After months of delay, House lawmakers this weekend passed a package of bills to send foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. Included in that package of legislation is also a bill that could end up banning TikTok. Hard-right Republicans are threatening to oust Speaker Mike Johnson over his decision to bring Ukraine aid up for a vote. At the same time, the legislation heads to the Senate for consideration later this week.
The Supreme Court hears a case today over one of the country’s most heartbreaking and increasingly intractable issues: homelessness. In Grants Pass, Oregon v. Johnson, the justices will weigh whether penalizing people experiencing homelessness is “cruel and unusual” and, therefore, a violation of the Eight Amendment. Jeremiah Hayden, staff reporter for Street Roots in Portland, explains what’s at stake in the case.
And in headlines: We’ve got a roundup of climate news in honor of Earth Day, opening statements begin in former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial, and workers at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee join the United Auto Workers union.
Show Notes:
This Ken Is On Trial
Morocco Races To Save Quake Victims
The Tension Over Tourism In Hawai'i
Kill Drill
You Are Not A Loan
COVID Surge Protection
Proud Boys Swallowed Their Pride
Why You Gotta Be So Rudy?
Only Fun Drugs Should Cost Money
Trump's March To Trial
The Persecution Of Prosectors
The Trump Mugshot Seen 'Round the World
Not My Debate, Not My Monkeys
The Teacher Shortage Cheat Sheet with Becky Pringle
We Give It A One Out Of Tennessee
Beating Bans On Gender-Affirming Care
The DeSantis Documents
Your Rights Are Not Set In Mifepristone
The Future Of Tribes with Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr
Trump's Fourth Indictment
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