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🕑 Added 2025-02-21 09:03:36 +0000 UTCOA 1128 - First: an urgent question from a patron on Trump’s latest executive power grab. Matt explains the history of the “unitary executive theory” and the Federalist Society-backed movement to give the President more power than an actual king.
Then: Rutgers Law professor Katie Eyer studies, teaches, and litigates the law of anti-discrimination with a specialty in LGBTQ rights. She joins to discuss the current state of the law in the shadow of the Supreme Court’s forthcoming decision in U.S. v. Skrmetti and the wake of Donald Trump’s recent anti-trans executive orders. Which, if any, of these orders should we actually be concerned about? What does it mean that the fight for trans lives is now becoming a federal issue? Can Trump really just instruct the federal government to ignore the Supreme Court’s extension of employment protections to LGBTQ employees in Bostock v. Clayton County? Professor Eyer takes up these questions and many more as we find reasons both for concern and for hope.
“Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies,” (2/18/25)
Professor Katie Eyer (Rutgers Law bio)
Anti-Transgender Constitutional Law, 77 Vanderbilt L. Rev. __ (2024) (forthcoming)
Transgender Constitutional Law, 171 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1405 (2023)
Bostock v. Clayton County, 590 US ___ (2020)
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A Mediocre Transbian Polycule
And further - he resigned well before inauguration. There's a difference between resigning in protest of an ordered action and just complying in advance.
General Contact Unit Problem Child
I’m pretty sure the UK was more or less a constitutional monarchy by the 1770s.
Viola DeGamba
Yes, but Trump did fire Comey.
Jon C
The guests have been awesome recently, I am grateful for whatever has resulted in these bookings.
...against all enemies foreign and DOGEmestic
Related to the topic of today's episode, the EEOC recently dropped cases involving discrimination against transgender employees, even cases that sound like blatant sexual harassment independent of the status of the employee. That is, Trump's EEOC is effectively taking the position that transgender employees have no workplace protections even if they're the victim of acts that would be illegal if directed towards a cisgender employee. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/eeoc-moves-to-drop-one-of-its-own-gender-discrimination-cases-to-comply-with-trumps-order
All-inclusive Gender Resort
ok so dicta. as in "oh that's just dicta" to dismiss having to follow something... i think we need a new word to dismiss the executive orders written on napkins that aren't actually law, to convince people they don't have to comply... i'm thinking... dipshitca? dictatorta? needs work, i know.
KaryllTheWarlock
Small note on former FBI director Wray. He resigned voluntarily after Trump threatened to fire him.
