Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!
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OA747: Ready For Ron (DeSantis)? NOT SO FAST
In this (almost entirely!) Trump-free episode, Liz and Andrew break down two major steps backwards for Meatball Ron DeSantis: an own goal in his ongoing losing Woke War Against Disney, and a major setback by a group looking to aid his (doomed) 2024 Presidential bid. You won't want to miss it!
In the Patreon bonus, Liz and Andrew give an update on the ongoing efforts to hold MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell accountable for his $5 million "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge when he was, in fact, very very wrong.
Notes
OA 734
https://openargs.com/oa-734-disney-v-desantis-you-mess-with-the-mouse-you-get-the-ears/
OA 717
https://openargs.com/oa717-lock-him-up-4-trump-gets-indicted-desantis-gets-spanked/
OA 614
https://openargs.com/oa614-the-fec-is-corrupt-and-broken-biden-has-inexplicably-neglected-to-fix-it/
Disney MTD CFTOD complaint
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23816386/disney-mtd.pdf
Federal Election Campaign Act, 52 U.S.C. §§ 30101 et seq.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/52/30101
11 C.F.R. § 100.72
https://www.fec.gov/regulations/100-72/2022-annual-100
Ready For Ron v. FEC docket
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65639515/ready-for-ron-v-federal-election-commission/
Ready For Ron complaint
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.248664/gov.uscourts.dcd.248664.1.0_1.pdf
Ready For Ron rulinghttps://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.248664/gov.uscourts.dcd.248664.30.0.pdf
Carey v. FEC, 791 F.Supp.2d 121 (D.D.C. 2011)
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2459277047400624208
(Hilariously, the Ready for Ron complaint manages to cite the wrong Carey case and also gets the year wrong.)