{"id":1543225,"date":"2024-03-08T16:40:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fair.org\/?p=9038547"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:40:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:40:34","slug":"ian-millhiser-on-supreme-court-trump-protection-alfredo-lopez-on-radical-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/08\/ian-millhiser-on-supreme-court-trump-protection-alfredo-lopez-on-radical-elders\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode wp-block-audio\" id=\"audio-9038547-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9038549\" style=\"width: 198px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9038549\" class=\"wp-image-9038549\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vox-Trump-Court-350x373.png\" alt=\"Vox: The Supreme Court just crushed any hope that Trump could be removed from the ballot\" width=\"188\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vox-Trump-Court-350x373.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vox-Trump-Court-600x639.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vox-Trump-Court-640x682.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Vox-Trump-Court.png 766w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9038549\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><strong>Vox<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/scotus\/2024\/3\/4\/24090163\/supreme-court-donald-trump-anderson-ballot-disqualification-fourteenth-amendment\">3\/4\/24<\/a>)<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week on <strong>CounterSpin<\/strong>: Among the <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/for-nyts-baker-2024-is-about-disparate-visions-not-threat-to-democracy\/\">multitude of harms<\/a> that could rain on this country should <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/topic\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> become president again, he could order the Department of Justice to drop any charges against him stemming from his fomenting of an insurrection aimed at overturning by violence the results of the 2020 election. Not to put too fine a point on it, Trump could declare himself above the law\u2014and that\u2019s just been enabled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/topic\/supreme-court\/\">Supreme Court<\/a>, which put off until April the legal case wherein Trump declares himself immune to criminal prosecution. The Court <i>can<\/i> move quickly; they hopped right to the decision that Trump can\u2019t be removed from presidential ballots in the states. But this, we\u2019re to understand, will take, huh, maybe until after the election, to mull. <strong>Vox<\/strong> Court-watcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/authors\/ian-millhiser\">Ian Millhiser<\/a> says he tries to reserve his &#8220;this is an exceptionally alarming decision&#8221; voice, but this occasion calls for it. We hear from him this week.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode wp-block-audio\" id=\"audio-9038547-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Millhiser.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Millhiser.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Millhiser.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-9038548\" src=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Radical-Elders-350x268.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Radical-Elders-350x268.png 350w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Radical-Elders-600x460.png 600w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Radical-Elders-640x491.png 640w, https:\/\/fair.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Radical-Elders.png 724w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/>Also on the show: Corporate news media have an <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/topic\/ageism\/\">anti-elder narrative<\/a> that\u2019s as stupid as it is cruel. \u201cKeep up or you\u2019re in the way,\u201d the line goes, \u201cif you aren\u2019t working 40 to 60 hours a week, you\u2019re a societal drain.\u201d It\u2019s a weird position, erasing and marginalizing elderly people, given that the elderly are a sizable portion of the population, and a community we all get to join if we\u2019re lucky. Alfredo Lopez is a longtime organizer and activist, and a founder of the new group <a href=\"https:\/\/radicalelders.net\/\">Radical Elders<\/a>. We talk with him about the space the group seeks to fill.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode wp-block-audio\" id=\"audio-9038547-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Lopez.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Lopez.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/content.blubrry.com\/counterspin\/CounterSpin240308Lopez.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/ian-millhiser-on-supreme-court-trump-protection-alfredo-lopez-on-radical-elders\/\">Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/ian-millhiser-on-supreme-court-trump-protection-alfredo-lopez-on-radical-elders\/\">CounterSpin<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump could declare himself above the law\u2014and that\u2019s just been enabled by a recent Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/home\/ian-millhiser-on-supreme-court-trump-protection-alfredo-lopez-on-radical-elders\/\">Ian Millhiser on Supreme Court Trump Protection, Alfredo Lopez on Radical Elders<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/fair.org\/\">FAIR<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1575,422,49,22465,259,1369,262,263],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543225"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1673040,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543225\/revisions\/1673040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}