Law and Legitimacy

It is a beautiful Tuesday morning to talk legitimacy. Mike shared a 6-hour podcast with Norm last night so it is 50/50 on whether Norm makes it to the stream this morning. We haven't checked, but we've heard oddsmakers put a line on Draft Kings for this one. . If you're wagering against Norm, you've picked the wrong season. We're stacking wins around here. Ask Yale. We digress. Today, the stream focuses in on technical, almost mechanical details of government and justice system functions. This is a major tenant of institutional legitimacy—how the public trust is managed by and through the institutions within which it has been placed: . › The Idaho Tribune reports that the Idaho Republican Party has passed a resolution condemning the Federal Bureau of Investigation and further indicated that it supports abolition thereof if it cannot be reformed. Cool story, bro. What is most interesting, however, is the contents of the resolution used to support the condemnation. . › Planned Parenthood v. Stein continues to develop. The plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order is set to be heard tomorrow, March 28, 2023, in Greensboro, North Carolina. In monitoring court filings, Mike found a plaintiff submission indicating that the North Carolina legislature had met and voted just last week to approve certain amendments to the abortion law at issue, which portend to moot the overwhelming majority of the plaintiff's basis for relief. . › Finally, we do it. We talk about eminent domain in South Dakota and what's going on with the carbon capture pipeline project spearheaded by Summit Carbon Solutions. What is environmental justice? This administration keeps uttering the phrase, but it is not obvious that anything just is occurring below the ground, in the air, or within the courts on the issue of carbon capture and storage. . Join us. . Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: @lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: @pattispodcast . Subscribe and turn on notifications! . Support Law and Legitimacy: . - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Monday Morning #LALiens! We are hoping you're enjoying the longest days of summer and looking forward to our nation's holiday is over a week's time. . Norm and Mike were unable to stream over the weekend, but not to worry. Today's stream is bringing the heat: . › Norm had an early triumph over Yale University late last week, as he successfully persuaded the court to allow his client's defamation claim proceed against a Yale University student who falsely alleged rape against him in 2015. Norm and Mike unpack Title IX. . › Loyal LAL listeners will recall the story of the attorneys in a civil suit out of the Southern District of New York who submitted briefs to the court which cited cases generated out of whole cloth by ChatGPT. Those attorneys have been sanctioned by the court. Was the punishment sufficient? . › Late last week, North Carolina's State Attorney General and Democrat Governor hopeful, Josh Stein, took to Twitter in what can only be called an advertisement of his own direct subversion of duly enacted North Carolina law. In particular, SCOTUS' decision in Dobbs to overturn Roe v. Wade resulted in North Carolina's legislature voting to enact a new bill placing limits on abortion, which was promptly vetoed by Governor Roy Cooper, who's veto was subsequently overridden by two-thirds of North Carolina's legislature. In the latest, North Carolina's top lawyer has now promised not to defend the parts of the law he himself disagrees with, in a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood. Is this meme of the American constitutional republic impeachable? . Join us. . Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast . Subscribe and turn on notifications! . Support Law and Legitimacy: . - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Morning #LALiens! Another week has flown by. We trust you're using the 23 hours and 30 minutes we leave you with to your full advantage each and every weekday. Your presence with us in the mornings fills us with humility and gratitude. Thank you for putting your trust in us to parse the merits of legitimacy. . Today, Norm and Mike end the week with a bang: . › The show opens with an update from Norm regarding his representation of Owen Schroyer, his change of plea in the J6 case, and the current conflict hearing in the Proud Boys case. . › Led by Massachusetts State Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, 14 other state attorneys general wrote and sent a letter to Target Chairman and CEO, Brian Cornell, in an affirmative display of support for the embattled publicly traded company behind widespread boycotts of the brand in connection with its displays, marketing, and promotions of trans products for young children. Norm and Mike deconstruct the letter, the states and people whose names appear in it, and whether this move was necessarily designed to help Target.

. › SUNDAY (6/25) AT 2:00pm EASTERN — LAL picks up on the facts as reported out of the greater South Dakota region, involving Summit Carbon Solutions—a carbon capture and storage company—and the ongoing efforts to construct the world's largest carbon capture and storage project. First, what is eminent domain? How is the legal tool wielded by a private company? And to what end are farmer's real property rights being infringed? . Join us. . Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast . Subscribe and turn on notifications! . Support Law and Legitimacy: . - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Morning #LALiens! We are blessed that you choose to spend this half-hour with us, and we recognize the blessing it is to be with you. Thank you for your support. And for the newcomers, welcome! You have stumbled upon the most dynamic daily half-hour livestreams on the internet in Law and Legitimacy. Our mission is to explore the boundaries of the American republic's durability; what great men have long called our common conceptions of right and common interests—legitimacy. . Today, Norm Pattis and Michael Boyer keep it light: . › Bloomberg published an article titled, "An Aggressive Supreme Court Reshapes US as Its Standing Erodes." The crew deconstructs what has become an obvious point of attack on the Article 3 branch of the United States government. What sticks? . › There is a story gaining momentum out of South Dakota shedding light on what appears to be a blatant and patterned strategy of trespass and willful violation of private real property rights by Summit Carbon Solutions. Farmers in South Dakota have begun mounting a legal defense to the widespread encroachment on fertile, productive, privately-owned farmland in favor of a pipeline surveying and construction across 5 states regarded as the world's largest carbon capture and storage project. . › An odd juxtaposition: the deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece and the missing submersible of the coast of New Foundland. Norm assesses the imbalance in reporting, resource allocation, and perceived importance of the two contemporaneous events. . Join us. . Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast . Subscribe and turn on notifications! . Support Law and Legitimacy: . - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Kodak Black's "I Can't Lie" is playing as these show notes are typed out. Perhaps fitting as we welcome you to the most honest livestream and law podcast on the internet, Law and Legitimacy. And we can't lie: Rumble is letting us down. The good news is that we have you here to listen, engage, and share. . Today: . › It is being reported that Hunter Biden will plead guilty to two federal tax charges and will be allowed to enter a diversion program in connection with the remaining federal gun charge. To channel the youth: where they do that at? . › Hundreds of migrants have been reported dead as a result of a shipwreck off the coast of Greece in deep waters of the Mediterranean. It appears there is a simmering narrative pointing blame at the Greek Coast Guard, as survivors are interviewed and data from the hours preceding the wreck is analyzed. Is western society suffering from moral exhaustion? What is one's duty to intervene? . › There is a well-known concept in torts used by defendant's in civil suits claiming negligence called "assumption of the risk." While one cannot necessarily contract away his own negligence, are there circumstances that exceed the boundaries of society's expectations of reasonable behavior such that one assumes the risk of another's negligence by submitting to conduct that, in and of itself, might be validly deemed negligent? Norm and Mike talk about the missing Titanic submersible and the apparent business of retail deep sea exploration. . Join us. . Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast . Subscribe and turn on notifications! . Support Law and Legitimacy: . - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

It's Tuesday. That means but one thing: Law and Legitimacy is back to wax poetic as to the perceived limits of our dear republic's durability. And we get it. Things are weird. But we have each other and we have this sacred thirty minutes every weekday to stream our consciousness into the future for the ears of those we will never meet. Trippy! Today: › The Carolina Journal reports that North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore has been sued by one Scott Lassiter—middle school principal and member of the Wake County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors—for his alleged role in breaking up Mr. Lassiter's marriage to his wife, Jamie Lassiter. Lassiter alleges that Moore had an affair with his wife, which resulted in the destruction of the marriage. Alienation of affection anyone? › Norm and Mike review an article in the New Criterion and written by Peter Thiel entitled, "The diversity myth." How old is America's preoccupation with cosmetic diversity as a means by strenuous advocates justify efforts toward material social and institutional change? How silly was it then? How silly is it now? › For LAL's daily dose of cognitive dissonance, we present: "A Tale of Unwanted Disruption: My Week Without Amazon." Honorable Mention: Hall of Fame Women's Coach Defends Title IX; RFK Jr. Appearances Being Censored on Major Video Platforms Join us.

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Good Morning and Happy Monday #LALiens! We hope you had a wonderful Father's Day weekend. Thank you for being here with us to begin the week. On today's stream: › The Starbucks manager that oversaw the Rittenhouse Square location that went viral in 2018 for refusing to allow two (2) non-customers to use the restroom and which ended with police arrests has been given a gigantic jury award in her civil case against Starbucks for wrongful termination. › The Justice Department issued a press release that it has charged six (6) people in connection with the buying and selling of human remains stolen from Harvard Medical School. › RFK Jr. appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast late last week. Over the weekend, a "vaccine expert", Dr. Peter Hotez, openly criticized Joe Rogan for hosting RFK and for catering to RFK's brand of "misinformation." Joe defended the effort, and was supported by none other than Elon Musk. Join us. Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy: - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Morning #LALiens! Happy Friday! Thank you for the grace during our brief hiatus yesterday. Norm was busy arguing in the 8th Circuit yesterday and while LAL is a major priority, there is no priority greater than that of advocating liberty in front of a federal court in these United States. Today, Norm and Mike reconvene and catch up before the weekend: › Norm breaks down the case he has taken on behalf of individuals who were prescribed the 'controversial' Ivermectin by their physicians, but whose prescriptions were denied to be filled by a Minnesota Walmart's pharmacy. The European Union has drafted a law intended to limit and regulate artificial intelligence › Episode 4 of Tucker on Twitter debuted last night: "Wannabe Dictator" Join us. Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy: - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Morning and welcome to the most vital law podcast and daily livestream on the internet. If you're here, you have exceptional taste; uncommon, even. And for that, you are an honorary #LALien. Law and Legitimacy focuses on the ties that bind us as a society; our conceptions of right and common interest. We're honored to have you and grateful that you have chosen to spend your time with us. It is not in vain. Today, Norm and Mike take repose from the presidential frenzy and discuss: › Esteemed American novelist and playwright, Cormac McCarthy, passed away yesterday at the age of 89. Cormac was not only a tremendous influence on American literary history and culture, but a lightning bolt in the life of one Norm Pattis. Norm shares. › The Free Press's Ethan Strauss published an article entitled, "The NCAA Has a 'Hot Girl' Problem" — Mike takes the opportunity to reassert his position on the declining utility of the term "student-athlete" and why the Cavinder Twins in all of their remarkable beauty and ambition are the billboard for two key propositions that endure in American life. › Mitchell v. University of North Carolina Board of Governors — a case being petitioned to the North Carolina Supreme Court attacks North Carolina's deference to administrative and regulatory agencies. The topic is on the docket at SCOTUS as well. What is the Chevron standard? Is it to blame for what Mike refers to as a permanent bureaucratic layer inhibiting competent American commerce? Join us. Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy: - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!

Good Morning, #LALiens! We are feeling the love. Thank you for the continued support and daily engagement. For newcomers, welcome to Law and Legitimacy—the platform devoted to the contrarian, the free-thinker, and the unafraid. Our purpose here to is explore the boundaries of what we call 'legitimacy'; our common conceptions of right and common interest and how such relates to the reserves of institutional power within our daily lives. We are honored to have you. The NBA Finals have crowned a champion! The Denver Nuggets took care of business at home last night, smacking the Miami Heat in Game 5 to earn the franchise its first-ever title. Nikola Jokic is the Finals MVP, because who else? Today, Norm and Mike have a full plate: › Former President and Leading Republican Candidate for President Donald J. Trump arrived in Miami yesterday ahead of his scheduled arraignment today before the Federal District Court for the Southern District of Florida in connection with criminal charges stemming from the classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate. › The Washington Examiner and The Post Millennial report: President Joe Biden and son, Hunter Biden, were caught on a combined 17 audio recordings discussing the removal of the then Chief Prosecutor investigating the Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, as well as financial payments to secure the removal and how to structure the transactions to best avoid scrutiny. The person on the other side of the phone? The CEO of Burisma. › Axios reports that Tucker Carlson has received a cease and desist letter from Fox News alleging that Carlson's new show, "Tucker on Twitter," violates his contract's noncompete clause. Tucker is slated to air his next installment of Tucker on Twitter, Episode 3, today. According to Tucker's producer, Justin Wells, the next episode will focus on the federal indictment of President Donald J. Trump. › A North Carolina case which portends to reduce judicial deference to the exercise of administrative authority has a chance to reach the North Carolina Supreme Court. The Carolina Journal published an opinion piece from The John Locke Foundation's senior political analyst, Mitch Kokai, detailing the issue at the heart of Mitchell v. North Carolina Board of Governors. North Carolina's appellate court ruled against the terminated-professor, 2-1. Professor Mitchell now petitions the North Carolina Supreme Court for redress, supported by an amicus brief from Jon Guze, The John Locke Foundation's top legal expert. Join us. Daily livestreams beginning at 8:00 am EST on: › Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/LawandLegitimacy › Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@lawandlegitimacy › Twitter: https://twitter.com/PattisPodcast Subscribe and turn on notifications! Support Law and Legitimacy: - Locals: https://lawandlegitimacy.locals.com/ - Follow on Twitter: @PattisPodcast, @PattisNorm, and @MichaelBoyer_ - Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Audible, Spotify, or wherever you receive podcasts and rate LAL 5 stars. - Subscribe here on our Rumble and Youtube channels, give us a Rumble, and join our active community of free-thinkers, contrarians, and the unafraid on Locals!