Did Trump Just Violate the Logan Act?
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🗓️ 23 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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We begin with a brief update on Disney’s truly Mickey Mouse arguments in a Florida wrongful death lawsuit before discussing three other questionable legal claims from the week’s news:
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As expected, Hunter Biden has tried to use findings from a Florida federal court that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed to have his own pending federal tax charges dismissed in California. Can this creation of Aileen Cannon’s imagination survive in the wild?
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Speaking of the BIDEN CRIME FAMILY: we review the final report from the House Republicans in support of impeaching Joe Biden--for, well you know. Something. If anyone wants to get around to it. What are we even doing here?
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News this week that presidential candidate Donald Trump may have discussed delaying a Gaza ceasefire agreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu until after the election has set off yet another round of online demands for prosecution under the Logan Act of 1799. What’s the deal with this 225-year-old law--and are we ever going to get around to actually using it?
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Order denying Hunter Biden’s motion to reconsider his previous motion to dismiss (8/19/24)
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House Republicans’ Report of the Impeachment Inquiry of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (8/19/24)
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“Non-Enforcement by Accretion: The Logan Act and the Take Care Clause,” Daniel B. Rice, Harvard Journal on Legislation (2018)
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| 0:00.0 | Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. |
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| 0:23.0 | Bales are coming to take away my will to live. |
| 0:28.0 | Fuck them, lo! |
| 0:32.0 | One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear. |
| 0:37.0 | I hate the Supreme Court. |
| 0:42.6 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:47.0 | This is episode one thousand sixty two. |
| 0:49.4 | I'm your hoarse sexy voice. |
| 0:52.4 | Thomas, I didn't necessarily know I sounded like this until I started talking. |
| 0:57.2 | And that over there is a real life attorney. Matt Cameron, how you doing Matt? |
| 1:00.5 | Hold on, I'm just gonna finish registering for Disney Plus, just about done. |
| 1:05.4 | And they killed your family member. |
| 1:08.6 | Sniper had them in the site. |
| 1:11.0 | Quick update on that story from last week. I just wanted to start with before we go to the break. |
| 1:14.9 | Disney has this week reversed itself because it turns out that you know some legal |
| 1:19.1 | podcasts and such were yelling about this. I was gonna say yeah |
| 1:21.5 | Disney attorney was visited by |
| 1:23.2 | three podcast ghosts in the night. That's right that's right. I wish one I think I'd be |
| 1:27.5 | the present one I don't know which one would be I don't know I'm not the |
| 1:31.4 | podcast guess yeah I did see and I love this lately Matt has just been trying to |
| 1:38.0 | squeeze stuff in before the break I think it's because he's a man of the people and he just wants to get it as accessible as possible I love it but I did see on |
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