OA80: Flashback Friday (featuring Health Care, The Slants, and Gerrymandering!)

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🗓️ 23 June 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

It's our first Flashback Friday! On today's episode, we revisit topics from previous episodes that are once again back in the news. We begin with the breaking-est of breaking news, the new Senate version of the AHCA that literally just got released right before the show was scheduled to record. What's in the new bill? Listen and find out! After that, our main segment goes through the recent Supreme Court victory for our friend Simon Tam of the Slants, who previewed this case for us way back on Episode 33. Find out what the ruling means and how it might impact future issues (like a certain D.C.-area football team). After that, we take a look at the Supreme Court's recent grant of certiorari in the Wisconsin gerrymandering case we discussed back in Episode 54. What's the prognosis for whether the Supreme Court will finally do something about partisan gerrymandering? Listen and find out! Finally, we end with a brand new Thomas (and Denise) Take the Bar Exam Question #29, in which next week's guest, Denise Howell, joins the guys for a preview and plays along. Remember that you too can 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). Answers, as always, drop on Tuesday. Recent Appearances None. But if you're on the East Coast, you should check out Andrew's speech to the Lehigh Valley Skeptics on "Skepticism and the Law" on July 2, 2017 at 11 am by clicking here. Show Notes & Links

Flash back to our first discussion with Simon Tam of the Slants on Episode 33, and keep groovin' with gerrymandering by listening to Episode 54.
This is the text of the Senate's version of the AHCA.
MACPAC's analysis of the ACA referenced on the show is here.
This table shows the DSH allotment by state for 2016.
Here is the full text of the Supreme Court's opinion in Matal v. Tam (formerly Lee v. Tam).
Finally, here's the text of the Cooper v. Harris decision we discussed on Episode 72 that gives Andrew some cause for concern.

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0:00.0	I refuse to testify on the grounds that my organs will be chopped up into a patty.
0:07.0	Ah, the 67th Amendment.
0:20.0	I move for a bad court thingy.
0:22.0	You mean a mistrone?
0:24.0	Yeah, that's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talking guy.
0:31.0	Can you see Captain Blamada anywhere in this court-match?
0:35.0	That's him! That's him!
0:37.0	No more person, sir!
0:45.0	I am an spy that's oil-be-held to contempt of this court.
0:49.0	I have nothing but contempt for this court.
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 80.
1:22.0	And I'm your host, Thomas Smith. Over there is Andrew Torres. How you doing, Andrew Torres?
1:28.0	I'm great, Thomas. How are you?
1:29.0	Doing good. I'm excited. It sounds like you've got a little miniature announcement here.
1:34.0	Yeah, I do. In a couple of weeks on Sunday, July 2nd, I will be giving a talk before the Lehigh Valley Humanists in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
1:45.0	That is going to be a how-to-never-pay taxes again and make Bernie Sanders president using this one-word trick to hook.
1:54.0	If you are a listener of the show at all, you probably recognize that by its more sober legal title, which is Skepticism in the Law.
2:03.0	But yeah, if you're an OA listener on the East Coast, Maryland, Pennsylvania, nearby areas, it's a free talk.
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