OA409: Jed Shugerman on Trump's "Unfaithful Execution" of the Oath
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🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
Jed Shugerman is a Professor of Law at Fordham University. He and his colleague Ethan Leib filed a motion before Judge Amy Berman Jackson regarding Roger Stone's commutation. They argue "that the Constitution limits the pardon power to uses that are in the public interest, not primarily for self-interest, self-dealing, or self-protection." For more information and for links to Jed's law review articles related to these arguments, check out his blog post.
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| 0:00.0 | My guys are still under a Judicial Mistrain's been ordered! That blue thing I got from her! |
| 0:19.7 | I've got the best lawyer, soft-talkers, Gamby! |
| 0:27.8 | Objection! |
| 0:28.5 | On white ground! |
| 0:29.5 | How about silly mature honor? |
| 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, that he is not like other men. |
| 0:51.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.8 | This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.9 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.3 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:11.9 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments! This is episode 409. I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. How you doing Andrew? |
| 1:23.6 | I am fantastic Thomas. I'm really excited about today's episode. |
| 1:27.4 | Me too. We have Jed Sugarman on. |
| 1:30.4 | Jed is a professor at Fordham Law School. He's a prolific amicus writer. I hear. |
| 1:36.9 | In good company here, we can kind of compare amicus's. I'm sure. |
| 1:41.7 | And Andrew, what are we going to talk to Jed about today? |
| 1:43.6 | I have a feeling we're going to talk about a lot of different things. He's really interesting. |
| 1:48.3 | He has a judicial philosophy that's somewhat at odds with mine. |
| 1:53.3 | He has crafted an interesting argument and moved to File and Amicus Brief in the Roger Stone case, |
| 2:02.3 | arguing that Trump lacked the legal power to commute the sentence of Roger Stone. |
| 2:09.3 | So we're going to ask him all about that and all about his views of what sets a constraint on |
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