UNBIASED Politics (3/27/25): Everything We Know About the Houthi Group Chat, Supreme Court Says ATF Can Regulate Ghost Guns, HHS Announces Restructuring, and More.

Episode Format:

1. Everything We Know About the Houthi Group Chat (0:25)

2. Trump Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege to Avoid Providing Deportation Flight Info (14:44)

3. Supreme Court Upholds ATF's Ghost Gun Regulation (17:26)

4. Trump Signs Order Declassifying Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Files (23:44)

5. Trump Signs Order Seeking to Require Proof of Citizenship and ID for Voting (25:48)

6. Trump Pardons Hunter Biden's Former Business Partner (31:39)

7. HHS Announces Department Reorganization and Employee Cuts (34:13)

8. Quick Hitters: New 25% Tariffs on Cars and Parts, Pfizer Allegedly Delayed Vaccine Announcement in 2020, Family Planning Grants at Risk of Being Cut, US Soldiers Missing in Lithuania, FDA Approves UTI Medication, Mangione Violates "Special Treatment," COVID Funding Repurposed by HHS (37:00)

9. Critical Thinking Segment (40:36)

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Everything We Know About the Houthi Group Chat

https://blinkvisa.com/blog/secretchat/signal-vs-whatsapp-best-secret-chatting-app/#:~:text=In%20summary%2C%20Signal%20and%20WhatsApp,rich%20and%20user%2Dfriendly%20experience.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/yemen-strikes-journalist-cabinet-signal-chat/index.html

https://apnews.com/article/war-plans-trump-hegseth-atlantic-230718a984911dd8663d59edbcb86f2a

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/25/trump-administration-atlantic-houthi-war-messages

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/hegseth-disputes-he-texted-war-plans-00246825

https://san.com/cc/defense-sec-hegseth-shared-military-plans-in-group-chat-calls-for-investigation/

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://www.newsweek.com/signal-war-plans-chat-read-leaked-texts-full-2049957

https://x.com/cspan/status/1904337565307551982

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-stands-national-security-adviser-leaked-military-plans-saying-mi-rcna197944

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-administration-hegseth-ukraine-immigration-musk-live-updates-rcna197445

https://democrats-armedservices.house.gov/_cache/files/8/7/87220bc9-88b1-46ef-b97d-afd521404fd6/6A6717B4FC1E39637AD90C78703EE285DB0300213BEE077331210CA3DBBAE866.3.24.25---handling-of-classified-and-sensitive-information.pdf

https://www.newsweek.com/did-joe-biden-violate-constitution-yemen-strikes-what-we-know-1860315

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i#article-section-8

https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/news/war-powers-resolution-1973

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp
https://x.com/krassenstein/status/1904873322950644172

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25868807-american-oversight-v-hegseth-gabbard-ratcliffe-bessent-rubio-and-nara-regarding-military-actions-planned-on-signal-messaging-app/

https://x.com/professornez/status/1904898337070776813

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/03/25/legal-fallout-signal-group-chat-00249427

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/yemen-strike-plans-signal-group-chat-raises-questions/story?id=120131093

https://apnews.com/article/trump-hegseth-signal-yemen-atlantic-group-chat-4b09973f4df3711d5d5ff88e8f9f96e0

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/25/us/signal-group-chat-text-annotations.html

https://apnews.com/article/attack-yemen-us-chat-leaked-allies-79cb2073cff6d7ceb00c43da39757f66

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

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?hl=false&edition=1999&req=granuleid%3AUSC-1999-title50-section421&num=0&saved=%7CZ3JhbnVsZWlkOlVTQy0xOTk5LXRpdGxlNTAtc2VjdGlvbjQyMQ%3D%3D%7C%7C%7C0%7Cfalse%7C1999

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/espionage-act-of-1917-and-sedition-act-of-1918-1917-1918

https://www.foxnews.com/media/national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-takes-responsibility-embarrassing-signal-chat-leak

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2025/03/politics/yemen-war-plans-signal-chat-annotated-dg/

Trump Administration Invokes State Secrets Privilege to Avoid Providing Deportation Flight Info

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/politics/deportation-flights-trump-administration-state-secrets-privilege/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-invoke-state-secrets-act-high-profile-deportation-case

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R47081

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/25/trump-deportation-state-secret

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/nx-s1-5339507/what-is-state-secrets-privilege-trump-administration

Supreme Court Upholds ATF's Ghost Gun Regulation

Supreme Court upholds rules requiring background checks for 'ghost guns'

Supreme Court Upholds Regulation of 'Ghost Guns'

Supreme Court upholds Biden regulations on 'ghost gun' kits

Court decision

Trump Signs Order Declassifying Crossfire Hurricane Investigation Files

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/25/politics/fbi-russia-probe-documents-declassified-trump/index.html

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-orders-fbi-declassify-documents-from-crossfire-hurricane-russia-investigation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_General_report_on_the_Crossfire_Hurricane_investigation

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/immediate-declassification-of-materials-related-to-the-federal-bureau-of-investigations-crossfire-hurricane-investigation/

https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-michael-flynn-fd20908ba09b27beef2f8e40698d6d5e

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/10/who-is-paul-manafort/73639872007/

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/25/2021-01717/declassification-of certainmaterials-related-to-the-fbis-crossfire-hurricane-investigation

https://www.nsa.gov/Signals-Intelligence/FISA/

Trump Signs Order Seeking to Require Proof of Citizenship and ID for Voting

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/26/trump-signs-new-executive-order-to-change-election-rules-what-we-know

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-executive-order-requiring-proof-citizenship-federal-elections-honor-sign

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-responds-to-trumps-anti-voter-executive-order

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/26/g-s1-55927/trump-voting-citizenship-executive-order

https://san.com/cc/trump-signs-executive-order-on-national-elections/

https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-applauds-president-trumps-order-directing-federal-government-assist-states-ensuring

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-executive-order-elections-far-004451647.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEOiCES1OUEuJa59Gs6_86_Qz0nZen1Gww56_-E_REuhZDkMUwFv7_m1xwhUoXg93AkF6uw9P19L_J-hP5yvZHCKx4lnx4crKHUhR4u_YPWNLoIxa1q6LAfjgNnxX7U1YUUNlGIBSMEFXk9zQfLpNNSvcvqcuaMIshpJ1h9aziMh

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-verification-without-id-documents

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/millions-americans-dont-have-documents-proving-their-citizenship-readily

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-rejects-mississippi-law-late-arriving-mail-in-ballots-2024-10-25/

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S4-C1-2/ALDE_00013577/

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/22

https://www.usa.gov/state-local-elections

https://butlercc.libguides.com/voting/state-elections

https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/how-federal-agencies-are-increasing-access-voting

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca5/24-60395/24-60395-2024-10-25.html

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-1/section-4/#:~:text=Clause%201%20Elections%20Clause,the%20Places%20of%20chusing%20Senators.

Trump Pardons Hunter Biden's Former Business Partner

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/executive-grant-of-clemency-for-devon-archer/

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/26/trump-pardon-hunter-biden-devon-archer

https://apnews.com/article/hunter-biden-trump-business-partner-pardon-5289ca2b9ba6ce7cc4a7dffb0d706088

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/us/politics/trump-pardons-former-business-partner-of-hunter-biden-who-testified-about-the-bidens.html

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/devon-archer-pardon-hunter-biden/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/25/trump-pardon-devon-archer-hunter-biden/82656322007/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HWLvE_FWHE

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/devon-archer-sentenced-year-and-day-prison-fraudulent-issuance-and-sale-more-60-million

https://www.yahoo.com/news/president-trump-pardons-former-hunter-202707462.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMTXJHNKw7HVJmdwN8-goShCNCIrkz3VrHapegMeWZL15Q0gQqtW-nL7e327lzHEwoJ_zICRk0NIsura6spnXHMl-Pw3xBjFt0JHlX1FeCg15QNBjIDEkOYlQQtGaZvoyq4_jKwnwTQodShwBr1Ku88z-ibXEheSCnSCXwgKgoQs

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5213294-trump-pardons-devon-archer/

https://www.foxnews.com/media/hunter-bidens-ex-business-partner-reveals-conversation-trump-reportedly-includes-pardon

HHS Announces Department Reorganization and Employee Cuts

https://x.com/SecKennedy/status/1905243470366670926

Quick Hitters

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-considers-more-limited-tariff-plans-09b36d26?mod=hp_lead_pos1 

https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/pfizer-covid-vaccine-2020-election-probe-2f3ec247?mod=hp_lead_pos3 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pfizer-vaccine-executive-moves-to-rival-glaxosmithkline-11638277315 

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-prosecutors-probe-tip-about-timing-pfizers-covid-vaccine-wsj-reports-2025-03-26/ 

https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/family-planning-funding-freeze-hhs-dei-planned-parenthood/

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-job-cuts-health-human-services-bdec28b0

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/26/american-soldiers-lithuania-death-00251551

https://x.com/NATOpress/status/1904990761365459105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1904990761365459105%7Ctwgr%5Ec9646e1686520009edc4f0e094ae65b11ddcf4d2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsan.com%2Fcc%2Ftrump-announces-25-tariffs-on-foreign-made-cars-unbiased-updated-march-27-2025%2F

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/lithuania-missing-us-army-soldiers-search-update

https://san.com/cc/fda-approves-first-new-antibiotic-to-treat-utis-in-nearly-3-decades/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/handwritten-notes-found-luigi-mangiones-argyle-socks-court/story?id=118899030

https://san.com/cc/cdc-to-take-back-billions-in-covid-19-pandemic-funding/