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🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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A federal judge on Tuesday granted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request for a nationwide temporary restraining order blocking the Biden administration’s halt of a 100-day pause in deportations of noncitizens for 14 days. It’s safe to say our podcast hosts have some thoughts! Stick around to hear David and Sarah chat about an indictment against pro-Trump Twitter troll Ricky Vaughn in response to his voter disinformation campaign, a wonky First Amendment case, and what’s behind this week’s GameStop rally. Show Notes: -Giboney v. Empire Storage & Ice Co. and Expressions Hair Design v. Schneiderman. -Take our podcast survey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You ready?
0:02.0	I was born ready.
0:04.0	Welcome to the advisory opinions podcast.
0:23.0	I'm David French with Sarah Isger and as usual we never lack for legal subjects to talk
0:30.5	about.
0:32.0	We have the first nationwide injunction against the Biden administration that was handed down.
0:40.0	Well, technically first nationwide temporary restraining order handed down against the
0:44.7	Biden administration blocking its halt of a 100 day pause and deportations.
0:50.0	We're going to talk about that.
0:52.0	We're also going to talk about a voter and Tim a civil right conspiracy to violate civil rights
0:59.0	indictment handed down by the Department of Justice against a Twitter troll involving
1:07.3	a scheme to get people to vote to wrongly to trick them into believing that they can
1:13.3	vote by phone in the 2016 election and it raises some really interesting issues.
1:19.3	We're also going to talk about a and I don't even know what this is Sarah.
1:24.1	I'm I'm just in suspense.
1:26.8	You know, it's a you know it's great.
1:28.7	And I bring you one of my weird historical cases.
1:32.1	Yes, yes, it's a I'm only going to call it a weirdo first amendment case.
1:37.3	I don't know what it is.
1:38.3	Sarah's going to surprise me.
1:40.2	And then we're going to wind up with not a technical stock market discussion of GameStop.
1:46.8	Although there will be some elements that will be involved in talk.
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