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Legal Docket

Legal Docket - Americans for Prosperity v Bonta : S2.E8

Legal Docket

WORLD Radio

Government

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When the attorney general of California sought confidential information about charitable donors, charities on the left and the right fought back.

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0:00.0

In the 1988 movie, Enemy of the State, actor Will Smith plays a labor lawyer named Bobby Dean.

0:11.2

He's got incriminating evidence against the government, but he isn't aware that he is in possession of it,

0:17.8

determined to either get the evidence or get Dean an official, but the national security

0:22.8

agency goes after him. One day Dean comes home from work to find his wife watching TV. She's listening

0:28.7

to a congressman advocate for greater surveillance power for intelligence agencies. Dean's wife can

0:34.5

hardly believe her ears. Baby, listen to this fascist gas bag.

0:39.3

Uh-uh.

0:40.3

Freedom have always existed in a very precarious balance.

0:44.3

And when buildings start blowing up, people's priorities tend to change.

0:48.3

He's got a point there, sweetie.

0:50.3

Bob, he is talking about ending personal privacy. Do you want your phone tap?

0:56.0

I'm not planning on blowing up the country.

0:58.0

Well, how do we know until we've heard all your dirty little secrets?

1:01.0

You're just going to have to trust me.

1:04.0

Oh, I know. We'll just tap the criminals.

1:07.0

We won't suspend the civil rights of the good people.

1:10.0

Right.

1:11.6

Then who decides which is which?

1:12.6

Who decides, indeed?

1:14.6

Soon enough, surveillance and more rains down on Bobby Dean, enough to ruin his life.

1:21.6

Put taps on his 20 most frequently called numbers, and let's get into his life.

1:24.6

The union situation has mob written all over it. And he's definitely vulnerable

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