Guest Host: Marc Fisher
Local newspapers, including The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun, filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a new Maryland law intended to make political advertising more transparent and prevent foreign meddling in U.S. elections.
News outlets argue that the law violates the First Amendment and creates undue burdens on the sites that publish those ads.
Does requiring media to publish information about political ad purchasers infringe on First Amendment rights? We’ll hear from the law’s sponsor and the leading expert on all things free speech.
Metro General Manager Paul Wiedefeld talks about the future of WMATA and what reopening will look like. And D.C. Councilmember Vincent Gray walks us through city budget and gives us an update on building a hospital east of the Anacostia River.
With policies and programs ending that were helping tenants, are we heading toward an avalanche of evictions in the D.C. region?
President Donald Trump declared meat packing plants and their workers "essential." So what protections have been put in place to ensure the safety of workers in Delmarva's $3.5 billion chicken industry?
The D.C. Council's emergency police reform bans chokeholds and the use of pepper spray on peaceful protesters. But D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson says these and other proposed measures are already on the books.
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