SIO175: Andrew Torrez on the FGM Court Decision
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Andrew Torrez, of the hit legal pod Opening Arguments, was kind enough to hop onto the ol' SIO to break down the recent Michigan FGM law court decision. This is one of those times the law wasn't covered very well by some media outlets. It's great to have a genius lawyer we can trust to tell us what is actually going on! Along the way we get to learn about plenary powers, the commerce clause, and all kinds of other legal goodies!
Here's the NYT coverage (which was more or less correct, but Andrew still gives us way more context!)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is 175. I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 0:34.1 | And this week we're going to do a little opening arguments here on |
| 0:37.5 | Serious Inquiries Only. It's like a throwback to back before we started O-. when Andrew would come on and break stuff down for us on this show. If you'll remember we had a caller the other week who asked about the FGM decision recently handed down and I, you know, I read over briefly, but of course I'm not the expert. |
| 0:56.8 | Andrew is, and I'm so glad he was willing to come on and break this down for us. |
| 1:01.8 | I think there's a lot of maybe misinformation and various sources on this one |
| 1:06.0 | so it's great to have a lawyer that we can trust to tell us what really happened |
| 1:11.0 | and who isn't trying to push a certain agenda of some kind and so here we |
| 1:17.6 | go let's talk to Andrew and learn more about what happened in this case. And it's Andrew Torres back on SIO. |
| 1:35.0 | Good times. |
| 1:36.2 | I love when we do this. |
| 1:37.5 | It's never gonna be as often as back before OA, |
| 1:40.1 | but that's okay. |
| 1:40.9 | We have OA every week. |
| 1:42.0 | How you doing Andrew? It is fantastic like I said I always love coming back to the mothership so so thanks for having I'm happy to have you I love when there's a I mean there's there's no end to the legal questions that you are answering over on |
| 1:56.4 | OA all the time and in fact there's let it's worse than no end it's not we |
| 2:01.6 | don't even make progress really it's always it's just it's like when you |
| 2:06.0 | it's like fantasia and the questions are the brooms you know exactly You know? Exactly that. |
| 2:13.0 | Smack one down 10 tickets please. |
| 2:15.0 | Yeah. |
| 2:16.0 | I saw that movie when I was like six and that horrified me. |
| 2:18.0 | Oh my God, I was scared of that movie. |
| 2:21.0 | We actually had a live Q&A question of what's the oldest thing on your whiteboard and we definitely have |
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