all nazis like the you you you can be a nazi in the german police force they don't care that much but it's because they were specific they keep on specifically getting caught either with kill lists of politicians or with a plan to overthrow the government yeah yeah so like you know so so we like this this is

this is my like germany is the one country on earth that would be improved by an american occupation and then being split into like 35 like every single country in the world gets their one square mile of germany to rule over this would significantly improve germany as a country i love that yeah turn it turn it into the model un yeah so from our plan to to make germany an international occupied territory epcot epcot to germany there we go yeah all right we need to talk about there's even more justice thomas bullshit i thought there was only going to be one justice thomas story and then a second justice thomas story broke as i was writing the script so okay so the senate judiciary committee finally sort of got off its ass and

decided to look at justice thomas's like obvious bribe money from harlan crow and a bunch of other mega donors and they found lo and behold thomas took three more undisclosed private jet flights uh again these people are just like obviously taking bribe money none of the congress won't do anything dick durbin will issue a strongly worded statement who's the head of the senate judiciary committee uh will offer a strongly worded statement do nothing so yeah if anything is going to be done by the supreme court it's going to be done by you not by the fucking Congress that you dominantly elect, because they just don't give a shit. We also learned,

so do you remember, were you on the Clarence Thomas episodes? I know, I didn't think I was. Oh no, yeah, there might have been a me and Gare one. Yeah, so one of the things that we learned was that Harlan Crowe had paid an unbelievable amount, like hundreds of thousands of dollars to send Thomas' grandnnephew who he was like quote-unquote

raising like a son and send him to like expensive private schools so normal yeah so so we learned we learned today or like i was like maybe two days ago that thomas so okay so this kid that like he had like raised as a son they just like completely so someone like some some media people like caught up with his son who's now in jail pending charges yeah and his his his he's not going to be fucking bailed out by justice thomas who apparently like lost interest in him when he reached high school and just shipped him off to a boarding school and while he's at boarding school he got he got expelled for failing a drug test, and they just sent him back to his mom and cut him

off, and he's talked to him once or twice in the last 14 years. So, that's great. Real piece of shit. I mean, yeah, having Clarence Thomas as a paternal figure in your life does to a motherfucker, I can't imagine. Yeah, like, I

truly feel bad for this guy uh yeah yeah fuck clarence thomas finally to round up the supreme court news uh literally the more like the board like in the morning this the script was like done right and then again i wake up and there's breaking news supreme court has uh struck down federal bureau of tobacco and firearms thing banning bump stocks. So I'm going to ask you to talk about bump stocks because I think I know what they are, but I'm not a gun person.

So yeah, happy to be the token cis white guy to talk about guns here. So the ATF under Donald Trump, for a long time, the ATF had explicitly said that bump stocks were not machine guns. After the Las Vegas shooting in which one was used, the bump stock was then ruled as a machine gun they kind of pivoted right what a bump stock is for those who are not familiar is a device that kind of uses the recoil of the weapon to kind of re-fire so basically it allows you to fire much more quickly, right? But crucially, the trigger

is going forward and back, unlike a machine gun where you hold the trigger to the rear, right? And the gun continues to fire. You can look up, I think it's probably much easier if you can see it, but it's kind of a device that connects the stock and then the pistol grip of the weapon. And then it bounces back and forward. And in doing so, moves the finger back and forward. You can also bump fire a gun without one, which is, I just don't want to describe how to do that. But you probably know already. There are videos on YouTube. It's not a thing that's illegal, I don't think. But neither of these are particularly effective. It's kind of a range toy thing. It's a way to quickly turn money into noise.

I don't think that... They were a massive craze. A lot of these gun things, right? There are five big accounts on YouTube which set the fact that whatever the craze... Gun people are very much pre-teens you know you know when you're in school and then suddenly everyone's got a fucking yo-yo and if you don't have a yo-yo you're a complete dweeb and then fuck your yo-yo it's pokemon cards yeah that's the that's a lot of the firearms industry so like uh these were a big craze and then they kind of weren't and specifically when when the donald trump atf banned them right a lot of people were like oh you don't need them anyway they're fine they're they're useless like they

definitely allow you to fire fire quicker and you can have the gun in your in your shoulder which you can't do when you're regularly bump firing it but they're not that it's not the same as a machine gun in terms of effectiveness in my opinion so yeah now you can buy one again if you really want one in certain states i I'm sure that there are state laws. I'm sure California still bans them. But, well, you can't have a pistol grip on your semi-automatic rifle in California unless it's maglock. But, yeah, I don't think it's a big deal. I'm looking right now, and of course, NBC and shit, it's like the end of the world.

It's nigh. Everyone now has a belt-fed machine gun. Not really. That's not kind of what they do you you can fire faster but i i don't think it's a it's going to make a meaningful change in the lethality of firearms that civilians have access to some cop will use it as an excuse to to be a to be a fucking coward like they were right but we can't control that i think think it does signal like post Bruin, right? Which was a concealed carry decision, a willingness of the court to go after the ATF. They didn't, there's a thing called, I think it's called a Chevron. It's not a Chevron rule.

Is it a Chevron? Oh, Chevron doctrine. Chevron doctrine, right. Yeah. Well, where essentially they're telling lower courts not to challenge opinions. The ATF is not itself a lawmaking body, but it can opine on what laws mean. But those can be challenged in courts. They didn't touch the Chevron doctrine with regards to the ATF here. But I think we will see other cases, 3D printed gun cases, for instance, go up to the Supreme Court and probably get a favorable decision for gun rights. There's this Supreme Court. The big ones, the ones that would make a meaningful difference, at least to people in restricted states, would be

assault weapons bans that we have in California and magazine capacity bans like we have in California. So Californiaia a lot of other states limit you to 10 rounds uh california you can't have a pistol grip on a semi-automatic rifle and some other features unless the magazine's locked to the weapon it requires disassembly to reload so those would make a meaningful difference to gun rights for people in those states this i think is that big of a deal personally. Look, fucking people are all over the place with fully automatic clocks because they bought a little 3D printed switch either online or apparently people are buying them on AliExpress, which is fucking unwise because it's

coming into the country and customers are going to look at that. I've seen that in court cases. Yeah. I've seen that in court cases, but yeah, this is not that, you know, like, uh,

um, people are making auto Sears for AR 15s or a court case is about that too. I don't think this is that big of a deal, but it maybe indicates that we will see other, other changes in, in firearms legislation. Yeah, that makes sense. And I think that's our wrap up Supreme court news.

I don't know what's possible. Some other bullshit drops at the end of today but yeah this is being recorded on Friday the whatever the 14th so if there's if the Supreme Court has done more bullshit I'm sorry we didn't get to it but that's all we got for Supreme Court today

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