Law and Chaos

Liz talks to veteran legal journalist Mike Sacks about the Supreme Court and the decades-old plan to enshrine minority rule into law. How did the Chief Justice wind up frantically tapping the brakes as his own conservative colleagues are going pedal to the metal? And WTF is going on with Judge Cannon in the Trump docs case?

Links:

US v. Trump [SDFL Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490069/united-states-v-trump/

Special Counsel Threatens To Go To 11th Circuit, Reminds Judge Cannon What Happened The Last Time She Tried This Shit

https://abovethelaw.com/2024/04/special-counsel-threatens-to-go-to-11th-circuit-reminds-judge-cannon-what-happened-the-last-time-she-tried-this-shit/

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Have anti-choice astroturf groups gone too far? Will SCOTUS save medication abortion from the loons at the Fifth Circuit? Liz discusses the arguments in FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine with reproductive rights reporter Susan Rinkunas.

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FDA v. Alliance Hippocratic Medicine, Transcript and Audio of Oral Arguments

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/23-235

The 'WTF Is Happening' Guide to the Supreme Court Abortion Pill Case, by Susan Rinkunas

https://www.jezebel.com/the-wtf-is-happening-guide-to-the-supreme-court-abortion-pill-case

How Hobby Lobby Could Be Trump's Reproductive Rights Wrecking Ball, by Susan Rinkunas

https://newrepublic.com/article/179622/hobby-lobby-comstock-alito-contraception

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA [District Court Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65768749/alliance-for-hippocratic-medicine-v-us-food-and-drug-administration/

Alliance Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA [5th Circuit Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67164167/alliance-hippocratic-medicine-v-fda/

Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA [SCOTUS Docket]

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-235.html

Comstock Act, 18 USC § 461

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1461?quicksearch=18&quicksearch=461

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States are banning it, employers are blocking it, and now the US government is trying to steal it. What's with all the noise around TikTok? TechFreedom's Corbin Barthold explains why politicians need to take several giant steps back and stop trying to tell kids how to do the internet.

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A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill, by Corbin Barthold

https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/tiktok-ban-bizarre-factions-strange-bedfellows

H.R.7521 - Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521

TikTok v. Knudson [Trial Docket, MT ban case]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67413418/tiktok-inc-v-knudsen/

MT SB419

https://leg.mt.gov/bills/2023/billhtml/SB0419.htm

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Liz discusses all the Trump civil and criminal trials with New York litigator Mitchell Epner. Will Trump be able to pay that $454 million bond with the proceeds from taking Truth Social public? We'll break it down.

Links:

Carroll v. Trump (I) [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18418220/carroll-v-trump/

Carroll v. Trump (I) — Denial of Rule 59 Motion

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.212.0_1.pdf

US v. Trump [SDFL Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18418220/carroll-v-trump/

SDFL — Order re Jury Instructions

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.407.0.pdf

Trump v. ABC [Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68351681/trump-v-american-broadcasting-companies-inc/

Trump SPAC Disclosure to SEC

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312524036093/d408563ds4a.htm

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Recent revelations have shone a spotlight on the Supreme Court's broken ethics rules, and boy are the justices mad about it. We talk to Gabe Roth, executive director of Fix the Court about the problem and what to do about it. But first, a breakdown of Trump's appeal of Judge McAfee's denial of the motion to disqualify DA Fani Willis in Georgia.

Links:

Fix the Court

https://fixthecourt.com/

O.C.G.A. § 5-6-34

https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-5/chapter-6/article-2/section-5-6-34/

Motion for Certificate of Immediate Review

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24485326/trump_motioncertificateimmediatereview.pdf

Certificate of Immediate Review

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24489448/mcafee_certificateimmediatereview.pdf

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Liz talks to voting rights expert Jamie Lynn Crofts about the court order which forced Republicans in Wisconsin to surrender their stranglehold gerrymander. How will fair maps affect the Badger State? And what lessons can we learn for the country as a whole?

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All Voting Is Local

https://allvotingislocal.org/

Clarke v. Wisconsin Election Commission, OPINION

https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=745249

US v. Trump [SDFL Docket via Court Listener]

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/united-states-v-trump/

State of Georgia v. Trump [Court Docs via Just Security]

https://www.justsecurity.org/89123/clearinghouse-georgia-election-interference-case/

State of New York v. Trump [Court Docs via Just Security]

https://www.justsecurity.org/89089/clearinghouse-2016-election-interference-case-manhattan-district-attorney/

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Liz talks to Diana Florence, a litigator in New York who spent 24 years in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office. They break down the upcoming Trump trial for creating false business records as part of the scheme to disguise the Stormy Daniels hush money payment as legal fees. What should you expect in the first Trump criminal trial? Tune in for a former NY prosecutor's take!

Links:

Trump Notice Regarding Advice of Counsel Defense

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Just-Security-NY-2016-Election-Interference-Trump-Clearinghouse-%E2%80%94-Trump-notice-concerning-his-intent-to-rely-on-an-advice-of-counsel-defense-March-11-2024.pdf

Trump Motion to Exclude Evidence and Adjourn Case Based on Presidential Immunity

https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Just-Security-NY-2016-Election-Interference-Trump-Clearinghouse-%E2%80%94Trump-motions-to-exclude-evidence-and-for-an-adjournment-based-on-Presidential-Immunity-March-11-2024.pdf

People's Notice Regarding the Production of Records from the US Attorney's Office and Consent to Adjournment

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24481447/20240314-peoples-notice.pdf

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Liz talks to Arizona litigator Tom Ryan about how his state's GOP learned to stop worrying and love the loon. We'll cover all Kari Lake's litigation — she's having no luck as a plaintiff, and even less as a defendant. And we'll talk about what's next for Democrats and Republicans in the Grand Canyon State.

Links:

Richer v. Lake Complaint

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23858088-richer-v-lake

Petersen v. Fontes Case Docs (via Democracy Docket)

https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-2023-election-procedures-manual-challenge/

US v. Trump (SDFL Docket via Court Listener)

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490069/united-states-v-trump/

GOVERNMENT'S OPPOSITION TO DONALD J. TRUMP'S MOTION TO DISMISS COUNTS 1-32 BASED ON PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.376.0_1.pdf

Jonathan Nez for Congress

https://www.jonathannezforaz.com/

Kirsten Engel for Arizona

https://www.engelforarizona.com/

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On the eve of Ken Paxton's trial for securities fraud — a mere nine years after he got indicted — Liz talks to Texas Monthly reporter Dan Solomon about the state's embattled Attorney General. How much worse has he gotten since surviving impeachment? Will he play a role in a future Trump administration? And is this literally hell we are living in now?

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Carroll Bond Ruling

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790/gov.uscourts.nysd.543790.315.0.pdf

Ken Paxton Argues That Ken Paxton Has Violated Ken Paxton's Right to a Speedy Trial, by Dan Solomon

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-securities-fraud-trial-delays/

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Should the government be able to order social media platforms to host political speech? Does the First Amendment even exist any more? And do we really have to side with Justice Kavanaugh on this one? Liz talks to TechFreedom's Corbin Barthold about the Netchoice cases.

Links:

Tech Policy Podcast

​​https://podcast.techfreedom.org/

Moody v. Netchoice (Texas Docket)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-555.html

Moody v. Netchoice (Florida Docket)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-277.html

TechFreedom's Amicus Brief in Netchoice

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-555/292534/20231207074245073_TechFreedom%20VIDED%20amicus%20brief%2022-277%2022-555.pdf

Oral Argument Moody v. Netchoice (Florida case)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/22-277

Oral Argument Moody v. Netchoice (Texas case)

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/22-555

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