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May 2023
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Montana Transgender Lawmaker Loses Legal...

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Robert Peck, President of the Center for Constitutional Litigation, discusses the first openly transgender lawmaker in Montana being banned from the house floor due to her speech. Judicial ethics expert Arthur Hellman, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School, discusses Senate hearings on Supreme Court ethics. June Grasso hosts.

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