Ep 31 — The Trump Trials: What Are They Thinking? (Plus Clarence Thomas Surprises Us All)
Description
Trump’s lawyers make a bevy of unforced errors as their client continues to march ever closer to a conviction in New York for fraud in concealing the payoff payment to Stormy Daniels. Also, the Supreme Court surprises us, sort of, for now, by not sacking the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and by allowing a Louisiana congressional map to go into effect that doubles the minority representation in that state.
Links:
12 U.S.C. § 5481 et seq.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/chapter-53/subchapter-V
CFPB Initial Report, July 18, 2011
https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/2011/07/Report_BuildingTheCfpb1.pdf
2023 Pew Research on Payday Loans
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/06/02/payday-loans-and-overdraft-a-short-history-and-whats-next
“How Payday Loans Work”
https://paydayloaninfo.org/how-payday-loans-work/
Bankrate’s Emergency Savings Report
https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-report/
Alito protest flag
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
CFPB v. CFSA
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-448_o7jp.pdf
Landry v. Callais
Application for stay
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A1002/309522/20240510115206439_Landry%20v.%20Callais%20-%20Emergency%20Stay%20App-FINAL.pdf
Opp
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23A1002/309633/20240513120736126_COMBINED%20DOCUMENT.pdf
Jackson dissent
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23a994_7mip.pdf
New York Penal Law § 175.10
https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-10
Order on Motion in Limine to exclude Smith
https://www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Just-Security-NY-2016-Election-Interference-Case-Clearinghouse-Order-on-State-of-New-York-motions-in-limine-March-18-2024.pdf
New York Rule 6.11
https://www.nycourts.gov/JUDGES/evidence/6-WITNESSES/6.11_Impeachment,%20when%20authorized.pdf
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IT IS FINISHED. Today, the jury in New York unanimously agreed that Donald Trump committed 34 felonies, falsifying business records in the first degree, when he repaid Michael Cohen for secretly paying off Stormy Daniels to bury her story right before the 2016 election. What does it all mean and...
Published 05/31/24
Trump’s false business records case goes to the jury in New York. Liz and Andrew break down the charges and the jury instructions, as well as debunking some of Trumpland’s wildest lies about the law.
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NY PEN 175.05
https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/penal-law/pen-sect-175-05/
NY PEN...
Published 05/28/24