Law and Legitimacy

This morning: . › The Miami Heat traveled to Boston and took care of business in the Garden—NBA Finals start Thursday › Professor Jonathan Turley writes: Boston University to require all first-year writing students to take social justice writing courses—school refers to students as "captive audience" › Sackett v. EPA was on the docket for LAL last week, but we ran out of time. Norm and Mike talk SCOTUS's decision to reign in administrative overreach via the federal Clean Water Act . Join us. . For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! . 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/ - 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 seems like this happens every week; Friday, that is. Regardless, welcome to another streamed installment of the best law podcast anywhere, Law and Legitimacy. We thank all our loyal #LALiens new and veteran alike. We're having a lot of fun. Speaking of fun, the Celtics seem to be having some of that. The C's defended the Garden last night to bring the NBA Eastern Conference Finals series with the Miami Heat to a 3-2 mark. Mike extends his gratitude to the Celtics for the lesson the organization is giving to kids watching everywhere. Today, Norm and Mike keep the bright line theme of legitimacy alive with several intriguing developments across United States law, politics, and culture: › Vivek Ramaswamy took to Twitter to shed light on LinkedIn's efforts to censor his content. Vivek is perhaps the only candidate that can break through to a voting base via a professionals-only platform such as LinkedIn, so the story is notable on that front and several others. › Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the events of January 6, 2021, was sentenced yesterday—18 years. Norm shares his observations from the sentencing and his expectations for the Proud Boys defendants convicted of the same crime just a few weeks ago. › The Supreme Court of the United States ("SCOTUS") issued its ruling in Sackett v. EPA yesterday. In a 5-4 decision, Samuel Alito wrote for the majority to tell the Environmental Protection Agency its interpretation of the Clean Waters Act was of profound stupidity resulting in egregious violations of real property rights. Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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 Happy Memorial Day! On this last Monday in May, we give our endless thanks to those members of the United States Armed Forces who gave their life in defense of our system of law and liberty—in defense of our individual freedoms. Thank you and may God rest your souls. Today feels like one of those streams where Norm and Mike will not make it all the way through the list, but here is said list: › The Boston Celtics pulled out a miraculous win on Saturday night in Miami against the Heat, to even the Eastern Conference Finals series at 3-3 to force a Game 7 tonight in the Garden. Norm and Mike break down the final seconds. › The case is Mata v. Avianca. Plaintiff's counsel filed a brief to the court which cited cases referenced by ChatGPT. The problem? The cases do not exist. But wait, there's more. Rather than admit the err of their ways, plaintiff's counsel went back and asked ChatGPT to write the non-existent opinions—and then submitted those to the Court. › Cormac MacCarthy on Sin and Hope › Artificial Intelligence and Price Theory Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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 has been an eventful week. This internet shingle of LAL is gaining a ton of momentum. Yesterday was an insightful stream, one in which Norm and Mike began striking a vein deep beneath the ideological surface of the modern cultural white caps—did you bring your pickaxe, LALiens? 👽 Today, LAL continues in that subterranean exploration: › More on ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) as what Mike termed to be a 'luxury tax' › Elon Musk and Twitter made history last night, as Twitter Spaces played medium to Governor Ron DeSantis' bid to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States in 2024. Helpings of criticisms were aplenty due to technical difficulties at the start, but there is an argument to be made that the event was an unqualified success—just look at the high profile efforts to countersignal from both sides of the partisan divide. › Norm has thoughts on whether the United States has the capacity to recalibrate presidential politics. Does it need to? › Jonathan Turley reports via his own website about the events unfolding at Ohio Northern University's Petite College of Law: school security was dispatched to remove Professor Scott Gerber—a member of the Ohio Northern faculty for more than 20 years—from class, from teaching, and from the ONU campus. No explanation was offered. What has become of due process? On law school campuses? › Oath Keepers founder, Stewart Rhodes, faces sentencing following his conviction for seditious conspiracy in connection with the events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Will the sentencing foreshadow what the 4 members of the Proud Boys who were similarly convicted are to expect in the weeks to come? Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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 Law and Legitimacy! To the returning viewers, subscribers, and habitual LAL Sharers, we are extraordinarily grateful and humbled that you choose to spend your time with us. To the new viewers, subscribers-in-training, and future LAL evangelists, we are honored to have you. Last night, the Boston Celtics avoided the embarrassment of a sweep by the Miami Heat by pulling out a win in Miami. The Eastern Conference Finals matchup now stands at 3-1. Can Boston do the unprecedented in NBA Playoffs history by overcoming a 3-0 deficit and triumph in the series? There is only one way to find out. Today, Norm and Mike take on a couple of key topics in America's ongoing struggle to re-legitimate its governing institutions, corporate culture, and the social fabric that binds the otherwise pluralistic nature of its society: › The United States and the Debt Ceiling — this was a recurring theme of Donald Trump's presidency and the public perhaps learned more about the discretionary spending category in those four years than at any other time in American history. What is going on now? › Daily Wire Reports: Former AB InBev President, Anson Frericks, says that the Bud Light brand is in for "a long, hot, dry summer." As the Co-Founder and President of Strive Asset Management—the anti-ESG asset management firm co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy—Anson articulates the quasi-permanent nature of Bud Light's problem within the context of environmental, social, and governance scoring, and within the context of an American consumer that senses its own power to participate in a boycott that will actually work. Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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!

The Denver Nuggets did it; Jamal Murray and WCF MVP Nikola Jokic swept Lebron James and the Los Angeles Lakers to earn the Nuggets first ever trip to the NBA Finals. Unless the Celtics decide they've got more fight to give, the Nuggets will meet the Miami Heat for what will be a basketball fan's pure enjoyment. . Mike joked last week that Law and Legitimacy is now a comedy podcast, but goings-on of our public institutions at the federal and state levels just seems like a page from the Babylon Bee. We hope the Bee can survive the convergence of truth with fiction through which we are all living. . Today: › North Carolina's Governor, Roy Cooper, appeared in front of a green screen yesterday to declare a State of Emergency. The only problem? The alleged emergency is over public school funding via the legitimate legislative process. Oh, and Governor Cooper's 'State of Emergency' is not an actual executive order—just political rhetoric. › Norm goes deeper on the Durham Report › The Daily Wire reports that the University of Minnesota is facing down a civil rights complaint for a research program the University sponsored that was open only to students of color. . Join us. . For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! . 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/ - 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!

Happy Monday to each and every one of you #LALiens. Norm and Mike return from the weekend hiatus and greet the week ahead of Memorial Day weekend. . Today: › Citing 'open hostility' to minority groups in the state of Florida, the NAACP has joined other NGOs in warning against travel to the state of Florida › All Day I Dream About Shareholders — ADIDAS announced over the weekend its plans for resuming sales of the iconic YEEZY brand by the end of April. › Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont's nominee for Connecticut's Supreme Court, Sandra Glover, has withdrawn from the confirmation process over scrutiny of Glover's past support of current Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett. . Join us. . For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! . 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/ - 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!

Norm appears in a sleep-deprived state, but we're not going to hold it against him. We open the stream with Norm's recap of last night's return to the stand-up stage at the Mohegan Sun. Today: › Articles of Impeachment have been introduced in the Senate against President Joe Biden. By whom, you might ask? Senator Marjorie Taylor-Greene, obviously. › The House's Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government has begun to warm up the issue of use of widespread deploy of confidential human sources by the FBI in seemingly all areas of American life. Elon Musk took to Twitter seeking to learn more. Share this stream with Elon. › Google, Twitter are celebrating this morning, as the Supreme Court of the United States issued rulings in two (2) cases in which one of each of the platforms were litigants—Section 230 lives on. Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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!

Tonight is the night! Norm will take the stand-up stage at the Mohegan Sun to work out new material in front of a live audience. If you're in Connecticut, be there! 10pm. Today, Norm and Mike get back to basics:

› Tar Heel Nation — North Carolina is emerging as a battleground of institutional legitimacy as the veto-proof super majority overrides yet another Governor Cooper veto of Senate Bill 20 ("Care for Women, Children, and Families Act). Recall the recent party affiliation switch by Rep. Tricia Cotham, Mike's predictions regarding the vote on school-choice as a result, the affirmative action case pending before SCOTUS involving the University of North Carolina's admissions practices, and the emerging candidate for Governor, Lt. Governor Mark Robinson. › Bryan Kohberger has been indicted by an Idaho grand jury for four (4) counts of murder and burglary — what does the sudden grand jury indictment mean in the context of a case that was otherwise proceeding quite slowly? › Montana is the first state to ban the popular app TikTok. How does the law read? What are the first amendment implications? Do we dare talk dormant commerce clause? Join us. For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! 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/ - 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 is just like old times. LAL is honored to host a titan of 21st century free speech advocacy, Mr. Ron Coleman. You may know Ron from his clever and cogent Twitter presence or from his work on behalf of The Slants in landmark litigation before the Supreme Court of the United States. You might also recognize Ron from previous Law and Legitimacy exploits, having contributed to some of LAL's most enriching conversations to date. It is also possible that you come to LAL as a fresh face, brought to us courtesy of Ron's own video podcast, ColemanNation. No matter how you've come to us, we're glad to have you. . For the uninitiated, Mike refers to the magic of Ron and Norm's intellectual chemistry as the Bird-McHale 1-2 from the peak-era Boston Celtics. With the Celtics moving into the Eastern Conference Finals on the back of a massive Game 7 victory, perhaps the timing here is fitting. . Today, Norm, Mike, and Ron volley: › The contents of the Durham Report and whether Congress should increase oversight on FBI operations—Church Committee 2.0? › North Carolina Reverend John K. Amanchukwu Sr. had a video of his public comment addressed to the Board of the Asheville School District go viral—how does the very persuasive critique of certain types of literature available in the public school library accommodate the obvious competing foundations of the first amendment's free marketplace of ideas? . Join us. . For the rest of the year, creators will receive 100 percent of the revenue from the purchase of monthly subscription badges, which Rumble recently launched for the price of $5 per month. Please consider purchasing a subscription badge to LAL and be assured that LAL will receive every penny of that subscription through the end of the year. Your consideration and patronage is most sincerely appreciated! . 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/ - 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!