Law and Chaos

It's another Trump-free extravaganza! We discuss the Hunter Biden conviction, forthcoming sentencing and appeals. Then, Liz and Andrew walk through the Supreme Court's 9-0 reversal of the Fifth Circuit, protecting – for now! – the right to medical abortion drugs over the internet. Finally, in a lengthy segment (with a long Patreon bonus!), we tell you everything you need to know about a critical juncture in the Alex Jones corporate bankruptcy in the face of likely and deliberate misinformation by Alex Jones regardless of what happens.

Links:

L&C Episode 28

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-28-throwing-shade-on-the-supreme-court-feat-steve-vladeck/

FSS - Lee Reply brief re: retention of Schwartz

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.176.0.pdf

FSS - Hearing transcript re: Shannon & Lee, Schwartz

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.194.0.pdf

FSS - Order to employ Patrick Magill as Chief Restructuring Officer (October 13, 2022) [Doc. 239]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.239.0_2.pdf

FSS - Magill Engagement Agreement

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.205.1.pdf

FSS - Emergency Motion for Court Instructions Regarding (1) Disposition of Debtors Property, and (2) Clarity as to the Chief Restructuring Officers Responsibilities and Authority, in the Event of Either a Dismissal of This Case or Conversion to Chapter 7

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.933.0.pdf

ACB article on LLC management

https://www.americancollegeofbankruptcy.com/file.cfm/29/docs/Consumer%20Panel.Administering%20LLC%20Interests%20in%20Bankruptcy%20-%20Final.Caruso.pdf

FSS - TX Plaintiff's Objection

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706/gov.uscourts.txsb.457706.945.0.pdf

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Pennsylvania dad Darren Laustsen saw books disappearing from his daughter's school — books which just so happened to be on the Moms for Liberty hit list. And he did something about it! Andrew and Liz talk to Darren and his lawyer Joy Ramsingh about their open records case that revealed a school board plot to shadowban books.

Links:

Laustsen v. Pennridge SD docket

https://propublic.buckscountyonline.org/PSI/v/detail/Case/6253965

SB answer

https://www.openrecords.pa.gov/Appeals/DocketGetFile.cfm?id=129351

10/19/23 Order

https://www.openrecords.pa.gov/Appeals/DocketGetFile.cfm?id=139446

Uncovering the Cover-up: How Republican Pennridge School Board Directors Secretly Banned Books

https://buckscountybeacon.com/2024/05/uncovering-the-cover-up-how-republican-pennridge-school-board-directors-secretly-banned-books/

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We update you on all of the states that have brought criminal charges against those involved in the "fake electors" plot to try and keep Donald Trump in the White House after he lost the 2020 election, including in particular the latest criminal complaint filed against Ken Chesbro in Wisconsin. In the B segment, we tell you how the Biden administration FINALLY banned asbestos. In 2024.

Links:

Chesebro "The Real Deadline for Settling a State's Electoral Votes" memo

https://app.box.com/s/ifis7hu74dz6xp0awkq567ygetrvcof1/file/1460145645094

AZ fake electors indictment

https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/PHX-%2312079639-v1-TRUE_BILL_-_INDICTMENT_93_SGJ_81.PDF

GA indictment

https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf

Georgia Court of Appeals, Stay of Roman v. State (AKA the Trump RICO case)

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24735877/stayproceedings.pdf

WI indictment

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24731470/24cf1293-24cf1294-24cf1295.pdf

Corrosion Proof Fittings v. EPA

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/947/1201/153685/

ACC Letter to EPA re asbestos use

http://src.bna.com/iuL

Ural Asbest's Facebook page

Trump insane asbestos tweet

Link

EPA's final rule on asbestos, 40 CFR Part 751

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-03-28/pdf/2024-05972.pdf

EPA Factfinding pursuant to the TSCA

https://www.epa.gov/assessing-and-managing-chemicals-under-tsca/risk-management-asbestos-part-1-chrysotile-asbestos

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We answer your follow-up questions on the Trump verdict in New York, remind you that Aileen Cannon continues to get worse and worse in the Trump documents case in FL, talk about Sam Alito's fondness for flags, and give you an extra-long patreon bonus on Stan Woodward's dedication to NOT his client.

Links:

Alito

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24698834-letter-from-justice-alito-to-senators-durbin-and-whitehouse

Noreika denial of Hunter Biden MTD on invalidity of special counsel

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ded.82797/gov.uscourts.ded.82797.101.0.pdf

18 U.S.C. 2

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2

Nauta MTD February 28, 2024.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.352.0.pdf

Gov't opp Nauta MTD March 7, 2024

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.378.0.pdf

Trump and Nauta motion for extension of time March 11, 2024

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.386.0_3.pdf

Nauta reply brief May 20, 2024

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.556.0.pdf

Nauta Notice of Supplemental Authority

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.582.0.pdf

United States v. Tobon-Builes, 706 F.2d 1092, 1101 (11th Cir. 1983)

https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-tobon-builes

Seattle Times on law excluding felons

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/plot-twist-for-trump-wa-has-a-law-against-felons-running-for-office/

RCW 29A.68.020

https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=29A.68.020

Trump v. Anderson

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf

Eisen NYT on sentencing

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/opinion/donald-trump-trial-prison.html

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IT IS FINISHED. Today, the jury in New York unanimously agreed that Donald Trump committed 34 felonies, falsifying business records in the first degree, when he repaid Michael Cohen for secretly paying off Stormy Daniels to bury her story right before the 2016 election. What does it all mean and what comes next? Listen and find out!

Links:

NY Penal Law 175.10

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10/

New York Penal Sec. 70

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/70.00

New York Penal Sec. 65

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-65-00/

New York Penal Sec. 530.50 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CPL/530.50

Jury Instructions

https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/People%20v.%20DJT%20Jury%20Instructions%20and%20Charges%20FINAL%205-23-24.pdf

Georgia Code §42-8-60

https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2022/title-42/chapter-8/article-3/section-42-8-60/

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Trump's false business records case goes to the jury in New York. Liz and Andrew break down the charges and the jury instructions, as well as debunking some of Trumpland's wildest lies about the law.

Links:

CITES

NY PEN 175.05

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-05/

NY PEN 175.10

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10/

Cohen plea deal

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/michael-cohen-pleads-guilty-manhattan-federal-court-eight-counts-including-criminal-tax

NY Election law 17-152

New York Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (CJI)

https://www.nycourts.gov/judges/cji/5-SampleCharges/CJI2d.Final_Instructions.pdf

FECA jury instruction

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24688857/2024-05-21-joint-feca-jury-charge-request.pdf

accomplice liability jury instruction

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24688848/2024-05-21-joint-accomplice-as-a-matter-of-law-jury-charge-request.pdf

elements of the offense jury instruction

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24688855/2024-05-21-joint-falsifying-business-records-charge-request.pdf

17-152 jury instruction

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24688854/2024-05-21-joint-election-law-17-152-jury-charge-request.pdf

Written retainer agreement issue

https://www.law.cornell.edu/regulations/new-york/title-22/subtitle-B/chapter-IV/subchapter-E/part-1215

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Liz and Andrew break down the latest Supreme Court horror ruling, greenlighting racial gerrymandering to all Republicans to choose their voters, and not the other way around. And then it's off to Florida to catch up on the latest wacka**ery in the Trump stolen docs case.

Links:

Rucho v. Common Cause (2019)

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6090361490276671133

Gill v. Whitford (2018)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1161_dc8f.pdf

Alexander v. S.C. NAACP (2024)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-807_3e04.pdf

Rudy bankruptcy order denying leave to appeal

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.230.0.pdf

Beryl Howell's order abrogating attorney-client privilege

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653/gov.uscourts.flsd.648653.561.4.pdf

In re Grand Jury Proc., 142 F.3d 1416, 1428 (11th Cir. 1998)

https://casetext.com/case/in-re-grand-jury-proceedings-57

11 U.S. Code § 362

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

Giuliani motion for relief from stay

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.195.1.pdf

Giuliani appeal schedule

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.195.2.pdf

Freeman/Moss opp

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.207.0.pdf

Giuliani Bankruptcy Order denying relief

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.230.0.pdf

Freeman/Moss complaint for injunctive relief

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064/gov.uscourts.nysb.319064.218.0.pdf

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Trump's lawyers make a bevy of unforced errors as their client continues to march ever closer to a conviction in New York for fraud in concealing the payoff payment to Stormy Daniels. Also, the Supreme Court surprises us, sort of, for now, by not sacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and by allowing a Louisiana congressional map to go into effect that doubles the minority representation in that state.

Links:

12 U.S.C. § 5481 et seq.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/chapter-53/subchapter-V

CFPB Initial Report, July 18, 2011

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/2011/07/Report_BuildingTheCfpb1.pdf

2023 Pew Research on Payday Loans

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/06/02/payday-loans-and-overdraft-a-short-history-and-whats-next

"How Payday Loans Work"

https://paydayloaninfo.org/how-payday-loans-work/

Bankrate's Emergency Savings Report

https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-report/

Alito protest flag

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes

CFPB v. CFSA

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-448_o7jp.pdf

Landry v. Callais

Application for stay

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A1002/309522/20240510115206439_Landry%20v.%20Callais%20-%20Emergency%20Stay%20App-FINAL.pdf

Opp

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A1002/309633/20240513120736126_COMBINED%20DOCUMENT.pdf

Jackson dissent

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a994_7mip.pdf

New York Penal Law § 175.10

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10

Order on Motion in Limine to exclude Smith

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Just-Security-NY-2016-Election-Interference-Case-Clearinghouse-Order-on-State-of-New-York-motions-in-limine-March-18-2024.pdf

New York Rule 6.11

https://www.nycourts.gov/JUDGES/evidence/6-WITNESSES/6.11_Impeachment,%20when%20authorized.pdf

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The Trump trial in New York is racing toward the finish line, with Michael Cohen potentially the last witness. Meanwhile in DC, Steve Bannon reaches the findout on his contempt of congress charge.

Links:

US v. Navarro [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63359365/united-states-v-navarro/

2 U.S.C. § 192

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/2/192

18 U.S.C. § 3624

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3624

18 U.S.C. § 3632

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3632

18 U.S.C. § 3633

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3633

Sentencing Project on the First Step Act

https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/the-first-step-act-ending-mass-incarceration-in-federal-prisons/

Gov. Abbott pardons Daniel Perry immediately after Texas parole board recommendation

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/state/2024/05/16/daniel-perry-pardon-recommended-garrett-foster/73719220007/

Jim Jordan Letter NYAG James

https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/JDJ%20to%20AG%20Letitia%20James%20re%20Colangelo.pdf

Judiciary Subcommittee on Weaponization of Federal Government Hearing

https://judiciary.house.gov/committee-activity/hearings/hearing-weaponization-federal-government-8

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Liz and Andrew check in on the latest hilarity from Stefanie Lambert, the Kraken alum who's now been arrested twice for trying to overthrow the 2020 election. Then, they break down last week in Trump's NY trial with a focus on Stormy Daniels' testimony and what the DA's office has left to prove.

Links:

New York Penal Law § 175.10

https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10

Dominion v. Byrne Lambert Motion to Adjourn

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316.98.0.pdf

Dominion v. Byrne supplemental minute order

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60120428/us-dominion-inc-v-byrne/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#minute-entry-389654982

Dominion v. Byrne Lambert supplemental filing

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316/gov.uscourts.dcd.234316.101.0.pdf

Dominion v. Byrne minute order rescheduling hearing

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/60120428/us-dominion-inc-v-byrne/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#minute-entry-389808159

Quinta Jurecic Lawfare article on Trump NY

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-must-prosecutors-prove-in-trump-s-ny-trial

Federal Election Campaigns Act of 1971, 52 U.S.C. § 30101 et seq.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/subtitle-III/chapter-301/subchapter-I

FEC dismissal of Stormy Daniels inquiry (2021)

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Just-Security-Hush-Money-New-York-Trump-Clearinghouse-—-FEC-Michael-Cohen-et-al.-FEC-Case-Dismissal-Commissioners-Statement-of-Reasons-April-26-2021.pdf

FEC dissent re dismissal of Stormy Daniels inquiry

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Just-Security-Hush-Money-New-York-Trump-Clearinghouse-—-Michael-Cohen-et-al.-FEC-Case-Dissent-from-Dismissal-Commissioners-Statement-of-Reasons-May-6-2021.pdf

New York election law § 17-152

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152

People v. Taveras, 12 N.Y.3d 21 (N.Y. 2009)

https://casetext.com/case/people-v-taveras-41

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