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Sarah Palin v NYT, Trump's Document Dump, SCOTUS on Voting Rights - It's a Legal Roundup!

Sarah Palin v NYT, Trump's Document Dump, SCOTUS on Voting Rights - It's a Legal Roundup!

FromPassing Judgment


Sarah Palin v NYT, Trump's Document Dump, SCOTUS on Voting Rights - It's a Legal Roundup!

FromPassing Judgment

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Length:
1 minute
Released:
Feb 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

It is our first legal roundup of 2022, and intrepid producer and co-host Joe Armstrong returns.
First, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin took the stand in her defamation suit against the New York Times this week. How did she do? [ANSWER: Not great.]
We also recently learned that although Donald Trump may or may not have been flushing official documents down a White House toilet, he most definitely improperly took some top secret documents with him when he left for Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
Lastly, the Supreme Court this week ruled in Alabama's favor when it came to a recent challenge to congressional redistricting despite a violation of the Voting Rights Act, and Jessica shares some theories about how this "shadow docket" decision may be related to SCOTUS' recent YOLO energy.
Released:
Feb 11, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Is the constitution in crisis? This podcast is for people who are curious about politics and the law and how the biggest political and legal issues of the moment affect you. Pull up a chair and join host Jessica Levinson, a professor at LMU’s Loyola Law School, and a rotating cast of experts. Jessica will be joined by journalists, politicians, political scientists, lawyers, and many others. Listen to Jessica and her guests for a wry, and sometimes irreverent take on the most pressing issues of our time. What are the laws of our democracy? How are they changing? And what does that mean for your daily life?