August 26, 2024

EP. 229 — What’s At Stake This US Election with Melissa Murray

This week, Jameela dives into what’s at stake in this year’s US Election with NYU Professor, author and podcaster Melissa Murray (Crooked Media’s Strict Scrutiny) who runs through the grim reality of Project 2025, what the media hasn’t covered from Supreme Court rulings, and how reproductive rights could be further restricted.

 

Despite the harrowing landscape, Melissa outlines how ‘violence against women’ policies can be reestablished, how we can protect LGBTQIA+ rights, and what a Supreme Court reformation looks like. She also reminds us about our voting rights and what we learn about civics, plus plenty more.

 

Listen to Melissa on Strict Scrutiny where you listen to your podcasts and follow her on IG @profmmurray

 

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Transcript

  Jameela: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to another episode of I Weigh with Jameela Jamil. Now, I know that we normally stick to mental health issues, but when it comes to politics, specifically what’s happening in the United States of America, it feels adjacent to mental health given that the outcome of this election will significantly impact how everyone is going to feel. And so whether you’re in the United States or not, I think a lot of us are very interested because the leader of the USA, chosen in November, is going to have a massive knock on effect across the entire world and also across the media and social media. And I don’t know about you, but I’m finding the discourse very splintered and very divisive and it just tends to be a bit of a clusterfuck of divided opinions and people on the left can’t agree with each other and people on the right can’t agree with each other and centrists arguing with each other and there’s so many bark

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