Biden's Coercive Social Media Tactics

10/24/23 • 66 min

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Sidney Powell may be the best lawyer ever, SCOTUS might finally have a tech term, and David’s humble brag didn’t get past anyone. Sarah and David fly through a mix bag of legal topics including:

-Presidents coercing social media platforms

-Plea deals from fraudsters

-“Cheese-bro”

-David brings up trans issues

-Sarah brings up feminism

-Law firms dealing with “unlawful” affirmative action practices and fellowships

-A gun case

-ANOTHER gun case (but with ghosts, kind of)

-Employment division triggers David

-And...pot-smoking generations

Show Notes

-Bong Hits 4 Jesus

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Sidney Powell may be the best lawyer ever, SCOTUS might finally have a tech term, and David’s humble brag didn’t get past anyone. Sarah and David fly through a mix bag of legal topics including:

-Presidents coercing social media platforms

-Plea deals from fraudsters

-“Cheese-bro”

-David brings up trans issues

-Sarah brings up feminism

-Law firms dealing with “unlawful” affirmative action practices and fellowships

-A gun case

-ANOTHER gun case (but with ghosts, kind of)

-Employment division triggers David

-And...pot-smoking generations

Show Notes

-Bong Hits 4 Jesus

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Previous Episode

High Feminism and Lessons from Battlestar Galactica

Live from the University of Virginia and before a strangely happy group of law students, Sarah and David cover a range of topics from a convicted rapper who blames AI, disruptions at the Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit becoming the new Ninth Circuit, and ethics with Amy (Justice Barrett). The hosts then take a series of questions from UVA students. God blesses this podcast.

-Does Sarah know her husband's phone number?

-AI briefs and ineffective counsel

-SC justices interrupting female attorneys

-Justice Barrett's opinion on SC ethics

-Relationships on the court

-Fifth Circuit is the new Ninth

-Empirical SCOTUS

-If the SC adopts a code of ethics, what should it be?

-Consequentialism, institutionalism, and other ism's

-What SC topics will motivate voters going forward?

-Why is the court not interested in nationwide injunctions?

Show notes:

-Josh Gerstein reporting on Fugees' trial

-Fugees Trial Motion

-Cert grant for Chevron doctrine

-Supreme Court justices interrupt female attorneys more often than men

-Justice Barrett on ethics

-NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton

-CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited

-SEC v. Jarkesy

-Campos-Chaves v Garland

-West Point Affirmative Action lawsuit

-City of Philidelphia v. Fulton

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Next Episode

Mailbag: Majority Rule and Philosophy Majors

Sarah and David take a break from the news to answer listeners' questions: How should fans approach the hosts in public? Does intent matter in constitutional law? Would making it easier to amend the Constitution fix everything? Also:

-Policy solutions vs. social solutions

-The issue with JD/MBAs

-The First Amendment and the Israel-Hamas war

-Ethics among lawyers

-Congressional review of judicial review

-Exclusionary rules

-Legal career changes

-Dworkinism

-Get a lawyer

-Civil asset forfeiture

-Most accurate legal procedural

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