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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!

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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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OA730: You Wouldn’t Like Sam Alito When He’s Angry (Or Ever)

Liz and Andrew update a bunch of stories they’ve been tracking before breaking down exactly what the Supreme Court’s Friday night stay in the mifepristone case means… and exactly how unhinged Samuel Alito’s dissent was.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew do a deep dive on the shady behaviors of Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

Notes
OA 712
https://openargs.com/oa712-lock-him-up-3-rise-of-the-machines/

OA 714
https://openargs.com/oa714-gonna-be-hard-for-steve-bannons-sugar-daddy-to-write-those-checks-from-prison/

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

OA 729
https://openargs.com/oa729-bragg-loses-a-round-trump-loses-five/

SB 1604 Amendment
https://myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Documents/loaddoc.aspx?FileName=603230.DOCX&DocumentType=Amendments&BillNumber=1604&Session=2023

DOJ Letter Motion re: protective order
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595325/gov.uscourts.nysd.595325.49.0.pdf

The Jurisprudence of the Body
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxwJ7kjwYA7FeXNoZUZaTjlmWms/view?resourcekey=0-SCB5U127telKXA00Hr9TEQ

SCOTUS order in Danco v. Alliance
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22a901_3d9g.pdf

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OA729: Bragg Loses A Round, Trump Loses Five

Today, Liz and Andrew disagree over a recent ruling from Judge Vyskocil denying Alvin Bragg’s motion for injunctive relief, and then break down recent developments in the E. Jean Carroll litigation.

Notes
OA 724
https://openargs.com/oa724-alvin-bragg-no-longer-chickensht/

Judge Vicodin’s order
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015.44.0.pdf

Bragg motion for stay
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015.46.0_1.pdf

Bragg Reply
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015/gov.uscourts.nysd.597015.41.1.pdf

Second Circuit ruling on stay
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca2.60324/gov.uscourts.ca2.60324.7.0.pdf

Letter Memo rebuking Tacopina re jury selection https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.117.0.pdf 

Order re attendance https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.104.0.pdf

Carroll response re attendance https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.116.0.pdf 

Trump request for jury instruction re attendance
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.118.0.pdf

Carroll response to Trump requested jury instruction re attendance https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.119.0.pdf 

Judge Kaplan response re Trump jury attendance instruction
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.125.0_1.pdf

Trump response to denial of jury instruction https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045/gov.uscourts.nysd.590045.127.0.pdf 

McGrain v. Dougherty, 273 U.S. 135 (1927)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8194274097278523278

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OA728: FOX Blinks First!

Liz and Andrew update you on three stories stealing all the headlines: the Dominion-Fox settlement, what’s going on at the Supreme Court with mifepristone, and a tale of two.. Fulton Counties??

For the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew pop open the hood and check out two demonstrable lies in Alliance’s briefing before the Supreme Court.

Notes
Alliance docket – SCOTUS orders
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22a902.html

Alliance opposition
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A902/263824/20230418120347639_2023.04.18%20Opposition%20to%20Emergency%20Application.pdf

FDA Reply in Alliance
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A902/263892/20230418232614640_FINAL%20Alliance%20SCOTUS%20Reply.pdf

PA Supreme Court order – Fulton County
https://www.pacourts.us/Storage/media/pdfs/20230419/134653-appealdismissed.pdf

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

Fulton County GA Motion to Disqualify 
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23782506/spgj-motion-to-disqualify-atty-kimberly-bourroughs-debrow.pdf

Fox Corp financials
https://investor.foxcorporation.com/static-files/3b2bdb74-8ebe-4173-9f0f-ac18831ff094

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OA727: No, Dominion Did Not Just ‘Walk Away’ From Half a Billion Dollars

Today, Liz and Andrew go out on a limb and discuss reasons why the Dominion v. Fox defamation trial scheduled to start today was postponed for a day. Along the way, they break down Fox’s latest motion for “clarification” and what it means for the network that brought us Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Donald Trump’s insane claims of a stolen election that they knew to be false.

Notes
OA 243
https://openargs.com/oa243-build-that-wall-2/

OA 718
https://openargs.com/oa718-why-fox-news-has-a-nuanced-approach-to-falsity/

Fox Motion for Clarification
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23780752/fox-motion-for-clarification.pdf

Delaware Court of Chancery Rules
https://courts.delaware.gov/forms/download.aspx?id=160908

Sun Printing & Publ’g Ass’n v. Schenck, 98 F. 925 (2d Cir. 1900)
https://cite.case.law/f/98/925/

Marinaccio v. Town of Clarence, 20 N.Y.3d 506, 986 N.E.2d 903 (2013)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=17916567453327988927

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