SCOTUS Frisson, RIGHTWING Loss of Reason, & POTUS Hunting Season

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 1:16 a.m.

b'The\\xa0top- rated weekly US law and politics podcast --\\xa0LegalAF -- produced by Meidas Touch and anchored by MT founder and civil rights lawyer, Ben Meiselas and national trial lawyer and strategist, Michael Popok, is back for another hard-hitting, thought-provoking, but entertaining look in \\u201creal time\\u201d at this week\\u2019s most compelling developments.\\xa0\\xa0On this episode, Ben and Popok focus on the following:\\n\\n1. InfoWars\\u2019 Alex Jones has a default judgment on liability entered against him for failing to provide any documents or proof to support his statements that the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre of 20 children and 6 adults was a \\u201choax\\u201d.\\n2. A Federal judge appointed by Trump finds that Jan6 insurrectionist sentencing is too harsh and wonders aloud why more BLM protestors weren\\u2019t punished harder.\\n3. The Jan6 Select Committee is ready to flex its muscle of congressional criminal contempt powers to arrest those witnesses like Bannon and insurrectionists who won\\u2019t testify.\\n4. The US Supreme Court opens its new term this Monday (the \\u201cFirst Monday of October\\u201d) that runs through April, and we examine the oral argument process, and \\u201ccases to watch\\u201d this term including about abortion rights, the Second Amendment, campaign finance and religious rights.\\n5. Updates, Updates, Updates, including this week\\u2019s injunction hearing between the DOJ and the State of Texas defeat SB8\\u2019s abortion ban/vigilante law, NYAG James and future prosecutions in the Trump Organization investigation, and SCOTUS addressing New York\\u2019s vaccine mandate for public school teachers as school reopens on Monday.\\xa0\\n\\n\\nReminder and Programming Note:\\xa0\\nAll 24 past episodes of Legal AF originally featured on the MeidasTouch podcast can now be found here: https://pod.link/1580828595\\n\\nSupport the show! Go to https://BetterHelp.com/legalaf and try BetterHelp today with a 10% off discount your first month! Affordable, private online therapy with BetterHelp. Anytime, anywhere.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'