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Opening Arguments

SCOTUS Made Gerrymandering So Easy, You’d Have to Be a Texas Republican to F It Up

Opening Arguments

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4.33.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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OA1209 - Are you done with legal doomerism? Us too. Take some time away from doomscrolling and join Matt and Jenessa for Rapid Response Friday as we consider four stories of legal corruption and authoritarianism failing in the face of honest federal judges, and a footnote about how one brave prison nurse exposed even more corruption in Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell’s special treatment by the Trump administration.

  1. Complaint in United States v. State of New York, Northern Dist. of NY (7/9/25)

  2. New York’s motion to dismiss in U.S. v. New York (8/4/25) 

  3. Judge Mae D’Agostino’s order granting plaintiff’s motion to dismiss in U.S. v. NY (11/17/25) 

  4. Indictment of James Comey, Eastern Dist. of VA (9/25/25)

  5. Judge William Fitzpatrick’s order granting disclosure of grand jury materials in U.S. v. Comey (EDVA)(11/20/25)

  6. Judge Jeffrey Brown’s order in LULAC v. Abbot, Western Dist. of TX (11/18/25)

  7. Decision on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s motion to dismiss in 9/11 litigation, Southern Dist. of NY (8/28/25)

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0:00.0

This woman, Noel Turnage, she released a number of emails from Glenn Maxwell.

0:07.5

She was illegally fired because she is a whistleblower.

0:17.6

It is, in fact, important to find an internal logical consistency for your legal arguments and your legal behavior because it is going to come back and bite them in the ass.

0:33.9

Welcome to opening arguments. It is Friday. And we're here to talk about the news, as we so often do, and there is a lot of it, as there so often is.

0:42.0

Yeah. With me, once again, is Janessa Seymour, voting rights and civil rights attorney, and I think this is yet another Friday where we've got pretty much good news, pretty solid.

0:50.9

Yeah, yeah, we got a really solid voting case coming in and the Texas redistricting one that's going to be, I think, really excellent news.

1:00.5

Yeah, well, I think the theme here, if anything, is the DOJ just taken L's. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Formerly, one of the premier law enforcement agencies in the world is really falling on its face in several different directions right now. Yeah. So we'll be talking about the Comey indictment and what a complete disaster that has become and what a joke, Lindsay Halligan, and that indictment have become. And we're going to talk, of course, once again, about Jeffrey Epstein because we can't get away from the Epstein files right now. I'm going to bookend it. We're going to talk about what might be good news with the president signing off, but maybe not. And then we'll have a footnote at the end where I'm going to honor a hero of the Epstein story. There are heroes left in America, and you could be one too after you heard this story, perhaps. Plenty to talk about. I won't spoil it all right now,

1:44.3

but let's come on back and get started with a round of news. I'm excited to hear what you've got to say.

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