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Today on Legalese we will be discussing some of the fallout over Elon Musk's purchase purchase of Twitter.

A very powerful NGO and think tank called "The Open Markets Institute" put out a public statement calling on the government to block this sale of Twitter because they are afraid the guy who bought Twitter with the almost singular reason  of expanding and protecting freedom of expression somehow poses an existential threat to free expression.

While many of us saw and appreciated his response to the article with a pair of tweets and damning articles about this organization claiming to respect free expression so much they want to make sure they are the only people who may actually exercise that right.

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What few are aware of is that the FCC issued its own response to the suggestion they have and should use the power to block the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk. Usually the kind of flimsy argument that departments of the administrative usually love to use to justify power grabs.

Instead we got a couple responses that were every bit as biting as Musk's tweets were. Rejecting what they called an illegal, unconstitutional, unamerican government restrictions on free expression.

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Today on Legalese we will be discussing the consequences of this leaked Supreme Court Opinion in their upcoming case Dobbs v Whole Women's Health of Jackson.

The leaked draft written by Samuel Alito allegedly shows a majority opinion to essentially overturn Roe.

This leak should not necessarily be taken as the Court's final opinion. Drafts of decisions like these often make the rounds among the Justices and they often end up getting changed by the time the actual opinion is given to the public. But there is no doubt that this leak shows a Court dealing with potentially its greatest crisis in the history of the Court. 

We also discuss some options about who may be responsible and what some of the likely fallout will be.

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Today on Legalese we discuss the recent district Court ruling that the CDC's mask mandate policy exceeded their constitutional and statutory authority. The Biden administration's failure to seek a stay and the true meaning behind their delay in taking this matter before an appellate court.

We also discuss how the response we have seen to this ruling from the White Hpuse, the CDC and most especially, Dr. Fauci, constitute a complete misunderstanding of Constitutional government and the rule of law and demonstrate an outright contempt for federalism and judicial review.

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Today on Legalese, we are going to be discussing the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson to look at the plethora of reprehensible attacks made against her by Republicans in one of the most petty Borkings of all time. We also discuss the one Republican who actually gave a valid reason for voting against Judge Jackson's nomination and what that reason was.

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Today On Categorical Imperatives we are discussing some new developments around SB 8 - This is the Fetal Heartbeat Bill out of Texas currently facing a number of legal challenges.

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Today on Categorical Imperatives I am joined by Dave DeCamp the news editor at antiwar.com

We are discussing the war in Ukraine. What has happened, what will likely come next? 

What possible resolutions could bring an end to this conflict and what barriers are being put up by Ukraine and Russia to impede a peaceful resolution. 

We also try to discern the motives of major players such as Putin, Bide & Zelinsky. 

Also, Dave has some stellar advice on how non-experts in foreign policy like myself and most people can begin to sift through the deafening noise of useless and incorrect information from the political class and corporate media and much more.

You can find Dave's work over at - http://www.antiwar.com

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Kyle Rittenhouse recently went on Tucker Carlson to announce he will be starting a non-profit group called the "Media Accountability Project" as well as announcing a series of defamation lawsuits against numerous individuals in corporate media, celebrities and politicians. Today we discuss why, while the corporate media's smears against Kyle may be reprehensible. But they are not defamatory. How Kyle is being miscounseled and why we probably won't win a dime in court

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Today On Categorical Imperatives we complete our exploration of the massive influence the Roman Republic had on our Republic's Constitution and System of government.

In Part 1 we looked at the way this Roman Republican influence manifested in the Founders individually.

In Part 2 we looked at the Enlightenment era rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Ancient Roman Republic and the resulting political philosophy of classical republicanism and we examine the way it influenced different groups of people during the founding and especially those who wrote and ratified the US Constitution.

In this 3rd and final video we look at the ways that the enlightenment era classical republican tradition differed from the Greco-Roman Republics of antiquity and we examine how those Ancient Republics themselves influence the creation of our constitution, and or mixed government. And we explore the origins of the concepts of virtue and liberty as they were understood at the time of the founding, how they are understood today and how they relate to similar, but distinct concepts in the Ancient Roman philosophy of people like Cicero and Tacitus as the concepts of 'Virtus' and 'Libertas'

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Today On Categorical Imperatives we are looking at the second part in what what is quickly becoming a 4 part video series on the influence of The Roman Republic and the philosophy of Classical Republicanism on America's Founding.

In Part 1 we looked at the way this influence manifested in the Founders individually

Today we look at the Enlightenment era rediscovery and reinterpretation of the Ancient Roman Republic and the resulting political philosophy of classical republicanism and we examine the way it influenced different groups of people during the founding and especially those who wrote and ratified the US Constitution and what influence the Roman Republic had on our very system of government embodied in the Constitution

Collected works of Greco-Roman philosophers and historians of Classical Republicanism

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