You are listening to the Jordan is My Loyer podcast, your favorite source of

unbiased news and legal analysis. Enjoy the show. Show. Welcome back to the Jordan is my lawyer podcast and boy do we have a lot of ground to cover today

not only do we have everything that happened in Congress over the weekend but Monday

marked the first day of the Supreme Court's 2023-24 term and it also

marked the first day of Donald Trump's fraud trial in New York. So our first story is going to be about Congress avoiding the

shutdown, not only how they avoided it and what the stopgap measure encompasses,

but also why Representative Gates is calling for Speaker McCarthy's removal, why some Republicans

are calling for Matt Gates's expulsion, what a motion to vacate the speakership entails,

and also the fire alarm incident.

And I just quickly have to throw in a little editor's note here.

I had already recorded today's episode and Monday night the news broke that Representative

Gates did in fact move to oust Speaker McCarthy

so this whole episode will still flow it'll all make sense I'll talk about you know what's necessary for a motion to vacate

How it passes what happens if it passes So all of that stuff will still make

sense, but just go into the episode knowing that Gates did in fact move to oust Speaker McCarthy.

The second story is going to be about the first day of

Donald Trump's fraud trial in New York, so we'll be covering kind of...

Here's the thing. I'm not going to be talking about this case every single day.

It's supposed to last months.

So I kind of just want to lay out the groundwork

for what this case is about and what we can expect

and kind of clear up a few areas of confusion for some people and leave it at that. The third story is going to be about the

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