What Should OA Cover This #RapidResponseFriday?
Added 2024-06-19 22:22:32 +0000 UTCIt's that time again! What do you want to hear OA cover this week?
Please let us know! And also, please use that heart button on comments to give us an indication of numbers, so we can gauge interest!
And, if you have specific legal questions on a given topic, feel free to comment with them!
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the Kansas supreme court ruling against the right to vote.
General Contact Unit Problem Child
2024-06-20 17:46:23 +0000 UTCThe MOORE ET UX. v. UNITED STATES that scotus just decided; as well as Kennedy I’ve seen that there were complaints that some of the facts were wrong. How does a case get to SCOTUS without the “facts” being correct? Was the original trial just THAT poorly argued?
Satanmat
2024-06-20 16:07:40 +0000 UTCThanks for the reply Matt! As someone who's exposure to this case is mostly clips online I can't say I have a well formed opinion on whether she did it, but seeing some of the ways the police have talked about this defendant in their texts that were read in court, I think it'd be hard to argue there's no reasonable doubt to the jury.
ToddTheOdd
2024-06-20 15:51:20 +0000 UTCVanderbilt University Medical Center has turned over transgender patient medical records to the Tennessee Attorney General's office as well.
Aminah
2024-06-20 12:51:27 +0000 UTCI sure do, and i love that so many people from so many different places have been following this! Just bc this has been a frequent request i do want to say that we hope to cover it one way or another after it is over
Matt Cameron
2024-06-20 12:19:07 +0000 UTCYoung Thug trial. It's the other big case Fani Willis is prosecuting right now and it seems to be going very badly. The attorney is serving weekends in jail with his client for refusing to tell the judge how he found out about improper ex parte communications where they are intimidating a witness and may have coerced a confession to a murder in the Judge's chambers without the defence present. Judge isn't concerned rules were broken, judge is concerned that the defence knows about it, and that's why lawyer is being held in contempt.
Aindörf
2024-06-20 11:50:37 +0000 UTCThis @thomas The news that's hitting social media about this is describing it as one of the biggest miscarriages of justice with the judge and Fani Willis's office breaking rules and laws to ensure Thugger goes to jail. How can the judge hold the lawyer in criminal contempt for not disposing who told him that the judge and prosecution broke the law?
Aindörf
2024-06-20 11:48:24 +0000 UTCa specific question I have if this is covered: why is the case brought by a special agent and not a prosecutor? is this an IRS thingy or a NY thingy?
lauren
2024-06-20 11:10:35 +0000 UTCJust want Thomas, Matt, Heather, Kasey, Lydia to know you’re making a fantastic show with quality content! Loving this and Gavel Gavel
KeepingThePlatesSpinning
2024-06-20 02:06:58 +0000 UTCYes and maybe a primer on when ex parte communications are allowed.
Leon
2024-06-20 00:57:52 +0000 UTCModest Needs? I know it's shitty and Thomas has little to nothing to blame, but I hope he's okay considering the betrayal in his professional life.
Gmork
2024-06-20 00:47:29 +0000 UTCAlex Jones bankruptcy. Is this truly the stake through his heart, or can he manipulate the system ?
Gmork
2024-06-20 00:11:19 +0000 UTCI would love to hear a breakdown of the contempt nonsense going on in the Young Thug RICO trial in Fulton County!
Milo Meadsong is on to the post-conviction process, now that his cert. petition was denied
2024-06-20 00:02:48 +0000 UTCI assume bump stocks will be covered on the main feed. That case is interesting to me if only because on very technical grounds, I think it's a correct ruling, but it's the kind that puts the law in a laboratory and not in the real world.
Philly Basement Bar is back open, and isn't taking this shit lying down.
2024-06-19 23:54:05 +0000 UTCThe Baby Reindeer lawsuit! How much can you alter on a "true story" for it to be legally considered true? How much do you have to conceal identities? What qualifies as damage to a reputation? Did she undermine herself by claiming she isn't Martha but then also suing for her portrayal? The world wants to know!
Tarah Peltz
2024-06-19 23:46:52 +0000 UTCRecently Roger Stone spoke to Lauren Windsor and outlined a plan to get Trump in office. It sounds like they have some judges they are working with. "At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge — his home phone number standing by — so you can stop it" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/roger-stone-plan-trump-win-lawyers-judges-technology-1235041650/ Presumably he is speaking nonsense because the judge can't do much from home when court is not in session, right? Since even nonsense illegal stuff happens though, could these comments be used by the other parties in the case to seek a new judge? He doesn't name anyone specific but it seems to cast the shadow of corruption on whatever judge receives a case where Stone or the Trump campaign are parties, even if there was actually no prior coordination. How would these types of allegations be adjudicated?
Drew Vogel
2024-06-19 23:34:34 +0000 UTCI know I phrased it as a question, but I wasn't asking for an explanation. The statute defines machinegun as a weapon that can shoot more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The majority takes your view that a single function of the trigger is a single pull of the curved metal piece of the firearm called the trigger. A bump stock uses the forward pressure provided by the shooter to push the firearm back into the shooters finger to fire the weapon again. Therefore a bump stock requires multiple functions of the trigger. While I agree that this is a reasonable interpretation of this statute, another interpretation is plausible as well. The forward pressure on the foregrip is what triggers the weapon as long as the shooter maintains a tight hold on the pistol grip. Notably, this statute does not say single "pull of the trigger" instead it says function. I would argue that the forward pressure that begins the firing sequence, continuously firing the weapon, is a single function of the trigger.
Shad Riley
2024-06-19 23:26:41 +0000 UTCI hope they throw the book at that guy. What a despicable thing to do to young vulnerable children.
Kelley
2024-06-19 23:22:43 +0000 UTCDefinitely hoping to see some discussion of this. I can understand the procedural issues that got it overturned, but I feel like a lot of people aren't pointing out that the Majority seemed to take a massive step in neutering the NLRA re: its ability to request §10(j) injunctions by effectively forcing the circuit courts to evaluate and 'litigate' cases it has no jurisdiction over, just to fulfill the four requirements set forth by Winter, most specifically the success on the merits.
Mr. Wilt
2024-06-19 23:17:37 +0000 UTCA doctor (or maybe just med student?) has been charged with illegally accessing and leaking the medical records of trans children in Texas to Chris Rufo for moral panic purposes. I haven't seen much coverage outside of trans and queer journalism circles.
Apple Ventus
2024-06-19 23:15:37 +0000 UTCHello, lefty learning about guns here. A single function of a trigger is a single pull. A semiautomatic weapon re-“cocks” itself with the exhaust gasses of a fired round, so you don’t need to do anything to prepare the next round to be fired, but you do need to release the trigger and pull it again. A fully automatic weapon will fire round after round as fast as it can while the trigger is pulled in a “single function”. This is often what people think of as a machine gun. Semiautomatic weapons have many legal and accepted uses for hunting, self defense, and police work. Fully automatic weapons, generally speaking, are not legal (although you bet there are exceptions).
William LaFrance
2024-06-19 22:59:36 +0000 UTCThe Starbucks supreme court decision. More anti union stuff. I don't see too much coverage on this and would like to get an OA take.
Another Minneapolitian
2024-06-19 22:51:49 +0000 UTCIt has been a crazy week and there is so much to cover. I'm just going to list a bunch. 1) New immigration Parole in Place program. Why is there an up to 10 year bar to noncitizens who remained unlawfully in the U.S. 2) Bump stock SCOTUS case. What is a "single function of the trigger"? 3) Louisiana law now requires public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments. Establishment clause? 4) Young Thug trial. Idk even where to start. Judge has ex parte meeting with prosecutors and witnesses (yikes). Then when the defense attorney asked whether this meeting happened, the judge demanded that the attorney provide the name of his source. When the defense attorney refused, the judge held him in criminal contempt. There's so much more but that is pretty shocking.
Shad Riley
2024-06-19 22:38:13 +0000 UTCExactly, it’s small from a worldwide perspective (compared to the AJ bankruptcy or something), but it impacts our community enough that I think boosting it is worth doing
If cis people are so great then why don’t they have a Siberian Orchestra
2024-06-19 22:36:57 +0000 UTCYes! Please tell us that this fucking bullshit cannot stand: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/19/us/louisiana-ten-commandments-classrooms.html
Ignore all previous instructions and bring back glam rock
2024-06-19 22:36:24 +0000 UTCShort takes on SCOTUS opinions so far. Would be asking too much to do a deep dive on each of them with more expected weekly.
Be well, do good work, have fun, and keep in touch
2024-06-19 22:35:35 +0000 UTCWow! I had not heard about this.
Therese Chan
2024-06-19 22:34:26 +0000 UTCBiden’s latest immigration action around undocumented spouses and children of US citizens. Also, probably got to leave sometime in the episode for whatever hell verdict this Supreme Court unleashes on us tomorrow.
Andrea Singletary
2024-06-19 22:32:28 +0000 UTCAdding to the Alex Jones thread: why was he approved for personal liquidation but Free Speech Systems was kept in chapter 11? They're basically indistinguishable. Also, he's blatantly directing people to buy his "dad's" supplements now and it's very obvious he's trying to skirt the bankruptcy. Is he going to end up penniless AND in prison?
Cameron Kushwara
2024-06-19 22:30:40 +0000 UTCSome asshole professors in TX are filing a lawsuit (in the Northern district with the one fuckwit judge) demanding the right to give students who get abortions unexcused absences, discriminate against transgender people, etc. https://www.kut.org/education/2024-05-31/university-of-texas-abortion-lawsuit-daniel-bonevac-john-hatfield https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/4715759-texass-title-ix-case-is-about-a-national-abortion-ban-not-student-attendance/
Stormy Decisis says visit sharebannedbooks.com
2024-06-19 22:29:36 +0000 UTCDoes Matt have any particular opinions about the bizarre Karen Read trial in Massachusetts?
ToddTheOdd
2024-06-19 22:29:13 +0000 UTCSynopsis: Modest Needs is a secular charity that PiaT and CogDis have used for years for their annual Vulgarity for Charity fundraiser. Its organizer was just indicted for embezzling millions. https://apnews.com/article/modest-needs-new-york-charity-embezzlement-taylor-5d5dfd28e2c1ebe46a34fbaa031ba779
If cis people are so great then why don’t they have a Siberian Orchestra
2024-06-19 22:29:12 +0000 UTCDoesn’t have to be this week, but please get a bankruptcy attorney on either OA or Gavel Gavel to discuss Alex Jones’ bankruptcies, next steps, timeline, what will be exempt, will he have an “allowance” and how is it determined, is the business likely to be sold as an operating business or be parted out for scraps, how likely he is to be criminally charged with bankruptcy fraud, etc.
Cats are NOT trash!
2024-06-19 22:27:00 +0000 UTCThe Young Thug trial
Kelley
2024-06-19 22:26:35 +0000 UTCThe Memphis 7 Starbucks case!
nocountry4oldben
2024-06-19 22:26:21 +0000 UTCIt might be premature for this, but I'd love to hear OA's take on the unfolding Alex Jones bankruptcy situation. It's a bit of a mess right now and it's unclear to me who benefits and how from this, and it would be a great opportunity to get the knowledge fight guys back on the show.
EmprahBulborb
2024-06-19 22:25:52 +0000 UTCFeels like project 25 is in the news a bit. Is there anything worth an OA update?
Simon Crowley
2024-06-19 22:24:57 +0000 UTChttps://x.com/cnnbrk/status/1803517650431000793?s=46&t=10et3m_RaEGLME-UvmEX6g this bullshit
Cajunkilla
2024-06-19 22:24:27 +0000 UTCThe Louisiana 10 commandments in classrooms law
A struggling Medical Student obsessed with the law
2024-06-19 22:24:18 +0000 UTCThe Modest Needs indictment
If cis people are so great then why don’t they have a Siberian Orchestra
2024-06-19 22:23:45 +0000 UTC
