OA94: Geoff Blackwell, Trump's Anti-Trans Tweets & the Google Manifesto

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🗓️ 11 August 2017

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, we interview Geoffrey Blackwell from the American Atheists Legal Center. First, the guys break down the recent lawsuit filed by two LGBTQ advocacy organizations challenging President Trump's tweets regarding transgender service in the military. During the main segment, we ask Geoff what the AALC does, what kinds of cases are on his plate, and whether Trinity Lutheran v. Comer is as bad as we think it is. After that, Andrew answers a question from listener Thomas S. regarding Google's firing of an employee who wrote a bizarre, 10-page anti-woman manifesto. Finally, we end with an all-new Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Question #36 about defamation. Remember that you can play along with #TTTBE by retweeting our episode Tweet along with your guess. We'll release the answer on next Tuesday's episode along with our favorite entry! Recent Appearances None! Have us on your show! Show Notes & Links

Give Geoff's podcast, All Too Common Law, a listen!
Here is a link to the Doe v. Trump lawsuit filed Aug. 9, 2017 challenging Trump's tweets.
This is the Slate piece calling the lawsuit "ingenious"; Andrew disagrees.
And this is the (weird) Mattis internal DOD memo about "ethics" to which the guys refer during the show.
Finally, this is the Google manifesto referred to during the "C" segment of the show.

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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 Blackhunter anywhere in this court?
0:35.0	The jail! The jail!
0:37.0	No more person, sir.
0:46.0	I have an audience. I will be held in contempt of this court.
0:49.0	I have nothing but contempt for this court.
0:55.0	Welcome to Opening Arguments, a 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.
1:17.0	Hello and welcome to Opening Arguments. This is episode number 94.
1:21.0	I'm your host, Thomas Smith. That over there is Andrew Torres. How are you doing, Andrew Torres? Esquire.
1:26.0	I am fantastic, Thomas. How are you?
1:29.0	I'm good. I get to be Esquire too though, right? Absolutely.
1:32.0	Close enough.
1:34.0	You would do that the last press.
1:36.0	Someone did that. What was the bus photo?
1:39.0	Did we talk about that yet? Oh my gosh.
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