OA636: Finally, a Deep-Dive on Citizens United!
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🗓️ 4 October 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Look it seems impossible, but someone Andrew insists that we've never done a deep-dive on Citizens United! It's obviously one of the worst decisions in Supreme Court history, but do you know the details of just HOW terrible it was? Listener Thomas S. certainly didn't. So listen in and be dumbfounded at how tf we got here.
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| 0:00.0 | I broke a mirror in my house and I'm supposed to get seven years bad luck by my lawyer |
| 0:07.0 | thinks he can get me five. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, look at me, I'm a lawyer, I'm so good at word, using good tood and yes, that wasn't |
| 0:25.0 | word right. |
| 0:26.0 | You're on her, Ms. Russell has failed to legal legal and she's legal legal, he asked |
| 0:33.0 | to court to legal legal legal. |
| 0:36.0 | Don't worry, there's nothing illegal about any of this. |
| 0:39.0 | Are you sure? |
| 0:40.0 | Of course, this is America, it's a free country, don't you know that? |
| 0:44.0 | I didn't know it was that free. |
| 0:46.0 | So you think you talked about the trial without talking about what happened at the trial? |
| 0:53.0 | Welcome to Opening Arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 1:00.0 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes. |
| 1:05.0 | He's not intended to legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.0 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:12.0 | Hello and welcome to Open Ironman's This is episode 636, I'm Thomas, that's Andrew. |
| 1:22.0 | How are you doing Andrew? |
| 1:24.0 | I am doing fantastic Thomas, I could not be more excited to bring this episode. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, at long last, we're doing it, we're doing a deep dive that I thought, you know, I shazammed, |
| 1:37.0 | I, whatever that phenomenon, I've been in steam bears this in existence because in my mind we already did this, |
| 1:44.0 | but I've traveled to the dimension in which it's barren stain bears and also we didn't do citizens united yet. |
| 1:50.0 | So hello, I'm from another dimension, it's new to me, so I'm excited for our breakdown of citizens united. |
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