more aggressive with the changes in our policies and less tolerant of all the [bleep] that is destroyed our city. drug debts in the city soaring past 500 this year, the order to suspend zoning laws allowing officials to have shelter for people suffering from addiction. benjamin: is in court will hear oral arguments against the vaccine mandate next week, the high court setting an excellent timeline on lower court split over whether the mandates are constitutionally sign. biden s mandates with private business of 100 employees or more or healthcare workers will be considered. the arguments will begin on january 7th. the time is now eight minutes after the hour. from san francisco to philadelphia to milwaukee woke prosecutors are under pressure for their bad policies and we are talking to the contract out the wisconsin official who freed the waukesha parade suspect.
monument has existed for many years without challenge, might suggest it has more of a secular purpose to it. the bottom line, the law isn t clear in this area. we saw the lower court split. that s why this case might be a particularly attractive one to the supreme court. so they can grant review, articulate the law in a coherent way. shannon: they asked them to rehear the case, they said no. the judge said it needlessly puts at risk hundreds of monuments with similar symbols such as those in nearby arlington national cemetery where crosses of comparable size stand in commemoration of fallen soldiers. arlington is different, you have many monuments there. like if you ever walk through arlington cemetery, you see krernted moon, the person is a muslim. sometimes you see a star of david, the person was jew. often courts look to, if there is a single monument that memorializes a single religion that s more likely to get struck down. that was more likely to get
secular purpose but the law is not clear so we saw the lower court split in this case might be an attractive one to the supreme court so they can articulate the law in a coherent way. shannon: they asked to rehear the case and said no. one of the dissenting judges says they needlessly put at risk hundreds of monuments with similar symbols on the ground across the country such as those in arlington national cemetery where crosses of comparable size, what do they do with that? arlington cemetery is different because you have many monuments. if you walk through you will see a crescent moon, or a star of david, so often courts will look if there is a single monument that memorializes a single religion that is more likely to get struck down. it was more likely to get struck down under the court as it used to exist.
a way around it, unless they find it unavoidable. they have taken issues including one on the show earlier, medicaid and the role of the state that seemed to many people they weren t interested because there hasn t been a lower court division. they have assumed a lot of authority, power by granting the issues and deciding to decide them. i say expect them to do something sweeping, whatever they will do. bret: come down one way or the other. sweeping more the law or against the law? put it this way, i think they have already decided this is a much closer question than a lot of the supporters of the law made it out to be. merely by signaling they want to spend this much time discussing it. discussing so many issues. bret. let me pick up on that with you, charles. this is not a slam dunk. lower court split. some for obamacare and some against it.