OA408: What Happens When The CARES Act Expires Tomorrow?
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🗓️ 31 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode takes a deep dive into the Republican proposal to extend the CARES Act, which is (of course) called the HEALS Act. It's a Republican proposal, so you know it's probably terrible, but... how bad is it? (Bad.) Listen and find out!
Remember that our LIVE Q&A is THIS SATURDAY, 8/1, at 7:30 pm Eastern / 4:30 pm Pacific!
We begin, however, with some good news! The D.C. Circuit has granted en banc review and vacated the prior panel opinion in the Michael Flynn case. That means our amicus brief is (potentially) back in business, baby!
From there, we take down Trump's idiotic distract-o-Tweet of the day involving postponing the 2020 Election. No. He can't do this. It won't happen. Trump's a monster, but no.
Then it's time for a deep dive on the CARES Act, which includes some mystery provisions we've outsourced to you, our listeners!
After all that, it's time for #T3BE, this one a (straightforward?) question about permissible witness testimony. Remember that you too can play along by sharing this episode on social media using #T3BE.
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Show Notes & Links
- We broke down why Trump can't cancel the election in detail in Episode 370.
- You can click here to read the McConnell HEALS Act proposal; here for the Rubio/Collins proposal we discussed on a second round of PPP loans; and here for the academic research led by Raj Chetty that PPP loans don't work.
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| 0:00.0 | My guys are still under a judicial mistrainsman order. That blue thing I got from her. |
| 0:19.7 | I've got the best lawyer soft-talkers can buy. |
| 0:27.7 | Objection. |
| 0:28.4 | On what grounds? |
| 0:29.5 | How about selling the charter? |
| 0:35.4 | I think legal terms are magic words that can force people to do what I want. |
| 0:45.5 | My client has instructed me to remind the court how rich an important is, |
| 0:49.9 | that he is not like other men. |
| 0:55.2 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian |
| 0:58.5 | with a real-life lawyer. |
| 1:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres, |
| 1:03.1 | LLC for Entertainment Purposes, is not intended as legal advice |
| 1:06.7 | and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.5 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:17.8 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. |
| 1:19.3 | This is episode 408. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm Thomas Smith. |
| 1:22.1 | That's Andrew Torres, sender of fine McCallan scotches. |
| 1:26.3 | How you doing, Andrew? |
| 1:27.9 | I am doing fantastic, Thomas. |
| 1:29.9 | Happy birthday. |
| 1:30.9 | How are you doing? |
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