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Rudy Giuliani discovers that getting out of bankruptcy court is harder than falling on your keyster at the RNC. And New Mexico prosecutors discover one weird trick to blow up a criminal case. (It is the Brady rule!) Plus Patreons get an update on the Louisiana ten commandments mandate.

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NMSA 30-2-3

https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-30/article-2/section-30-2-3/

NMSA 30-7-4

https://law.justia.com/codes/new-mexico/chapter-30/article-7/section-30-7-4/

Alec Baldwin docket

https://caselookup.nmcourts.gov/caselookup/app?component=cnLink&page=SearchResults&service=direct&session=T&sp=SD-101-CR-202400013

Baldwin MTD Failure to state an offense

https://nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/May-6-2024-Defendant-Alex-Baldwin-Motion-to-Dismiss-the-Indictment-for-Failure-to-Allege-a-Criminal-Offense-10-53-pm.pdf

Baldwin MTD Destruction of evidence

https://nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/May-6-2024-Defendant-Alex-Baldwin-Motion-to-Dismiss-the-Indictment-with-Prejudice-Based-on-the-State-Destruction-of-Evidence-10-32-pm.pdf

Baldwin Addendum re destruction of evidence

https://nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/June-17-2024-Addendum-to-Defendants-Motion-to-Dismiss-based-on-the-Destruction-of-Evidence-456p.pdf

Baldwin June 24 MTD Brady

https://nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/June-24-2024-Defendants-Motion-for-Relief-for-States-Brady-and-State-Law-Disclosure-Violations-Related-to-Non-Firearm-Discovery-240p.pdf

Baldwin July 11 MTD Brady

https://nmcourts.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/July-11-2024-Defendants-Motion-for-Dismissal-and-Sanctions-under-Brady-Giglio-and-Rule-5-501-752p.pdf

Roake v. Brumley - Louisiana Ten Commandments - Status update

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lamd.64943/gov.uscourts.lamd.64943.31.0.pdf

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Judge Cannon blows up the documents case by declaring special counsels illegal. All she had to do was ignore 50 years of precedent, five federal statutes, and two Supreme cases. Glove up for a deep dive, with Liz and Andrew.

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A Trump trial judge decides to overturn Supreme Court precedent on home distilling. And speaking of sobriety … we'll check in on Rudy Giuliani's attempt to replicate Alex Jones's stunning success in the bankruptcy court. Patreons get an extra field trip to Congress, where Oversight Chair James Comer invites the Biden administration to say where it would like to be kicked.

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Wait, The Fifth Circuit Is Snatching Cases From Other Circuits Now?

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-is-snatching-cases

26 USC 5178

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5178

26 USC 5601

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5601

HDA complaint

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014.1.0.pdf

HDA docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68073961/hobby-distillers-association-v-alcohol-and-tobacco-tax-and-trade-bureau/

HDA decision

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014/gov.uscourts.txnd.384014.49.0_1.pdf

FRCP 26

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26

Freeman v. Giuliani (DC docket)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61642105/freeman-v-giuliani/

Giuliani stipulation

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.84.2_1.pdf

11 USC 362

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/11/362

Giuliani May MOR

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.267.0.pdf

Giuliani May exhibits

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.267.4.pdf

House GOP Letters to Biden Agencies Post-Chevron

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/07.10.2024-Letters-to-federal-agencies-regarding-Loper-Bright-v.-Raimondo.pdf

Distillers Want to Decriminalize Making Booze at Home

https://www.texasobserver.org/distillers-decriminalize-home-booze/

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Today we have a deep dive into the absolute havoc SCOTUS's immunity ruling will wreak in Trump's document theft case — even though he was out of the White House when he committed his crimes! But first, the election denying weirdos and their election denying lawyers are Froot Looping all over the docket in the Dominion defamation case. And for subscribers: a discussion of the Alex Jones bankruptcy debacle.

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18 USC 333

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/333

John Case in 2015

https://www.evanscase.com/john-case-senior-partner-at-evans-case-llp-attorney-named-colorado-super-lawyer/

John Case today

https://www.johncaselaw.com/

Trump v. US

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

18 USC 793

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

Trump SDFL Motion to Dismiss for Selective and Vindictive Prosecution

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.508.0.pdf

Alex Jones bankruptcy docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66583024/alexander-e-jones-and-official-committee-of-unsecured-creditors/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

Alex Jones Ch. 7 Trustee Emergency Motion

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.459750/gov.uscourts.txsb.459750.720.0_1.pdf

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Liz and Andrew talk to Tech Freedom's Corbin Barthold about two recent SCOTUS decisions involving conservative efforts to claim victimhood on social media. In Murthy v. Missouri, Missouri and Louisiana complained about the Biden administration's efforts to push back against covid misinformation on social media. And in Moody v. Netchoice, Florida and Texas attempted to impose state controls on what social media platforms may restrict.

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Murthy v. Missouri (SCOTUS)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-411new_7mio.pdf

Missouri v. Biden (5th Cir)

https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/23/23-30445-CV0.pdf

Moody v. Netchoice (SCOTUS)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-277_d18f.pdf

The Fifth Circuit is Snatching Cases From Other Circuits Now?

https://www.lawandchaospod.com/p/the-fifth-circuit-is-snatching-cases

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SCOTUS gives Trump everything his heart desires and more. Not only does he get to stay out of jail, he gets to be king if he wins again. Liz and Andrew break down the disaster.

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Trump v. US

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-939_e2pg.pdf

The Court's Fischer Ruling Is a Symbolic Setback for the Justice Department—But One With Modest Consequences — by Roger Parloff

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-court-s-fischer-ruling-is-a-symbolic-setback-for-the-justice-department-but-one-with-modest-consequences

Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

Corner Post, Inc. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-1008_1b82.pdf

City of Grants Pass v. Johnson

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-175_19m2.pdf

Fischer v. United States

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

SCOTUS Fall 2023 Term opinions

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/23

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In today's episode, we check in with the Supreme Court that still has six cases left to decide, including the key decision on Presidential immunity. We break down Moyle v. US, in which the Supreme Court punted (for now) on the seemingly straightforward question of whether state abortion laws can supersede the federal EMTALA law protecting women in emergency rooms. Then, we discuss SEC v. Jarkesy, in which the Roberts Court continues to gut the administrative state, this time by restricting how the Securities and Exchange Commission can go after securities fraud. And in between, we update you on all things Aileen Cannon, who's even worse than you imagined.

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Moyle v. US

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-726_6jgm.pdf

Trump Motion to Dismiss for AC Privilege (Doc. 566)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.566.0.pdf

Cannon Ruling (Doc. 655)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.655.0_1.pdf

SEC v. Jarkesy

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-859_1924.pdf

SEC Rule 10b-5

https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/240.10b-5

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Today's episode takes a look at two of the Supreme Court's decisions from last week, US v. Rahimi, which apparently involves both gun control and time travel, and Erlinger v. US, which is an incredibly nuanced discussion of what qualifies as a prior offense under a Reagan-era federal law, so MAGA nation is of course lying about it being relevant to somehow overturning Donald Trump's 34 state felony convictions. It isn't. Finally, we update you as to the free-for-all unfolding now that Alex Jones's company has been dismissed from its bankruptcy. It's Texas justice!

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Armed Career Criminal Act, 18 USC § 924(e)(1)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/924

Erlinger v. US

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-370_i4dj.pdf

Rahimi v. US

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-915_8o6b.pdf

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Today, Liz and Andrew talk to Salon's Amanda Marcotte about the right wing's assault on Title IX through the prism of the political wedge issue of women's sports. Then, Amanda breaks down the phenomenon of conservative "tradwives" as both cosplay and a gateway drug to white supremacy.

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"Texas professors sue to fail students who seek abortions," by Amanda Marcotte

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/03/texas-professors-to-fail-students-seek-abortions/

"After Supreme Court's abortion pill decision, Donald Trump is even more likely to ban abortion," by Amanda Marcotte

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/14/after-abortion-pill-decision-donald-is-even-more-likely-to-ban-abortion/

"A tradwife drops a racist slur: Why the right's trolling economy made Lilly Gaddis' rise inevitable," by Amanda Marcotte

https://www.salon.com/2024/06/17/a-tradwife-drops-a-slur-why-the-rights-trolling-economy-made-lilly-gaddis-rise-inevitable/

Bostock v. Clayton County

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

Title IX fact sheet

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-final-rule-factsheet.pdf

34 CFR Part 106 (Final Rule - Title IX)

https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/t9-unofficial-final-rule-2024.pdf

-Reed O'Connor "striking down" fact sheet

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.377970/gov.uscourts.txnd.377970.37.0.pdf

TX v. USA (Judge Kacsmaryk Docket, via Court Listener)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68479793/state-of-texas-v-the-united-states-of-america/

TX v. Cardona (Judge O'Connor Docket, via Court Listener)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67502155/the-state-of-texas-v-cardona/

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We update you on the developments at Alex Jones's two bankruptcy hearings last week and why they were a big win for the conspiracy theorist, with a special deep dive into Article I vs. Article III judges. Then, we discuss the latest from the Supreme court, before turning our attention to the myriad ways in which Donald Trump's lawyers are still takin' a dive before Aileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida, just hoping that she'll throw that red card.

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27 CFR Parts 447, 478, and 479

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-12-26/pdf/2018-27763.pdf

Northern Pipeline Construction Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50 (1982)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17768408304219861886

Alex Jones personal bankruptcy docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66583024/alexander-e-jones/

FSS bankruptcy docket

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64868456/free-speech-systems-llc/

US v. Trump (SDNY Docket - Judge Cannon)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490071/united-states-v-trump/

US v. Trump, MTD for Surplusage

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/trump-motion-indictment-dismiss.pdf

US v. Trump, Order on MTD for Surplusage

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.608.0_1.pdf

US v. Trump, MTD for Spoliation

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.612.0_1.pdf

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