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Supreme Court to California: Cut Prison Population
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‘Demagogue’

Historian Larry Tye joins Fresh Air. His new book is “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator McCarthy.” Tye had access to McCarthy’s personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings. Tye says there’s a direct line between McCarthy and President Trump through Roy Cohn, who served as the legal counsel to the subcommittee McCarthy chaired and later became Trump’s lawyer, when Trump started establishing his business in Manhattan.see more
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Historian Larry Tye joins Fresh Air. His new book is “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator McCarthy.” Tye had access to McCarthy’s personal and professional papers, medical and military records, and recently unsealed transcripts of his closed-door Congressional hearings. Tye says there’s a direct line between McCarthy and President Trump through Roy Cohn, who served as the legal counsel to the subcommittee McCarthy chaired and later became Trump’s lawyer, when Trump started establishing his business in Manhattan.see more
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Supreme Court to California: Cut Prison Population

John Myers
at 9:00 AM
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The U.S. Supreme Court today endorsed a court order requiring California to cut its prison population by tens of thousands of inmates to relieve overcrowding. We discuss the issue.

Guests:

Donald Specter, director of the Prison Law Office and lead attorney in the case

Jim Nielsen, member of the California State Assembly (R, 2nd District) and former chairman of the Board of Prison Terms

Scott Shafer, reporter for KQED Public Radio

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