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Afroman beat seven Ohio deputies in the most quotable free speech trial in years. Now he's the one filing the lawsuit — and it may be the riskiest move of the saga.

In August 2022, deputies from the Adams County Sheriff's Office raided the home of Joseph "Afroman" Foreman on a warrant alleging drug trafficking and kidnapping, based on an informant's story about a torture dungeon in a basement the house doesn't have. They found nothing, charged him with nothing, broke his door and gate, cut his cameras — and walked past his mother's lemon pound cake on the way through. Afroman turned the surviving footage into songs, an album, and merch, gave one deputy the nickname Officer Poundcake, and in 2023 seven of them sued him for defamation, asking roughly $3.9 million. In March 2026, a jury sided with Afroman on every count. But because Ohio's anti-SLAPP law arrived 22 months too late to apply, winning still cost him over $20,000 in attorney's fees.

So on July 27, 2026, Afroman filed his own eight-page lawsuit in the Adams County Court of Common Pleas against exactly one man: former deputy Brian K. Newland, the officer who counted the roughly $5,000 in cash seized during the raid, about $400 of which allegedly never came back. Devin walks through why Newland, of all seven, is the sole defendant, then takes the complaint apart count by count: the malicious prosecution claim that runs headlong into Ohio's unusual "seizure" requirement, the abuse of process count that repackages count one, the emotional distress claim that invites the exact cross-examination Afroman used to win the first trial, and a tortious interference claim with no named venues, plus the new song calling Newland a pedophile that could hand the ex-deputy a defamation case of his own. Sometimes the point of a lawsuit isn't winning. Sometimes it's discovery, a deposition, and a door nobody ever fixed.

(00:00) Afroman sues back

(00:48) The 2022 raid

(02:11) Poundcake songs and a $3.9M suit

(03:02) The trial Afroman won

(03:48) No anti-SLAPP, a $20K bill

(04:27) The new lawsuit: why Newland?

(07:44) What Afroman is suing for

(08:57) Count 1's seizure problem

(12:35) Count 2: abuse of process

(14:21) Count 3: emotional distress

(16:23) Count 4: tortious interference

(18:22) The new song problem

(19:41) What this suit is really about

(20:23) When you need a lawyer

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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The New York Times reported exactly what the Air Force gave up to get Trump's Qatari gift jet flying by July 4th. Within a day, FBI agents were at three reporters' front doors with grand jury subpoenas.

We break down one of the most brazen attacks on press freedom, and the federal judge who shut it down. It starts with a $400 million Boeing 747 from the Qatari royal family: a plane Trump keeps when he leaves office in 2029, possibly parked in the lobby of a Trump hotel in downtown Miami. To get the "palace in the sky" mission-ready for the nation's 250th anniversary flyover, defense contractor L3Harris put 400 workers on round-the-clock shifts, and the government traded away security features that are supposed to make Air Force One a flying nuclear bunker. The bill so far: $5 billion and counting, partly routed through a classified line item in the Sentinel nuclear modernization program to keep congressional appropriators in the dark.

When Times journalists Julian Barnes, Eric Lipton, and Eric Schmitt reported those details, FBI Director Kash Patel tweeted "The Fake News. We'll find out why soon," and armed agents served subpoenas at reporters' homes less than an hour later, demanding grand jury testimony in three business days. The DOJ also went after phone records: the reporters', their spouses', and even one reporter's mother, a mental health professional with confidential clients.

Then it fell apart. The Times moved to quash, armed with the Second Circuit's three-part test from New York Times v. Gonzales, which requires the government to exhaust other avenues before unmasking a reporter's sources. That couldn't have happened in the 24 hours between publication and subpoena. At a hearing before Judge Arun Subramanian, the government folded and withdrew the subpoenas, but the judge wasn't done: he retained jurisdiction, floated sanctions, and ordered the DOJ to hand over its internal communications so he can find out whether hiding the subpoenas from two federal judges was an "oversight" or a strategy. The coming privilege fight could reach the Supreme Court.

Along the way: why there's no federal shield law, what Branzburg v. Hayes actually held, how the mid-trip plane swap over Iran gave the game away, and why "we don't accept Gonzales" is a wild thing for a federal prosecutor to say in open court.

(00:00) A gift jet and grand jury subpoenas
(01:02) Air Force One and the Qatari 747
(02:04) A $400M palace in the sky
(03:15) The library that's really a hotel
(03:56) Rushed retrofit, security traded away
(05:12) $5B hidden in a nuclear line item
(05:57) The mid-trip plane swap and Iran
(07:33) FBI agents at reporters' doors
(08:30) Subpoenas for reporters' families
(09:02) Branzburg and the Gonzalez test
(10:13) The Times moves to quash
(11:25) DOJ's secret magistrate subpoenas
(12:44) Showdown before Judge Subramanian
(14:43) Judge keeps jurisdiction, orders docs
(16:03) The coming privilege fight
(16:46) The First Amendment holds
(17:36) Why the right lawyer matters

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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Somewhere on Reddit every single week, someone posts: "My neighbor cut down my trees. What are my options?" And then it happened to a friend of the channel — Phil DeFranco.

Phil and Lindsay DeFranco moved from Los Angeles to Milton, Georgia, in 2024, partly for the thick line of trees that gave their new home total privacy. Then came the saga TikTok knows as Treegate. Their neighbor, a doctor who wanted to expand his backyard and rebuild a detention pond, allegedly agreed to a simple deal: mark the trees you need to cut, and give notice first. Instead, the DeFrancos say, the chainsaws started before they ever answered — and by the time an arborist finished counting stumps, more than 200 mature trees were gone. The appraisal: $236,900 for the trees, plus $263,760 in ecological restoration. The neighbors tell a different story — engineering plans they say Phil approved in writing, a city permit, HOA sign-off, and a counterclaim of their own.

Who wins may come down to Georgia's brutal tree statutes. We break down the wrongful cutting and timber trespass laws (Georgia Code §§ 51-12-50 and 51-12-51) that can triple a plaintiff's damages, when an honest boundary mistake becomes willful conduct, the three state approaches to self-help — the Massachusetts rule, the Hawaii rule, and California's reasonableness test — why a permit or HOA approval doesn't create the right to enter a neighbor's land, and who owns a tree that straddles the property line.

Plus: the Maryland woman who won $933,000 after a neighbor took down nine of her trees, and a Colorado landowner whose 40-year-old Japanese maple was erased for a mountain view — then offered $200 in cash for it. Can Colorado triple damages the way Georgia can? Not so fast.

Tree law is no joke. It's the only legal specialty other than bird law with its own fandom — and by the end of this episode you'll understand why the entire internet roots for it.

And if you or your child has struggled with anxiety, depression, or other serious mental health issues after years on social media, the Eagle Team is partnering with one of the leading firms holding Meta, TikTok, and Snapchat accountable. Get a free case evaluation: https://legaleagle.link/harm

(00:00) Tree law is no joke

(00:49) Maryland's $933K tree verdict

(01:36) Treegate: the DeFrancos' 200 trees

(03:51) The neighbor's side of the story

(04:43) Self-help and the three state rules

(05:31) Georgia's treble damages statutes

(06:57) The Lorax weighs in

(07:28) Willful vs. innocent mistakes

(09:05) Who owns a boundary-line tree?

(10:00) Trespass and conversion

(10:54) Permits don't excuse trespass

(11:53) Colorado's Japanese maple caper

(13:21) Can Colorado triple the damages?

(16:13) The two worlds of tree law

(18:22) EagleTeam: social media lawsuits

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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In 2017, with Robert Mueller closing in, Trump raged "Where's my Roy Cohn?" Nine years, four indictments, and one reelection later, it looks like he finally got his man: Todd Blanche — Trump's personal defense lawyer from the hush money trial — is now Acting Attorney General, and the Senate is about to vote on making it permanent.Blanche's resume used to look normal: SDNY prosecutor, federal clerkships, biglaw. Then he bet his career on Trump — close to $10 million in fees from the Save America PAC, billing up to $800,000 a month at the height of the hush money trial — and rode it from criminal-defense retainer to the top law enforcement job in the country in roughly three years.We go through the record the Senate is being asked to bless. The Epstein files: redactions so slapdash the DOJ published survivors' names — Danielle Bensky testified she found her name, phone number, and addresses across three separate releases — and a "box-checking" meeting with survivors that went nowhere, in stark contrast to the nine hours Blanche spent with Ghislaine Maxwell before her transfer to a minimum-security prison camp. The $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund": Trump sued his own government for $10 billion over leaked tax returns, his personal lawyers "settled," and Blanche signed an addendum shielding Trump from tax liability — until Judge Kathleen Williams called it a fraud on the court and sent her ruling to the New York bar, where a complaint against Blanche is pending.Then the enemies list (James Comey indicted over a seashell photo, subpoenas for Gavin Newsom and Jerome Powell, a grand-conspiracy grand jury in Judge Aileen Cannon's courthouse) and the friends list (Steve Bannon's conviction vacated, a $722 million crypto fraud case dropped on the eve of trial, Live Nation's antitrust case abandoned after it hired Kellyanne Conway). Plus the DOJ's demands for 30 states' voter rolls, the exodus of 16,000 employees, federal judges declaring the "presumption of regularity" dead — and the 11–11 committee math that puts Blanche's fate in the hands of Thom Tillis and John Cornyn.Roy Cohn died disbarred, with the IRS seizing everything he ever owned. Word to the wise, Todd Blanche.(00:00) Where's my Roy Cohn?(00:57) Who is Todd Blanche?(02:36) Keeper of the Epstein files(04:52) Survivors testify(07:04) A box-checking survivor meeting(08:03) Nine hours with Ghislaine Maxwell(09:03) The $1.8B anti-weaponization fund(11:30) An apples-to-oranges defense(13:30) A fraud on the court(15:10) The enemies list(17:30) The friends list(19:21) Menacing the 2026 election(21:51) The DOJ exodus and angry judges(25:54) Will the Senate confirm him?(27:37) OutroDo you need a great lawyer? I can help! https://legaleagle.link/eagleteamLEGAL-ISH DISCLAIMER▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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A Los Angeles jury just did what Big Tech spent twenty years insisting was legally impossible: it held Meta and YouTube liable for addicting a child. After nine days of deliberation, jurors awarded a 20-year-old named Kaylee $6 million — and hers is just the first of thousands of social media addiction lawsuits behind it.

Kaylee's story is the template for the whole mass action: a YouTube channel at six, Instagram by nine, 284 videos posted before she finished elementary school, and stretches of 16-hour days on the platforms. She testified that the likes-and-followers feedback loop kept pulling her back through anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, cyberbullying, and sextortion — the pattern expert witnesses told the jury is the hallmark of addiction.

Isn't this exactly the lawsuit Section 230 was supposed to make impossible? We break down the 26 words that created the internet and the exceptions that swallowed the shield here — Doe v. Internet Brands, Lee v. Amazon, and Lemmon v. Snap, where courts held that platforms still answer for their own product design. Judge Carolyn Kuhl drew the same line in KGM v. Meta: beauty filters, infinite scroll, autoplay, and push notifications aren't third-party content, they're design choices — and a jury would decide whether they were a substantial factor in Kaylee's harm.

At trial, TikTok and Snapchat settled just days before opening statements. Meta and Google rolled the dice. Legendary plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Lanier confronted Mark Zuckerberg — testifying before a jury for the first time — with Meta's own documents: "If we want to win big with teens, we must bring them in as tweens." A count of four million under-13 users in the US. Employees comparing Instagram to a drug and describing the company as "basically pushers." And a 20-foot collage of selfies Kaylee posted before she was old enough to have an account at all.

Then, the verdict itself: what California products liability law asked the jury to decide, the 70/30 fault split between Meta and YouTube, the malice finding behind $3 million in punitive damages, and the $375 million New Mexico verdict against Meta just 24 hours earlier. Big Tobacco's reckoning took 50 years. Big Tech's may have just started.

Plus a LegalEagle announcement: the Eagle Team is partnering with one of the leading firms taking Facebook, TikTok, and Snapchat to task, representing families harmed by social media addiction. Contact us today to learn more about your eligibility: https://legaleagle.link/harm

(00:00) A landmark verdict against Big Tech

(01:04) Thousands of cases waiting in line

(02:13) Section 230: the 26 words

(03:18) Where Section 230 ends

(04:35) KGM v. Meta, the bellwether

(05:46) The ruling that forced a trial

(07:02) Settlements and Kaylee's testimony

(08:11) Meta's internal documents

(09:52) Zuckerberg takes the stand

(13:01) What the jury had to decide

(13:50) Damages: the 70/30 split and punitives

(14:34) The next wave: New Mexico and beyond

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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A Roblox studio head told a reporter the company might be exploiting child labor, then argued it was actually a gift to the kids. That quote now sits in the middle of a federal lawsuit.

In May 2026, the mother of a 13-year-old boy in Georgia sued Roblox Corporation in the Northern District of California, claiming the roughly $40 billion platform runs on the unpaid labor of children. Her son, the complaint says, registered at age eight with no parental consent and no age check, then spent years doing game design, testing, and advanced Lua scripting for adult-led DevEx teams, more than 40 hours a week, paid nothing.

Roblox pays its creators in Robux, a currency it prints, prices, and controls. A player buys 1,000 Robux for about $13; a developer who earns that same 1,000 can cash out around $3.80, and only after clearing an age-13 minimum, a 30,000-Robux threshold, tax paperwork, and Roblox's sole discretion. Kids under 13 can earn Robux but can't cash out at all. The complaint calls that company scrip, the pay-in-tokens scheme the Fair Labor Standards Act outlawed in 1938.

We break down every piece of the case: the FLSA child-labor and minimum-wage claims, California Labor Code Section 212's ban on paying wages in scrip, the unjust enrichment and negligence counts, the constructive-trust fight over the perpetual license Roblox takes on creators' work (AI training included), why a minor can disaffirm the arbitration clause under JR v. Electronic Arts, and the Rule 23 class-certification battle ahead. Roblox says these kids are hobbyists having fun. Its own studio head kept calling it a job.

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(00:00) The studio head's quiet part
(02:20) What Roblox actually is
(03:41) The lawsuit, in brief
(04:24) Teaching kids to code
(05:08) DevEx: when play became work
(05:47) The Talent Hub job board
(06:28) Paying developers in Robux
(07:34) Company scrip and the FLSA
(09:22) The Robux exchange rate
(10:29) Who actually cashes out
(13:06) Inside the complaint
(15:20) Unjust enrichment and AI
(16:37) What the case is worth
(17:52) Certifying the class
(19:26) The arbitration problem
(21:58) EagleTeam

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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The Democratic Party is scrambling to replace its Senate candidate in Maine after Graham Platner suspended his campaign over a rape allegation. Months earlier, Congressman Eric Swalwell went from gubernatorial frontrunner to resigning from Congress in about a week.

Two high-profile Democrats, two sets of serious sexual-misconduct allegations, and the same online split every time: one camp says it's disqualifying, the other reaches for "due process," "guilt by accusation," and "there's no evidence." Most of the second group uses lawyer-sounding language and gets it wrong. So this episode explains how evidence actually works.

We cover Platner himself: the prep-school background, the oyster-farmer-veteran image that won the primary, the Totenkopf tattoo, the Reddit posts, and the July 2026 Politico report in which a former girlfriend alleges he raped her in 2021, an account she says she disclosed to a therapist and friends at the time. Platner calls it categorically untrue. We lay out the Swalwell allegations too: four women, a former staffer, and reporting that found corroboration for key parts of each account.

Then the law. "Evidence" isn't just DNA and bloody knives; testimony is evidence, and often the most important kind. We break down direct versus circumstantial evidence, admissibility versus weight, why most hearsay comes into court, and why character evidence usually stays out. "He said, she said" doesn't mean there's no evidence; it means the central evidence is competing testimony, and a single witness's testimony can sustain a conviction.

We get into what "corroboration" really requires (independent facts that make an account more credible, not a second eyewitness), and the biggest sleight of hand in the debate: mixing up a criminal prosecution with the public deciding who deserves their vote. Due process limits the government's power to jail you. It was never a rule that citizens must withhold judgment until a trial that, for most sexual assaults, never comes.

Presumption of innocence, beyond a reasonable doubt, the Sixth Amendment, Brady v. Maryland, the Roy Moore precedent, and why "not guilty" has never meant "innocent." It's all here.

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(00:00) Two Democrats, two allegations
(00:50) The two camps online
(01:51) Who is Graham Platner
(02:41) Tattoo, Reddit, and the primary
(03:18) The allegations against both
(03:57) Pundits invoke due process
(05:16) What counts as evidence
(05:58) Direct vs. circumstantial
(06:53) Admissibility vs. weight
(08:14) Hearsay and character evidence
(09:31) He said, she said
(10:16) Stacking evidentiary pebbles
(12:48) Due process, explained
(14:03) Online debate isn't a mob
(14:39) Corroboration in both cases
(17:25) Court vs. a hiring decision
(18:22) Use your own judgment
(19:04) EagleTeam

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Sorry, occupational hazard: This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Sorry! Everything here is for informational purposes only and not for the purpose of providing legal advice. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Also, some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. But if you click, it really helps me make more of these videos! All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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Elon Musk spent a weekend "feeding USAID into the wood chipper," his words, and 83% of the agency's programs were gone within weeks. Now Congressman Ro Khanna says Musk should answer for what came next, and Musk wants to sue him for saying it.

Khanna and Musk were once friendly enough that Musk blurbed Khanna's first book. Then Musk took a chainsaw to the federal government, froze foreign aid, and laid off 94% of USAID's staff. When Khanna went on the "I've Had It" podcast and said Musk's cuts could contribute to 4.5 million child deaths by 2030, Musk called it "time to sue this liar," branded him "Ro the robber," and accused him of insider trading.

We break down whether that lawsuit goes anywhere: where Musk could even file, the anti-SLAPP laws in California and D.C., California's slander statute, and why Khanna's hedged "possibly" plus a peer-reviewed Lancet study likely make this protected opinion. Because Musk is a public figure, the actual malice standard from New York Times v. Sullivan applies, which makes falsity and malice nearly impossible to prove. Plus the DOGE and USAID litigation we've tracked, Nicholas Kristof's reporting on children who died after the cuts, and Musk's "we accidentally canceled Ebola prevention" clip.

Real attorneys, real filings, one very online billionaire.

(00:00) Don't say Elon killed kids
(00:52) What this fight is about
(01:44) Elon and Ro Khanna's history
(02:36) Feeding USAID to the wood chipper
(04:27) Time to sue this liar
(05:00) How Trump and DOGE cut aid
(05:41) The AIDS Coalition lawsuit
(06:43) Recklessness as a legal standard
(07:46) The scale: 83% of programs cut
(08:52) Musk demands a show orphan
(09:50) Kristof's receipts: dead kids
(11:00) The constitutional claims
(13:04) What the courts ruled
(13:54) GAO findings and the ICA
(15:00) Is the money flowing now
(16:20) Doe v. Musk and Elon's role
(17:14) The deadly consequences
(18:53) The Lancet study explained
(20:20) Could Elon win a lawsuit
(22:20) Anti-SLAPP and slander law
(25:10) Actual malice and Sullivan
(28:00) The Ebola mistake
(28:53) The fraud claim doesn't add up
(30:08) Sponsor: The EagleTeam

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This is not legal advice, nor can I give you legal advice. I AM NOT YOUR LAWYER. Everything here is for informational purposes only. You should contact your attorney to obtain advice with respect to any particular issue or problem. Nothing here should be construed to form an attorney-client relationship. Some of the links in this post may be affiliate links, meaning, at no cost to you, I will earn a small commission if you click through and make a purchase. All non-licensed clips used for fair use commentary, criticism, and educational purposes. See Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 276 F.Supp.3d 34 (S.D.N.Y. 2017); Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc., 139 F. Supp. 3d 1094 (C.D. Cal. 2015).

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Reckless Ben is finally headed to federal court, and he's agreed to mediate with Bricks & Minifigs. But if you think the ex parte TRO that ordered him to delete his Lego videos is dead, you're reading the tea leaves wrong.

Here's the story. In November 2023, Brian Mansell consigned his father Ed's Star Wars Lego collection to a Bricks & Minifigs store in Salem, Oregon. When the operators left the country and corporate repossessed the store, the collection vanished. YouTuber Reckless Ben Schneider investigated and traveled to Utah to confront the people involved. On May 21, 2026, he published "I Tracked Down the Thief Who Stole $200,000 of Lego," branding the chain a thief and accusing police of helping cover it up.

Bricks & Minifigs sued, throwing everything at the wall: trespass, stalking, impersonation, harassment, even a civil RICO claim casting Ben as a real-life Tony Soprano. The same day, a Utah judge signed an ex parte restraining order, no bond required, forbidding Ben from posting anything false, misleading, harassing, or defamatory about the company and ordering his videos pulled from every platform.

We break down why the order was riddled with First Amendment problems: Paragraph J is a textbook prior restraint, Paragraph K orders videos deleted before any finding they were defamatory, and a 1,000-yard exclusion zone (more than half a mile) wraps every store and employee home in the country. Along the way: Near v. Minnesota, the Pentagon Papers, Keefe, Balboa Island v. Lemon, and Utah's anti-SLAPP law.

Then the turn. Once both sides hired real lawyers, they jointly asked the court to swap the TRO for a much narrower injunction: no prior restraints, a 100-yard buffer, and an express carve-out protecting Ben's journalism, criticism, and commentary. The judge rejected the joint motion on a technicality, so the original, broader order is still in force. Days later, Ben removed the case to federal court on diversity jurisdiction.

And here's the misconception worth killing: removal does not dissolve the TRO. Under 28 U.S.C. 1450, state-court orders survive removal until a federal judge changes them. But under Rule 65(b) and Granny Goose, the TRO can simply expire, and no federal judge is likely to reinstate anything this broad. We also meet the new magistrate judge, Cecilia Romero.

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(00:00) The TRO twist, explained
(01:42) Who is who: BAM vs Reckless Ben
(02:40) The lawsuit and RICO claim
(03:20) What an ex parte TRO is
(04:31) Paragraph J: prior restraint
(08:20) Paragraph K: taking videos down
(10:20) The other TRO provisions
(16:01) Why anti-SLAPP laws exist
(16:41) The turn: parties renegotiate
(18:01) Judge rejects the joint deal
(19:01) What mediation really means
(21:21) Removal to federal court
(23:21) Why the TRO is not dead yet
(24:41) New judge, and what is next
(26:26) When you need a lawyer

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A US World Cup star almost couldn't play for his own country over a fight about four words in the Constitution. Folarin Balogun was born in the States by accident — his mother's flight home to London got grounded by her own pregnancy — and the guarantee that makes him American just survived the Supreme Court by one vote.

That's Trump v. Barbara. Chief Justice John Roberts closed it out 5-4: birthright citizenship means what the 14th Amendment says — anyone born in the US, subject to its jurisdiction, is a citizen. The Reconstruction Congress wrote it that way on purpose, to put the guarantee beyond the reach of any future Congress, president, or Court. It still took a year to get here.

Trump's day-one executive order tried to end birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court ducked the question in Trump v. Casa, ruling on nationwide injunctions instead while Sotomayor dissented from the bench. Within hours, New Hampshire families filed a class action; a judge blocked the order again, citing Wong Kim Ark v. United States (1898). The DOJ appealed once more for the merits — that became Trump v. Barbara.

Roberts traces jus soli through Dred Scott, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the Reconstruction Amendments, landing on: citizenship "was the right to have rights." Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's concurrence goes further, rebutting Clarence Thomas's 90-plus-page dissent and reclaiming the 14th Amendment as a universalist promise, not one written only for freed Black Americans.

Kavanaugh ducks the constitutional question on a technicality (why some outlets called this 6-3, not 5-4). Gorsuch tags along with Thomas. Alito calls the plain text a "medieval rule," then warns about birth tourism and statelessness — claims this episode checks against the record.

Birthright citizenship survives, but 5-4 isn't a mandate. Vance is already telling Fox News one Court vacancy could undo it. Elie Mystal calls this the new Roe-style litmus test for judicial nominees. And Amy Coney Barrett is a self-professed fan of Bari Weiss's Free Press — which tells you where these "new" theories keep coming from.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) The Verdict: 5-4 for Citizenship

(00:57) Meet an Accidental American

(01:52) Why Wasn't This Unanimous?

(03:24) The New Hampshire Case

(04:25) How Delay Fed Bad Theories

(06:50) The Citizenship Clause, Plain

(07:27) Roberts's Spotty Record

(08:02) Inside Roberts's Majority Opinion

(11:29) Kavanaugh's Statutory Dodge

(13:45) Gorsuch's Dissent

(14:23) Alito's Medieval Rule

(17:02) Thomas vs. Justice Jackson

(17:59) Vance, Mystal and the Next Fight

(19:57) Jackson's Concurrence in Full

(24:50) A Word From EagleTeam

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In March 2025, FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter got an email telling her she'd been fired, effective immediately, no reason given. Five months later, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook got her own pink slip, after a cabinet official accused her of mortgage fraud on social media, followed within 30 minutes by a Trump Truth Social post demanding she resign.

Both women sued. Both won in the lower courts. Only one is still standing.

In Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook, decided the same day, the Supreme Court split. In a 6-3 ruling, Chief Justice Roberts overturned Humphrey's Executor v. United States, the 90-year-old precedent protecting FTC commissioners from being fired without cause. Slaughter's firing, once ruled unlawful by a federal district court and the D.C. Circuit, now stands, under the unitary executive theory: Article II gives the president near-total control over the executive branch, full stop.

Cook got a different result. The Court let her keep her Fed seat while her case proceeds, carving out a special exception Justice Sotomayor calls undefined and made up on the spot. Kavanaugh's concurrence is blunter: money is too important to leave to a president who can't be trusted.

We break down how Slaughter and Cook ended up fired months apart, amid Trump's broader purge of independent watchdogs, how the lower courts ruled before the Supreme Court stepped in, why Roberts reached back nearly a century to gut Humphrey's Executor, and why the Fed, for now, keeps its independence while every other agency Congress designed to operate at arm's length from the White House doesn't.

Sotomayor's dissent, read aloud from the bench, warns that dozens of independent commissions, including the EEOC, the NLRB, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, are now likely to become purely executive agencies. We also look at what's already happening: the FTC's retaliatory probe of Media Matters, and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's investigations into Disney and CBS. Reward friends, punish critics, no independent agency in the way.

By the end: whether civil servants are covered, what "for cause" even means for a Fed governor now, and why "vibes, not law" might be the most accurate description of where this doctrine stands.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro: SCOTUS's firing-power win
(01:06) Trump v. Slaughter, the case
(02:25) Trump v. Cook, and the firing spree
(04:20) How Slaughter got fired
(05:11) Cook's mortgage fraud fight
(07:28) Slaughter sues, and wins in court
(09:13) SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor
(09:44) The unitary executive theory
(11:06) Myers precedent, Roberts' logic
(14:13) Sotomayor's dissent in Slaughter
(15:38) Trump celebrates, Cook fights back
(17:02) The Fed's shadow-docket exception
(17:44) SCOTUS lets Cook stay, for now
(18:57) Roberts rejects Trump's arguments
(21:15) Vibes, not law: the takeaway
(21:51) Fallout: every agency now at risk
(25:34) Sotomayor's closing dissent
(26:46) Get the right lawyer: EagleTeam

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Federal judges across the country—including eleven district courts and the Sixth Circuit—have killed it.

President Trump built a three-step plan to purge millions of voters he insists are casting illegal ballots, despite a decade of investigations finding none. Step one: force states to hand over unredacted voter rolls, Social Security numbers included, using a law written to protect Black voters' access to the ballot. Step two: dump those rolls into a hacked immigration database to manufacture a list of "non-citizens." Step three: have the Postal Service refuse to deliver mail ballots to anyone who doesn't make the list.

Every leg of it has been blocked in court.

The first executive order tried to rewrite the federal voter registration form and turn DHS, the SSA, and the Attorney General into a purge squad. It got enjoined immediately: the Constitution gives election administration to the states and Congress, not the president. When the SAVE Act and SAVE America Act both died in the Senate, Trump signed a second order and tried to build the machine himself.

The DOJ sued 30 states and DC demanding their voter rolls. Eleven trial judges and the Sixth Circuit said no: registrars compile voter rolls, they don't "receive" them, so the statute doesn't apply.

Meanwhile, DOGE quietly reprogrammed a 1986 immigration-benefits database called SAVE for bulk voter dumps, violating the Privacy Act of 1974. It also doesn't work: the SSA's own inspector general found 3.3 million actual citizens misflagged as non-citizens in it. When Texas ran 18 million voters through it, the system flagged 97 people in one county, 65 of whom had already proven citizenship. A federal judge shut it down.

That left the Postal Service. A proposed rule would have blocked ballots to any voter not registered through a new federal portal, right before the November midterms and after states had already spent real money complying. A federal judge blocked that too, calling it "ultra vires," beyond USPS's legal authority.

All three legs down. Trump's response: blowing up a FISA deal and refusing to sign a housing bill that passed the Senate 85-5, leverage to force Congress into passing a bill that can't get 50 votes. This episode breaks down the orders, the lawsuits, the databases, and why every court that's looked at this has ruled the same way.

CHAPTERS

(00:00) Intro: Trump's Fraud Claims

(00:51) Who Actually Runs Elections

(01:27) Trump's First Executive Order

(02:31) Congress Fails, Trump Acts Alone

(03:37) DOJ Sues 30 States for Voter Rolls

(04:58) The Rhode Island Purge Deal

(05:31) Judge Carter's Ruling

(06:21) Sixth Circuit Rules, DOGE Hacks SAVE

(07:50) Privacy Act Violations

(09:34) 3.3 Million Citizens Misflagged

(10:55) USPS's Ballot-Blocking Rule

(13:07) States Sue Over Ballot Costs

(13:42) Postmaster General Testifies

(14:42) Judge Talwani Blocks USPS Rule

(15:13) Trump Retaliates Against Congress

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A racist streamer who built a following screaming slurs at Black people now faces up to 60 years in prison for shooting a Black disabled veteran outside a Tennessee courthouse. But what may matter most for prosecutors is the evidentiary paper trail left behind by the defendant himself: posts, videos, and public statements that could help establish premeditation.

Donald Etherly, known online as Chud the Builder, turned harassment and intimidation into a brand. Two orders of protection. A harassment charge. A contempt case. A walked $370 dinner bill at a Nashville steakhouse. Then, on May 13, 2026, he showed up to a debt hearing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Clarksville with a gun in his jacket, got into a confrontation with Joshua Fox, and opened fire, striking Fox multiple times and, somehow, shooting himself in the arm. Fox survived after emergency surgery.

This episode breaks down every charge Chud is facing: aggravated assault, reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, possessing a firearm during a dangerous felony, and attempted first-degree murder. We walk through the actual Tennessee statutes, why the gun charge rises or falls with the attempted murder count, and what premeditation really requires under the law.

Then there's the self-defense claim. Tennessee is a stand-your-ground state, so why is Chud's "I had to defend myself" argument in serious trouble? The answer is the provocation exception, and the fact that Chud spent months posting videos and threats describing almost exactly what he later did, including a stream where he narrated the shooting before it happened. We cover the surveillance footage, the "reaching for mace" defense, the headlock dispute, the $1 million bond, the gag order from Judge H. Reed Poland III, the $300,000 his supporters raised that he can't touch, and the bond revocation in the steakhouse case.

This is a case study in how a defendant's own social media becomes the prosecution's best evidence, and how stand-your-ground protection evaporates when you're the one who started it.

CHAPTERS
(00:00) The charges and 60 years
(00:55) Chud's racist origin story
(02:29) Steakhouse walkout arrest
(03:00) Rise as an internet racist
(03:37) The courthouse shooting
(05:04) Aggravated assault
(05:55) Reckless endangerment
(06:21) Firearm during a felony
(07:08) Attempted murder & premeditation
(08:13) His own posts as evidence
(10:05) The self-defense claim
(11:52) Why provocation kills it
(12:31) Gag order & $1M bond
(14:13) Bond revoked, defense fund
(14:51) When you need a lawyer

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Most federal criminal cases start with a crime. This one starts with a paint job. A three-time Olympian named David Hern reached into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, touched a piece of peeling liner, and got hauled off in handcuffs.
Hern is 67. He won eight gold medals in whitewater canoeing and represented the US at three Olympic Games. On Friday he was finishing a 64-mile bike ride, stopped at the Reflecting Pool, noticed a chunk of the new liner already floating loose, and reached in to feel it. National Guard troops materialized, Park Police cuffed him, and he spent five hours in a Park Police lock-up before being charged with misdemeanor destruction of government property and given a July 9th court date.
So the same administration that pardoned roughly 1,500 January 6th defendants now wants to put away a curious cyclist for touching the emperor's peeling paint. We take the charges seriously anyway, because Hern and the others arrested could be forced to foot the bill for Trump's Reflecting Pool boondoggle.
This episode breaks down what Hern is actually charged with: 18 USC 1361 versus the more likely DC Code 22-303, malicious destruction of property, and why the malice standard is so hard to meet when all the government can show is a man who touched the water. We cover the penalties, the grand jury problem, and US Attorney Jeanine Pirro's track record. Then the real story: a no-bid contract to paint a 100-year-old monument flag-blue, awarded to Eddie Wood's Atlantic Industrial Coatings; a $1.8M promise that ballooned to $13.1M; a second no-bid deal to Greenwater Services tied to donor John J. Cafaro; and the White House's own video of the motorcade rolling across the fresh coating before it cured. Plus six million gallons of algae water dumped into the drainage system, dead ducks, Norm Eisen, and Sen. Blumenthal's investigation.
CHAPTERS

(00:00) The $14M paint job

(00:48) An Olympian in handcuffs

(02:34) Norm Eisen: a crime to touch water?

(04:56) Two statutes: 1361 vs DC 22-303

(06:09) Proving malice and the penalties

(07:30) Pirro promises prosecution

(08:36) Trump's shifting gash story

(11:00) The no-bid contract to Eddie Wood

(12:51) $1.8M becomes $13.1M

(13:10) Greenwater and donor John Cafaro

(14:58) The Beast drives across the pool

(16:00) An environmental disaster

(16:41) Why you need a great lawyer

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LEGO retailer Bricks and Minifigs is accused of losing a $100,000 consigned Star Wars LEGO collection owned by the dying grandfather of the Mansell family.

After refusing to make good with the Mansells, interventionist YouTuber Reckless Ben stepped in to force a resolution… leading to an explosion of claims, counterclaims, truths, lies, arrests, criminal charges, public support for the Mansells, and ultimately worldwide outrage against Bricks and Minifigs for filing a multi-million dollar corporate civil lawsuit alleging Ben and the Mansells constituted a criminal RICO enterprise. But that’s when the internet’s favorite detective, Coffeezilla, got to work. Coffeezilla showed up with the inventory spreadsheet's file properties, a brightened photo of a U-Haul, and a lot of questions.

We break down why Bricks and Minifig’s lawsuit now reads like a stack of sworn admissions: constructive notice, the gap between a "less than $5,000" claim and a $100,000 collection, COO Matt McNeff revising the number live on camera, and the quiet side deal with M&R Productions that made the whole inventory fuzzy. It's a case study in how to lose a lawsuit before discovery even starts, how even the brightest big firm lawyers with massive war chests can score an own goal, a reminder to keep talking to your lawyer after you hire one.

(00:00) The one rule they broke on camera

(01:08) Recap: the Bricks & Minifigs saga

(03:44) A word on the plural of Lego

(05:19) The legal war: dueling lawsuits

(05:54) Dentons, the franchise law firm

(07:11) The lawyers on the complaint

(07:50) The claims: RICO, defamation, IIED

(08:09) $5,000 vs. the $100K press release

(10:16) Coffeezilla's investigation lands

(11:00) The spreadsheet bombshell

(12:42) Why a verified complaint matters

(14:23) The real number: $21,000 tagged

(15:45) Matt revises the value on camera

(16:51) Mansell's side deal with M&R

(19:30) The U-Haul theory: Salem to Eugene

(20:55) Matt's shifting U-Haul story

(23:11) The takeaway, and the EagleTeam

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Turn that car light off! Or not...

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Things get weird in Florida, but that's a tautology.

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When you add technology to lawyers, things are bound to go wrong. Let's watch.

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Nike is as mad as the devil that MSCHF made Satan Shoes. Can they legally stop it?

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Sometimes it seems like lawyers speak another language. We're weird.

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Sidney Powell filed a motion to dismiss Dominion's defamation lawsuit. Did she confess her election fraud claims were lies? Let's get kracken'!

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Commas can be worth millions...and can be the difference between life and death.

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Today we learn the crazy story of Clement Vallandingham, a defense lawyer who tangled with Abe Lincoln, performed some light treason, and shot himself dead in court.

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The Parler suit (for being kicked off the platform) gets dismissed, only to be refiled in state court. Will it survive?

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Can you just sue climate change out of existence?

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Even with Democratic control, the second impeachment trial looked a lot like the first.

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After facing election falsehoods for months, are Dominion and Smartmatic getting their revenge against Fox, Sidney Powell, and Rudy?

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Did the hedge funds illegally manipulate the market? Did the redditors of Wallstreet Bets? STONKS

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The law gives you more rights than you might think; but should you actually use them?

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President Trump's last pardons are bad. They aren't normal. But it could have been much worse. Warning: Contains opinion. #OpEd

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The Capitol Rioters broke a lot of laws when they attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. A real lawyer breaks down their criminal culpability.

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Incitement: Is President Trump Guilty of Inciting the Riot?

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Should Trump be removed using the 25th Amendment? Maybe so. The 25th Amendment has a complicated process for removing a president. This episode takes a look at the history of the Amendment and the next steps for Congress.

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The Capitol Hill Riots were an American tragedy. But in this lawyer’s opinion, it didn’t have to be this way. In this episode, a Real Lawyer discusses what brought the United States to this point and what should be done about it. Warning: Contains opinion.

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President Trump’s phone call to Brad Raffensperger may have crossed the legal line. What laws did President Trump allegedly break? And does he have a good defense? In this episode, a lawyer explains which federal and state laws are implicated and the possible consequences for those involved.

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President Trump’s recent pardons are unlike any other pardons in the history of the United States. In this episode, a real lawyer explains why the pardons are unjust and what may happen in the future.

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In this holiday special, we take a look at that 1980’s Christmas movie classic, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Is Clark Griswold an amazing family man, or a mob boss in the making?

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When Texas sued Pennsylvania and three other states in the Supreme Court, President Trump called it “the big one.” But this big lawsuit turned out to be a bust. Find out why the case was doomed from the moment it was filed, and what these legal challenges say about the future of democracy.

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As President Trump's time in office winds down, let's look at what the Constitution says about the scope of the pardon power. Self pardons are uncharted territory...because even Richard Nixon wouldn’t do it. Will Trump?

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A real lawyer reacts to Aaron Sorkin's new movie, The Trial of the Chicago 7, which is now streaming on Netflix. The movie tells the story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Just how accurate is the film to the historical trial?

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We're finally on the other side of a momentous election. While we know the results now, for awhile it was truly touch and go. Along the way there were some truly bad election takes. Let's make fun of some really bad election opinions. Because not all election opinions are created equal!

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The Trump Campaign lawsuits are so hilariously bad, I felt compelled to share the gory details with non-lawyers. This episode breaks down how awful the lawsuits are, why the Trump lawyers are so bad at their jobs, and why these lawsuits keep failing in spectacular fashion.

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Despite losing the election, President Trump says he won’t concede. If push came to shove, would the Secret Service force him out?

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President Trump has filed suit in multiple states seeking to change the outcome of the election. Is there really fraud? Will it work?

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Would the infamous McKamey Manor waiver actually hold up in court?

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The Electoral College has some problems, but maybe not the ones you were thinking of.

Check out my cameo in @Extra Credits video on how we vote. https://youtu.be/vQfm-6duBb8 It’s LegalEagle...in bean form.

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Please do what you can to vote this year. This is your shot.

Remember; vote.

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