OA583: Republicans Creating Handmaid's Tale Hellscape
Opening Arguments
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🗓️ 5 April 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The devastating consequences of Texas HB 8 and the Supreme Court's cowardly shadow docket ruling on it are reverberating not just through Texas, but around the country. Not to be outdone, Republicans in Idaho produced a copycat bill. Andrew gives the breakdown and we discuss some truly shocking NPR coverage of how Republicans are ruining lives. But it's not all bad news! In the B segment, Andrew takes us through the Equality Florida Lawsuit, a well-argued lawsuit attempting to fight back against the Don't Say Gay Bill. Also, we're not bothering to cover Trump's idiotic flop of a lawsuit against Hillary.
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| 0:00.0 | The Magna Carter. Carter, meaning quite literally charter, a magna, meaning Japanese animation. |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, come on! A good lawyer couldn't win this case! |
| 0:23.2 | There's this vampire larvae also have a local vampire here on the council this evening, Colin Covenson. |
| 0:28.8 | Hello! |
| 0:32.4 | I was a possible that you've never heard about James Simpson. |
| 0:35.6 | Well, as I explained, I just awoke from a 22-year coma and was driven directly from the hospital to this courthouse. |
| 0:45.2 | You had no idea what to report meant, and when I asked you to explain to six the amendment, you pled the fifth. |
| 0:49.6 | I know my rights. No, you don't! That's the problem. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.9 | 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. |
| 1:11.7 | Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode 583. I'm Thomas. That's Andrew Torres, lawyer, |
| 1:24.5 | extraordinaire. How are you doing? I'm doing great, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:28.2 | Doing well. Excited to get to a bunch of the stuff that we didn't have time for last episode. |
| 1:32.9 | Too much to cover. Of all of your items, we're probably getting to about half of it. |
| 1:37.6 | I guess what I'm saying is there's always more opening arguments waiting in the way to sauce. |
| 1:41.2 | Always room for Jello, yeah, exactly right. Well, let's get to it. I love this note that you have |
| 1:47.6 | in the pre-segment. It says, remember when Donald Trump sued Hillary Clinton, neither do we. |
| 1:53.8 | It's so we're not covering at that. We are not covering it yet. I mean, I may in the event that |
| 2:00.2 | the 50% of stuff that I don't get to every week, I don't catch up on that backlog and I'm out of |
| 2:06.4 | inspiration and we want to cover how Alina Habas, the next in line to be sanctioned and hopefully |
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