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Atheist, Opinion, Harvard, News, Politics, Legal, Law, Liberal, Supremecourt

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Episode 1008

Today we are serving up a tasteful pairing of radically destructive activism from one supreme court with a refreshing adherence to basic Constitutional law from another. We start in Alabama, where the state's highest court just found with no any apparent legal, factual, or moral justification whatsoever that a few hundred frozen cells are legally equivalent to a "child"--because God, probably? Unclear! We then review a recent example of the U.S. Supreme Court doing exactly what it is supposed to do: reviewing and unanimously reversing an obvious Constitutional violation, in this case one which put a man who had been acquitted on mental health grounds at risk of the death penalty.

1. Alabama Supreme Court's decision in LePage v. Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.

2. Ketanji Brown Jackson's decision for a unanimous court in McElrath v. Georgia, 601 U.S. ____ (2024) [PDF]

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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 podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court.
0:46.0	Don't take ethics advice from Alan Dershowitz.
0:49.0	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode
0:54.7	one thousand and eight. I'm your host Thomas Smith and with me is Matt Cameron.
0:58.6	Matt you know someone pointed out that we should have a quick little blurb for you and or Casey every time just in case
1:04.9	there's new listeners and I forgot to ask you to prepare that so putting you on the spot.
1:10.0	Well I'm still here and I'm still a practicing immigration and criminal defense attorney.
1:13.4	I'm happy to be here.
1:14.6	And I'm practicing none of that.
1:16.6	Yeah, how are you doing today?
1:17.8	Great.
1:18.8	Well, I mean, I'm a little mad.
1:20.1	I gotta be honest with you.
1:21.5	I'm a little upset after reading this Alabama Supreme Court decision.
1:24.4	You sound furious. This is me raging, Thomas.
1:28.4	Yeah, this sounds absolutely crazy. I'm seeing it everywhere. I cannot wait. This is exactly why I love
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