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Supreme Court Latest; New Close Rikers Czar; PEN World Voices & Global Free Expression; Cool Job Posting
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 29
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On today's show:Â
- Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate's "Political Gabfest" podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged (Random House, 2019), offers legal analysis of today's arguments before the Supreme Court over Temporary Protected Status for certain refugees, plus reacts to the Louisiana redistricting decision.
- Dana Kaplan, criminal justice reform expert, talks about her new role as Mayor Mamdani's "Close Rikers Czar," leading NYC's efforts to close Rikers in favor of borough-based jails, as required by law.
- Clarisse Rosaz Shariyf, co-chief executive officer of PEN America, and Dinaw Mengestu, novelist and writer and president of PEN America, talk about free expression around the world and the World Voices Festival underway.
- Listeners call in to share about an interesting or out-of-the-box job they are hiring for, or a job they recently got that they'd like to talk about.
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