OA487: How To Overturn Citizens United
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
All-star Senator Sheldon Whitehouse is at it again! In a Judiciary subcommittee meeting, Whitehouse laid out the groundwork for how a future Supreme Court could overturn Citizens United and Shelby County v. Holder. These are two atrocious decisions that would make even the Andrewest judge lament stare decisis, but today's episode explains how a court could overturn them without doing damage to court legitimacy going forward! (if you're into that kind of thing...)
Before that, Andrew breaks down SCOTUS granting cert in the NYS Rifle & Pistol Assn v Corlett. Then, we tackle a listener email claiming we badly misrepresented defense attorneys in last Tuesday's show.
Links: NY State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n. v. City of New York, N.Y. Penal Law § 400.00(2)(f), Supreme Court of the United States opp brief, 2nd Circuit NY State Rifle & Pistol Ass'n v. Beach, Cert Peition, Cert granted, Supreme Court Fact-Finding and the Distortion of American Democracy, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, Citizens United, Civil Service Commission v. Nat’l Assn of Letter Carriers,
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| 0:00.0 | He's in there laughing his ass off because he knows more about the Lord in YouTube. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm here live, it's not a cat. |
| 0:25.0 | My Lord, is that you? |
| 0:28.0 | You're going to have a little ritual. |
| 0:36.0 | Objects in your honor, strangling your witness. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm going to a lie. |
| 0:45.0 | We... |
| 0:46.0 | Disagree? |
| 0:48.0 | That's it? We disagree? |
| 0:50.0 | Well, I can't say we agree. That's how I lost my first ten cases. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the Law Offices of P. Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes. |
| 1:04.0 | It's 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 487. I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. How are you doing, my friend? |
| 1:23.0 | Hi, I am fantastic. Still on a math high from last episode. |
| 1:28.0 | That was a lot of fun. We've got even more fun stuff today. One more plug for our Patreon Q&A. |
| 1:33.0 | We are doing that Q&A on Tuesday, the fourth, which could be today for you. |
| 1:40.0 | I had 3PM Pacific 6PM Eastern. |
| 1:43.0 | And of course, the questions were on the Patreon thread on patreon.com slash law. |
| 1:48.0 | But everybody gets to hang out, participate in the chat. It's a lot of fun. |
| 1:53.0 | Interact with each other, interact with us, and do some live Q&A. Can't wait. So be there, be square. |
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