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Part 2!Trump "settled" a lawsuit against his own IRS, and out popped a secretive slush fund even the DOJ can't be bothered to name properly. Then 35 retired federal judges took one look and moved to blow the whole thing up. Thomas, Lydia, and Matt Cameron read the settlement, the fund, and the judges' furious reply, line by line.

Cases discussed:

• Trump v. IRS

• IRS settlement agreement

• Anti-Weaponization Fund order

• Judges' Rule 60 motion

• Judge Williams' order

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Part 1!

Donald Trump sued the IRS, an agency he currently runs, for leaking his own tax returns, and asked for a cool $10 billion. Thomas, Lydia, and Matt dig through the actual complaint and a judge's increasingly suspicious rulings, all timed suspiciously close to Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing. It is dumber, and more corrupt, than it sounds.

Cases discussed:

• Trump v. IRS

• Littlejohn leak case

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In part 2, Douchewitz continues his insane legal battle all the way up to a petition to the Supreme Court. Along the way, he gets help from the Trumpiest MAGA judges of Florida, and yet still his case sucks and he can't win.

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Mixed into the mostly horrific Supreme Court news this week was a rejection of Alan Dershowitz's petition for cert. But... what the hell was that even about? We, for two, couldn't even remember. So we decided to take a look and, if you don't remember, it's extremely dumb. So let's all have a nice thing and enjoy what a narcissistic POS Alan Dershowitz is! Patrons at patreon.com/gavelpod can listen to Part 2 right now!

Part 2!

Thomas, Lydia, and Matt finish their live read of the Broadview Six grand jury transcripts, and things get significantly worse.

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Part 1!

The Broadview Six grand jury transcripts are finally unsealed, and Gavel Gavel is here to bring them to life. They are seriously amazing.

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It's a tale of two 4th amendments for the world's hottest alleged killer who didn't do it because he was at my house.

The "trial of the century" in South Carolina is potentially going to happen for a second time this century. You may have seen some headlines about this but Liz Skeen is taking us even deeper.

Part 3!

In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage by a federal agent. After setting the scene in a (very slightly) parallel universe in which Thomas was born in Canada and committed a series of Nickelback-related misdemeanors before overstaying his student visa, Matt draws from his twenty years of experience in sitting through hundreds of immigration interviews to play out an unscripted simulation of what his clients and their U.S. citizen spouses go through when they are applying for residency through marriage.

We then reconvene to review how the Smiths did, and Matt takes us through some of the legal issues raised in this interview as well as some of the more interesting aspects of the residency process generally.

Finally, we discuss some of the weirder aspects of the law surrounding immigration through marriage beyond the facts of this interview, including (among many others):

--Do you really have to prove to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that your marriage includes sex?

--Why might the US government refuse to recognize a prior divorce from your home country?

--Will federal immigration authorities really recognize a Zoom wedding conducted from completely different continents?

--Can you bring multiple partners if you are coming from a country where polygamy is legal?

1. "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (1/20/2025 edition)

2. "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity," Congressional Research Service (5/28/21)

3. Matter of Peterson, 12 I&N Dec. 663 (BIA 1968)

4. "Kicking the INA Out of Bed: Abolishing the Consummation Requirement for Proxy Marriages," 22 Hastings J. Gender & L. 55 (2011)

5. "Second Wives Club: Mapping the Impact of Polygamy in U.S. Immigration Law," Claire A. Smearman, Berkeley Journal of Immigration Law (Dec. 2009)

Part 2!

In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about their marriage by a federal agent. After setting the scene in a (very slightly) parallel universe in which Thomas was born in Canada and committed a series of Nickelback-related misdemeanors before overstaying his student visa, Matt draws from his twenty years of experience in sitting through hundreds of immigration interviews to play out an unscripted simulation of what his clients and their U.S. citizen spouses go through when they are applying for residency through marriage.

We then reconvene to review how the Smiths did, and Matt takes us through some of the legal issues raised in this interview as well as some of the more interesting aspects of the residency process generally.

Finally, we discuss some of the weirder aspects of the law surrounding immigration through marriage beyond the facts of this interview, including (among many others):

--Do you really have to prove to the satisfaction of an immigration officer that your marriage includes sex?

--Why might the US government refuse to recognize a prior divorce from your home country?

--Will federal immigration authorities really recognize a Zoom wedding conducted from completely different continents?

--Can you bring multiple partners if you are coming from a country where polygamy is legal?

1. "Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status," U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (1/20/2025 edition)

2. "Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity," Congressional Research Service (5/28/21)

3. Matter of Peterson, 12 I&N Dec. 663 (BIA 1968)

4. "Kicking the INA Out of Bed: Abolishing the Consummation Requirement for Proxy Marriages," 22 Hastings J. Gender & L. 55 (2011)

5. "Second Wives Club: Mapping the Impact of Polygamy in U.S. Immigration Law," Claire A. Smearman, Berkeley Journal of Immigration Law (Dec. 2009)