Did The Supreme Court Just Make Protest Illegal In 3 States?
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🗓️ 22 April 2024
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Summary
Episode 1025
Today we take on two law stories the media have been getting wrong recently.
1) Did the Supreme Court just "end the right to protest in three states"? We go beyond the headlines to better understand Justice Sonia Sotomayor's denial of certiorari in a negligence suit brought against Black Lives Matter organizer Deray McKesson by a police officer injured during a BLM protest in Baton Rouge.
2) Biden's border. The impeachment of DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas ended last week in the Senate before it ever began, but the lies, misinformation, and terrible reporting which fueled it are only getting worse. Matt breaks down what people who complain about Joe Biden's "open-border policies" are actually saying before getting into the facts. How do Trump's enforcement metrics compare to Biden's? How has a commitment to actually abiding by basic due process and our international and domestic obligations to people seeking protection for persecution been spun into "lawlessness at the border"? And what even are Biden's border policies anyway?
1) Justice Sonia Sotomayor's order denying certiorari in McKesson Doe (4/15/24)
2) Articles of impeachment passed by the House against DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (Dismissed by the Senate on 4/16/2024)
3) Data Show Trump Would Have Released as Many Border Crossers as Biden, David Bier, Cato Institute (1/5/2024)
4) The Biden Administration’s Humanitarian Parole Program for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans: An Overview, American Immigration Council (10/21/2023)
5)Â 126 Parole Orders over 7 Decades: A Historical Review of Immigration Parole Orders, David Bier, Cato Institute (7/17/2023)
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| 0:00.0 | I'm sorry which of us went to law school We don't have to work with any lawyer we don't want and that means you're fired. |
| 0:22.8 | Why is it only the witnesses must swear to tell the whole truth? |
| 0:30.6 | Why isn't the same oath administered to the attorneys? |
| 0:34.0 | And there he is, he's nothing. |
| 0:37.0 | It's the Emperor without clothes. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome to opening Arguments. |
| 0:43.0 | The Podcasts where a comedian takes lawyers to court. |
| 0:46.0 | Don't take ethics advice from Alan Derschowitz. |
| 0:50.0 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1, 2025. I'm your |
| 0:56.4 | host Thomas Smith. That over there is real-life crimigration attorney Matt |
| 1:00.2 | Cameron. How you doing, Matt? Thomas, I'm resting off having accidentally crashed |
| 1:04.0 | the Harvard Law School Barristers Ball last night. |
| 1:06.2 | Doesn't mean to do that? |
| 1:07.4 | I know. |
| 1:08.8 | What's a Barristers' ball? |
| 1:09.6 | Isn't that a British thing? |
| 1:11.2 | Oh, Barristers' ball is something for some reason that every law school has. We had our share of them. It's law school prom and a lot of people who went to law school, including myself, didn't go to prom, so it's kind of a big deal for us. And no, I knew it was up because I was at the Fairmont Compley Hotel for completely unrelated reasons. |
| 1:25.4 | I happened to be wearing a suit. |
| 1:27.2 | And of course when you're a white guy in a suit you are wherever you're supposed to be. |
| 1:30.1 | Wherever you're supposed to be you are is what I mean to say but you know either way if you've never been a white guy in a suit I do recommend that I seem you have been a white guy in a suit at some point in your life. |
| 1:40.4 | Oh you're talking me personally I'm glad that wasn't like general advice to the audience because that would get a little bit. That was everybody. If you just want to try it out. Yeah. There was a bit of a mini trend. I know it probably COVID killed it, but I think it was right before COVID. There was a mini trend of like adult proms. |
| 1:54.8 | So many of us either didn't go or had a weird time back when prom prom prom was. |
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