Episode

6/25 Shayana Kadidal: The Fight Against NSA Spying

June 25, 2013

Sam broke down the Supreme Court’s gutting of key provisions of the Voting Rights Act.

Shayana Kadida, an attorney with The Center For Constitutional Rights , explained his work against NSA surveillance, why lawyers may be targeted under the NSA spying program, The problem with the term metadata and the Obama Administration’s stunning lack of transparency.

On The Better Half: more on conservatives judicial activism, the Supreme Court punts on Affirmative Action, Andrew Ross Sorkin provides a disingenuous apology for almost calling for Glenn Greenwald’s arrest, Louie Gohmert says that Sex Ed is just like the Soviet Union and your IMs.

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