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On today’s pod, Sarah and David give us an update on the goings on at the Supreme Court, with an in-depth look at a union takings case out West. “A California regulation allows union representatives to meet with farm workers at their work sites for up to three hours a day for as many as 120 days a year,” Sarah explains. “And so the question is: Is this a per se taking under the Fifth Amendment?” After Sarah and David discuss oral arguments for the case, they do a deep dive on a 9th Circuit Second Amendment case, Twitter’s lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, and a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case on the ministerial exception. They wrap things up with some much needed Netflix recommendations and a conversation about D.C. statehood.
Show Notes:
-Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid and Supreme Court oral arguments.
-New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett and Holloway v. Garland.
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Regarding DC statehood, why not return all the land other than the Capitol and other Fed Gov't buildings to Maryland? It would increase MD's population by 12% and take them right up to the average state population. This gives those people representation in the House and Senate and doesn't add another tiny state that gets 2 senators. DC would be the 3rd smallest state in population at 712k people. The average state size is 6.5M, the median is 4.5M. So yes, there are smaller states (one of which is WY, which at least is HUGE in land area so kind of makes more sense??) but doesn't make sense to me that MD gave this land originally, so let's make a city into a state. Why wouldn't this be the universal to response to DC's cries for representation in the US House and Senate? Oh yeah... it's not about their cries for representation but a method to get 2 more Dem Senators.
Puerto Rico should be the 51st state. And Guam should be 52nd. The territories would be better able to have needs addressed by the Feds if they were states. I don’t care if DC becomes a state one way or the other. It seems likely to me that citizens of the District are perfectly able to have their needs addressed by the Feds without statehood given that most of the political and professional members of the Federal government either live there or spend a huge amount of time there. So I don’t really understand why they need statehood but I can’t think of a reason to prevent them from becoming the nation’s tiniest state.