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The Supreme Court, the Dismissal, and George Floyd · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is about to hand down a few
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  Speaker 1: decisions that could impact your life.
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  Speaker 2: Earthright citizenship is a disgrace.
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  Speaker 1: A shocking courtroom twist in the Virginia school shooting case.
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  Speaker 1: All a far deceased, and six years after George Floyd's murder,
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  Speaker 1: did America actually change?
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  Speaker 3: It feels like the win is heavier than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: It's Monday, May twenty fifth, from the Black Effect Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. This is Front Page, and here are
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  Speaker 1: the day's biggest stories plus today on the Monday Brief,
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  Speaker 1: three things on our radar this week. Stay with me,
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  Speaker 1: So a lot to discuss today, Front Pagers. The Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court is about to deliver some of the biggest rulings
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  Speaker 1: of its term, and most Americans don't even know what's
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  Speaker 1: coming yet. So by the end of June, the justices
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  Speaker 1: will hand down decisions on cases that will touch the
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  Speaker 1: line of everyone listening, immigration, voting, gun rights, economic policy.
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  Speaker 1: The next month is going to reshape this country in
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  Speaker 1: ways most of us are not prepared for. So here
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  Speaker 1: are some of the big cases you need to know about. First,
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. President Trump signed an executive order on his
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  Speaker 1: first day back in the White House trying to end
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  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship for children born to parents who are in
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  Speaker 1: the country illegally or here on temporary visas.
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  Speaker 2: It would be a disgrace if the Supreme Court of
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  Speaker 2: the United States allows that to happen. Remember what I said,
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  Speaker 2: twenty to twenty five percent of the people coming into
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  Speaker 2: our country will come in through birthright citizenship. They'll become citizens,
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  Speaker 2: and it'll cost us numbers that are I don't even
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  Speaker 2: think they're doable. And it's all up to a couple
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  Speaker 2: of people.
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  Speaker 1: The Supreme Court heard arguments in April, and by all accounts,
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  Speaker 1: a majority of justices appeared ready to invalidate the order.
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  Speaker 1: But the decision is coming. If the President wins over
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  Speaker 1: one hundred years of settled American law, it's undone. The
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  Speaker 1: other big case is Lisa Cook. So we've been talking
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  Speaker 1: about Lisa Cook on the Breakfast Club. She's a member
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  Speaker 1: of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors. She's the first
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  Speaker 1: black woman to ever serve on the FED. President Trump
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  Speaker 1: tried to fire her, citing alleged misrepresentations of her mortgage
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  Speaker 1: paperwork from before she was even nominated. She's denied any wrongdoing.
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  Speaker 1: She has not been charged with the crime, and she
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  Speaker 1: sued to keep her job, and so far every court
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  Speaker 1: has led her stay. The Supreme Court heard her case
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  Speaker 1: in January, and the justices appear ready to let her
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  Speaker 1: keep her seat, But the decision is coming any day,
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  Speaker 1: and just months before the November midterms. The Court is
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  Speaker 1: set to decide whether states can count mail in ballots
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  Speaker 1: that are postmarked by election day but arrive a few
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  Speaker 1: days later. The fourteen states and the District of Columbia
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  Speaker 1: allow that grace period. Twenty nine states allow it for
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  Speaker 1: military and overseas ballots. The Republican National Convention and the
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  Speaker 1: Trump administration are asking the Court to invalidate the grace periods.
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  Speaker 1: Mississippi's law is the test case. The court rules with
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  Speaker 1: the RNC, every state with a grace period will have
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  Speaker 1: to start throwing out late arriving votes going into a
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  Speaker 1: midterm election where every margin matters. And there are other
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  Speaker 1: cases too, transgender athletes, gun possessions by marijuana users, whether
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  Speaker 1: the president can fire members of the Federal Trade Commission,
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  Speaker 1: deportation protections for Syrians and Haitians. All of this is
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  Speaker 1: coming by the end of June. So here's where this
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  Speaker 1: matters for you. Every summer for a decade, this country
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  Speaker 1: has waited for the last Monday of the Supreme Court's term.
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  Speaker 1: That's when the biggest decisions come down. And this year,
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  Speaker 1: that Monday could rewrite American immigration law, voting law, and
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  Speaker 1: economic law in a single morning. I'll be talking about
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  Speaker 1: these stories on the Breakfast Club, and I'll be diving
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  Speaker 1: deeper right here on front page on the podcast. The
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  Speaker 1: summer is about to start with a court that is
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  Speaker 1: not done changing the country. Let's talk about the case
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  Speaker 1: out of Newport News. We've been covering it for the
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  Speaker 1: past week. Last week the trial ended and not the
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  Speaker 1: way most people expected. I'm talking about the case of
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  Speaker 1: doctor Ebony Parker. Let's listen to the moment that the
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  Speaker 1: judge dismissed all eight counts against her.
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  Speaker 2: Therefore, I do bring a.
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  Speaker 3: An sense motion to strike a hold on all counts all.
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  Speaker 1: A counts of family child abusing engagement under indictment c R.
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  Speaker 1: The indictment numbers zwero four nine, nine, five four one, death,
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  Speaker 1: zero one through zero eight. So those matters are dismissed.
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  Speaker 1: So the judge in the case basically said what doctor
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  Speaker 1: Parker did was not a crime. So Parker is free today.
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  Speaker 1: Let me catch you up because this one moved fast. So,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Parker was the assistant principal at rich Neeck Elementary
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  Speaker 1: School in January of twenty twenty three. That's when a
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  Speaker 1: six year old student brought a gun to school in
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  Speaker 1: his backpack and shot his first grade teacher, Appy's berner.
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  Speaker 1: She was shot through the hand, through the chest. She survived.
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  Speaker 1: She spent nearly two weeks in the hospital. She had
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  Speaker 1: six surgeries, and she still does not have the full
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  Speaker 1: use of her left hand. And the bullet that nearly
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  Speaker 1: missed her heart is still inside her body. So Parker
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  Speaker 1: was charged with eight pounds of felony child neglect, one
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  Speaker 1: for each bullet in the boy's gun. Each count carried
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  Speaker 1: up to five years in prison, and if convicted on everything,
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  Speaker 1: she could have spent forty years behind bars. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: prosecution's case was simple. Multiple staff members had warned Parker
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  Speaker 1: that the child had a gun. Parker did not search him,
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  Speaker 1: she did not call the police, she did not remove
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  Speaker 1: him from the classroom, and then the shooting happened that afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: But here's where the story changed. The defense filed a
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  Speaker 1: motion to dismiss and they argue that Parker's decisions that
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  Speaker 1: day were not criminal. This is a quote from the
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  Speaker 1: defense attorney. They said, her actions in no way indicated
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  Speaker 1: that she believed there was a firearm in the possession
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  Speaker 1: of the child. And seems like the judge agreed because
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  Speaker 1: Parker never took the stand, she didn't have to. And
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  Speaker 1: outside the courtroom, her defense attorney said, quote, we believe
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  Speaker 1: the right outcome was reached and we are thrilled for
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  Speaker 1: doctor Parker. So here's where this case is today. The
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  Speaker 1: criminal case is over. Doctor Parker is not going to prison.
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  Speaker 1: But if you remember, last November, a civil jury awarded
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  Speaker 1: Abby's Warner ten million dollars from Parker and a civil
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit that ruling still stands. I know Parker has appealed
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  Speaker 1: that the boy's mother was sentenced to nearly four years
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  Speaker 1: in prison for felony, child neglect and federal weapons charges.
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  Speaker 1: The student himself, of course, he was just six years old,
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  Speaker 1: so he will not be charged. So the question that
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  Speaker 1: this pace leaves behind, that we keep going back over
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  Speaker 1: and over, is who is at fault? I mean, when
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  Speaker 1: a six year old brings a gun to school and
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  Speaker 1: shoots his teachers. Is it the staff who ignored the
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  Speaker 1: warning signs? Was that criminal? Because according to the judge,
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  Speaker 1: that's not criminal and the mother you ask me, the
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  Speaker 1: parents bear some responsibility or most of the responsibility staff
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  Speaker 1: and the administration. I don't think so. I kind of
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  Speaker 1: feel like the court got it right. What do you
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  Speaker 1: guys think? Let me know. You can always email me
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  Speaker 1: at front Page with Mimi at gmail dot com. All right,
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  Speaker 1: it's Monday, which means it's time for the Front Page
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  Speaker 1: Monday Brief. Every Monday, I gave you a quick look
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  Speaker 1: are replacing them. That's your Monday brief, And before we
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  Speaker 1: end today, we want to note that today Mark's six
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  Speaker 1: since George Floyd's murder sparked a worldwide protest and outrage
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  Speaker 1: and what many called a racial reckoning in America. After
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  Speaker 1: Floyd was killed by former Minneapolis officer Derek Chauvin in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, companies, schools, government agencies, they all rushed to
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  Speaker 1: embrace diversity initiatives and police reform efforts. But six years later,
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  Speaker 1: much of that momentum has been reversed.
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  Speaker 3: Here we are six years later. Comedians are laughing and
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  Speaker 3: joking about it. Corporations have abandoned the community. There is
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  Speaker 3: an attack on DEI, and so it feels like the
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  Speaker 3: way is heavier than ever before, which means that we
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  Speaker 3: have to double down, like never listening.
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  Speaker 1: And she's right. The broader conversation around race in America
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  Speaker 1: has also shifted. What was once described as a national
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  Speaker 1: reckoning is now often treated as a political and cultural battle,
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  Speaker 1: with many of the reforms that were touted in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty now stalled, challenged, and reversed altogether. So for many people,
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  Speaker 1: the question six years later is no longer whether George
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  Speaker 1: Floyd changed America. But I think it's whether America changed
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  Speaker 1: at all. That's your front page I'm Mimi Brown. This
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