Opening Arguments

April 4, 2023April 4, 2023

OA719: Serial’s Adnan Syed & the Elected Prosecutor: A Match Made in Baltimore

On the cusp of Former President Donald Trump’s arraignment, Liz and Andrew break down the recent Maryland Appellate Court’s decision in Lee v. Maryland concerning Adnan Syed and the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office decision to petition to vacate his conviction and drop all charges against him. What’s really going on? Why have so many media outlets gotten this wrong?? Listen and find out!

Notes
OA 107
https://openargs.com/oa107-adnan-syed-obviously-also-can-learn-patents/

OA 633
https://openargs.com/oa633-why-adnan-was-released/

Lee v. Maryland
https://www.mdcourts.gov/data/opinions/cosa/2023/1291s22.pdf

Md. Code, Crim. Pro. Art., § 8-301.1
https://law.justia.com/codes/maryland/2021/criminal-procedure/title-8/subtitle-3/section-8-301-1/

Md. Code, Crim. Proc. § 11-102
https://casetext.com/statute/code-of-maryland/article-criminal-procedure/title-11-victims-and-witnesses/subtitle-1-general-provisions/part-i-definitions-rights-available-throughout-proceedings/section-11-102-victims-right-to-attend-proceedings

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April 3, 2023April 2, 2023

OA718: Why Fox News “Has a Nuanced Approach to Falsity”

Today, Liz and Andrew break down the latest ruling in Delaware granting Dominion partial summary judgment in its defamation lawsuit against Fox. Learn exactly why this is a devastating ruling and what it means for the future of everyone’s favorite “Fair and Balanced” news channel.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew update everyone on the latest between Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and clueless goon Gym Jordan.

Notes
OA 705
https://openargs.com/oa705-can-dominion-really-take-down-fox-news/

Summary Judgment Order https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23738695/dominion-fox-summary-judgment-order.pdf

Pitch Deck
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23731963/dominion_3-21-23_hearing_slides-used-at-hearing_redacted.pdf

3/31 Bragg Letter
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000187-37d2-dd77-a1cf-7ff7d0920000

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March 31, 2023March 31, 2023

OA717: LOCK HIM UP 4: Trump Gets Indicted, DeSantis Gets Spanked

HERE IT IS! Liz and Andrew begin the show by reacting to the news of Trump’s indictment while we await the actual copy of the document.

After that, the team breaks down how Disney outmaneuvered that dumpy Trump knockoff (Ron DeSantis) with the aid of every law student’s worst nightmare: the Rule Against Perpetuities!

Notes
OA 710
https://openargs.com/oa710-lock-him-up/

OA 711
https://openargs.com/oa711-lock-him-up-2-the-secret-of-the-ooze/

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

Text of “Don’t Say Gay” law, HB 1557
http://laws.flrules.org/2022/22

FL Stat. Ch. 189
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0189/Sections/0189.012.html

RCID Charter
https://www.rcid.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/RCID-Charter.pdf

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

Reedy Creek Declaration of Restrictive Covenants
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23734248-disney-board-covenant

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March 30, 2023March 29, 2023

OA 716: Jim Jordan is Not Alvin Bragg’s Daddy

Liz and Andrew break down several developments in the ongoing effort to hold Trump accountable, including the back-and-forth between Jim Jordan’s “Committee on Oversight” and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg. Oh, and is Mike Pence going to testify to Jack Smith’s Grand Jury? Listen and find out!

Along the way we take a deep dive into Congress’s power to conduct investigations, the Tenth Amendment, how bad originalism is, and much, much more!

Notes
OA 708
https://openargs.com/oa708-stormy-daniels-strikes-back/

Politico: Manhattan Trump grand jury set to break for a month
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/29/manhattan-trump-grand-jury-set-to-break-for-a-month-00089422

AMI non-prosecution agreement
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1119501/download

Liz Wonkette
https://www.wonkette.com/new-house-committee-to-answer-burning-questions-what-did-nancy-pelosi-coup-and-when-did-she-coup-it

Jordan 3/20 Letter to Bragg
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-03-20-jdj-bs-jc-to-bragg-re-trump-investigation.pdf

Bragg Response Letter March 23, 2023
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23720988/20230323-letter-response-from-manhattan-da.pdf

Jordan Response Letter March 25
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2023-03-25-jdj-bs-jc-to-bragg-re-subpoena-and-response.pdf

Watkins v. US, 354 U.S. 178 (1957)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=562722361999206621

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March 28, 2023March 27, 2023

OA715: Fox Blunders Into Dumpster Fire Lawsuit. No, A Different One.

Today, Liz and Andrew break down (former) Fox News producer Abby Grossberg’s lawsuit against Fox, and what implications it may have for Dominion’s pending $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox.

Notes
OA 694: Dominion v. Fox: Defamation Suits Are Hard But Shutting Up is Harder
https://openargs.com/oa694-dominion-v-fox-defamation-suits-are-hard-but-shutting-up-is-harder/

OA 705: Can Dominion Really Take Down Fox News??
https://openargs.com/oa705-can-dominion-really-take-down-fox-news/

FMLA
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/chapter-28

Upjohn v. US, 449 U.S. 383 (1981)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5153750416071396937

Front, Inc. v. Khalil, 24 N.Y.3d 713 (2015)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=12991806128851668843

Dominion MSJ
https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/redacted-documents-in-dominion-fox-news-case/dca5e3880422426f/full.pdf

Fox TRO Motion v. Abby Grossberg
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=qP3YkE2tdjchZ45eMXvjLA==

Fox Emergency Motion to Seal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.9.0.pdf

Order Denying Motion to Seal
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.11.0.pdf

Grossberg Amended Complaint v. Fox
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.12.0.pdf

Grossberg Original Complaint v. Fox
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940/gov.uscourts.nysd.595940.1.0.pdf

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March 27, 2023March 27, 2023

OA714: Gonna Be Hard for Steve Bannon’s Sugar Daddy to Write Those Checks From Prison

Liz and Andrew break down the strange criminal indictment of Guo Wengui a.k.a. a lot of other names, grifter to the stars and patron to Steve Bannon, and discuss the larger implications of the far-right merger with anti-CCP grifters. You won’t want to miss it!

Notes
OA700
https://openargs.com/oa700-rumors-of-trumps-testimony-in-strzok-suit-may-be-greatly-exaggerated/

Steve Wynn indictment
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/63317117/attorney-general-of-the-united-states-of-america-v-wynn/

Guo Wengui bankruptcy docket (CT)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ctb.307068/gov.uscourts.ctb.307068.78.0.pdf

Guo Wengui indictment
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1574491/download

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March 24, 2023March 23, 2023

OA713: State AGs Sue Anthony Fauci For… Booting Them Off Twitter??

With a slight break from Trump, Liz and Andrew turn to the pernicious effects of Trump’s many, many appointments to the federal judiciary and how it’s almost impossible to distinguish nonsense from reality any more. Specifically, the two break down Missouri v. Biden, an absolutely insane lawsuit that somehow has convinced the attorneys general of two states to sign on with a cavalcade of weirdo anti-vax COVID deniers and losers. We talk about what that development means for the future of the rule of law.

Notes
OA 25
https://openargs.com/oa25-jill-stein-decide-presidency-no/

OA 689
https://openargs.com/oa689-lawsuit-or-interpretive-dance-why-not-both/

OA 707
https://openargs.com/oa707-peter-navarro-gets-spanked-by-government-in-presidential-records-case-with-major-implications-for-trump/

OA 708
https://openargs.com/oa708-stormy-daniels-strikes-back/

OA 710
https://openargs.com/oa710-lock-him-up/

Doughty opinion in Louisiana v. Becerra (COVID vaccine mandate injunction)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.185837/gov.uscourts.lawd.185837.28.0_1.pdf

Missouri v. Biden Complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.84.0.pdf

Missouri v. Biden Order Denying Motion to Strike
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.219.0.pdf

Missouri v. Biden Plaintiffs’ Supplemental Brief Supporting PI
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.214.0.pdf

Missouri v. Biden Plaintiffs’ Exhibit 1 (Proposed Findings of Fact)
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.214.1_1.pdf

Defendants’ Motion to Strike in Missouri v. Biden
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.219.0.pdf

Order in Missouri v. Biden Denying Motion to Strike
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520/gov.uscourts.lawd.189520.224.0.pdf

Washington Post debunking Media Research Center and “The Polling Company”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/lawmakers-cite-fishy-poll-suggest-laptop-tale-would-have-swayed-vote/

Pew Research 2021 survey
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2021/06/14/facebook-posts-in-early-days-of-biden-administration-reflect-ideological-divide/

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March 23, 2023March 23, 2023

OA712: LOCK HIM UP 3: Rise of the Machines

In our third of three episodes about potential criminal charges against Donald Trump, Liz and Andrew break down recent developments in the Jack Smith grand juries, including an order by Judge Beryl Howell requiring one of Trump’s lawyers to testify against him, as well as an update on those other cases.

In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew break down the recent Report and Recommendation by Special Master Barbara Jones in the search warrant of James O’Keefe and Project Veritas.

Notes
OA 710
https://openargs.com/oa710-lock-him-up/

OA 711
https://openargs.com/oa711-lock-him-up-2-the-secret-of-the-ooze/

NY Article 175
https://ypdcrime.com/penal.law/article175.php

NY CPL 30.10(2)(b)
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/CPL/30.10

Bobb certification
https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022.08.30-DOJ-Exhibits.pdf

DC Circuit Notice on Preferred Typeface
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/Content/Announcement+-+Notice+-+Preferred+Typefaces+for+Briefs/$FILE/noticePreferredTypefacesForBriefs.pdf

FRAP 35
https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frap/rule_35

Special Master Barbara Jones Report and Recommendation
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.569993/gov.uscourts.nysd.569993.52.0.pdf

NYT on Manhattan GJ
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/nyregion/trump-grand-jury-delay.html?smid=tw-share

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March 21, 2023March 21, 2023

OA711: LOCK HIM UP 2: The Secret of the Ooze

Yesterday, Liz and Andrew brought you a bit of a bummer – but an accurate one – regarding the pending indictment of Donald Trump in New York. Today, they bring you the good news about yet another pending indictment in Fulton County, Georgia and Trump’s desperate (and likely failing) attempts to stop it. You won’t want to miss it!

Notes
Anna Bower Lawfare explainer
https://www.lawfareblog.com/everything-you-ever-wanted-know-about-georgia-special-purpose-grand-juries-were-afraid-ask

Atlanta Journal-Constitiution interview with foreperson
https://www.ajc.com/politics/exclusive-behind-the-scenes-of-the-trump-grand-jury/6CXLKTFMKNDU7O6TER4B7UTZPE/

Georgia RICO statute, Title 16, Chapter 14
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2021/title-16/chapter-14/

Ga. Code 16-14-3
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2021/title-16/chapter-14/section-16-14-3/

Ga. Code 16-10-20
https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2021/title-16/chapter-10/article-2/section-16-10-20/

Trump motion to quash
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23718113-ex-parte-fulton-county-grand-jury-03-20-2023-102331-37306996-f8b43da6-144b-4544-ab53-4095c1c5f36d

State v. Lampl, 770 S.E.2d 629 (Ga. 2015)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=13555564276998303856

Connally v. General Construction Co., 269 U.S. 385, 391 (1926)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9143673394692693115

Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1557224836887427725

Skilling v. U.S., 561 U.S. 358 (2010)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6709078768346680936

State v. Bartel, 479 S.E.2d 4 (1996)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2075548165303328436

Kenerly v. State, 715 S.E.2d 688 (Ga. App. 2011)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3363311285530927015

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