Law and Chaos

Republicans have discovered ONE WEIRD TRICK to win elections, and it is for the legislatures to steal all the electoral votes. Or if that can't be arranged, they'd accept an intervention from SCOTUS. We'll discuss the independent state legislature theory, as well as Trump's latest filing in the stolen documents appeal.

Links:

Musk Petition

https://petition.theamericapac.org/

Pennsylvania v. America PAC complaint

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25255630-philly-v-musk

Pennsylvania SCT appeal (Genser v. Butler County)

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25255962/scotus-24a408-stay-application-pa.pdf

5th Circuit provisional ballots case (RNC v. Wetzel)

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-60395-CV0.pdf

US v. Trump (11th Circuit appeal) docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68955302/united-states-v-donald-trump/

US v. Trump (SDFL documents case) docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67643393/united-states-v-trump/

28 CFR § 600.1

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/28/600.1

Inside the Movement Behind Trump's Election Lies

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/28/us/politics/inside-the-movement-behind-trumps-election-lies.html

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What will happen on November 5 if Vice President Harris is narrowly ahead of Trump? Will it look like 2020? Or is it more likely to resemble 2000, with a knock down, drag out fight over every ballot? Liz and Andrew break it down.

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Musk Is Going All In to Elect Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/11/us/politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-pennsylvania.html

Press Release: Benedictine Sisters subject of fraudulent claim https://eriebenedictines.org/news-stories.html/article/2024/10/23/press-release-benedictine-sisters-subject-of-fraudulent-claims

Wand et al., The Butterfly Did It: The Aberrant Vote for Buchanan in Palm Beach County, Florida, American Political Science Review (2001)

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/publications/butterfly-did-it-aberrant-vote-buchanan-palm-beach-county-florida

Bush v. Gore (Supreme Court 2000)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2298973060085224552

Gore v. Harris (FL Supreme Court 2000)

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1489353.html

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Elon Musk is giving Trump's campaign $75 million. Plus he's paying out $1 million per day to "registered voters." Is that a crime, or just a photo op? Meanwhile in DC, what can we learn from the Special Counsel's latest filing in the Trump election case? And we answer questions about how to watch early election night returns.

Links:

Musk Petition

https://petition.theamericapac.org/

US v. Trump [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?order_by=desc

Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying by Rick Hasen

https://electionlawblog.org/?p=146397

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In this BONUS episode, elections expert Joe Dye returns to tell us what to watch for when the very first returns on Election Day come in at 6 pm Eastern from Indiana and Kentucky. Learn how those deep red states will help us test six different bits of conventional wisdom we've all heard from the pundits, like whether Kamala Harris is facing a backlash from college students, or whether she has made inroads with educated white voters & so much more!

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The Republican Feelings Industrial Complex

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/bonus-the-republican-feelings-industrial

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Lt. Gov. Mark "Horndog" Robinson is suing CNN and a former porn shop worker named Louis Love Money for $50 million. And Texas's worst(?) federal judge threatens to tank a Boeing plea deal because the federal monitor might do DEIs. Can't have the airline pay victims of airline crashes unless the deal is 100 percent woke free! And for subscribers, a deep dive into the latest Trump election interference case foolishness.

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Liz on Andrew Bailey: "Missouri AG Andy Bailey Face Plants All Over Federal Docket In Media Matters Case"

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/missouri-ag-andy-bailey-face-plants

Judge McBurney Order re Georgia Hand Count Rule

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25214879-file_0479

'I'm a black NAZI!': NC GOP nominee for governor made dozens of disturbing comments on porn forum

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/politics/kfile-mark-robinson-black-nazi-pro-slavery-porn-forum/index.html

The Lt. Governor Owes Me Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4CbWIXGzvE

Ex-Porn Shop Employees Say Mark Robinson Was A Regular. He Denies It.

https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/nc-election-governor-republican-mark-robinson-porn-allegations/

Robinson v. CNN complaint

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25215289-robinson-cnn-complaint

NC Pattern Jury Instructions

https://www.sog.unc.edu/resources/microsites/north-carolina-pattern-jury-instructions/north-carolina-pattern-jury-instructions-civil-cases

NC Rule 8(a)(2)

https://ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_1A/GS_1A-1,_Rule_8.html

Boeing Order

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.342881/gov.uscourts.txnd.342881.275.0_1.pdf

US v. Trump (DC docket)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

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The courts are closed, but crazy never takes a break. We'll check in on Alex Jones's bankruptcy liquidation, Donald Trump's shenanigans in the election interference case, and the horror show now that the mifepristone case is back before Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. Subscribers catch up with Peter Navarro, who seems to be working at cross purposes to his old boss in federal court — although perhaps it hasn't yet occurred to him.

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Free Speech Systems Auction Page

https://360assetadvisors.com/events/fssmh/

US v. Trump (DC docket)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

L&C on Trump Revoking CBS's "license"

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/no-the-fcc-cant-revoke-cbss-license

Oklahoma RFP 00000555

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JbS0fT-wBSpLhKojxAv_BN5htPPKSi1g1d8bfbz-wWE/edit?tab=t.0

Alex Jones TX plaintiff appeal

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.1028.0.pdf

FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (2024)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-235_n7ip.pdf

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine docket (ND Tex.)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.370067

Navarro order

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.245941/gov.uscourts.dcd.245941.53.0.pdf

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The Trump election interference case is back, and the immunity ruling isn't the only way the Supreme Court tried to kneecap it. A case called Fischer v. US may prove fatal as well. Also, we take your questions of Florida's abortion and marijuana ballot initiatives. And for subscribers, we catch up with Kraken weirdos Stefanie Lambert and Patrick Byrne.

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FL Stat. 101-161

http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=0100-0199/0101/Sections/0101.161.html

Fischer v. US (2024)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-5572_l6hn.pdf

US v. Trump (DC docket)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

Trump opp redacted appendix

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148/gov.uscourts.dcd.258148.259.0_2.pdf

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They're baaaaaack! The Supreme Court's October term starts this week, and the howler monkey wing is ready to FSU. Down in Florida, Trump appointee Judge Kathryn Mizelle is doing her best Aileen Cannon impersonation. That story has an old school deep dive from Andrew into 13th century Saxony and beyond. And, for subscribers, we'll unpack an amazing grift in Oklahoma.

Links:

ABA Letter rating Mizelle "Not Qualified"

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/government_affairs_office/2020-09-08chair-rating-letter-to-graham-and-feinstein-re-nomination-of-kathryn-kimball-mizelle.pdf?logActivity=true

False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. Subchapter III

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/31/subtitle-III/chapter-37/subchapter-III

US ex rel Clarissa Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flmd.364103/gov.uscourts.flmd.364103.346.0.pdf

2007 OLC Memo re Relators

https://www.justice.gov/file/494641/dl?inline

OKLAHOMA TRUMP BIBLES

https://www.lawdork.com/p/oklahoma-ryan-walters-bible-inhalers

OKLAHOMA RFP

https://sde.ok.gov/ev00000555

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Special Counsel Jack Smith filed his opening salvo since the Supreme Court invented a new doctrine of absolute presidential immunity. Trump complained that the immunity brief is functionally a mini-Special Counsel report, and he's not wrong. But if you don't want your crimes on the public docket, maybe don't try to overthrow democracy! Liz and Andrew break down the latest in Trump's election interference case.

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US v. Trump [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67656595/united-states-v-trump/?order_by=desc

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It's a regular Star Wars bar on today's show, with updates in Donald Trump's election interference case and Alex Jones's bankruptcy. But the real star is New York Mayor Eric Adams, who wants to dismiss his indictment because the Supreme Court says it's not a bribe if you don't get paid until after you do the official act. It's a gratuity, which is as American as apple pie!

Links:

US v. Adams [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69197933/united-states-v-adams/

Free Speech Systems Bankruptcy [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64868456/free-speech-systems-llc-and-official-committee-of-unsecured-creditors-of/

Alex Jones Bankruptcy [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66583024/alexander-e-jones-and-official-committee-of-unsecured-creditors/

Alex Jones' Company To Be Broken Up And Sold For Scrap

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/alex-jones-company-to-be-broken-up

Tell Alex Jones to Eat Shit: Let's Buy Infowars

https://thebarbedwire.com/2024/09/30/tell-alex-jones-to-eat-shit-lets-buy-infowars/

Sistersong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective v. State of Georgia, Order

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25178630-mcburney-sistersong-final-order

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