(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “You’ve got an impressive slate of candidates,” Brian Manookian said to a panel considering applications for a Tennessee Supreme Court seat. “Judge [Kelvin] Jones is not one of them.”

Why? Check his backyard. And his divorce transcripts.

Reb reminds you to keep your mouth shut in Jones v. Jones (Ten. Ct. App. 2022).

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0:00 - Intro / Important Lesson

1:01 - CASE BEGINS

4:23 - The "that was bonkers" protocol

7:59 - *60 or so pages later*

10:03 - JUDGE JONES HAS A PROFESSIONAL HATER

10:50 - WWJJAD (What would Judge Jones allegedly do) (A lot)

11:30 - LIST OF (ALLEGED) CRIMES

17:33 - Judge Jones wants a promotion. Naturally.

21:30 - DON'T THROW STONES IN A HOUSE OF GLASS

23:26 - Professional hater is disbarred

27:33 - REB'S REBUTTAL

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) BREAKING: If you arrest AND charge a man over a few (really funny) jokes, The Onion will probably file a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court to let you know how stupid you are.

And yes, they'll call the Justices "total Latin dorks" on Page 4.

>>LINK TO THE ONION'S BRIEF

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0:00 - Intro

1:14 - Amicus curiae = "Friend of the court"

5:16 - CASE BEGINS

6:29 - The 6th Circuit is wrong<3

10:25 - QUALIFIED IMMUNITY IS INSANE

13:14 - These cases will enrage you

20:23 - ANTHONY NOVAK SUES

21:42 - This is funnier on YouTube

22:36 - THE ONION CLOCKS IN!!!!!!

50:13 - CASE RESULT + REB'S REBUTTAL

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) **LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED, GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF TRAUMATIC DEATH INVOLVING CHILDREN** Shortly after 2:00 A.M. on July 23, 1982, actor Vic Morrow paced nervously in front of a mock Vietnamese village at the Indian Dunes park just north of Los Angeles. Morrow could not help but feel uneasy as he watched the Huey helicopter approach the village for a final rehearsal. Years earlier, Morrow had had a premonition that he was going to die in a helicopter crash. . . .

This is the story of ego, arrogance, a manslaughter trial, and the conduct of Director John Landis and his production team that resulted in the deaths of My-ca Dinh Le (7) , Renee Shin-Li Chen (6), and Vic Morrow (53).

***The YouTube video for this episode includes actual footage of a helicopter crash resulting in death. Viewer discretion advised.***

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0:00 - CONTENT WARNING

0:11 - The Night Of

6:56 - The Case

7:59 - The Director

12:01 - The "Animal House" Era

15:47 - The "Blues Brothers" Era & The Ballooning Ego of John Landis

23:06 - Landis's Script For "Twilight Zone: The Movie"....Uh....

27:46 - Landis Hates Child Labor Laws :(

34:59 - The Production Team Hates Laws and/or Their Job

45:26 - The Days Prior & The Night Of (WTF....)

57:49 - John Landis & Co. Is The Worst (Still)

1:00:43 - The Manslaughter Trial

1:27:29 - The Verdict

1:32:55 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) How far would you go for your wardrobe? 16 years of litigation, perhaps?

Witness the unraveling of Judge Roy Pearson in Pearson v. Chung (2007).

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0:00 - Intro

00:17 - Case begins

2:31 - The Infamous Pants

5:18 - Roy demands...a lot

7:49 - *PRETENDS TO BE SHOCKED*

9:26 - Motions and appeals and...you might be fired?

10:40 - You are broke

12:26 - Sue the city? Sure

13:09 - One Cook, Losing Kitchen

16:19 - Pearson gets disciplined

21:14 - Where are they now?

22:58 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) “His statement was that [the other man] had summoned ‘Bigfoot’ to come and kill him. That’s why he had to kill [him first]. . . "

Sasquatch is (somehow) always in court. Let's go hunting. These are the Bigfoot cases.

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0:00 - Intro

4:39 - CASE #1 (Broke and Afraid)

13:22 - CASE #2 (Sasquatch Hitman)

21:58 - CASE #3 (California, Recognize Our 'Feet)

30:05 - CASE #4 (Canada, You Too)

32:30 - CASE #5 ("PLEASE kill him here" -Texas, for some reason)

34:05 - CASE #6 (Sasquatch Protection Ordinances)

39:18 - CASE #7 (Shots Fired)

39:40 - CASE #8 (THE GOAT MAN....?!?!?!?!)

49:34 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Do all 50 States (and their courts) agree on what IS and IS NOT a deadly weapon? Of course not. Ask the raccoons, honeybees, alligators, plastic chairs, ladles, shoes, bare hands, dogs, toy guns, teeth, and .....eggs.

Reb tells you why the difference between simple assault and felony assault with a deadly weapon as a matter of law can get.....very confusing.

LINK TO FULL COURT OPINION FROM BARE HANDS SECTION - U.S. v. Rocha, 598 F.3d 1144 (9th Cir. 2010) (14 pages to explain why attacking someone with your bare hands is not assault with a deadly weapon)

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0:00 - Intro

3:10 - Cowboy Cody, a mule, and a raccoon (KY 2025)

20:30 - Honeybee warfare (MA 2022)

24:51 - A 75-year-old wife throws a chair and a ladle (MA 2022)

28:40 - WHAT IS A "DEADLY WEAPON" THEN...?

34:30 - A Wendy's Frosty and a Florida gator (FL 2016)

39:53 - Don't make me use my...bare hands? (CA 2010)

43:15 - MMA FIGHTERS AND MARTIAL ARTISTS (TX 2013)

46:17 - Biting with HIV/AIDS (NY 1999)

48:16 - DOGS AS DEADLY WEAPONS

50:06 - What if the gun is a toy? (CA 1987)

51:38 - Tasers and pepper spray are deadly weapons??!?!?!

58:18 - Eggs can be bullets, too

59:50 - LIST OF THINGS MOST COMMONLY CONSIDERED "DEADLY WEAPONS"

1:01:42 - Reb's Rebuttal

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) Thinking of dabbling in a bit of crime? Annoying your neighbor? Getting back at a crazy ex? Scamming people? Couponing? Pulling a prank? Putting a piece of paper inside a mailbox? Dressing up as a USPS postal worker for fun?

Wherever your criminal exploits may take you, try your very best to adhere to one not-so-simple rule: DO NOT MESS WITH THE MAIL.

These are the USPIS Postal Inspectors.

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) "Here, a husband and wife have been marinating in a mutual hatred so intense as to surely amount to a personality disorder requiring treatment." –Judge Joseph W. Quinn

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) In 1870, a dog named Old Drum is shot and killed by his owner’s neighbor in Missouri. In 1457, a sow and her piglets are put on trial for the murder of a child. In 2016, a parrot repeats the words “Don’t shoot!” in his murdered owner’s voice, and many more...Humans aren't the only ones contributing to chaos in our courtrooms.

Animal (Court)House. Let’s get into it.

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(WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE) **CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DESCRIPTIONS OF TORTURE** On March 15, 2025, President Trump announced the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren de Aragua was conducting "irregular warfare" against the United States and that members would be deported under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. The Trump Administration quickly began deporting people allegedly affiliated with the gang—without any semblance of due process—via direct flights to a notoriously deadly El Salvadoran prison. A few days later, the Trump Administration told a federal judge it was invoking the "state secrets privilege" to refuse to provide any information to the Courts about these flights, the people they've put on them, or what (if any) evidence they had to support doing so.

As attorneys in this still-ongoing court battle [J.G.G. v. Trump (2025)] fight to stop Trump's unsanctioned deportations under the AEA, new legal questions abound: Is the Executive Branch blatantly violating Judicial orders? Are we in a Constitutional crisis yet? What is the Alien Enemies Act? What is the state secrets privilege? Were Administrations already abusing it before Trump? Can the Trump administration invoke the privilege to "disappear" whoever they choose? What happens now?

Reb gives you everything she knows on all of those topics and more. This is J.G.G. v. Trump (2025), United States v. Reynolds (1953), FBI v. Fazaga (2022), and United States v. Zubaydah (2022).

**IMPORTANT NOTE**: This episode is expected to go live on April 3, 2025, the same day the parties in J.G.G. v. Trump (2025) are set to appear in a hearing before Judge Boasberg on his Order to Defendants to show cause why they did not violate the Court's Temporary Restraining Orders. Judge Boasberg is expected to rule on the DOJ's invocation of the state secrets privilege sometime thereafter. The case is ongoing and any further updates beyond April 2 will not be covered in this episode because Reb cannot time travel. Yet.

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0:00 - Content Warning

0:32 - Intro / Necessary Context

6:40 - Background on J.G.G. v. Trump (2025)

8:25 - Secrets secrets are no fun

9:45 - A photo op isn't a secret y'all

13:30 - The Alien Enemies Act of 1798?? Really???

24:18 - Everyone is probably just stupid

27:06 - DRAMA (WITH TIMESTAMPS) OF (LIKELY) COURT ORDER VIOLATIONS

41:15 - Constitutional crisis incoming

42:20 - Trump admin loves to tweet (themselves to hell)

47:52 - The Hail Mary

53:20 - THE STATE SECRETS PRIVILEGE

53:45 - United States v. Reynolds (1953)

58:10 - The state secrets privilege is...messy

1:05:14 - ABUSE OF THE PRIVILEGE POST-9/11

1:11:30 - CIA "black sites" (TORTURE IN POLAND)

1:14:50 - FBI v. Fazaga (2022)

1:15:05 - TORTURE IN POLAND

1:16:50 - United States v. Zubaydah (2022)

1:20:43 - GORSUCH DISSENT IS...FIRE?

1:24:09 - CONTENT WARNING (TORTURE)

1:26:07 - Zubaydah wants to depose his torturers

1:30:00 - His torturers don't STFU about being torturers

1:39:02 - Gorsuch concludes with a BANG

1:42:10 - The wrong administration

1:43:05 - CAN THE TRUMP ADMIN SUCCESSFULLY USE THE PRIVILEGE?

1:46:18 - SIDEBAR: Another Judge CHEWED THEM UP

1:51:14 - REB'S REBUTTAL 

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