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:
The GOP In The 305
Abortion Rights Wins Elections
Trump Testified And It Was Chaos
In The Blinken of an Eye
The Push For A Pause
Exit to Egypt
The Tragedy of War, Made Worse
Not On My Ballot
The Global Plea For Peace
A Dark Day For Maine
The Real House Speaker of D.C.
Never Have I Emmer
The War Next Door
The Worst People for the Worst Job
All Talk And No Speaker
An All-Consuming Rage
Biden's High-Wire Act
Reopening Gaza's Lifeline
The Deepening Crisis in Gaza
The Fact of the Matter
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