OA69: The Tuesday Massacre - Trump Sacks FBI Director James Comey

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🗓️ 16 May 2017

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, the guys analyze the justification given by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for President Trump to fire former FBI Director James Comey. First, though, fan-favorite Yodelin' Trump returns with a related question from our listeners (including Kevin Hicks), who ask whether Trump's tweet about Sally Yates violated the law. In our main segment, Andrew breaks down the Rosenstein memo. Then, we answer a great listener question from Patron Ben Hatcher, who wants to know exactly what things are admissible in the record on appeal. Finally, we end with the answer to Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #23 about a class action breach-of-contract lawsuit against a scammer who sells your private information. Remember that TTTBE issues a new question every Friday, followed by the answer on next Tuesday's show. Don't forget to play along by following our Twitter feed (@Openargs) and/or our Facebook Page and quoting the Tweet or Facebook Post that announces this episode along with your guess and reason(s)! Recent Appearances: Thomas was recently a guest on Det. Matthew Maxon's new podcast, ______, and Andrew was recently a guest on Episode #116 of the Gaytheist Manifesto. Go check 'em out! Show Notes & Links

This is the text of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, the statute that governs witness tampering.
And this is the text of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein's letter recommending the firing of Director Comey.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm just a caveman.
0:19.8	Due to habeas corpus, you and Miss Bonifante had a common law marriage.
0:31.0	So you don't work on a contingency basis?
0:33.0	No, money down! Oops, shouldn't have this bar association logo here either.
0:45.0	Would you please point at that robot over there?
0:51.0	No further questions?
0:55.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, the podcast that pairs an inquisitive interviewer 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	is not intended as legal advice, and does not form an attorney-client relationship.
1:09.0	Don't take legal advice from a podcast.
1:18.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments, this is episode number 69.
1:22.0	No jokes, no jokes, no jokes.
1:24.0	I'm Thomas. How's it going over there, Andrew?
1:28.0	I am substantially better than I was 30 seconds ago.
1:31.0	How are you?
1:33.0	Great. I'm excited to talk about Komi, everybody's asking about Komi, and they ask me,
1:40.0	and I'm like, what do I know? I'm just, I'm not the lawyer.
1:43.0	And so I have referred people to this episode, and so hopefully you're hearing me now,
1:48.0	people from the past. So we're going to talk all about it and some other stuff.
1:53.0	Oh, got a great question for the C segment as well.
1:56.0	Excited to hear Andrew's answer to it.
1:59.0	So with that said, it looks like we have a little pre-segment thing here to talk about.
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