Openly Refusing Money Laundering Law

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOKrTKJm3_o

Heaven's IT Guy - Biblical Law #comedy

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JwQNwS5hk9k

 

Polygraphs (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Unjustified podcast)

The FBI is investigating the Atlantic reporter who wrote a detailed story of Director Kash Patel’s alleged heavy drinking and erratic behavior.

Patel even ordered polygraphs for nearly two dozen staff members looking for leaks.

A second federal judge has blocked the Department of Justice from accessing data seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson.

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith spoke at a private event last month saying Trump has corrupted the Justice Department, and that it’s become difficult to track the number of times judges have accused DOJ officials of dishonesty or lack of candor.

A federal judge rules that the government can keep the ballots seized from election offices in Fulton County, Georgia.

Plus listener questions.
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-6z3ty-2d9a9350

Happy Easter Here’s a War Crime (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #057)

Has there been a bigger news week? 

Trump threatens to commit war crimes on Easter morning, but even before that, it was insane. 

The Supreme Court just made American healthcare worse, while a California jury may have made social media much better. 

The next Citizens United is averted, a Ten Commandments monument in Arkansas falls after a decade, and Trump stupidly goes to the Supreme Court in real life. 

Plus, Noem’s bimbofication scandal, Bondi is out, JD doesn’t know what church he attends, and Paula White thinks Trump is Jesus. And, oh yeah, we’re going back to the moon.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-43yca-2c9e8dea

The Epstein War? (Andrew Seidel; One Nation, Indivisible podcast Episode #053)

Andrew’s back and there’s so much to cover: the DOJ withheld Epstein files about allegations that Trump sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl and Trump invades Iran to distract from that story. Trump ruins the Olympics and the US men’s hockey team fails a basic humanity test. Plus, the Supreme Court tariffs decision isn’t what you thought, a federal appeals court botches a decision on the Ten Commandments, and Tucker Carlson interviews Mike Huckabee, our ambassador to Israel, and they talk about the Bible influencing public policy—kind of. 

NPR story “Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump”

Link to Strict Scrutiny episode referenced

Tucker Carlson interviews Mike Huckabee
Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-67sgp-2b9c25ee

Did Jesus make the Old Testament Obsolete? (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Jesus fulfilled the law! It says so right there in Matthew. But what on earth does that actually mean? Different people have had vastly different interpretations of that idea, and the consequences of their ideas are significant! Are the old laws still in effect, or did Jesus abolish them? Should we throw away Leviticus? Should we stop eating shellfish? What does it mean???

0:00 Intro and podcast premise
1:55 Topic introduction: Jesus and fulfilling the Law
2:17 Modern Christian confusion about Old Testament law
3:35 “Jesus fulfilled the law” — what does that mean?
4:52 Setting the context: Matthew 5 and the Sermon on the Mount
5:16 Reading Matthew 5:17–20
6:05 The antitheses and escalation of the law
6:39 Does Jesus require continued law observance?
7:03 What does “fulfill” mean? Greek analysis
8:11 “Until heaven and earth pass away” — chronological markers
9:23 Apocalyptic implications of fulfillment
10:28 Problems with the “laws trapped in Jesus” interpretation
11:11 Breaking commandments and the Kingdom of Heaven
11:31 Being more righteous than the Pharisees
11:51 Pharisees in early Jewish context
12:56 Harmonizing Matthew with other Gospels
13:14 Comparison with Luke’s version
14:14 Can negative laws be “fulfilled”?
15:08 “The law and the prophets” as Scripture
15:40 Jewish concepts of canon and genre
17:08 Torah, Prophets, and Writings (Tanakh)
18:01 Scope of biblical law and authority
18:55 When and how the law ends
19:58 Eschatology and Matthew’s concerns
20:56 Authorial intent vs. historical Jesus
22:09 Gentiles, law, and early Christian tensions
23:04 Paul, circumcision, and kosher laws
24:10 Is Matthew pushing back against Paul?
25:08 Matthew’s emphasis on keeping the law
26:36 Biblical tension and theological disagreement
27:47 Scripture as conversation, not univocal system
28:13 Gospel authors debating each other
29:19 Problems with forced harmonization
30:21 Letting texts disagree and speak for themselves
31:40 Wrap-up, support, and Patreon
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/xS17Zs8etJg?si=Dkz31f7A_6-uKxse

History Minute (069): Legal protections for former enslaved people in the 1860s and 1870s

The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1868, and it reads as follows:

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Then in 1870, the 15th Amendment was adopted. It reads:  

“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

These amendments and other laws passed in the late 1860s and early 1870s limited the rights of states and made it a crime to deprive Black people of their rights. They also provided for Black people to -- without discrimination -- enter into contracts, buy property, and patronize public accommodations such as hotels, theaters, and railroads.

Read more! 

A People's History of the United States 

Howard Zinn 

Get your copy — Support your local bookstores by shopping Bookshop.org — https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-people-s-history-of-the-united-states-1492-to-present-revised-and-updated-edition-howard-zinn/7e243f9bc6464a2e?ean=9780062397348&next=t 

 — or — 

find it at Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/id1046889377

Responding to Wes Huff on the law in Matthew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l38kgUZgQB8

Final Exit (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

This week, we track a tsunami of (mostly bad) bills in Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Texas, Iowa, West Virginia and North Dakota. 

After hearing sneak previews of some of FFRF’s other shows — “Ask an Atheist,” “Freethought Matters” and “We Dissent” — we talk with Brian Ruder, president of the board of the Final Exit Network, which offers people who are unbearably suffering an intractable medical condition the option to die legally and peacefully.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/freethought-radio/freethought-today-march-6-2025/

FFRF turns violations into success stories (Freethought Today, March 2025)

The Freedom From Religion Foundation’s legal team gets thousands of requests every year to look into potential state/church violations in schools and other government agencies. FFRF takes this role seriously . . . and it shows! After FFRF determines if there is a constitutional infraction, it initially sends out a letter to the organization, asking for the problem to be rectified. Often times, this is enough to get the offending group to end the violation or alter their actions going forward.

The following write-ups are from 30 recent successful outcomes (victories!) of FFRF’s initial letter contacts, organized by state and listed alphabetically.

https://www.freethoughttoday.com/sections/100-front-page/ffrf-turns-violations-into-success-stories/

Trump issues BOMBSHELL illegal edict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AY-L3JgXWs

Opinion | Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead - The New York Times

"I'm not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn't be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don't think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump's legal schemes. He can't run the same playbook he ran in 2020..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/opinion/trump-election-outcome-law.html

Trump found guilty: 5 key aspects of the trial explained by a law professor

The Conversation U.S.' politics and society editor Amy Lieberman spoke with Gabriel J. Chin, a scholar of criminal law and procedure, to better understand the verdict.

https://theconversation.com/trump-found-guilty-5-key-aspects-of-the-trial-explained-by-a-law-professor-231236

Let’s talk about the guy who helped pass Arizona’s 1864 abortion law - The Washington Post

While Jones lived in Arizona, he was elected to represent Tucson in the 1st Arizona Territorial Legislative Assembly. And then, when that legislature convened in 1864, he was elected speaker of the House. 

And it was that legislature — the one Jones presided over in 1864, after he had already abandoned his first wife, and married a 12-year-old and was just weeks away from marrying a 15-year-old, though still a few years away from marrying a 14-year-old — it was that legislature that passed a law reading, "Every person who shall administer or cause to be administered or taken, any medicinal substances, or shall use or cause to be used any instruments whatever, with the intention to procure the miscarriage of any woman then being with child, and shall be thereof duly convicted, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Territorial prison for a term not less than two years nor more than five years."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/04/10/arizona-abortion-law-1864-william-claude-jones/

China hits back at criticism of Hong Kong’s controversial new security law

Beijing dismisses chorus of concern from western governments over punitive new law as slander…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/article-23-national-security-law-china-criticism-of-hong-kong-controversial

Texas migrant law S.B.4 takes effect with divided Supreme Court ruling - The Washington Post

The law, known as S.B. 4, makes it a state crime for migrants to illegally cross the border and allows Texas officials to deport undocumented individuals, though Mexico said Tuesday that it would not accept anyone sent back by the state and condemned the law as "encouraging the separation of families, discrimination and racial profiling that violate the human rights of the migrant community."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/19/supreme-court-texas-immigration-law/

How to read a Supreme Court case: 10 tips for nonlawyers

"I have taught law to undergraduates for the past 12 years, so I am sympathetic to the nonlawyer's plight. Here are some techniques I teach my students to help them break a Supreme Court opinion into digestible parts. They should help you begin to understand what was decided, why and how in the important cases being considered by the court this term..."

https://theconversation.com/how-to-read-a-supreme-court-case-10-tips-for-nonlawyers-215045

Trump’s Festivus (Andrew McCabe and Allison Gill; Jack: A Special Counsel podcast, Episode #48 )

This week, Trump’s team filed several motions in the DC case. Three are motions to dismiss; one is a motion to strike language from the indictment. Jack Smith brings up Trump’s violations of the New York civil trial gag order.

Federal prosecutors have quietly withdrawn a subpoena seeking records from Trump's 2020 campaign.

A panel of federal judges rejects requests to allow live television coverage of Trump’s federal trials.

More delays in Florida as Judge Cannon to hear arguments about DoJ’s compliance with discovery.

More information comes out about that Australian Billionaire who likes hearing about US nuclear submarine capabilities.

Plus, listener questions and more.

Interview: 

https://www.podbean.com/ew/dir-8stgc-1b940362

How the recent SCOTUS session renewed questions about the Court's legitimacy (Terry Gross; Fresh Air podcast)

NY Times legal reporter Adam Liptak says the Court's liberal members have accused the conservative supermajority of engaging in politics and not applying established law to the questions before them.

Interview: 

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/06/1186185608/how-the-recent-scotus-session-renewed-questions-about-the-courts-legitimacy

Abortion is a Religious Right (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad and Dan dedicate this episode to discussing the state of reproductive rights, activism, and law one year since the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Brad begins by going through the numbers on support for abortion in the country, policy and campaign surprises since Roe’s fall, and the ways Democrats and Republicans have responded.

In the second segment Dan outlines the American religious groups who are suing to have abortion bans overturned in their states on the basis of religious freedom. The argument: abortion is a religious right that is part of their religious practice.

This leads to a broader discussion of how law and religion work in the USA and why using religion as a means of policy change is so effective.
Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-abortion-is-a-religious-right/