The World and Everything in It: June 25, 2024 (2024)

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MARY REICHARD, HOST:Good morning!A Louisiana lawmaker works to put the Ten Commandments back in public school classrooms.

HORTON:You can’t find a more historical and traditional document than the 10 Commandments.

NICK EICHER, HOST:Also, analysis of recent Supreme Court decisions. And later a man doing his part to help honey bees.

AUDIO:We just need to do it because we're stewards of God's creation, for crying out loud. That's what it's all about.

And reining in changes to Title IX.

REICHARD:It’s Tuesday, June 25th. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

EICHER:And I’m Nick Eicher. Good morning!

REICHARD:Up next, Kent Covington with today’s news.

SOUND: [Rushing water]

KENT COVINGTON, NEWS ANCHOR:Flooding latest »Rushing water is sweeping over roads and bridges in the Midwest as more than a dozen rivers have crested at record levels.

Amid massive flooding, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem says first responders have rushed to evacuate high-risk areas.

NOEM: I know that we had the Swift Water Rescue team out of Sioux Falls and Game Fish and Parks were going door to door, getting people out of dangerous situations, and we lost some houses as well. So my heart goes out to those families that lost their houses.

Several states have declared emergencies with hundreds of homes still underwater.

The swollen Big Sioux River broke a railroad bridge in two on Sunday. The bridge connected North Sioux City, South Dakota, with Sioux City, Iowa.

And the governor of Iowa, Joni Ernst, said of the flooding …

ERNST:  It is devastating, but Iowans are strong. They are resilient and I know that we will get the assistance necessary. Um, but for right now, we are trying to make sure that all of these individuals are safe.

First responders have been using boats and even dive teams, to get people to safety. The flooding has killed at least one person.

And more rain is expected this week.

State Department human trafficking report »The State Department just released its annual report on human trafficking in nearly 200 countries around the world.

Secretary of State Tony Blinken said the theme of this year’s report examines the challenges posed by digital technologies.

BLINKEN: Around the world, trafficking networks target and recruit victims online, through social media, through dating apps, through gaming platforms.

But Ambassador Cindy Dyer says the report does not focus solely on the dangers.

DYER: It also focuses on how technology can be used by the global anti- trafficking community in prevention and mitigation strategies.

The report also ranks governments according to their efforts to combat trafficking. Those in the lowest tier are deemed to be complicit in the problem. Countries on that list include China, Russia, and Iran.

Supreme Court trans »The Supreme Court says it will hear a case that could impact state laws across the country aimed at protecting children from transgender treatments. WORLD’s Kristen Flavin reports.

KRISTEN FLAVIN: The case centers on one such law in Tennessee. It prohibits the prescription of puberty blockers and cross-gender hormones for minors.

The Biden administration is asking the Supreme Court to block those protections.

LGBT activists argue that the best way to treat gender dysphoria in children is to reinforce that dysphoria with drugs and hormones.

That’s an approach they refer to as“gender affirming care.”

But supporters of the Tennessee law note that transgender treatments are life altering and have harmful side effects — with questionable benefits.

Twenty-five states now have laws that restrict or prohibitsubjecting children to transgender treatments.

For WORLD, I’m Kristen Flavin.

Weapons to Ukraine »The United States is reportedly set to announce today that it’s sending another $150 million dollars in critically needed munitions to Ukraine. That’s according to the Associated Press, citing two unnamed officials.

The latest aid package comes as Russia blames the United States for what it said was a Ukrainian attack on Crimea —with American-made missilesthat reportedly killed four people and wounded many more.

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters:

MILLER:  We lament any civilian loss of life in this war. We provide weapons to Ukraine so it can defend its sovereign territory against armed aggression. Uh, that includes in Crimea, which of course is part of Ukraine.

Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

On Monday, Russia summoned the American ambassador to protest the missile strike.

Russian attacks »Meantime in Russiathe death toll from what is believed to have been an Islamist terrorist attack now stands at 20.

Today is day two of three official days of mourning after gunmen opened fire on churches, synagogues, and a police station in Russia’s Dagestan region.

Security analyst Harold Chambers:

Chambers: They were definitely caught off guard by this attack. What you're seeing here is still this disconnect between Russian counterterrorism capability and what the terrorists' capability is inside of Russia.

Authorities suspect an ISIS-affiliated terrorist cell though there’s been no official word from the government.

The largely Muslim Dagestan region has a history of terrorist attacks.

Planned Parenthood »Planned Parenthood is spending $40 million dollars to back its preferred candidates in the upcoming election. WORLD’s Christina Grube has more.

CHRISTINA GRUBE: The abortion business said Monday that its political arm would use the money for advertising and canvassing, among other things.

Planned Parenthood is targeting elections in eight states, including Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Those are all states that Donald Trump won in 2016, but President Biden carried in 2020.

The group will also look to boost Biden’s campaign in North Carolina.

Four years ago, the group spent $45 million dollars to help get the president elected and then another $50 million before the 2022 midterms.

Meanwhile, the pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America has committed to spend $92 million dollars in eight battleground states.

For WORLD, I’m Christina Grube.

Julian Assange deal »WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to a felony charge in a deal with the U.S. Justice Department that will reportedly make him a free man.

He’s set to appear in the U.S. federal court in the Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific, to plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge.

Prosecutors have agreed to a sentence of the five years Assange has already spent in a high-security British prison while fighting to avoid extradition to the United States.

The U.S. had long sought to force Assange to stand trial in the United States. Prosecutors said he not only published a trove of classified U.S. documents, but also helped steal them.

I’m Kent Covington.

Straight ahead: Opinions from the Supreme Court.Plus, keeping beehives healthy.

This is The World and Everything in It.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:It’s Tuesday the 25th of June, 2024.

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Well, first up on The World and Everything in It:more analysis of opinions handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court.

First, a loss for an American citizen who sued to get her non-citizen spouse a visa to enter the United States.

Sandra Muñoz married a man from El Salvador, but the state department had reason to believe he was affiliated with the MS-13 gang. So it denied him a visa.

REICHARD:Muñoz sued, arguing the consular gave no reason for the denial and that she has a constitutional right to live with her spouse.

A majority six justices disagreed. Just one friend of the court brief was filed in support of the government here. It’s from the Immigration Reform Law Institute. I called up one of its lawyers, Chris Hajec:

CHRIS HAJEC:It primarily says that there's no fundamental right to live in the United States with one's spouse. There might be a fundamental right to marriage, but there is no right to have your spouse come into the country to live with you if that person is already inadmissible.

In other words, visa denials don’t implicate the rights of U.S. citizens even though the right to marry is fundamental.

The record shows the State Department looked into the matter on different occasions and still reached the same decision.

HAJEC:What the petitioner was really asking for was a right to bring a dangerous alien into the country, and the court found that there's nothing in the Constitution that allows people to do that.

EICHER:Muñoz eventually did learn the specific reason the consular denied the visa. The couple disputes that her husband is a gang member, but the doctrine of consular nonreviewability stands.

Hajec says this ruling comports with other instances of marital separation:

HAJEC:It doesn’t burden marriage for instance when one spouse goes to prison. They don't get released from prison to live with their spouse based on the fundamental rights of marriage. And it's the same sort of thing here. We have to be able to protect ourselves against dangerous aliens, and we have to be able to do it without too much redtape and constant reviewability and appeals and everything else, because that makes it the systemless effective.

REICHARD:I’ll say I read some negative commentary on this ruling. Law professor Ilya Somen over at Reason.com for example wrote that opinion writer Justice Amy Coney Barrett relied on dubious history to reach the conclusion here. Still, even the dissenting liberal justices agreed the government had justification to deny the visa here, based on evidence of ties to MS-13.

But so far as I can tell, Muñoz’s case is over and her husband won’t be entering the US…at least in the legal way.

EICHER:Ok, next opinion: a unanimous bench in Smith v Arizona sends a dispute about hearsay evidence back to lower court.

Here, a forensic scientist tested items seized in a drug bust involving a criminal defendant named Jason Smith. She submitted a written report on her findings that someone else testified about in court.

Smith claimed violation of his right to cross-examine adverse witnesses in court under the Sixth Amendment.

REICHARD:So he sued and now has a partial win. He can proceed in lower court to decide how the absent expert’s statement is being used. Is it testimony? If so, that’s what triggers the right to confront that person in court.

EICHER:Now onto opinion three: Erlinger v US. It’s a 6-3 win for criminal defendants who are sentenced under the Armed Career Criminal Act, or ACCA. Federal law already prohibits someone with a felony conviction to possess a firearm. What ACCA does upon a fourth conviction is add more prison time just for that gun possession crime.

REICHARD:Those prior offenses have to be committed on “different occasions,” and that’s the question here. Paul Erlinger argued his string of burglaries was really just one crime spree, not separate crimes that would trigger ACCA.

Adam Feldman is a professor and legal scholar who runs a blog called Empirical SCOTUS. I called him up.

ADAM FELDMAN:And the court clarified that it can't be just a judge that makes these decisions. It has to come from unanimous juries. So there was a question between precedents in the past about how these things could be determined, and the precedents went in different directions. So this is one of the many cases that has clarified aspects of the Armed Career Criminal Act and ways that sentencing can work moving forward.

EICHER:A bit of an aside, but important: the line up in the majority wasn’t what many might expect. The conservative majority that stuck together to overturn Roe and in the Bruen decision that expanded gun rights, didn’t hang together here.

FELDMAN:Well, I think what we're seeing right now is that there's a farther right, farther left, and more moderate right. You have Justice Jackson in dissent and the other two liberal justices in the majority, and you have Alito in dissent and Kavanaugh in dissent. So in terms of somebody like myself who follows the breakdown of the justices and how they vote, this was pretty irregular.

At any rate, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion and quoted John Adams as seeing “representative government and trial by jury as the heart and lungs of liberty.”

REICHARD: Next to Diaz versus US, and another 6-3 opinion that crosses ideological lines. It’s a loss for a Delilah Diaz, a woman stopped at the southern border in a car carrying more than $300,000 worth of meth inside the door panels.

She said she had no idea the drugs were in there.

Prosecutors at her trial brought in an agent from Homeland Security to testify that drug cartels wouldn’t trust a big haul like that to someone unaware. Too much business at stake.

EICHER:Delilah Diaz argued that violated a rule of evidence. You can’t have some expert give an opinion about her mental state based on group generalities.

But the majority disagreed, and would allow testimony regarding the mental state of people in a similar situation.

REICHARD:To find out why, I called up a lawyer who filed a friend of the court brief in support of the government here, Emily Murphy. She particularly cited the concurrence on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson:

EMILY MURPHY:She's a former Federal Public Defender who's really familiar with these kinds of cases and with what juries are asked to do every day. Two, she's often, you know, considered one of the court's liberal wings, but her concurrence is really interesting because she picked up on the nuances of this. That the rule itself applies to both experts that are brought by the government trying to convict someone, but it also applies to experts brought by defendants. Sometimes criminal defendants might want to bring an expert who helps explain to the jury the way most, for example, battered spouses would react in a given situation. And because the rule cuts both ways, it applies to both the government and to criminal defendants, she thought that keeping the rule intact would be kind of the best outcome for justice on all sides.

EICHER:On to the final opinion for today in Chiaverini v City of Napoleon. Here, a majority six ruled in favor of a man who faced several criminal charges based on probable cause, but there was one charge against him where authorities lacked probable cause. In that instance, the high court says he’s allowed to pursue a claim for malicious prosecution.

NICK EICHER, HOST:Coming up next on The World and Everything in It: Louisiana’s new Ten Commandments law.

Last week, Louisiana became the first state in more than 40 years to require public schools and universities to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:Texas and Oklahoma recently tried and failed to pass similar bills.

Just yesterday, a group of plaintiffs including parents and organizations like the ACLU sued to block Louisiana’s law. So what motivated lawmakers in Baton Rouge to take on the challenge?

WORLD’s Senior Writer Kim Henderson has our story.

DODIE HORTON: Thank you Madam Chairman and Committee for allowing us to be here today…

KIM HENDERSON: This isn’t Louisiana State Rep. Dodie Horton’s first rodeo. But since her Ten Commandments bill passed, she’s been in the spotlight like never before.

HORTON: Never have I seen them so fearful of a change, you know, and being able to put the Ten Commandments back in the classroom, where they hung for almost three centuries.

The new law will require all public classrooms, kindergarten to college, to have a poster-size display of the Ten Commandments in large, easy-to-read font.

Critics say that violates the separation between church and state.

Horton believes they’re wrong. She points to one of our nation’s founding fathers, James Madison.

HORTON: And he said there is no better foundational truth than the Ten Commandments. It's distinct in our Constitution and our country, and some form of the Ten Commandments is in all statutes of law. And so you can't find a more historical and traditional document than the Ten Commandments.

Rep. Horton’s bill drew the support of the Louisiana Family Forum. Gene Mills is president of the group. He’s hopeful that recent Supreme Court decisions about faith in the public square give Louisiana’s law a chance to stand.

GENE MILLS: Everything heretofore has been in a “Says Who?” Court that says, “We say it.” Well, now you’ve got strict constructionists and textualists who say, “No, that's a matter of interpretation, and it's got to do with the Constitution as written in history as it actually occurred.”

The forum helped secure legal help for expertise as Horton and her team began to craft the text of the bill. Gene Mills has no qualms about stating their intention.

MILLS: We basically prepared for the challenge, because our goal wasn't a legislative success. It was to set precedent that would go to the U.S. Supreme Court and, under scrutiny, prevail.

But not everyone in Louisiana was cheering when Gov. Jeff Landry signed the bill into law. As a first-grade teacher in the Mandeville public school system, Mandy Donegan feels like she can’t talk about religion unless it comes up in the curriculum.

MANDY DONEGAN: You have to be very safe as a teacher. This year I had a student that didn't believe in holidays and birthdays, so being respectful of his beliefs and his parents’ beliefs, it's hard. Like my husband always says, it's like you're on a missionary field, but you can't say what your true mission is.

She fears the posters will lead to conversations about her faith, something that current Department of Education rules doesn't allow. As a Christian, she knows it’s hard to deal faithfully with students without saying words like sin and repentance. Will it just add something else to the teacher’s plate?

DONEGAN: One teacher might go on and say “Thou shalt not steal, is wrong.” But is one teacher gonna say that, “Oh, none of us has murdered anybody, but really if you hate your brother, you’ve murdered your brother.” So there’s that piece of my concern again: is it going to be biblical truth, or is it just going to be ten sentences on a wall?

But Gene Mills hopes this law will do more than put the Ten Commandments on a wall.

MILLS: The classroom is not intended to be a Sunday school, but it's not intended to be hostile to anybody who likes to look at authentic American history or the foundations of Western civilization.

It’s notable that the passage of the Ten Commandments law came just weeks after Louisiana lawmakers held a special session to deal with burgeoning crime in the state. One co-sponsor of the Commandments bill mentioned the need for a more structured society. Perhaps crime was on her mind.

SYLVIA TAYLOR: So what I’m saying is We need to do something in the schools to bring people back to where they need to be.

This is Rep. Sylvia Taylor, a 74-year-old Democrat who chose to announce her support of the bill during debates held April 4.

Audio here courtesy of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

TAYLOR: I know my beliefs in God. I don’t want to impose them on anybody else, but I think that what you’re proposing today is admirable. . . [16:23] and I’d like to co-author it also.

HORTON: I’d be honored.

Rep. Horton says the bipartisan support meant a lot. The rest of the process was smooth sailing, without any hiccups. But she knows legal battles are ahead.

HORTON: I grew up, and the Ten Commandments were always on the wall. And if someone objects to it, well, all I can say is, don't read it. Don't look at it. But with all the things our children face today, I think it's important for them to see there is a God, and He does have a standard.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Kim Henderson.

NICK EICHER, HOST:The State Department’s been bugged. And in a moment made for social media the discovery came during a press briefing.

You can hear Spokesman Matthew Miller reading out the government line on the fighting in and around Israel, and then …

MATTHEW MILLER:Matt, I hate to interrupt, there’s a big co*ckroach on the wall, over your head there, so maybe need, uh …

He’s talking to Matt Lee of the Associated Press, who I’d say was undaunted and pretty much all business, but the State Department spokesman … he just couldn’t let it go.

MILLER:It’s a rather large one! Do I have to get rid of it now? No, no, let me go ahead and finish. Um, ah. We’ve seen the number— we’ve seen a dramatic increase in attacks across the — I should’ve have said anything, because now the room, now the room’s gonna have a hard time focusing …

About a minute later, order was restored. You could hear a faint slapping sound, followed by applause, and Miller proclaiming, problem solved.

I’m not sure there’ve been this many unwanted intruders at the State Department since Alger Hiss.

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NICK EICHER, HOST:Today is Tuesday, June 25th. Thank you for turning to WORLD Radio to help start your day.

Good morning. I’m Nick Eicher.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:And I’m Mary Reichard. Coming next on The World and Everything in It: honeybees make a comeback.

We’ve heard for years that honeybees are in decline. But honey bee populations have turned a corner, according to numbers from the USDA’s most recent report.

World Journalism Institute graduate Juliana Undseth talked with a beekeeper in Sioux Center, Iowa and brings us this report.

AUDIO: A little tap. Oh! That’s a lot of bees!

JULIANA UNDSETH: Ron Rynders is smoking—smoking a beehive so he doesn’t get stung. The smoke calms the bees and that allows for closer inspections. Rynders pulls out a wooden frame. It’s about a foot by a foot and a half and it’s covered with bees.

RON RYNDERS: Here's a little bee that just hatched. You can tell by her color. She's a runner; she ought to go out for cross country.

Rynders likes to run with them. He’s been keeping bees for the last three-and-a-half decades and since retiring from Dordt University 16 years ago, it’s been his full-time retirement hobby. Today this hive is crowded. Rynders is going to need to add more space so the bees don’t swarm and find a new home.

But hives haven’t always flourished like this. Back in 2006, bees began simply disappearing.

RYNDERS: The beekeeper back when this all got started would come to his or her hive, and voila, there's no bees; they all flew away to die.

For years, explanations for that were hard to come by, but it does have a name: Colony Collapse Disorder. The last thing a bee-keeper wants is to lose them.

RYNDERS: It's always gonna be catastrophic when you, when you open your hive in the spring and they're all dead. That's very sad. It's disheartening.

They do know the primary cause: Tiny mites called Varro. They burrow into the backs of bees, exposing them to viruses and bacteria. Varroa mites are deadly. Beekeepers have found ways to combat these invasions. There are safe methods and others not so safe, like superheating an acid that is deadly to Varroa mites. Once, Rynders burned down a hive that way.

RYNDERS: So I immediately took the whole thing apart and started casting these frames all over and they all went out. And so that was the loss of a hive. It’s probably the biggest catastrophe I’ve ever had.

A safer way is to hang a six-inch strip of yellowish-white plastic inside the hive. The strip delivers a medication called Apivar.

RYNDERS: This is the medicine that kills the Varroa, but it is now expended, so I can take it out…

Beekeepers have faced some record losses in recent years, but the number of bees worldwide has increased since 1990. Rynders says that the most important thing for beekeepers is good stewardship. Farmers and others can help by minimizing pesticide use and planting flowers.

RYNDERS: I think we have to wake up as a community and especially an agricultural community, that there are waterways, and there are roadsides, and there are all kinds of places on everybody's farm, where we could intentionally set up a habitat that was friendly to our pollinator friends, whether we need them or not in our crop. We just need to do it, because we're stewards of God's creation, for crying out loud. That's what it's all about.

To cultivate good stewardship, Rynders started a beekeeping club nearly twenty years ago, around the same time that Colony Collapse Disorder first appeared.

RYNDERS: It was created simply to educate, educate, educate. So there's always a cross pollination, if you will, of ideas. We all hold hands, and that's basically what bees do, too. (laughs) Yeah.

John Baas is a hobbyist beekeeper who says that Rynders taught him everything he knows. Rynders has been helpful in other ways, too. Once, Baas was out of town during a windstorm, Rynders was quick to check on his bees.

BAAS: Ron just jumped in his pickup truck in the middle of a, you know, hurricane to go check on my bees, you know – thinks nothing of it.

It’s that kind of care and mentorship that will help bees the most.

RYNDERS: If you really went out and asked a beekeeper, he'd say, ‘Well, yeah, they will go into decline if you don't do something about it. But if you do something about it, they're fine.’ The truth is, bees are fine. God is fine. Creation is fine. We can do this. Yeah. (laughs)

Beekeepers like Ron Rynders are an important part of the bees’ comeback.

Reporting for WORLD, I’m Juliana Undseth in Sioux Center, Iowa.

MARY REICHARD, HOST:Today is Tuesday, June 25th. Good morning! This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported WORLD Radio. I’m Mary Reichard.

NICK EICHER, HOST:And I’m Nick Eicher. WORLD Opinions commentator Nathan Finn now…with analysis of last week’s court ruling against the Biden Administration’s changes to Title IX.

NATHAN FINN: On June 17th, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky issued a blockbuster ruling. At stake? The very definition of gender.

This is the background. In April of this year, the Department of Education released new Title IX regulations that were to take effect on August 1. Title IX is the 1972 law that prohibits discrimination based on sex in educational institutions. Schools that fail to comply with Title IX, and are not granted an exemption, are ineligible to receive federal funding. The updated regulations move beyond sex discrimination as traditionally understood to include discrimination “based on sex stereotypes, sexual orientation, gender identity, and sex characteristics.” According to Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona, the purpose of the new regulations is to “build on the legacy of Title IX by clarifying that all our nation’s students can access schools that are safe, welcoming, and respect their rights.”

Not everyone agrees with Secretary Cardona. Six states—Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, and West Virginia—filed suit in District Court in late April to prevent the implementation of the new regulations. Chief Judge Danny Reeves ruled against the Department of Education, granting the injunction and taking the Biden administration to task for its “arbitrary and capricious rulemaking” that would result in “immediate and irreparable harm” to the plaintiffs.

The first sentence of the ruling states unequivocally: “There are two sexes: male and female.” Furthermore, an accompanying footnote says the defendants—the Department of Education—conceded this point during oral arguments. In other words, a department of the Biden administration admitted in court what both Scripture and science confirm to be true—a binary understanding of human sex.

The ruling also deems the new regulations incompatible with the original intention of Title IX. And the way the department handled feedback on the new rules failed to answer difficult questions raised by the public. The court also argues that the new rules’ definition of sexual harassment might violate the plaintiffs’ First Amendment rights by requiring educators to use pronouns that don’t align with students’ biological sex. “A rule that compels speech and engages in such viewpoint discrimination is impermissible.”

The timing of this court decision could not be better. The month of June has devolved into an annual celebration of sexual deviancy. Pride Month is an annual reminder of just how far American society has strayed from its Judeo-Christian heritage.

Progressives believe they are on the “right side of history” when it comes to gender and sexuality. But with a nod to William F. Buckley’s famous editorial in the first issue of National Review, it is refreshing to watch as this court “stands athwart history, yelling stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it.” Though this decision will certainly be appealed, the ruling is a decisive win for Biblically orthodox Christians and other social conservatives. We should pray for, and labor towards, future decisions that help restore sanity to the growing world of sexual anarchy.

I’m Nathan Finn.

NICK EICHER, HOST:Tomorrow: A Republican loyalty test in Virginia. On Washington Wednesday we’ll talk about Congressman Bob Good’s primary challenge.

And you’ll meet a man who fled his homeland of Ukraine and is trying to make a home in America. That and more tomorrow.

I’m Nick Eicher.

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