Law and Chaos Liz Dye

Liz and Andrew interview law professor Steven Vladek about The Shadow Docket, what makes the Supreme Court legitimate, and how to think and talk about it in order to reform the Court for the future.
 
Links:
The Shadow Docket
https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Docket-Supreme-Undermine-Republic/dp/B0BJ15Q9VZ/
Lisa Needham on Public Notice, “The Dangerously Illiberal Judges”
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/columbia-protests-law-clerk-trump-judges-boycott
 
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Liz and Andrew break Justice Merchan’s contempt ruling that paves the way for Trump to spend time in lockup, then discuss the witnesses and how they did, or did not, help the prosecution build its case. Plus, Tennessee banned contrails and maybe … spray bottles? 
 
Links:
Second Contempt Order
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/DOcontempt_5-6-24FINAL.pdf 
Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022
https://www.congress.gov/117/plaws/publ103/PLAW-117publ103.pdf
2023 OSTP Geoengineering Report
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Congressionally-Mandated-Report-on-Solar-Radiation-Modification.pdf
Tennessee HB 2063
https://legiscan.com/TN/text/HB2063/id/2983097
Florida SB 1084
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1084
DeSantis Statement re SB 1084
https://www.flgov.com/2024/05/01/governor-desantis-signs-legislation-to-keep-lab-grown-meat-out-of-florida/
 
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Liz and Andrew Torrez catch up with Trump’s election lawyers. Where are they now, and why isn’t it the hoosegow? Then a deep dive into the Biden administration’s plan to reschedule marijuana. But first, Donald Trump has nothing but contempt for this court!
 
Links:
 
Trump Contempt Order
https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/D.O.motion4contempt-FINAL.pdf 
 
Eastman Disciplinary Order
https://discipline.calbar.ca.gov/portal/DocumentViewer/Index/UTKQ_Y63MDG4l4uhXSVCPqiU-at38jxNGUYub4sJpbGYEMPf_DmMRzCZgpvdUiQob9K9TKikC0XkAwVvafs3DPj9GHLcAlR9sE7K6hP1jE41?caseNum=SBC-23-O-30029&docType=Order%20/%20Ruling&docName=Ruling%20on%20Motion%20-%20Denied&docTypeId=13&isVersionId=False&p=0 
 
Michigan appellate order on sanctions
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca6.142572/gov.uscourts.ca6.142572.43.2.pdf
 
“Off the charts low” polling
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna148170
 
Fair Labor Standards Act
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/chapter-8
 
DOL Final Rule, 29 CFR Part 541
https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/WHD/flsa/ot-541-final-rule.pdf
 
FTC Act of 1914
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/chapter-2/subchapter-I
 
FTC Final Rule, 16 CFR Part 910
https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/noncompete-rule.pdf
 
Jimmy Johns noncompete
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jimmy-johns-non-compete_n_5978180
 
Amazon noncompete
https://cdn1.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/3543196/AmazonContract.0.pdf
 
21 U.S.C. 812
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/812
 
Congressional Review Act
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/part-I/chapter-8



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Liz sits down with Arizona trial lawyer Tom Ryan to discuss last week’s indictment of fake electors by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. It’s indictment-thirty for Boris Epshteyn and Christina Bobb!
 
Links:
Gag Order
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/JustSecurityNY2016ElectionInterferenceCaseClearinghouse%E2%80%94Order-granting-State-of-New-York-motion-to-restrict-Trump-extrajudicial-statements-March-26-2024.pdf 
Indictment
https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/Indictment%20Redacted.pdf 
DM Cantor on Class 2 felonies in AZ
https://dmcantor.com/class-2-felony-in-arizona#
AZ Central story
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/
A.R.S. 13-2310
https://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/02310.htm
DM Cantor on Fraudulent Schemes
https://dmcantor.com/blog/what-are-fraudulent-schemes-in-arizona
 
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Liz talks to podcaster Andrew Torrez about Trump’s Manhattan prosecution and the debacle at the Supreme Court Thursday when Trump made his magical, perpetual, presidential immunity argument.
 
Links:
Arizona v. Ward — Indictment
https://www.azag.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/Indictment.pdf 
People v. Trump — Transcripts
https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/transcripts/ 
People v. Trump — Evidence
https://pdfs.nycourts.gov/PeopleVs.DTrump-71543/Evidence/ 
Trump  v. US — SCOTUS Docket
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/docketfiles/html/public/23-939.html 
SCOTUS oral argument
https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/23-939
Trump DC MTD Presidential immunity
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.74.0_3.pdf
SCOTUS docket in US v. Trump (DC)
https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-united-states-3/
DC Circuit Opinion
https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf/1AC5A0E7090A350785258ABB0052D942/$file/23-3228-2039001.pdf
Trump SCOTUS Brief
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/303418/20240319150454815_23-939%20-%20Brief%20for%20Petitioner.pdf
US SCOTUS Opposition
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/306999/20240408191803801_United%20States%20v.%20Trump%20final%20for%20filing.pdf
Trump Reply Brief
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/307578/20240415133854183_USSC%2023-939%20-%20Reply%20Brief%20of%20Petitioner.pdf
Constitutional Scholars Amicus
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-939/306994/20240408102651774_Trump%20v.%20US%20CAC%20Scholars%20Brief%2023-929.pdf
Marbury v. Madison
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/5/137/#tab-opinion-1958607
 
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Trump’s first criminal trial gets underway in Manhattan, even as he fights to get the court to accept his hinky bond in the civil fraud case. 
 
Links:
 
NYAG Opposition to Trump/Knight Surety Bond
https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=E/oR7WnxPeT2tSnZpOGlBA== 
 
Trump Civil Trial NY, Selected Docs at Just Security
https://www.justsecurity.org/89120/clearinghouse-new-york-attorney-general-corporate-fraud-case/ 
 
Trump False Business Records Case, Selected Docs at Just Security
https://www.justsecurity.org/89089/clearinghouse-2016-election-interference-case-manhattan-district-attorney/ 
 
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