On Monday’s present: The U.S. Supreme Court docket’s newest time period ended Friday. We recap the session and talk about what the rulings may imply for Texas and Houston with the assistance of legislation professor Charles “Rocky” Rhodes.
Additionally this hour: On this date in 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court docket issued its ruling in Bowers v. Hardwick, saying states might criminalize homosexual intercourse between consenting adults. In 2003, the choice in Lawrence v. Texas overturned that. We revisit a 2023 dialog with Mitchell Katine, the native legal professional for the plaintiffs within the Lawrence case who spoke with us on the twentieth anniversary of that ruling.
Then, current incidents, such because the homicide of a Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and the forcible elimination of Sen. Alex Padilla from a press convention, may lead us to consider political vitriol and discord have reached unprecedented heights. However that’s not essentially true. Writer Zaakir Tameez joins us to debate his new biography of Charles Sumner, an abolitionist senator almost overwhelmed to demise for opposing slavery and what it could possibly inform us about our political local weather at the moment.
And Jeff Balke joins us to evaluate the primary half of the Astros’ season.