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Fresh Air - Failure & Dysfunction In The Secret Service on Stitcher. ‎The Ezra Klein Show: The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent on Apple Podcasts. On May 12, House Republicans voted to remove Representative Liz Cheney, the third-ranking Republican in the House, from her leadership post.

‎The Ezra Klein Show: The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent on Apple Podcasts

Her transgression? Vocally rebuking the claim that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump. But Cheney’s ouster is just the latest plot development in a story about the contemporary G.O.P. that goes back farther than Nov. 3, 2020, and even Nov. 8, 2016. Over the past decade, the party has decimated its former leadership class. John Boehner and Paul Ryan were pushed out.

So how did the Republican Party get here? Nicole Hemmer is the author of “Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics,” an associate research scholar with the Obama Presidency Oral History Project and a host of the podcasts “Past/Present” and “This Day in Esoteric Political History.” References: Messengers of the Right: Conservative Media and the Transformation of American Politics by Nicole Hemmer “George W. Recommendations: The Improvement Association on Stitcher. Radiolab: Null and Void - A discussion of Jury Nullifcation in the U.S. which allows for a jury to return a not guilty verdict on the basis that a law is unjust. Today, a hidden power that is either the cornerstone of our democracy or a trapdoor to anarchy.

Radiolab: Null and Void - A discussion of Jury Nullifcation in the U.S. which allows for a jury to return a not guilty verdict on the basis that a law is unjust

Should a juror be able to ignore the law? From a Quaker prayer meeting in the streets of London, to riots in the streets of LA, we trace the history of a quiet act of rebellion and struggle with how much power “we the people” should really have. Produced by Matt Kielty and Tracie Hunte Special thanks to Darryl K. Brown, professor of law at the University of Virginia, Andrew Leipold, professor of law at the University of Illinois, at Urbana-Champaign, Nancy King, professor of law at Vanderbilt University, Buzz Scherr law professor at University of New Hampshire, Eric Verlo and attorneys David Lane, Mark Sisto, David Kallman and Paul Grant.

Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate. Without Fail: The Man Who Changed the Future of Florida Elections - Profile of the formerly incarcerated activist who pushed for a ballot initiative to remove felony disenfranchisement in Florida. ALEX BLUMBERG: From Gimlet, I’m Alex Blumberg and this is Without Fail, the show where I talk with artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, visionaries of all kinds, about their successes and their failures, and what they’ve learned from both.

Without Fail: The Man Who Changed the Future of Florida Elections - Profile of the formerly incarcerated activist who pushed for a ballot initiative to remove felony disenfranchisement in Florida

For years, there was a battle playing out in Florida. A battle over a law that said: if you were found guilty of a felony, you lost your right to vote in Florida. Not just for the duration of your sentence, but in almost all cases, permanently, no matter what kind of felony you’d been found guilty of. And so this law meant that for a lot of people — citizens living in Florida — they didn’t have a say when it came time to vote for their local mayor, or their state representative. They couldn’t cast a ballot in a presidential race... DESMOND MEADE: At its height, Florida disenfranchised 1.68 million people. ALEX BLUMBERG: Mm-hmm. ALEX BLUMBERG: Wow. DESMOND MEADE: Right? That man you heard, by the way, laying out all those stats, he is our guest today. This American Life: Our Town - Part One - An in depth look at how a small town in Alabama changes after an influx of immigrants.

This American Life: Our Town - Part Two - An in depth look at how a small town in Alabama changes after an influx of immigrants. Planet Money: Ungerrymandering Florida - A look at how hard it can be to practically remove gerrymandering from politics.

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