SCOTUS Deadlocks On Major Religion Case

Summary

What a Day Podcast Summary Episode: SCOTUS Deadlocks On Major Religion Case | Release Date: May 23, 2025

Host: Jane Coston | Produced by Crooked Media

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Supreme Court Deadlock on Oklahoma's Religious Charter School Case

[00:02 - 03:26]
Jane Coston opens the episode by highlighting two major news items: the Justice Department's murder charges against a suspect linked to the Israeli embassy killings in D.C., and the U.S. Treasury's plans to discontinue the penny. However, the primary focus is on the recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) deadlock concerning the establishment of a religious charter school in Oklahoma.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court split 4-4 on the case, upholding the Oklahoma Supreme Court's decision to block the creation of the school. The deadlock occurred because Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself, leading to an even split among the remaining justices. This decision leaves in place the lower court's ruling, preventing the state from establishing and funding a religious charter school.

Jane Coston notes, “We don't know who. The opinion didn't say how the justices voted. And because Justice Amy Coney Barrett had recused herself from the case, we got a deadlock.” Leah Littman, host of Crooked Media's Strict Scrutiny podcast and author of How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes, explains the implications of this deadlock.

Implications of the SCOTUS Deadlock

[02:14 - 03:26]
Leah Littman expresses concern that the deadlock "is resulting in the significance of this decision being underplayed," emphasizing that the ruling signals a potential shift among Republican appointees towards allowing state-funded religious schools. She adds, “This was a momentous change about the structure of government that the court just dialed in.”

Other Significant SCOTUS Cases and Upcoming Decisions

[03:26 - 06:34]
Coston and Littman delve into additional major cases the Supreme Court has addressed this term:

1. Mahmoud vs. Taylor: This case examines whether a school district can include LGBTQ reading materials and whether parents have the constitutional right to opt their children out based on religious beliefs.

2. Religious Charity Exemption Case: Focuses on whether a religious organization can be exempt from the state's unemployment compensation scheme, specifically regarding tax exemptions and public funds.

Looking ahead, Leah Littman anticipates a busy decision season with cases on the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act, birthright citizenship, and the legality of banning gender-affirming care for minors. She warns of increased shadow docket activity, where the Court handles cases outside its regular schedule, often resulting in swift and unelaborated decisions.

Shadow Docket Decisions and Administrative Interference

[05:30 - 08:05]
The discussion shifts to shadow docket decisions, highlighting SCOTUS's role in cases not formally scheduled on their calendar. Notably, the Court allowed former President Donald Trump to temporarily remove leaders from two independent agencies:

• Merit Systems Protection Board: Handles federal employment disputes.
• National Labor Relations Board: Protects private sector workers' rights.

Leah Littman expresses concern over the administration’s repeated attempts to bypass lower court rulings, stating, “They're in luxury resorts with life-size replicas of Hagrid's Hut,” alluding to potential frivolous justifications for administrative actions. She emphasizes that the Court is likely to continue issuing shadow docket orders, citing a recent decision revoking Temporary Protected Status for over 300,000 individuals.

Ongoing Immigration Legal Crisis

[08:05 - 09:45]
Coston brings attention to the escalating constitutional crisis surrounding immigration. A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration from deporting individuals to countries other than their own without adequate legal challenges. Despite this, the administration has proceeded by transporting migrants to South Sudan, ignoring the court's order.

Leah Littman criticizes the administration's actions, highlighting that officials are circumventing due process: “They are doing the exact thing the United States Supreme Court just told them they cannot do.” She fears the lack of enforcement against administration officials could lead to continued violations of court orders.

Justice Department Charges in Israeli Embassy Killings

[11:38 - 15:46]
Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro, announces charges against the suspect responsible for the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington D.C. The victims, Jeroen Leshinsky (Israeli) and Sarah Milgram (American), were killed outside the Capitol Jewish Museum. Surveillance footage captured the suspect declaring, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” while claiming to be unarmed.

Pirro states, “Violence against anyone based on their religion is an act of cowardice... Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated, especially in the nation's capital.” The case is being investigated as both a hate crime and an act of terrorism.

Palestinian Humanitarian Crisis and Aid to Gaza

[14:15 - 15:32]
The podcast updates listeners on the dire situation in Gaza, where Palestinian Health Minister Majid Abu Ramadan reports that 29 children and elderly individuals have died from starvation-related causes over two days. Israeli airstrikes have killed at least 52 more Palestinians. Despite Israel's three-month blockade on Gaza, minimal aid has recently been allowed, with 90 truckloads entering the region. However, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs criticizes the aid as insufficient, emphasizing the urgent need for more substantial support.

Representative Lamonica McIver's Legal Troubles

[15:32 - 16:49]
The episode covers the legal issues faced by Representative Lamonica McIver, a New Jersey Democrat charged with assaulting officers at an immigration detention center. These charges arose during an oversight visit where tensions escalated, leading to her being slapped with felony counts of assaulting and intimidating federal officials. Contradicting the charges, video evidence released by the Department of Homeland Security seems to show McIver being forcefully moved, prompting questions about the validity of the charges.

McIver voiced her frustration, stating, “Our democracy is at stake here... This is a situation where we have a president who is taking away the basic things that we love about America.”

US Treasury to Phase Out the Penny

[16:49 - 17:44]
Jane Coston discusses the U.S. Treasury's decision to stop producing new pennies by early 2026, citing the high production cost as the primary reason. President Donald Trump advocated for this change, noting that producing a penny costs more than its face value. The Treasury aims to save over $56 million annually by eliminating the penny. Historically, pennies have been in circulation since 1793, with Abraham Lincoln's image first appearing in 1909.

Climate Crisis and the Four-Day Work Week

[17:45 - 22:23]
Shifting focus to climate change, Coston introduces Anya Zolajowski, Crooked Media’s climate correspondent, to discuss the proposal of a four-day work week as a strategy to mitigate environmental impact. Zolajowski explains that reducing workdays can lower carbon emissions by decreasing commuting and energy use in office spaces. Studies from the UK indicate that a standardized four-day work week could reduce the country's carbon footprint by 127 million tons annually, comparable to removing 27 million cars from the roads.

She emphasizes that the environmental benefits are coupled with increased productivity and worker well-being. However, Zolajowski acknowledges the need for equitable implementation across different professions to ensure widespread benefits.

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Conclusion

Jane Coston wraps up the episode by promoting Crooked Media's other platforms and upcoming content, including Leah Littman's podcast Strict Scrutiny. She reiterates the importance of staying informed and encourages listeners to subscribe and share the podcast.

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This summary captures the key discussions and insights from the "SCOTUS Deadlocks On Major Religion Case" episode of What a Day by Crooked Media. For a deeper dive into each topic, listening to the full episode is recommended.

Transcript

[Jane Coston]

It's Friday, May 23rd. I'm Jane Coston. This is what a Day. The show that's excited to watch the new Mission Impossible movie. Tonight, to confirm my personal hunch that Tom Cruise firmly believes he cannot die and is going to keep trying to prove it. On today's show, the Justice Department files murder charges against a man suspected of killing two staffers at the Israeli embassy in D.C. and the U.S. treasury gets ready to bid adieu to the penny. But let's start with the Supreme Court again. On Thursday, the court did two very important things. First, it deadlocked on a case involving the creation of a religious charter school in Oklahoma. The justices 4, 4 split leaves in place the ruling of the Oklahoma Supreme Court, which had blocked the school. And yes, this was a very big deal. When the school and the state's charter board went to the US Supreme Court in a bid to reverse the Oklahoma court's ruling, it's clear that at least one of the court's conservatives seemed a little concerned about the possible precedent a state creating and funding a religious school might set. We don't know who. The opinion didn't say how the justices voted. And because Justice Amy Coney Barrett had recused herself from the case, we got a deadlock. This was a case about state promoted religion, an issue that will definitely come up again. What else will come up again? Shadow docket decisions, which is just a sinister sounding term for when the court weighs in on cases that aren't on its official schedule. The justices did just that late Thursday when they let President Donald Trump temporarily remove the leaders of two independent the Merit Systems Protection Board, which handles employment disputes, and the National Labor Relations Board, which helps protect private sector workers. And that's before we even get to all the drama happening in the lower courts with the battles there over major parts of Trump's agenda, especially immigration. So to talk more about the court's non ruling ruling on religious charter schools, the upcoming decisions, we can anticipate fear and the big legal fights playing out in the lower courts. I called up Leah Littman. She's the host of Crooked Media's Strict Scrutiny and the author of the New York Times bestseller How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe theories, and bad vibes. Leah, welcome back to what a Day.

[Leah Littman]

Thanks for having me.

[Jane Coston]

So let's start with the Supreme Court's deadlock Thursday in a major case about the division between religion and the federal government. This is about whether Oklahoma could use government money to fund the nation's first public religious charter school. What does a deadlock mean for the school, the state, and everyone else?

[Leah Littman]

So I worry that the deadlock is resulting in the significance of this decision being underplayed, because the deadlock means the lower court's decision, which held the religious public charter school was disallowed stand. So Oklahoma doesn't have to create this school. But the important part is this signaled for Republican appointees. We're going to say a state was going to be required to create a religious public charter school simply because it had a public charter school system for secular schools. So the idea that there were four justices already on board with that proposition is stunning, given that just a few years ago, everyone thought the Constitution prohibited states from operating religious public schools. And this case or this issue is gonna come back to the Supreme Court when Justice Barrett isn't recused. There are already some cases percolating in the lower court. So what does it mean? It means they will look at whatever the next case is afresh as they were looking at this one.

[Jane Coston]

And there are other big religious cases the court heard this term. Can you remind us about those two other cases and their potential constitutional stakes?

[Leah Littman]

Yes. So the other big one, I think, is Mahmoud versus Taylor. That's another case about religion in public schools. And that case is about whether a school district could include LGBTQ reading material and whether parents had a constitutional right to opt their children out of instruction that they believe violated their religious beliefs because reading children's storybooks with LGBT characters was an affront to their religious convictions. So that's one case. The second case is about whether a religious charity is entitled to an exemption from the state's unemployment compensation scheme. So basically, whether a religious organization is entitled to a tax exemption and public funds.

[Jane Coston]

So the time period between Memorial Day and the end of June is not fun because it's really SCOTUS decision season. What are some of the big cases we're waiting for in regards to decisions?

[Leah Littman]

So we've already talked about Mahmoud versus Taylor, the LGBTQ instructional reading material case, and then there's also a case about the constitutionality of the Voting Rights act and whether it is actually unconstitutional racial discrimination for a state to try to comply with the Voting Rights act, or at least the parts of it that require states to ensure that voters of color and language minorities have the opportunity to select the candidates of their choice. Another case is the birthright citizenship case that the court heard at the end of the term, whether the lower courts have the power to block the unconstitutional and illegal executive order on a nationwide basis. There is also scurmetti the case about whether it is unconstitutional discrimination for a state to ban gender affirming care for minors. So it's going to be a big decision season. And this isn't even taking into account all of the Trump administration cases that could reach the court on the shadow docket.

[Jane Coston]

Yeah. The administration has also repeatedly asked the court to intervene on its behalf when lower court judges rule against them. So do you think we could see some unusual Supreme Court activity over the summer when the justices usually go, you.

[Leah Littman]

Know, yachting or PJ ing personal jetting or whatever the case may be?

[Jane Coston]

Whatever.

[Leah Littman]

They're in luxury resorts with life size replicas of Hagrid's Hut. Not to point to any specific examples.

[Jane Coston]

Sure.

[Leah Littman]

Yes. We are certain to get shadow docket orders over the summer. And the Supreme Court basically can't control what when the government takes those up to the Supreme Court and when lower courts might provoke the need for the Supreme Court's consideration. I mean, earlier this week, we got the unannounced, unexplained, unexpected decision revoking essentially temporary protected status for more than 300,000 people. And it's likely that there are going to be some similarly huge shadow docket decisions that come down this summer.

[Jane Coston]

I want to pivot away from the Supreme Court a bit to the lower courts and the ongoing constitutional crisis we're seeing around immigration because a federal judge in Boston had explicitly blocked the Trump administration from deporting people to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to challenge the removals. And the government's just doing it anyway by putting a group of migrants on a plane bound for South Sudan. The judge says the administration, quote, unquestionably violated his order. So what happens next year?

[Leah Littman]

So the district judge said he was holding off on contempt proceedings, but what happens now as to the men who were put on that plane to Sudan, is he said the government needs to provide them with sufficient process to have their immigration claims, like claims for asylum or other forms of relief from removal, heard in a way that comports with due process. But he added, it's permissible for the government to do that while those men are abroad. And I'm very worried that he basically gave the administration cover to say, sure, we'll just pull up a zoom and put, I don't know, Stephen Miller on the other end of the line and say, do you have a credible fear of persecution? They will say, yes, Stephen Miller will disagree with that and we will consider that for a little bit longer. And that that will conclude the resolution of their immigration proceedings. You know, that's a slight exaggeration, but I just worry they're not actually going to get fulsome process.

[Jane Coston]

But also, what about the administration officials who facilitated this? I mean, how is this not contempt? What do you have to do to get contempt of court?

[Leah Littman]

It is obviously contempt. They are doing the exact thing the United States Supreme Court just told them they cannot do. Provide a mere 24 hours notice in English only without sufficient guidance to tell someone how to challenge their possible expulsion. It's absolutely contempt. And yet the courts thus far, I think have been too scared to basically say that. And I just worry that lets them get away with it.

[Jane Coston]

So where does this all leave us? Because on this issue in particular, it's not the first time the administration's been accused of violating a court order. And yet they just keep fucking doing it. And they faced a lot of lower court decisions that haven't gone in their favor in just the few short months they've been in power. So what are you keeping an eye on going forward?

[Leah Littman]

Whether any court will actually be allowed to hold any official in the Trump administration in contempt, whether any court will be willing to do so, and then eventually whether the Republican appointees on the Supreme Court intervene to say once again, Donald Trump and the Trump administration are above the law.

[Jane Coston]

Leah, as always, thank you so much for joining us.

[Leah Littman]

Thanks for having me.

[Jane Coston]

We spoke to Leah before the Supreme Court issued its unsigned decision about the independent government agencies. We got back in touch with her for her reaction. She said the decision basically blows up a precedent set back in the 1930s.

[Leah Littman]

The Republican justices basically overruled Humphrey's executor, the case that had upheld independent agencies on the shadow docket, without so much as mentioning the case. Oh, but they want you to know at least one independent agency can still exist, and that's the Federal Reserve Board. Because blowing up the administrative state, they're down with that. But blowing up the economy and their bank accounts and their billionaire BFFs bank accounts, that's a little too far. Anyways, this is a momentous change about the structure of government that the court just dialed in.

[Jane Coston]

That was Leah Littman, co host of Crooked's legal podcast Strict Scrutiny and author of the new book Law Flawless. We'll get to more of the news in a moment, but if you like the show, make sure to subscribe, leave a five star review on Apple Podcasts, watch us on YouTube and share with your friends. More to come after some ads. What a day is brought to you by Deleteme Deleteme makes it easy, quick and safe to remove your personal data online. At a time when surveillance and data breaches are common enough to make everyone vulnerable, it's easier than ever to find personal information about people online. Having your address, phone number and family members names hanging out on the Internet can have actual consequences in the real world and makes everyone vulnerable. With Deleteme, you can protect your personal privacy or the privacy of your business from doxxing attacks before sensitive information can be exploited. As someone with an active online presence, privacy is really important to me. So take control of your data and keep your private life private by signing up for Deleteme now at a special discount for our listeners. Get 20% off your Delete Me plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com wad and use promo code WAD at checkout. The only way to get 20% off is to go to JoinDeleteMe.com WAD and enter code WAD at checkout. That's JoinDeleteMe.com WAD Codewad we all belong outside.

[Anya Zolajowski]

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[Jane Coston]

Here'S what else we're following today.

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Head of Lines.

[Jeanine Pirro]

This is a horrific crime and these crimes are not going to be tolerated by me and by this office. A young couple at the beginning of their life's journey, about to be engaged in another country, had their bodies removed in the cold of the night in a foreign city in a body bag.

[Jane Coston]

Interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jeanine Pirro announced charges on Thursday against the man accused in the fatal shooting of two Israeli embassy staff members in Washington. Pirro said the suspect is charged with murder in the first degree and other crimes.

[Jeanine Pirro]

Let me also say that violence against anyone based on their religion is an act of cowardice. It is not an act of a hero. It is the kind of case that we will vigorously pursue. Anti Semitism will not be tolerated, especially in the nation's capital, officials say.

[Jane Coston]

Jeroen Leshinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgram, an American, were shot and killed Wednesday night outside the Capitol Jewish Museum after an event held there by the American Jewish Committee. According to court documents. The shooting was caught on surveillance video. The FBI affidavit says the suspect told police, quote, I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza. I am unarmed. The document says he also shouted free Palestine as officers escorted him from the museum. Pirro says the killings will be investigated as a hate crime and crime of terrorism.

[Anya Zolajowski]

In each birth, some of the newborns are underweight and they need intensive care.

[Jane Coston]

To go, so they live only a.

[Anya Zolajowski]

Couple of days after they succumb.

[Jane Coston]

On Thursday, the Palestinian health minister, Majid Abu Ramadan, said that 29 children and elderly people had died of starvation related causes over the last two days. At least 52 more Palestinians were also killed by Israeli airstrikes. For almost three months, Israeli forces have imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip, preventing any aid from reaching Palestinians. On Sunday night, however, under pressure from allied nations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he would temporarily allow minimal aid into the region. About 90 truckloads of aid entered Gaza Thursday after being held at the border, where aid is inspected before distribution. Due to security concerns because of the relatively small number of trucks, some aid workers were worried about the possibility of looting. Minister Ramadan said most of what came in was flour for bakeries. Baby food and medical equipment were also included in the aid. Israeli officials say they have allowed 100 more truckloads of supplies into the region. However, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs said that the aid reaching Palestinians is, quote, unquote, nowhere near enough to meet the vast needs in Gaza and that much more must be allowed in.

[Unknown]

To have these charges put against me, to see the possibility of being imprisoned for such a long time for these charges, it's really unfortunate, but at the same time it's truly sad for America.

[Jane Coston]

Representative Lamonica McIver, the New Jersey Democrat who was charged with assaulting officers in an immigration detention center, spoke, spoke with Crooked's pod Save America on Thursday. Representative McIver was one of the Democratic members of Congress who conducted an oversight visit. Newark Mayor Raz Baraka was also at the Delaney Hall Immigration detention center earlier this month. During the visit, things escalated and Mayor Baraka was arrested on trespassing charges. Those charges were later dropped, but this week, McIver was slapped with two felony criminal counts of assaulting, resisting, intimidating, and interfering with federal officials. But a video released by the Department of Homeland Security to support the charges doesn't appear to show that. If anything, it looks like the congresswoman was being pushed around in a very uncool mosh pit.

[Unknown]

We know that our democracy is at stake here. We've seen Trump strip away pieces and pieces of our democracy each and every day. And this is a bigger situation than just me. You know, it's a bigger situation than just the judge in Wisconsin. This is a situation where we have a president who is taking away the basic things that we love about America.

[Jane Coston]

Check out representative Lamonica McIver's full interview on pods, Save America's YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts. After more than 200 years in circulation, the penny is headed to the big piggy bank in the sky. President Trump called for the change in a February post on Truth Social, and on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the US treasury will stop circulating new pennies by early 2026. The treasury says there won't be enough of the coins in circulation to support everyday cash transactions, so businesses will have to round prices up or down to the nearest 5 cents. Wait, why did we give them the option of rounding up? I digress. In his social media post calling for the end of the penny, President Trump cited the high cost of the coin's production. Here's a Fox News reporter doing his best. Trump read. Take a look at this, everyone, he says. For far too long, the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents.

[Jeanine Pirro]

This is so wasteful.

[Jane Coston]

I have instructed my secretary of the U.S. treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nation's budget, even if it's a penny. At a time last year, the cost of producing pennies jumped by 20% to 3.69 cents per coin. The treasury expects that the change will save the department more than $56 million annually. The first US pennies were made in 1793 and featured a woman with windblown hair. Abraham Lincoln didn't make it onto the coin until 1909, commemorating his 100th birthday. And that's the news. One more thing. Solving the climate crisis is hard. Really, really hard. Not just because of the scale of what would be needed to mitigate climate change, but because many voters just don't want to do it. For example, while voters polled by the Pew research center in 2023 said that too little was being done to protect the environment, a majority of those surveyed didn't want to phase out gasoline powered cars and trucks by 2035, and they weren't interested in switching their gas appliances to electric alternatives. But perhaps voters might be interested in working one fewer day a week. That's the argument multiple studies are making that a four day work week might not just be good for workers across industries, but also good for the environment. We'll be embarking on a four day work week after the Memorial Day weekend, but maybe everyone should. For more, I spoke with Anya Zolajowski, she's Crooked's climate correspondent. So you don't have to convince me about a four day work week. I love this idea, but is this an actual idea and how does it work across industries?

[Anya Zolajowski]

Yeah, great question. Four day work weeks have generated like a ton of buzz and people are taking them really seriously. And it's not just about more time for you or for me and whatever we do on our weekends, but it's also about productivity. You know, it does increase. We've seen pilot projects in the UK and South Africa and they found the same thing and corporate revenue has even gone up. But you asked a really good point about, you know, who gets to enjoy this kind of four day work week, and we're seeing this across professions. However, there's always the class issue where not everyone would get to benefit from this, you know, equitably and equally. I think the news here is that if more and more people work less and less, that is an underrated way for us to fight climate change.

[Jane Coston]

Now presumably research would confirm this. What have studies found?

[Anya Zolajowski]

Studies have found that shorter work weeks and importantly, without pay cuts or without lower pay offer a ton of environmental benefits. So for one thing, countries around the world with shorter work weeks or fewer working hours tend to have lower emissions. And a UK based study from 2021 found that a standardized four day workweek could shrink the UK's carbon footprint by 127 million million tons per year. That's like taking 27 million cars off the road. And so four day work week isn't just about mental health and productivity, it's also about just helping planet Earth.

[Jane Coston]

Now, I have to imagine that this has a lot to do with commuting, office space, et cetera.

[Anya Zolajowski]

Yeah, commuting is definitely part of the story by shifting to a four day work week. That's a whole day when most people don't have to travel by cars or buses to get to work. It's also about relying less on energy intensive spaces, so we save there. But then for those people who work from home, there's also an incentive to work less. We actually consume a lot when we work from home. That might mean relying on services like Uber Eats or Doordash for your meals or ordering your supplies on sites like Amazon. And so by having more time for yourself, you might have more time to cook for yourself or to run your own errands and walk to the store to get your supplies or your groceries. And then the fun part here is that when we have more time for leisure and fun, we actually naturally gravitate to activities that emit less. So think about reading or journaling or playing guitar, going to the park to meet your friends for beers. Just naturally we are emitting less when we have more leisure time.

[Jane Coston]

I love it. Inya, thank you so much for joining me.

[Anya Zolajowski]

Thank you so much. Always a pleasure.

[Jane Coston]

That was my conversation with Crooked Climate correspondent Enya Zolajowski. This segment was supported by our nonprofit partner, Crooked Ideas. Before we go if you enjoyed Leah's legal insights on our show today, check out her podcast Strict Scrutiny where she and her co hosts break down the legal chaos coming out of the highest courts shaping our rights and democracy. They'll also be deep diving into the court's 44 decision on Oklahoma's religious charter school case. The episode drops on Monday. Tune in to Strict scrutiny wherever you get your podcasts or on YouTube. That's all for today. If you like the show, make sure you subscribe. Leave a review Buy us a membership to Mar A Lago and tell your friends to listen. And if you're into reading and not just about how membership to Mar A Lago trumps Florida Resort and now costs $1 million. Like me, what a Day is also a nightly newsletter. Check it out and [e-mail] subscribe I'm Jane Coastin and think of the journalism we could do poolside with our good friends in the Republican Party. What a Day is a production of Cricket Music Media. It's recorded and mixed by Desmond Taylor. Our associate producers are Raven Yamamoto and Emily Foer. Our producer is Michelle Aloy. We had production help today from Johanna Case, Joseph Dutra, Greg Walters and Julia Claire. Our senior producer is Erica Morrison and our executive producer is Adrienne Hill. Our theme music is by Colin Gilliard and Kashaka. Our production staff is proudly Unionized with the Writers Guild of America East.

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