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Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Mail-Ballot Rules, Texas Daycare “Fight Club” Lawsuit & Boosie’s $600K Pardon Fight · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court has put the brakes on President
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  Speaker 1: Trump's plan to change mail-in voting before midterms.
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  Speaker 2: This is an example of the courts once again stepping in,
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  Speaker 2: the highest court in the land, and saying no can do.
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  Speaker 1: And a mother arrives at daycare to find her four-year-old crying,
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  Speaker 1: then sees the surveillance video, why the family is now
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  Speaker 1: suing for more than a million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: I knew from his cry and the look on his
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  Speaker 3: face that something had happened.
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  Speaker 1: And Bootsy says he was promised a presidential pardon for $ 600, 000.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's explaining why that deal ended up in court.
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  Speaker 4: If you think I'm going to let y'all try to
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  Speaker 4: trick me off the street saying that I shouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: did it like that.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wednesday, September 16th. From the Black Effect Podcast Network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mimi Brown. And here are the day's biggest stories.
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  Speaker 1: Stay with me. The Supreme Court has blocked President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: new mail-in ballot rules from taking effect for the midterm elections.
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  Speaker 1: So for this election, states can continue sending mail-in ballots
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  Speaker 1: under the current system. Here's what the Trump administration wanted
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  Speaker 1: to change. States would have had to use new ballot
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  Speaker 1: envelopes with special barcodes and upload voter information to a
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  Speaker 1: postal service system. The Postal Service would then check those
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  Speaker 1: mailings before delivering them. And if a state didn't follow
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  Speaker 1: the new requirements, those ballots could end up being sent
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  Speaker 1: back instead of delivered. But there's a big issue with
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  Speaker 1: the timing voting has already started. Some states are already
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  Speaker 1: sending mail-in ballots, and election officials argued there simply wasn't
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  Speaker 1: enough time to completely change their systems this close to midterms.
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  Speaker 1: A federal judge blocked those rules, and the Trump administration
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  Speaker 1: then asked the Supreme Court to step in and allow
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  Speaker 1: them to take effect anyway. The Supreme Court said no.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think that this is an example of the
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  Speaker 2: courts once again stepping in the highest court in the
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  Speaker 2: land and saying no can do, including most importantly, the
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  Speaker 2: justices that Trump himself picked to serve on the Supreme Court.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So he'll come after them, no doubt. But this is it.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what he says after this.
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  Speaker 1: But this is important. The court did not say the
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  Speaker 1: Postal Service can never impose rules like these. Justice Brett
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  Speaker 1: Kavanaugh said the Postal Service may have the authority to
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  Speaker 1: do it. His concern was trying to make a major
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  Speaker 1: change this close to an election. And Justices Samuel Alito
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  Speaker 1: and Clarence Thomas disagreed and would have allowed the rules
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  Speaker 1: to take effect. So for voters, nothing changes for these midterms,
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  Speaker 1: but the legal fight over mail-in ballot rules could come back.
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  Speaker 1: after the election. In a daycare in Texas is being
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  Speaker 1: accused of running a fight club for kids. A Fort
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  Speaker 1: Worth family is suing Arca Monastery Academy for more than
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  Speaker 1: a million dollars after surveillance video captured what happened to
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  Speaker 1: their four-year-old inside a classroom. It started when another four-year-old
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  Speaker 1: hit him in the back while the teacher had her
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  Speaker 1: back turned. The boys briefly fought, then stopped. A short
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  Speaker 1: time later, substitute teacher Sinea Johnson came into the classroom
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  Speaker 1: and relieved the other teacher for a bathroom break. And
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  Speaker 1: Johnson wasn't just a teacher. She was the mother of
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  Speaker 1: the other little boy. While Johnson was in charge, her
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  Speaker 1: son went after the four-year-old again. But instead of stopping it,
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  Speaker 1: Johnson is accused of getting involved herself. According to the lawsuit,
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  Speaker 1: she grabbed the little boy, shook him, and shoved him away.
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  Speaker 1: Her son then went after him again. And when the
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  Speaker 1: other teacher returned, Johnson is accused of holding the four-year-old
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  Speaker 1: while encouraging her son to kick and hit him. Surveillance
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  Speaker 1: video reportedly shows Johnson grabbing the child and sweeping his
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  Speaker 1: leg out from under him, sending him into the air
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  Speaker 1: and onto the floor. The other teacher was there and
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  Speaker 1: did not intervene. The boy's mother came to pick him
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  Speaker 1: up and she says he was crying hysterically.
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  Speaker 3: I knew from his cry and the look on his
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  Speaker 3: face that something had happened. And from that point on,
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  Speaker 3: I said, I need to see the camera.
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  Speaker 1: I was mortified once she showed me what actually happened
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  Speaker 1: on the video.
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  Speaker 3: The trust that I put in this daycare, they failed us.
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  Speaker 1: The family attorney says their son suffered bruises, scratches and
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  Speaker 1: headaches and is now afraid to go back to the daycare.
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  Speaker 4: This place looked like a child fight club. It felt
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  Speaker 4: like one.
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  Speaker 1: This kid was thrown around like a human rag doll
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  Speaker 1: by somebody that was supposed to protect him. Texas regulators
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  Speaker 1: cited the daycare for improper discipline and failing to protect children.
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  Speaker 1: The family is seeking more than a million dollars. No
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  Speaker 1: criminal charges have been filed and the daycare has not
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  Speaker 1: publicly responded to the lawsuit. And Bootsy is firing back
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  Speaker 1: at people calling him soft for taking a $ 600, 000 pardon
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  Speaker 1: dispute to court. And to understand why he's suing, you
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  Speaker 1: have to understand what he paid for. Bootsy says he
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  Speaker 1: was paying lobbyists up front to help him to try
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  Speaker 1: and get a pardon from President Trump following his federal
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  Speaker 1: gun conviction. Bootsy told 60 Minutes he was led to
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  Speaker 1: believe that if he paid the money, he would get
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  Speaker 1: the pardon.
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  Speaker 4: This is what I was led to believe. If you
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  Speaker 4: come with this money, you will get a pardon. I
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  Speaker 4: just thought, I mean, this is the way it's done.
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  Speaker 4: I'm paying these guys, you know, and they're going to
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  Speaker 4: make it happen.
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  Speaker 1: He also says the agreement said if the pardon didn't happen,
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  Speaker 1: $ 300, 000 would be returned to him. He says he didn't
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  Speaker 1: get that money back either, so he sued. 60 Minutes
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  Speaker 1: aired its investigation over the weekend into what it calls
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  Speaker 1: the pardon economy, a business where lobbyists and other brokers
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  Speaker 1: charge people large amounts of money to try and get
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  Speaker 1: them a presidential pardon. And after the story aired, Boozy
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  Speaker 1: says people started criticizing him for taking the dispute to
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  Speaker 1: court instead of handling it in the streets.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, let me check you out about this 60 Minutes shit.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people talking shit, but either you got
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  Speaker 4: to be a businesswoman or a businessman. And you can't
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  Speaker 4: be ignorant to understand this. If you give some government
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  Speaker 4: libelers a substantial amount of money, they sign a contract
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  Speaker 4: and they don't abide by that contract, they get sued.
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  Speaker 3: This is business.
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  Speaker 4: I know I'm a real nigga, but to the heart.
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  Speaker 4: But if you think I'm going to let y'all try
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  Speaker 4: to trick me off the street saying that I shouldn't
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  Speaker 4: have did it like that, I should have kept it
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  Speaker 4: in the street and handled my business. You want me
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  Speaker 4: to go Shoot government lobbyists. Bruh, is you crazy, bruh. Like,
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  Speaker 4: is y'all crazy, bruh.
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  Speaker 1: And 60 Minutes found this goes well beyond Boosie. CBS
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  Speaker 1: used hidden cameras to record these lobbyists pitching other people
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  Speaker 1: seeking a pardon. Their price was $ 300, 000. They described using
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  Speaker 1: political contacts and influencers to try and get that pardon
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  Speaker 1: request in front of President Trump. The White House, though,
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  Speaker 1: says money does not influence the president's clemency decisions. That's
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  Speaker 1: your front page. I'm Mimi Brown. This podcast was brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by the Black Effect Podcast Network.