AirTalk recaps the headlines in national political news you might’ve missed over the weekend, plus we’ll tell you what to watch for this week. We also examine the implications of California's net neutrality law; discuss a new study that says millennials are causing the divorce rate in the U.S. to drop; and more.
Week in politics: Exploring the scope of FBI’s Kavanaugh inquiry, the big takeaways from ‘New NAFTA’ and more
AirTalk recaps the headlines in national political news you might’ve missed over the weekend, plus we’ll tell you what to watch for this week.
Kavanaugh latest, what to expect from FBI investigation, particulars on the full Senate vote, and more
U.S., Canada and Mexico release draft of "new NAFTA"
Takeaways from Presidents’ foreign policy speech at U.N. General Assembly last week
Goodlatte: Rosenstein to meet with House GOP in coming week
House votes to make individual tax cuts permanent
Guests:
Nancy Cook, White House reporter at POLITICO; she tweets
Luke Hunt, assistant professor of criminal justice at Radford University in Virginia; former FBI special agent and supervisory special agent for 7 years
Mike German, fellow with the Brennan for Justice at NYU School of Law, former FBI Agent for 16 years who focused on a range of investigations, including background investigations
Matt Rodriguez, Democratic strategist and founder and chief executive officer of Rodriguez Strategies. He is also a former senior Obama advisor in 2008; he tweets
Sean T. Walsh, Republican political analyst and partner at Wilson Walsh Consulting in San Francisco; he is a former adviser to California Governors Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and a former White House staffer for Presidents Reagan and H.W. Bush
Lara Bazelon, professor of law at the University of San Francisco; she was a trial attorney in the Office of the Federal Public Defender in Los Angeles for seven years; she has litigated Title IX cases; she is the author of the upcoming book “Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice After Wrongful Conviction” (October 2018, Beacon Press)
Elizabeth Slattery, legal fellow and appellate advocacy program manager with the Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and host of the SCOTUS101 podcast; she tweets
California passes tougher net neutrality law, setting up battle with federal rule
California Gov. Jerry Brown signed the nation’s toughest net neutrality measure Sunday, requiring internet providers to maintain a level playing field online.
The move prompted an immediate lawsuit by the Trump administration. Advocates of net neutrality hope the new law in the home of the global technology industry will have national implications by pushing Congress to enact national net neutrality rules or encouraging other states to follow suit.
But the U.S. Department of Justice wants to stop the law, arguing that it creates burdensome, anti-consumer requirements that go against the federal government’s approach of deregulating the internet. The law is the latest example of the nation’s most populous state seeking to drive public policy outside its borders and rebuff President Donald Trump’s agenda.
We discuss the implications of the net neutrality law and give you a roundup of the rest of the bills Gov. Brown signed over the weekend.
With files from the Associated Press
Guests:
Ernesto Falcon, legislative counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights group based in San Francisco; he tweets
Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a tech policy think tank based D.C.
John Myers, Sacramento bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times
In California, judges can now decide who gets Fido in a divorce
California courts could be going to the dogs — and maybe cats, too — under a new law granting judges authority to settle disagreements over who keeps the family pet in divorce cases the same way they handle child-custody disputes.
Until now, Fido and Kitty have been considered family property, a status giving them little more standing in a divorce than a family’s big-screen TV.
Under a bill signed Thursday by Gov. Jerry Brown, pets will still be considered community property but a judge deciding who gets to keep them will have the discretion of weighing such factors as who feeds them, who takes them to the vet and on walks, and who protects them.
With files from the Associated Press
Guest:
Atousa Saei, Los Angeles-based family law specialist and attorney at Law Offices of Atousa Saei
Study says divorce rate among millennials is dropping, we look into the reasons
A new study released earlier this month says that millennials are causing the divorce rate in the U.S. to drop.
Professor Philip Cohen from the University of Maryland examined data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Cohen’s analysis shows that divorces in the nation have decreased 18 percent from 2008 to 2016. His findings suggest that the decline in divorce rate isn’t a reflection of a decline in marriages. But rather evidence that marriages today last longer than they did 10 years ago.
Data shows Generation X, and especially millennials, are being pickier than previous generations and so they get married later in life. According to the analysis, millennials postpone marriage until they put their education, careers and finances on track; a trend that leads to longer-lasting marriages. Demographers say this is a very different approach than that of baby boomers, who married young, divorced and remarried.
Meanwhile, younger generations today opt to live together without tying the knot. Moreover, data shows those with less financial stability and lower education tend to not get married at all. We examine the findings and take a closer look at the trend in California.
Guests:
Megan Sweeney, demographer, department chair and professor of sociology at UCLA, her focus includes trends and differentials in family patterns and change in marriage patterns.
Steven Martin, demographer and senior research associate in the Center on Labor, Human Services and Population at the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit think tank focusing on economic and social policy.