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The episode discusses recent legal developments including a Supreme Court decision affecting the Voting Rights Act and various political controversies.

Elon Musk discovers that filing a lawsuit against Sam Altman and sh*tposting about it on social media is a lot more fun than testifying Alex Jones is back on his BS. He managed to delay a proposed deal to license InfoWars assets to the satirical news outlet The Onion . Again. The judge presiding over Trump’s shakedown case against the IRS for the wrongful disclosure of his tax returns in 2020 has appointed a whole squad of lawyers to serve as amici. They’ll brief the issue of whether the court has jurisdiction to preside over a case where the president appears to be suing himself. L&C’s Doofus of the Day is Pete Hegseth . MAIN SHOW: James Comey has been indicted again. This time his “crime” is posting a picture of seashells arranged to say “8647.” It is exceptionally stupid, but we will break it down in exceptional detail. As a companion to our written post , we unpack Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act . Subscribers will get a deep dive into what the new districts might look like with Joe Dye. Finally, we’ll cringe our way through the DOJ’s latest motion in the ballroom case — it’s the most…

People in this episode

Host: Liz Dye

Topics covered

• Supreme Court decisions
• Voting Rights Act
• legal analysis
• political commentary
• current events

Keywords

• Supreme Court
• Voting Rights Act
• James Comey
• Elon Musk
• legal analysis
• politics
• current events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: InfoWars, The Onion, DOJ

Books & works: Louisiana v. Callais, Voting Rights Act

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