Anthony Zurcher, “What to know about the Matt Gaetz controversy,” BBC, 4/5/21.Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl,” New York Times, 3/30/21 Schmidt, Katie Benner and Nicholas Fandos, “Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. GOP lawmaker condemned for inviting Holocaust denier to State of the Union,” The Guardian, 2/1/18.Giovanni Russonello, “How Matt Gaetz Got Here,” New York Times, 4/2/21.Third Degree is produced by CAFE Studios.Įxecutive Producer: Tamara Sepper Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller Technical Director: David Tatasciore Audio and Music Producer: Nat Weiner Editorial Producers: Noa Azulai, Jake Kaplan. Sign up to receive the CAFE Brief, a weekly newsletter featuring articles by Elie, a weekly roundup of politically charged legal news, and historical lookbacks that help inform our current political challenges. Become a member at half the annual price with special code DEGREE at /insider.Įlie’s analysis doesn’t end with Third Degree. Third Degree takes on a different flavor on Fridays, when Elie speaks with a rotating slate of America’s most impressive law school students exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. Join Elie every Monday and Wednesday on Third Degree for a discussion of the urgent legal news making the headlines. Pretty shocking behaviour for an elected official entrusted with representing the interests of the American people.In this episode of Third Degree, Elie Honig discusses the series of allegations against Florida Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz-including for sex trafficking, extortion, transportation of a minor, and prostitution. In one fell swoop Gaetz managed to feed in to the hysteria while also mocking a situation which has led to thousands of deaths. However, as cases rise in America, there is clearly reason for concern. The coronavirus outbreak has led to the spread of misinformation (including by President Trump himself), leading to arguably unwarranted panic. The cost of testing for coronavirus can reach $3,270, more than 3.5 times the average weekly income in America ($865), according to 2017 figures. It's worth noting that in the US 44 million people don't have health insurance, while a further 38 million have "inadequate" insurance. When it comes to risk of death, the main contributing factor is pre-existing conditions. For starters, people in China, which has reported around 80 per cent of the 102,000 cases we've seen thus far, are clearly more at risk than anyone in America. He claimed that members of congress were the most likely to become infected with coronavirus, because "we fly through the dirtiest airports" and "touch everyone we meet". Trump supporting Matt Gaetz presumably thought it would be amusing to come into congress wearing a full gas mask as some sort of joke relating to coronavirus, which has killed 14 Americans. Neither is a gas mask, obviously, but both cover parts of the head and face, so it's hard to understand how logically one could be allowed over the other. Rush was removed based on a rule which doesn't allow members of congress to wear hats, but a hoodie is clearly not a hat. It's an issue which lawmakers had systematically failed to address, and Rush's acknowledgement of that fact was important both in its symbolism and visibility – but the establishment disagreed. Around one in every 1,000 black men and boys die in America at the hands of the police, making it one of the leading causes of death among this demographic (needless to say, this is not the case for their white counterparts). George Zimmerman, who shot Martin, would go on to be acquitted of murder in 2013, sparking the #BlackLivesMatter movement. At the time, the incident was widely reported, with some estimates suggesting it received more press than the presidential election. Rush, who is African American, was trying to raise awareness of racial profiling following the shooting of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin. In 2012, Illinois representative Rush wore a hoodie on the house floor. In 2012, I wore a hoodie on the House Floor to make a statement about the deadly consequences of racial profiling.… - Bobby L.
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