Show Notes
Sarah Isgur and David French discuss the Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court about its mail-in voting executive order. Then the two talk with Mike Fragoso, former chief counsel to then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and partner at Torridon Law, to discuss the food truck nature of Senate judicial nomination.
The Agenda:
–Additional restrictions on mail-in voting
– The headline-to-effects ratio is out of control
– Judicial nominees and the filibuster
– All about the Congressional Review Act
–Mutual combat at the gas station
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