UNBIASED Politics (6/19/25): Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Transgender Treatment for Minors, Senate Proposes Sale of Federal Land, LGBTQ+ Option on 988 Crisis Hotline Being Discontinued, and More.

Episode Format:

  1. ICE Reportedly Revokes Prior Policy to Stay Away from Hotels and Farms (0:39)

  2. Judge Issues New Ruling Over Trump Administration’s Passport Marker Policy (4:03)

  3. Senate Committee Proposes Sale of Federal Land to Raise Money (6:37)

  4. Supreme Court Rules in Case About Gender Transition Treatments for Minors (13:57)

  5. Quick Hitters: Journalists Sue LAPD, NAACP Won’t Invite President to Annual Event, Trump Extends TikTok Ban, NYC Comptroller Arrested by Federal Agents at Immigration Hearing, Rep. Hortman’s Home Broken Into After Murder, Musk and NY Times Feud Over Alleged Drug Use, State Dept. Resumes Visa Processing with New Rules, CBP Released No Migrants into the U.S. in May (22:46)

  6. Rumor Has It: Do New VA Bylaws Allow Discrimination Against Democrats and Unmarried Individuals? Was a Brain Dead Woman Forced to Give Birth Because of Georgia Abortion Laws? Is the Trump Administration Removing the 988 Crisis Hotline for LGBTQ+ Individuals? (27:47)

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ICE Reportedly Revokes Prior Policy to Stay Away from Hotels and Farms

https://san.com/cc/no-safe-spaces-dhs-lifts-worksite-ice-raid-pause-as-trump-eyes-major-cities/

https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/homeland-security-reverses-order-raids-farms-hotels/

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/homeland-security-immigration-raids-resume

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/16/trump-farms-hotels-immigration-raids/

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114690267066155731

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XXJyE2lIT8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4oI7jI5fJs

Judge Issues New Ruling Over Trump Administration’s Passport Marker Policy

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/17/politics/judge-passport-sex-markers-transgender-people

https://apnews.com/article/transgender-passports-nonbinary-trump-policy-e5d13b6064c06619c654896fc0305983

https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/02/orrvtrumpstamped.pdf

https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/06/Memo-and-Order-on-Plaintiffs-Motion-for-Class-Cert-and-Motion-to-Apply-PI-to-the-Classes-06.17.2025.pdf

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69623342/116/orr-v-trump/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs3Kj9aPBFM

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/

https://san.com/cc/judge-says-government-cant-limit-gender-markers-on-us-passports/

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69623342/75/orr-v-trump/

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/preliminary_injunction

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_23

Senate Committee Proposes Sale of Federal Land to Raise Money

https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/senr-budget-rec-NEW25684-20250617.pdf 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html

https://www.wilderness.org/sites/default/files/media/file/senr-budget-rec-NEW25684-20250617.pdf

https://www.energy.senate.gov/services/files/F45D5D1E-65F5-4631-8C8F-E8C67E0DBCBD

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/climate/senate-gop-public-land-sale.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisdorsey/2025/06/16/proposed-land-sale-pits-senate-republicans-against-key-constituency/

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-where-250-million-acres-public-land-being-sold-off-2086852

Supreme Court Rules in Case About Gender Transition Treatments for Minors

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/united-states-v-skrmetti/

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-rules-against-challenge-youth-transgender-care-ban-2025-06-18/

https://www.findlaw.com/legalblogs/law-and-life/challenging-laws-3-levels-of-scrutiny-explained/

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-477_2cp3.pdf

https://www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-files/united-states-v-skrmetti/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-tennessee-gender-affirming-care-minors-us-skrmetti/

Quick Hitters

https://san.com/cc/journalists-sue-lapd-after-reporters-injured-covering-unrest/

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5436660/naacp-trump-national-convention-invitation

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-extension-tiktok-rcna213625 

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brad-lander-arrested/

https://nypost.com/2025/06/17/us-news/comptroller-brad-lander-arrested-by-ice-at-federal-plaza-in-nyc/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/break-reported-home-slain-minnesota-state-rep-melissa/story?id=122977013 

https://san.com/cc/state-department-resumes-student-visas-but-adds-social-media-checks/

https://san.com/media-miss/zero-migrants-released-in-may-as-southwest-border-crossings-fall-93/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-claims-elon-musk-continuing-lash-out-them-report-alleged-drug-use

Rumor Has It

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/16/va-doctors-refuse-treat-patients

https://www.va.gov/files/2025-04/MEDICAL%20BYLAWS_April%202025%20-%20Final.pdf

https://www.fedemploymentlaw.com/articles/political-affiliation-discrimination-in-the-federal-workplace/

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/06/17/va-rules-refuse-treatment-veterans/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/family-forced-keep-brain-dead-pregnant-woman-alive-rcna207002

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna213558

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/health/adriana-smith-baby-born-life-support-update-brain-dead-nicu/85-1fb6595c-3966-4a50-993d-0e36e05cb256

https://apnews.com/article/pregnant-woman-brain-dead-abortion-ban-georgia-a85a5906e5b2c4889525f2300c441745

https://www.samhsa.gov/about/news-announcements/statements/2025/samhsa-statement-988-press-3-option

https://www.samhsa.gov/about

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-988-national-lgbtq-suicide-lifeline-backlash/ 

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/

https://988lifeline.org/about/#:~:text=The%20Hotline%20Designation%20Act

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