OA740: BREAKING – E. Jean Carroll, $5 Million; Trump, ZERO (feat. Mitchell Epner)

Liz and Andrew bring on former sex crimes prosecutor and New York attorney Mitchell Epner for a discussion of the breaking civil verdict awarding E. Jean Carroll $5 million for Trump’s assault and subsequent defamation. We go WAY beyond the regular media coverage; you won’t want to miss this episode!

Notes
Carroll verdict form (blank)
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23808239/carrollvtrumpverdictform.pdf

Screenshots of actual verdict form (Pagliery tweet)
https://twitter.com/Jose_Pagliery/status/1656020932031389697?s=20

Trump depo testimony – full video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkU49iYkw2A

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OA739: $5 Million Says Mike Lindell Is Full Of Stuffing

Today, Liz and Andrew interview Cary Joshi and Brian Glasser of Bailey Glasser, who successfully won a $5 million arbitration award against Mike Lindell for claims of election fraud data.

This is a free post on Patreon and was released early for listeners.

Notes
Prove Mike Wrong Challenge Official Rules
https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/Prove-Mike-Wrong-Challenge-Official-Rules.pdf

Arbitration Award
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/a68b42f4-d5dc-4ff9-b34e-84d52fa3fc32.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_11

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OA 738: Trump Flops, Proud Boys Drop

Today, Liz and Andrew check in on three stories we’ve previously covered: the conclusion of the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit against Donald Trump; the recent convictions of the Proud Boys in connection with the January 6 insurrection; and what’s going on in Fulton County, Georgia. It’s a whirlwind and you don’t want to miss it!

In the Patreon bonus, Andrew and Liz discuss what really happened in Hawaii in 1960 and why it doesn’t help the insurrectionists no matter what John Eastman tells you.

NOTES
OA 728
https://openargs.com/oa728-fox-blinks-first/

Wikipedia on Georgia post-election lawsuits
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-election_lawsuits_related_to_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election_from_Georgia

Fake electors transmittal
https://www.archives.gov/files/foia/ga-full.pdf

Fulton County docket
http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/Index/94?Grid-orderBy=LastModifiedDate-desc

July 2022 Motion to Quash subpoenas
http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1222/MOTION-TO-QUASH-AND-DISQUALIFY—Copy

Oct. 2022 1st Motion to Disqualify Debrow and Pierson
http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1430/SPGJ-MOTION-TO-DISQUALIFY-ATTORNEYS-HOLLY-A-PIERSON—KIMBERLY-BOUROUGHS-DEBROW-10-3-22

April 18, 2023 2nd Motion to Disqualify Debrow
http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1905/SPGJ-MOTION-TO-DISQUALIFY-ATTY-KIMBERLY-BOURROUGHS-DEBROW

Opposition to Motion to Disqualify Debrow
http://www.fultonclerk.org/DocumentCenter/View/1917/EX-PARTE-FILING-5-5-23

Barr Jan 6th testimony
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000083860/pdf/GPO-J6-TRANSCRIPT-CTRL0000083860.pdf

3 USC 12
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/3/12

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OA 737: Bad Judges, Bad Judges, Whatcha Gonna Do?

Today, Liz and Andrew discuss the latest ethical lapse from Clarence Thomas, as well as the horrible activism of the next Republican ppreme Court nominee, Stu Duncan.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew break down the latest sanctions issued against Donald Trump in New York.

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OA736: SCOTUS Tees Up Rancid Herring Case to Gut the Administrative State

Liz and Andrew break down Chevron deference in light of the Supreme Court’s grant of certiorari in the case of Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Is it doomed? Listen and find out!

Notes
OA 136
https://openargs.com/oa136-chevron-deference-consequences-particularly-paul-manafort/

Garret Greaves and Ted Cruz on fisheries
https://garretgraves.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/gulf-coast-recreational-red-snapper-season-could-be-cut-short-warn

Chevron v. NRDC, 467 U.S. 837 (1984)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=14437597860792759765

85 Fed. Reg. 7414
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-07/pdf/2020-02357.pdf

16 USC 1858
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/16/1858

Cert petition by the fisheries in Loper Bright Enterprises
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-451/246256/20221110145441811_2022-11-10%20Loper%20Bright%20Cert%20Petition%20FINAL.pdf

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OA735: Will a Plea Bargain Keep Trump Out of the White House? (feat. Seth Barrett Tillman)

Today, Liz and Andrew welcome back to the show Prof. Seth Barrett Tillman to discuss whether a plea bargain could keep Donald Trump from running for office.

Notes
Shirin Ali’s article in Slate
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/trump-plea-deal-possibilities.html

Seth Barrett Tilman, ‘Not a Panacea: Trump Disqualification and Plea Bargains,’ Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices 1–10 (Sept. 20, 2022, 8:31 AM)
https://www.lawfareblog.com/not-panacea-trump-disqualification-and-plea-bargains

Seth Barrett Tillman, Who Can Be President of the United States?: Candidate Hillary Clinton and the Problem of Statutory Qualifications, 5(1) Br. J. Am. Leg. Studies 95–121 (2016) (peer review)
<https://ssrn.com/abstract=2679512>.

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OA 734: Disney v. DeSantis: YOU MESS WITH THE MOUSE, YOU GET THE EARS

Liz and Andrew break down the just-filed lawsuit by Disney with respect to Ron DeSantis and his Republican buddies’ shenanigans in Florida. Who will prevail? Listen and find out!

This photograph of a Famous Mouse was taken 21 April 2009 by Marcus Quigmire of Florida and originally posted to Flickr. It was downloaded by Opening Arguments Media, LLC on April 27, 2023 from Wikimedia Commons and is used without modification under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0) license, which is linked below. No endorsement by any other party than Opening Arguments Media, LLC is implied.

CC License of Famous Mouse
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode

Original source for Famous Mouse (Wikimedia Commons)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Famous_mouse_%283463764209%29.jpg

Notes
OA 717
https://openargs.com/oa717-lock-him-up-4-trump-gets-indicted-desantis-gets-spanked/

Disney v. DeSantis complaint
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23789600/file-stamped-disney-complaint1.pdf

Disney-RCID Feb. 8, 2023 Contract
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23734248/disney-board-covenant.pdf

CFTOD 4/26 meeting minutes
https://www.rcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CFTOD-4-26-23-BOS-Packet-FINAL-revised-4-24-23.pdf

RCID Comprehensive Plan Approval
https://www.rcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2032-RCID-Comprehensive-Plan.pdf 

Florida HB 9B
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=_h0009Ber.docx&DocumentType=Bill&BillNumber=0009B&Session=2023B

Florida SB 1604
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/1604/BillText/e1/PDF

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OA 733: Trump Phones A Friend As Document Indictment Looms (feat. Kel McClanahan)

Liz and Andrew take a look at a letter sent by Donald Trump’s lawyers to House Republicans and bring back expert National Security Lawyer Kel McClanahan to help answer all their questions about Trump’s dubious assertions about how the National Archives should have handled the Mar-a-Lago documents.

Notes
In re Sealed Case (Pence-Boasberg)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67164305/in-re-sealed-case/?order_by=desc

Parlatore Trump letter
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23789802/read-trump-lawyers-letter-to-congress-reveal-foreign-leader-briefings-may-be-among-classified-documents-taken-from-white-house.pdf

Less-redacted search warrant
https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/Reinhart-Mar-a-Lago-less-redacted-affidavit.pdf

NARA Oct. 11, 2022 statement
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-001#october-11-2022

Debra Steidel Wall 1/17/23 letter to Jim Comer
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23575130/nara-response-to-rep-james-comer.pdf

18 USC §793(e)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

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OA 732: Court Calls Bullsh*t on Devin Nunes Cowsuit

Liz and Andrew give a brief update on how it’s going for Donald Trump in the E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit. (Spoiler alert: not good! Like, contempt of court not good.)

Then, the duo break down the trial court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Ryan Lizza in the LOLsuit filed by former Representative and guy-who-sued-an-Internet-cow-and-lost, Devin Nunes. It’s informative AND hilarious!

In the Patreon bonus, we tell you how the omniversal fear of Antonin Scalia created modern supplemental jurisdiction law!

Notes
Nunes v. Lizza Order
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.iand.55763/gov.uscourts.iand.55763.149.0.pdf

Eighth Circuit holding
https://ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov/opndir/21/09/202710P.pdf

Devin Nunes’s Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/

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OA 731: And the Loser of the Week Award Goes to TUCKER CARLSON, With Runner-Up Mike Lindell

Liz and Andrew break down the other Fox News lawsuit (by Abby Grossberg) that probably contributed to Tucker Carlson’s firing, and then a hilarious arbitration loss for The Pillow Guy. You won’t want to miss it!

Notes
OA 715
https://openargs.com/oa715-fox-blunders-into-dumpster-fire-lawsuit-no-a-different-one/

New Grossberg 2nd Amended Complaint
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23774175/grossberg-de-court-second-amended-complaint-and-exhibit-a-1.pdf

Grossberg federal complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.1.0.pdf

Grossberg DE docket
https://courtconnect.courts.delaware.gov/cc/cconnect/ck_public_qry_doct.cp_dktrpt_frames?backto=P&case_id=N23C-03-180&begin_date=&end_date=

Arbitration award against Mike Lindell
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/a68b42f4-d5dc-4ff9-b34e-84d52fa3fc32.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_11

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