What In God's Name Is Happening In Georgia

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🗓️ 16 February 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Episode 1005. So uh, yeah. About that. The news was so crazy that we recorded two different episodes and I had to stitch them together like a Frankenstein's Podster. Because WOW Georgia. In addition to that, Matt has for us a tour of the Trump legal circuit! It makes stops in DC, Florida, Georgia, and New York, with a brief layover in 1998 to reminisce about where we were the first time we heard an elected official talking about their sex life under oath. We share some initial impressions of the first day of Fulton County DA Fani Willis's disqualification hearing, debate whether Nathan Wade actually billed the county for 24 hours of work in one day, and consider what might happen next (and what probably should have earlier) in this unfortunate and entirely evitable sideshow to the single most important state criminal case prosecuted in our lifetimes.

Also discussed: What's next for the stupidest impeachment in the history of impeachments? What's up with the House rule which makes tying a vote *much* worse than losing one? Is Robert Hur a doctor or does he just like playing one in special counsel reports? And we finally learn the one thing that truly makes Matt angry: FONTS.

1. Nixon v. U.S. (1993)

2. Trump's stay request to SCOTUS re: immunity claims

3. GA Defendant David Shafer's filing re: motion to disqualify

4. GA Code § 15-18-15 (2018)

5. Judge Merchan's denial of Trump's motion to dismiss

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0:00.0	I'm sorry which of us went to law school We don't have to work with any lawyer we don't want and that means you're fired.
0:22.8	Why is it only the witnesses must swear to tell the whole truth?
0:30.6	Why isn't the same oath administered to the attorneys?
0:34.0	And there he is, he's nothing.
0:37.0	It's the Emperor without clothes.
0:39.0	Welcome to opening Arguments.
0:43.5	The podcast where a comedian takes lawyers to court.
0:47.1	Don't take ethics advice from Alan Derschowitz.
0:49.8	Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode
0:56.1	one thousand and five take two Matt take two. We're gonna need to say... Long 24 hours, Thomas.
1:04.0	Yeah, rookie mistake by both of us.
1:07.0	We thought, yeah, we can record Friday's episode on Wednesday.
1:11.0	Surely the news shows will stop at some point.
1:14.0	Trump's not in office anymore, you know?
1:15.8	We couldn't get away with that crap back when Trump was in office, but you know, now that he's gone,
1:19.8	surely the news is somewhat slow.
1:21.6	No, they're all recording and then all hell broke loose in Georgia
1:26.6	with this stuff, Fawny Willis and with Wade and
1:30.0	wow, a lot going on.
1:32.0	So we're here in the intro take two to tell you all that still most of what we recorded applies and I'm cutting out anything that doesn't. So don't worry, you're not getting stale old pod here. I'm keeping all the stuff that is still relevant and then we will
1:46.7	We're hard at work. We're gonna redo the parts that we need to redo and you got yourself kind of a Frankenstein episode.
1:53.4	Now we want the freshest news here, straight from the news hose.
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