OA766: ChatGPT Lawyers Skate As Judge Cannon Prepares to Ratf*ck Trump Prosecution

Liz and Andrew break down the sanctions order entered in the Mata v. Avianca ChatGPT case, and we finally understand why things unfolded the way they did.

The duo also discuss the recent scheduling orders in the Trump documents case in the Southern District of Florida, where Judge Aileen Cannon, FSW, lurks in the wings.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew update the sanctions just ordered against Rudy Giuliani in the Freeman/Moss defamation.

Notes
OA 618
https://openargs.com/oa618-the-case-that-could-allow-republicans-to-steal-2024/

OA 740
https://openargs.com/oa740-breaking-e-jean-carroll-5-million-trump-zero-feat-mitchell-epner/

OA 751
https://openargs.com/oa751-chatgpt-writes-fake-opinions-real-judge-is-not-amused/

OA 763
https://openargs.com/oa763-did-merrick-garland-treat-donald-trump-with-kid-gloves-does-it-matter/

As Legal Fees Mount, Trump Steers Donations Into PAC That Has Covered Them https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/25/us/politics/trump-donations-legal-fees.html 

Mata v. Avianca docket
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/

Schwartz Exhibit A to Declaration (showing ChatGPT history)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368/gov.uscourts.nysd.575368.46.1.pdf

Giuliani Docket & minute orders
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/61642105/freeman-v-herring-networks-inc/

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OA765: Kathy Griffin SLAPPs Back At Being Sued in Faraway Places (feat. Ari Cohn)

Liz and Andrew welcome First Amendment lawyer Ari Cohn to help break down an important lawsuit involving Kathy Griffin, personal jurisdiction, and frivolous SLAPP lawsuits.

NOTES
Johnson v. Griffin Docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63264613/johnson-v-griffin/

Johnson v. Griffin Complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.90242/gov.uscourts.tnmd.90242.1.0.pdf

Trial Court Opinion
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.tnmd.90242/gov.uscourts.tnmd.90242.32.0.pdf

TechFreedom writeup
https://techfreedom.org/protect-internet-users-from-slapps-techfreedom-tells-sixth-circuit/

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OA 764:  ProPublica Reveals Sam Alito Is Exactly As Corrupt As You Thought He Was

Liz and Andrew break down the bombshell ProPublica article about Samuel Alito’s corruption, and along the way remind you of the right wing’s complicity in the false narrative that abortion violence is a “both sides” issue. It isn’t.

Notes
OA 749
https://openargs.com/oa749-clarence-thomas-grifts-kari-lake-sinks-stewart-rhodes-comes-to-the-end/

OA 739
https://openargs.com/oa739-5-million-says-mike-lindell-is-full-of-stuffing/

ProPublica, “Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court,”
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court

ProPublica on Thomas/Crow 
https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow

DOJ, Recent Cases on Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers
https://www.justice.gov/crt/recent-cases-violence-against-reproductive-health-care-providers

DOJ, Anti-Abortion Violence Movement Increases (1996)
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/anti-abortion-violence-movement-increases

Ruth Sent Us
www.ruthsent.us

Jane’s Revenge Superseding Indictment
https://www.justice.gov/d9/press-releases/attachments/2023/03/29/unsealed_superseding_indictment_0.pdf

5 U.S.C. § 13104
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/13104

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OA763: Did Merrick Garland Treat Donald Trump With Kid Gloves? Does It Matter?

Liz and Andrew lead off with the blockbuster Washington Post story that the FBI and DOJ had to be browbeaten into investigating Donald Trump. After that, the duo tackle a bunch of stories surrounding the Trump indictments, including developments in both the Florida and New York cases, Rudy Giuliani being a jerk, and much, much more.

In the Patreon bonus, Andrew and Liz duo answer one of your burning questions: how exactly is the Trump documents case going to go to trial if only a handful of people can see the documents he’s charged with having willfully retained? The answer is the Classified Information Procedures Act, and we start to break it down for you!

Notes
FBI resisted opening probe into Trump’s role in Jan. 6 for more than a year
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/

Freeman/Moss Motion to Compel
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.65.0.pdf

Giuliani May 30 Motion for Reconsideration
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.61.0.pdf

Freeman/Moss Opposition
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720/gov.uscourts.dcd.238720.64.0.pdf

Trump Indictment
https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump-Nauta_23-80101.pdf

CIPA, 18 U.S.C. Section 96-456
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18a/compiledact-96-456

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OA762: Trump’s Lawyers So Confident of Their Case They All Quit At Once

Liz and Andrew first discuss developments in the other Trump indictment — remember that one in New York? After that, they break down the breakdown in Trump’s legal team.

Happy Father’s Day!

Notes
NY Penal Law 175.10
https://casetext.com/statute/consolidated-laws-of-new-york/chapter-penal/part-3-specific-offenses/title-k-offenses-involving-fraud/article-175-offenses-involving-false-written-statements/section-17510-falsifying-business-records-in-the-first-degree

GA Code 21-2-562
https://casetext.com/statute/code-of-georgia/title-21-elections/chapter-2-elections-and-primaries-generally/article-15-miscellaneous-offenses/section-21-2-562-fraudulent-entries-unlawful-alteration-or-destruction-of-entries-unlawful-removal-of-documents-neglect-or-refusal-to-deliver-documents

Bragg Motion to Remand
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311/gov.uscourts.nysd.598311.19.0.pdf

Trump Lawyers Consider Revenge for Former Colleague https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-lawyers-consider-revenge-for-former-colleague 

Seth Barrett Tillman, ‘Tillman on Plagiarism in the Trump Litigation Briefs,’ New Reform Club (June 16, 2023, 13:55 PM)
https://reformclub.blogspot.com/2023/06/tillman-on-plagiarism-in-trump.html

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OA761: Judge Cannon Prepares to Do Trump a Solid, As Republicans Aim to Kneecap Biden

It’s a grab bag of stories, mostly Trump-adjacent. After some great news on judges, Liz explains that the House GOP is so desperate to smear President Biden they’ve made like Rudy Giuliani and leaked. Stick around for the end, when the duo breaks down exactly what can (and can’t!) be done about Judge Aileen Cannon, FSW.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew discuss a recent Judge Cannon order in some detail.

Notes
Dep’t of Commerce v. New York, 139 S.Ct. 2551 (2019)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2540889926931166997

Ho Letter
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdpzymywgvw/ho-letter-lawfirms.pdf

 Trump search warrant docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/64872441/united-states-v-sealed-search-warrant/

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

Sample Warrant
https://evawintl.org/wp-content/uploads/18-Appendix-B-Search-Warrants.pdf

Comer Subpoena Wray
https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Grassley-Comer-letter.pdf 

28 U.S.C. § 455 – Recusal Statute
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/455

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OA760: Trump’s Arraignment – Judge Aileen Cannon Returns to the Scene of the Crime (feat. Mitchell Epner)

Liz and Andrew welcome back Mitchell Epner to the show to break down today’s indictment of Donald Trump & Walt Nauta… and also figure out just how much mischief Judge Aileen Cannon can cause.

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OA759: The “Socks” Case – Don’t Take Legal Advice From Judicial Watch! (feat. Kel McClanahan)

Republicans are saying that the “Clinton sock drawer case” – Judicial Watch v. NARA – means that Trump didn’t violate the Espionage Act and can just declare anything he wants to be a “personal” record.

That’s nonsense, of course.

Notes
Judicial Watch, Inc. v. National Archives and Records Administration, 845 F.Supp.2d 288 (D.D.C.2012)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=15818036517066124081

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OA758: Re-Indicted And It Feels So Good!

THIS IS IT! Liz and Andrew break down the federal indictment of Donald Trump in connection with his retention of Presidential documents. This is your guide to everything so you’ll stay one step ahead of the media coverage.

Notes
Jack Smith appointment order
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1552896/download

Fed. R. Crim. Pro. 6
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_6

Trump docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490070/united-states-v-trump/

Trump Indictment
https://www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump-Nauta_23-80101.pdf

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OA757: Did Oklahoma Just Hand Public Education Over To St. Isidore?

Yes, this was recorded before the Trump indictment!

Liz and Andrew take a deep dive into the last stand of the separation of church and state as Oklahoma formally lets the Catholic Church run a public school.

Notes
OA 256
https://openargs.com/oa256-the-bladensburg-cross/

OA 295
https://openargs.com/oa295-a-bladensburg-post-mortem-with-monica-miller/

OA 608
https://openargs.com/oa608-forget-church-state-separation-scotus-mandates-christian-favoritism/

Lemon v. Kurtzman
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6993086659963510613

American Legion v. American Humanist Association
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/18pdf/17-1717_4f14.pdf

CDS cert petition
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/zdvxomkmnpx/frankel-peltiervcharterday–certpetition.pdf

Biden opp cert
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-238/267405/20230522154832551_Charter%20Day%20School%20CVSG%20No.%2022-238.pdf

Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, § 70-3-136
https://law.justia.com/codes/oklahoma/2022/title-70/section-70-3-136/

Henry Abbot testimony, NC Ratifying Convention
https://archive.csac.history.wisc.edu/henry_abbot7.30.pdf

Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board meeting minutes
https://svcsb.ok.gov/board-meetings

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