OA146: Clearing the White Board!

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🗓️ 9 February 2018

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this "lightning round" episode, Andrew tackles more than the typical three stories we cover on the show. How much more?? Listen and find out! Potential topics include: the budget showdown and sequestration, the recent Supreme Court rulings on gerrymandering, the Nunes memo, the Federal Reserve, stock market, and Wells Fargo fraud, and ... possibly even more?? Finally, we end with an all-new Thomas (and Lucien!) Take the Bar Exam #62 involving the statute of frauds. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode on Twitter or sharing it on Facebook along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances None! Have us on your show! Show Notes & Links

You can read all 652 pages of the proposed budget deal here.
The Pennsylvania redistricting case is League of Women Voters v. Pennsylvania, 159 MM 2017.
We discussed the North Carolina gerrymandering decision in Episode 138; the Supreme Court's brief order staying that decision is here.
And, of course, you'll want to review the 2008 Powerpoint and 2010 "Snidely Whiplash" REDMAP Powerpoint.
This is the full text of the Nunes memo. We discussed FISA courts in depth in Episode 106, which covered 50 U.S.C. § 1805, the authorizing legislation.
Finally, you can read the Federal Reserve's cease-and-desist against Wells Fargo; the enabling legislation is 12 U.S.C. § 1818 et seq.

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0:00.0	I declare bankruptcy!
0:20.0	I congratulate you on your imagination, but this is a court of space law not a theater.
0:26.0	The tax meant us in San Diego, Calpam, etc.
0:34.0	Memo, this punitive, devil, cut them!
0:36.0	It's all there, black and white, clear as crystal!
0:42.0	How is this a fair trial? Our lawyer is a morty!
0:46.0	It's not fair, you have no rights and he's not a lawyer.
0:48.0	We just keep him here because he's fun. Look at him go!
0:52.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer with a real-life lawyer.
1:00.0	This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P.A.
1:12.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 146.
1:22.0	I'm your host Thomas Smith, that over there is your other host Andrew Torres. How you doing Andrew?
1:26.0	Hey Thomas, I'm great, how are you?
1:28.0	I'm excited for today's episode. We got some craziness happening on our company whiteboard here.
1:36.0	On our spreadsheet or Google Doc, there must be an error. What's going on?
1:44.0	Yeah, one of our long-running jokes is that the Trump administration and the world, I think it's fair to say the world as a whole,
1:54.0	waits until Thursday afternoon really to release crucial documents to take critical legal steps.
2:02.0	They want to avoid being covered on opening our door.
2:06.0	Yeah, it's a tack that it falls through the crack.
2:08.0	Exactly.
2:10.0	We have a whole bunch of stories that have hit the news since our last recording a week ago today.
2:18.0	I thought it would be fun to tackle all of the legal aspects of those news.
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