We Find John Roberts' Lack of Integrity Disturbing
Added 2024-09-20 08:14:10 +0000 UTCOA1070
We begin today’s show with updates on two small victories for the power of art against the Donald Trump legal-industrial complex before turning to our main story: the biggest leak of internal communications in Supreme Court history. We review what we can learn about how Chief Justice John Roberts has been managing his (and the Court’s) public image from the extremely unauthorized release to the New York Times of memos that we were never supposed to read.
Also, Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee has just eliminated three more counts from the Georgia RICO indictment against Donald Trump and the co-conspirators charged with their attempt to submit a false slate of Presidential electors to a federal court based on 134-year-old Supreme Court precedent. What’s going on here, and how safe is this indictment now?
Finally in this week’s Footnote Fetish, Matt explains why some scruffy-looking nerf-herder is trying to convince a British court that his legal rights were violated by Lucasfilm’s digital resurrection of the deadliest villain in Star Wars history.
How Chief Justice Roberts Shaped Trump’s Supreme Court Winning Streak - The New York Times (nytimes.com) (9/15/24)
UK High Court’s judgment in Tyburn FIlm Productions Ltd v. Broughton et al
Comments
absolutely. I usually try to make sure we do this but I missed it, sorry!
Opening Arguments
2024-09-22 18:29:17 +0000 UTCOh no! Now I can’t play the mp3 of their one hit
Rachel J Larris
2024-09-21 03:54:41 +0000 UTCThey were pretty much the only band that would agree to play at Trump's inauguration iirc
Matt Cameron
2024-09-21 03:47:56 +0000 UTCIs Three Doors Down conservative?!
Rachel J Larris
2024-09-20 22:48:03 +0000 UTCthe thomas laughs and jokes on this episode were fucking delightful!
lauren
2024-09-20 21:26:40 +0000 UTCDear OA team. That was a wonderful episode, as per usual. I have a slight request. Sometimes you refer to a recent news item under the, natural, presumption that we know about it. It just so happens that I do not follow US news, because I do not live in your beautiful country. It's not a big deal, but I would appreciate if you prefaced such cases with a 15" primer to get any international listeners in the loop. It makes sense in the end, but I got a bit confused at the beginning.
Maria Kladaki
2024-09-20 19:42:28 +0000 UTCRoberts doesn't get nearly enough grief for his wife selling influence over the court. The cute workaround is that she's a recruiter who gets millions for helping law firms hire attorneys who are supposed to have the greatest ability to influence the court, but at the end of the day, the sales pitch is that if you want to spend money to influence, you should make sure that some of it goes to the Roberts household.
Gmork
2024-09-20 16:10:09 +0000 UTCYou made me google how Roberts looks....oh my god. He looks like Lester Nygaard from Fargo which works well because I think he seems to have the backbone and morals of Lester too! Fun :)
Jess C
2024-09-20 13:50:41 +0000 UTC
