Episodios

  • Trump Bibles in Oklahoma and Voting Like Jesus

    Trump Bibles in Oklahoma and Voting Like Jesus
    Oct 18 2024

    This week we talk about several news stories. All the stories are linked below.

    Megachurch pastor tells congregation to "vote like Jesus" by supporting Trump

    'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms

    FBI Kavanaugh probe tightly controlled by Trump White House, congressional report finds - The Washington Post

    DeSantis Threatening Jail Time for Running Abortion Rights Ads in Florida - TPM – Talking Points Memo

    Trump wages campaign against real-time fact checks - The Washington Post

    Dr. Bourbaine's quote can be found in Donald W. Shriver, Jr.'s book, Honest Patriots, Loving A Country Enough to Remember Its Misdeeds, (NY, Oxford Press, 2005), p. 284. Walter Brueggeman's quotes are from, The Land: Place as Gift, Promise and Challenge in Biblical Faith, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002), pp. 10 and 61. Further discussion of his ideas can be found in Craig's chapter on "Constantine’s Legacy: Preserving Empire While Undermining International Law" which can be found at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3960335 Our theme song, "Don't Fade Away" was co-written by Matt Yaney Tillar and Chris Inserra. We apologize to Chris Inserra for leaving her name out of the recording. "Don't Fade Away" can be found on the CD recorded by Voices, Dare the Untried. If you would like more information on this song or other Voices music, email us at lawfulpod.com. It appears the Oklahoma Superintendent is being sued for the Bibles: https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahomas-ryan-walters-sued-over?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=95153&post_id=150357512&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3en6fu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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  • Jack Smith’s Latest Legal Filing in the Trump v. United States Case

    Jack Smith’s Latest Legal Filing in the Trump v. United States Case
    Oct 11 2024

    This week we talk about the newest legal filing by Jack Smith in the DC Trump Case. We talk about what is in it and some commentary on the filing itself and the timing of the filing.

    https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/73357920e3c8d739/8fc8bfd0-full.pdf

    How Jack Smith Outsmarted the Supreme Court

    Opinion | Jack Smith Owes Us an Explanation
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  • Overhaul SCOTUS, Fact Checking Immigrant Crime Data

    Overhaul SCOTUS, Fact Checking Immigrant Crime Data
    Oct 4 2024
    Sweeping bill to overhaul Supreme Court would add six justices Rudy Giuliani disbarred in D.C. over 2020 election scheme Trump turns to darker rhetoric as voting begins : NPR How Trump distorts immigration and crime data in new attacks on Harris - The Washington Post Biden Administration Cements Harmful Asylum Restrictions Two NIJC reports on the new Biden Asylum Rule "NIJC Condemns Decision to Finalize Anti-Asylum Rule Amid Rampant Rights Violations" which can be found at: https://immigrantjustice.org/press-releases/nijc-condemns-decision-finalize-anti-asylum-rule-amid-rampant-rights-violations?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=7edf6b09-2975-49d7-a000-832758604c04 NIJC's report: "Six-Week Report: Implementation of the Biden Administration’s June 2024 “Securing the Border” Asylum Ban" which can be found at: https://immigrantjustice.org/research-items/Biden-June-2024-asylum-ban-six-week-report
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  • Haitians File Suit Against Trump and Vance, Judge Cannon and Her Right Wing Funded Junkets

    Haitians File Suit Against Trump and Vance, Judge Cannon and Her Right Wing Funded Junkets
    Sep 27 2024

    We talk about several stories on this week's show and field a voicemail from a listener.

    Judge Aileen Cannon Failed to Disclose a Right-Wing Junket — ProPublica

    Marcellus Williams is executed despite prosecutors and the victim’s family asking that he be spared | CNN

    Haitian group in Springfield, Ohio, files citizen criminal charges against Trump and Vance - ABC7 Chicago

    Opinion | GOP lies about illegal immigrant voting will be the basis for election denial - The Washington Post

    Don Kerwin’s article, “The Trials and Consolations of Migrant-Serving Faith-Based Organizations,” August 27, 2024, can be found at: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-law-and-religion/article/trials-and-consolations-of-migrantserving-faithbased-organizations/8AA0BC304F1CCFCF94BDDA9A332284F7#metrics

    Jennifer Rubin’s article, “The big lie of 2024: illegal immigrant voting,” September 24, 2024 can be found at: https://css.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/24/illegal-immigrants-voting/

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  • Trump's Attacks on Immigrants; Ginni Thomas and the First Liberty Institute

    Trump's Attacks on Immigrants; Ginni Thomas and the First Liberty Institute
    Sep 20 2024

    We talk about several news stories this last week. We start by discussing the debates and then move on to talking about Ginni Thomas and the recent story in ProPublica enlisting help opposing SCOTUS reform.

    Judge Sets Deadlines in Trump Election Case, Saying Campaign Is 'Not Relevant'

    Ginni Thomas Email Praised Group Opposing SCOTUS Reform — ProPublica

    Justice Amy Coney Barrett describes coming home with bulletproof vest

    Steve Vladek's comments on the interaction between all three branches of government, "Bonus 98: The "Least Dangerous" Branch—Court Reform and Federalist 78," can be found at: https://www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-98-the-least-dangerous-branchcourt?utm_campaign=email-post&r=lv15c&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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  • How They Would Dismantle Asylum Using Project 2025

    How They Would Dismantle Asylum Using Project 2025
    Sep 13 2024

    TRAC at Syracuse University's report on legal representation, "Too Few Immigration Attorneys: Average representation Rates Fall from 65% to 30%, can be found at: https://trac.syr.edu/reports/736/

    Dorothee Soelle's quote can be found in The Window of Vulnerability, A Political Spirituality, (Minneapolis, Fortress Press, 1990), p.7.

    2025: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf
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  • The Revised January 6th Indictment, Judge Luttig Endorses Harris

    The Revised January 6th Indictment, Judge Luttig Endorses Harris
    Sep 6 2024

    We cover several stories in the news this week:

    The information regarding Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge removing more that one million voters from his state's voter registration came from political scientist Rober Mickey in "American Needs Georgia Republicans to Defend Democracy Again," Mary Gay, The New York Times, August 29, 2024: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/29/opinion/georgia-election-board-certification.html

    "Top Military officer says he was wrong to accompany Trump on church walk through Lafayette Square," June 11, 2020: https://m.abc3340.com/news/nation-world/milley-says-he-was-wrong-to-accompany-trump-on-church-walk

    The photo with the words "All Are Welcome" at St. John's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, can be found at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/trump-st-johns-church-protests.html

    Stephen Carter was quoted from "Trump Isn't Going to Like the Supreme Couirt's Immunity Decision," (Bloomberg News, July 1, 2024: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-01/supreme-court-immunity-ruling-is-not-a-gift-to-trump

    Eric Foner's quote is from Reconstruction, America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1870, (N.Y., Harper & Row, 1988) at p. 423.

    Trump special counsel files new election interference indictment

    A new rule in Georgia could allow local election boards to refuse to certify results

    Conservative Republican Luttig endorses Harris, calls Trump a threat to democracy | CNN Politics

    Others Have Politicized Arlington, but Trump’s Approach Has No Precedent - The New York Times
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  • The Immigration Blueprint in Project 2025

    The Immigration Blueprint in Project 2025
    Aug 30 2024

    Today we read the section of Project 2025 on the restructuring of the Department of Homeland Security and what that has to do with the future of immigration in possible Trump presidency.

    Show notes:

    Current USCIS Mission Statement: https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/mission-and-core-values

    Project 2025: https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf (Mission Statement is on page 134).

    Hannah Arendt discusses Germany's enhanced power of police (p. 287) and the impact of denaturalization (p. 296) in, The Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Harcourt, 1976). I compare her discussion with the contemporary impunity of the Border Patrol and ICE in "Constantine’s Legacy: Preserving Empire While Undermining International Law," in Slotte, P., & Haskell, J. (Eds.). (2021). Christianity and International Law: An Introduction (Law and Christianity). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3960335

    Information on Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ: https://www.pilgrimoakpark.org/


    Democracy Now podcast for August 28, 2024 regarding the Central Park 5 and Yusef Salaam: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/democracy-now-2024-08-29-thursday/id73802554?i=1000667140197 Here is the original podcast on Haiti: https://works.bepress.com/craig_mousin/107/
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