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The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 23, 2022

Coming up on today's show:

U.S. Representative (D--NY3, parts of Long Island and Queens) Tom Suozzi, now running for the Democratic nomination for governor, makes his final pitch to voters as he campaigns to be the next governor of New York.
Joan Walsh, The Nation's national affairs correspondent, talks about the latest national political news, including Biden's push to pause the gas tax, the Senate's gun deal and more.
The Supreme Court is expected to release an opinion in the case West Virginia v Environmental Protection Agency soon. Michael Gerrard, professor of law at Columbia Law School and the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, previews what the case is about, and the implications for combating climate change, especially if the court rules against the EPA.
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: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019) and Herb Pinder, WNYC's race and justice editor, analyze the Supreme Court's decision in a major New York gun case -- which struck down a law that put strict restrictions on who can carry a gun in public.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as soon as they are available.

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