Lawful Assembly

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Judge Cannon and Trump's Classified Documents Case Apr 19, 2024

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Today we talk about the documents case and the judge overseeing it, and the judge appointed by Donald Trump in 2019, Judge Cannon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/politics/trump-trial-documents-cannon.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/09/us/politics/trump-documents-witnesses.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/politics/judge-trump-dismissal-classified-documents.html

States Rights vs Federal Power Apr 12, 2024

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We talk about the tension between states rights and federal power. How does a court decide which to lean more heavily on?

Articles referenced:

Valor

The myth of 'open borders'

For additional description of how state laws impacted the travel and work of African-Americans or freed slaves in the years before the Civil War, see e.g., Kate Masur, Until Justice Be Done, America's First Civil Rights Movement From the Revolution to Reconstruction, (N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021), 123-126 and 157-59).

Listener Questions Apr 05, 2024

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We answer several listener questions this week. We talk about a lot of different issues and here are some of the links we suggested in the episode:

https://immigrantjustice.org/

https://cmsny.org/

https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/

Lying, Disinformation and our U.S. Political Landscape Mar 29, 2024

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Today we talk about lying in the political discourse. We used the following news articles for reference

"Can't make it up": Experts say transcript shows special counsel Robert Hur "lied" about Biden | Salon.com

Biden special counsel Robert Hur's resignation from DOJ makes his testimony "even more problematic" | Salon.com

Anti-sex trafficking advocate accuses GOP Sen. Katie Britt of distorting her story

Journalist says Katie Britt's story about child sex abuse 'out-and-out lie' | Republicans | The Guardian

We also talked about this book:

How Civil Wars Start AND HOW TO STOP THEM By Barbara F. Walter

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/624156/how-civil-wars-start-by-barbara-f-walter/

Injunction Junction - What's your Function? Mar 22, 2024

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For more information on antebellum state migration laws, see, "The myth of 'open borders.' Even before the U.S. government regulated migration, states did. Here's why" by Anna O. Law, the Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights and associate professor of political science at CUNY Brooklyn College. (September 21, 2021), The Washington Post Heidi Altman, the Director of Policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center (https://immigrantjustice.org/ ) presents ten points of humane border solutions. They can be found at: https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/humane-solutions-work-10-ways-biden-administration-should-reshape-immigration-policy

Read Steve Vladeck's blog post: https://stevevladeck.substack.com/p/72-30-hours-of-sb4-whiplash

The Bump Stock Ban Mar 15, 2024

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The supreme court listened to oral arguments on the bump stock ban and we talk about those arguments and the briefs submitted to the court.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/22-976.html

https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2023/22-976

Let's Reshape Immigration Policy Mar 08, 2024

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Today we talk about 10 points to reshape and improve immigration policy in the USA. We used the National Immigrant Justice Center's 10 points as a backdrop for our discussion:

https://immigrantjustice.org/staff/blog/humane-solutions-work-10-ways-biden-administration-should-reshape-immigration-policy

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-02-29/immigration-crisis-border-migrants-united-states-mexico-election-biden-trump

Talking About Religion in the Public Square--a beginning Mar 01, 2024

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Both Craig and Cecil are religious separationists, meaning religion should have no role in government, Here they discuss several topics and cover some groundwork on the subject. Craig directed the Midwest Immigrant Rights Center for six years, the pro bono program that later became the National Immigrant Justice Center: https://immigrantjustice.org/ . If you would like more information on Craig's work at MIRC, check out his digital story at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9VTkjhzIcI