Monday Morning Politics; NJ 11 Primary Preview; Haitians Losing TPS; Why Some People Can Ignore Politics
On today's show:
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Andrew Weissmann, professor of practice at NYU School of Law, co-host of the podcast Main Justice and and the co-author of The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary (W. W. Norton & Company, 2024), offers legal analysis of the news of the day, including the DOJ's release of the rest of the Epstein files, the DOJ's civil rights investigation into the Pretti killing and more.
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Early voting is underway in the primary to fill now-Governor Sherrill's seat in Congress. Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist New Jersey politics reporter and the author of The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), runs through the many candidates and their bases of support, ahead of the election on Thursday.
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President Trump is stripping Haitians of the right to work in the United States. And because Haitians make up a large share of the health care workforce, the implications may be widely felt. Macollvie Neel, special projects editor at The Haitian Times, discusses the looming uncertainty for the hundreds of thousands of Haitians set to lose Temporary Protected Status.
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Sigal Samuel, senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect, talks about why many people in America are able to ignore politics and what our duty as citizens should be under an authoritarian government.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
