In this episode, we take you through Jeremy Bentham's view on the role of policing and what policing used to look like - in that mythical, pre-Benthamic society. Oh, and we'll also talk about his mummified head. It relates. We promise.

The delay was BAD in this one. We apologize for repeatedly interrupting each other.

VCA Lawsuit in Orange County: https://www.lexrex.org/post/voter-choice-act-lawsuit

Intellectuals by Paul Johnson: https://a.co/d/bXOHeQY

• 0:03:00 - Arizona v. Mayorkas
• 0:14:10 - National Pork Producers Council v. Ross
• 0:39:20 - varieties of jurisdiction in American law
• 1:04:00 - Captain Kangaroo Court

In this episode, we bring you up to speed on the latest activities of the Lex Rex Institute before diving into Groff v. DeJoy, a Title VII religious discrimination case that produced some... interesting... questions from certain Supreme Court justices. We'll explain why religious obligations aren't just a nice bonus you get for being a good person and, for the umpteenth time, explain how stare decisis works and wonder why Justice Elena Kagan seems to struggle with the concept.After that, we'll take a minute to address David's biggest pet peeve in legal interpretation: acting like the Constitution is just another law. Finally, we return to Captain Kangaroo Court to discuss a bankruptcy judge who writes pulp fiction and hear from a Twitter user impersonating the mistress of King Louis XV about why you don't have rights at school.

• 0:01:45 - Lex Rex updates

• 0:12:50 - Groff v. DeJoy

• 0:45:10 - statutory law vs. constitutional law

• 1:01:35 - Captain Kangaroo Court

Links

LRI's primer on paper ballots

Amicus brief on voting in San Francisco county

• Latest on LRI cases - 0:01:15 1924
• Lenin Constitution - 0:06:55 1936
• Stalin Constitution - 0:49:20
• Captain Kangaroo Court - 1:13:00

In this episode, we continue our series on the Russian Revolution and the birth of the Soviet Union, but first we review oral argument in the pair of Supreme Court cases revolving around the Biden administration's plan for student debt relief.

Finally, it's a special awards show edition of Captain Kangaroo Court! Alexander will award one nominee the coveted title of Most Plausible Lawsuit and another the even more coveted title of Most Creative Lawsuit.

• Student loan debt relief cases before the Supreme Court (0:05:10)

• The February Revolution (0:31:30)

• Captain Kangaroo Court (1:07:35)

Link to the amicus brief in the San Francisco voting rights case: https://www.lexrex.org/news/lex-rex-president-alexander-haberbush-files-amicus-brief-in-voting-rights-case

Our “Ask an Attorney” episode on the Biden debt forgiveness program: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qH7-GUtncAw&list=PL5BkZsnxImY163ZJLP5zOb4FFf9hRMERH&index=17

Episode 29 of the podcast, in which we discuss the debt plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrDkdJ7PNFw&list=PL5BkZsnxImY21-5sLx-P7BXgNws0fQ01R&index=27&t=2s

In this episode, we kick off our new series on the Russian Revolution and the rise of the Soviet Union. We'll start by telling you why this story is important for understanding American law, how the Tsars got things wrong, and why a group called "The People's Will" isn't necessarily a good barometer for, well, the people's will.

• Why is the Russian Revolution important? (0:03:03)

• The last years of the Tsars (0:08:30)

• Captain Kangaroo Court (1:02:30)

Welcome to the Season 2 of the Lex Rex Institute Podcast! We're now a video podcast (at least until enough of you complain about having to look at our faces that we switch back to audio-only), and we've got a new upload schedule that we'll tell you all about.

In this episode, we bring you the top six (because David wanted a top five and Alexander wanted a top... more than five) developments in the world of American law from 2022.

We'd also like to thank everyone for your generosity in our end-of-year matching fundraiser drive, with supporters of LRI contributing more than $20,000! It's thanks to your support that we can continue our efforts to defend the rights of the American public and, more importantly, equip them to defend their rights themselves.

• 0:05:30 - Crackdowns on COVID-19 "emergency measures"

• 0:11:00 - Election law in the spotlight

• 0:21:40 - Conflicts between state and federal policy

• 0:33:50 - The end of Roe v. Wade

• 0:43:45 - New limits on federal bureaucracies

• 0:58:05 - The death of the Lemon test in 1st Amendment jurisprudence(?)

• 1:05:30 - Honorable mentions

• 1:07:15 - Captain Kangaroo Court

Victoria Catano's Give Send Go fundraising page: https://www.givesendgo.com/G9QPC?utm_source=sharelink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=G9QPC&fbclid=IwAR0uG9sPk1ALk3iaO4YFJGK8K8gsf5DBSr3Hkg6c3uvIMvW8tZwL1sASOd8

In this episode, we are joined again by Alex Bostic to conclude our "Fall of Rome" series while it's technically still fall. This time around, we'll talk about the civil wars between Sulla and Gaius Marius and between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great. We'll discuss how the use of extra-legal means to restore the rule of law just ends up undermining it anyway, and consider some ways that the American constitution learned from Roman history.

After that, it's back to Captain Kangaroo Court, where we'll ask hard hitting questions like "Is being a mean person a good excuse?" and "What is the value of time spent waiting for instant macaroni to thicken?"

Finally, we'll let you know our plans for what we're calling "season two" of the podcast, which will be starting up sometime around February.

We wish you all a good end to 2022, and we'll see you in the new year!

• Fall of Rome: the civil wars that ended the Republic (1:55)

• Captain Kangaroo Court (38:10)

• Season two announcement (51:00)