OA400: No, John Roberts Is Not Your Friend
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🗓️ 3 July 2020
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Today's show could also be called "the worst good news possible" because, yes, the Supreme Court declined to completely gut Roe v. Wade (despite the fact that Roe is effectively dead in many ways), but this was not John Roberts turning into AOC. Find out why in Andrew's breakdown!
Before that main story though, our first segment is about some reallllly bad news out of Florida. Remember when Florida voters came out overwhelmingly in supermajority numbers to restore voting rights to ex-felons? Yeah Republicans said "nah." We last covered this, when we thought the courts scored us a victory, in Episode 363.
We also discuss the Supreme Court granting cert for some Mueller Report cases, which is NOT good news.
Here are Andrew's links and references: Private Debt Collectors ad 40% to Total, Felons Can't Afford These Fines, Jones v. Governor of Florida, Previous OAs on June Medical: OA249 OA251 and OA251.5, Whole Women's Health v. Hellerstedt, OA309 Discusses Sheldon Whitehouse, Comprehensive Supreme Court Report by Sen Whitehouse and his amicus brief, Roberts Narrow Concurrence vs. stare decisis in Casey.
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| 0:00.0 | He's not even a lawyer and he's kicking your ass. |
| 0:19.0 | No! Bad lawyer! I need a loophole! |
| 0:25.0 | He's not Judge Judy and executioner! He is! |
| 0:33.0 | I'm sorry, but my mother always said if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all. |
| 0:39.0 | Will that hold up in court? No, I've tried it before. |
| 0:46.0 | Stop. Ask a question a lawyer would ask, please. I am a lawyer. |
| 0:55.0 | 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. Antitoura as LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:05.0 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.0 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:17.0 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode 400! |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Thomas Smith, that's Andrew Torres, how are you doing? |
| 1:25.0 | I am 400 kinds of fantastic. How about that? |
| 1:29.0 | Oh wow, how are you doing? |
| 1:31.0 | I'm doing great. All right, Kat's out of the bag. I did a little surprise for our 400 episode. |
| 1:36.0 | I arranged a lot of not really good news. |
| 1:40.0 | It was me, it was me guys, surprise, 400! |
| 1:45.0 | Yeah, this is not going to be, every once in a while we have the shows where we put the little yellow happy face on the cover in the show notes. |
| 1:54.0 | This is going to be one of those episodes. |
| 1:57.0 | It's 400, I want to celebrate what the show has been about for the last 400 episodes of the past news. |
| 2:03.0 | People's hopes and dreams, yeah, exactly. |
| 2:05.0 | In fairness, I think, what was it like the first, I don't know, 30? We're like good news. |
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