The Adams and Trump Cases Should Be Open and Shut. But Due to Awful SCOTUS Rulings, They May Not Be...

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

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OA1074: We begin with a quick look at JD Vance’s cringiest moment during this week’s VP debate. Does the junior senator from Ohio know anything about immigration law--let alone vice presidenting?

In our main story: Two of last term’s worst U.S. Supreme Court decisions surrounding “official acts” have been playing out in real time this week in two of the most important criminal prosecutions in the US. First, special counsel Jack Smith has just filed a monster of a brief in the DC case against Donald Trump for his responsibility for the events of January 6th, 2001. Why is this filing so unique, and what can we learn about the evidence against Trump and DOJ’s strategy going forward? Meanwhile, New York Mayor Eric Adams has filed a motion to dismiss his pending bribery charge on the grounds that bribery is pretty much legal now. Could the SCOTUS decision in Snyder v. US actually make a difference here?

Finally, Matt drops a rare animal law footnote to explain how the fate of one adorable little beaver became the single most important issue facing the Massachusetts government this week.

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0:00.0	Well, when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
0:07.0	He gags me! What's my crime? I got bold and a little negligent? Nope!
0:23.0	Bales are coming to take away my will to live.
0:28.0	Fuck them, lo!
0:32.0	One count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.
0:37.0	I hate the Supreme Court.
0:47.0	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode one thousand seventy four.
0:50.0	I'm your host Thomas Smith and with me are several viruses.
0:54.1	Matt Cameron, real life lawyer.
0:55.6	How many viruses are you bringing today?
0:57.2	I'm doing fine, but I got a bad case of Beaver
0:59.8	I gotta tell you.
1:01.8	What is that? Well, God's footnote today. I got a footnote today. I got a footnote for this story. Yep. We have a beaver footnote. It's an exciting one. We're doing some beaver law today Thomas. I was okay, you remember how last week, last time you did the reference to
1:16.0	Turkey and I had not delved into the Eric Adams thing, so I was like, what the? And then when you said this
1:21.7	beaver thing, I was like, is the Jack Smith thing?
1:24.0	Does this involve beavers?
1:26.0	What did Trump do? How did Trump involve a beaver in his scheme?
1:30.0	An innocent beaver.
1:31.0	Yeah, I'm going to tell you the story of how a beaver shut down Massachusetts this week.
1:34.4	Oh, I love it.
1:36.0	So we got to eat our vegetables first.
1:37.7	We got to talk about two massive developments in the two most important criminal cases in the
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