A Colorado woman faces jail time for the hate crime of tearing up a pro-police sign. An excess of lawyers may be responsible for an excess of warning labels. And, Connor takes the “guess the verdict” challenge.”
What a slow legal news week. Bill Cosby, having been accused of sex crimes by 60 women, is set free in the only case ever prosecuted against him. Donald Trump’s company and longtime moneyman, indicted for tax fraud. And the Supreme Court says Arizona’s voting rules do NOT violate the Voting Rights Act.
Britney Spears grabs the headlines with her court appearance – how can she be unaware of her right to fight the conservatorship, when she’s been represented by a lawyer for years? And, a cheerleader who works blue goes to the Supreme Court – and wins!
The high court makes news as the justices get ready to head for their summer vacation: Conservatives join the liberals to save Obamacare one more time. And, all nine justices agree: The Catholic Church has a right to refuse to place foster kids with same-sex parents.
The Supreme Court is asked, hey, we send women into combat – why don’t we make them register with the Selective Service System, just like men? A woman who punched a Southwest Airlines stewardess is banned from Southwest flights for life – so what else can get you on the no-fly list?
A federal judge gives a shot in the arm to the AR-15 assault rifle. Ex-Congresswoman Katie Hill, whose nude pictures were published in a tabloid, gets more bad news – she has to pay $220,000 in legal fees to the paper she unsuccessfully sued.
When is a political donation a bribe? Should you be able to relax in the back seat of your driverless car? Are you ready to be weighed at the airport? And, unbelievably, Men’s Health asks men if they could win a fistfight against a goose.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Mississippi’s ban on all abortions after week 15 of a pregnancy is legal. Pro-choice forces worry the Donald Trump-fueled court is about to reject Roe v. Wade. BREAK TIMES: 10:55 and 24:17
The newest California value: No more of gun enhancements! If you commit a crime, no time gets tacked on just because you were armed. And, “judge-shopping” is coming to Washington. Democrats want all political speech lawsuits to be heard in D.C., where the vast majority of judges are appointees of . . . Democrat presidents!
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case where the NRA says anybody worried about crime has a right carry a concealed weapon. Chuck Schumer’s reaction: Give me four more justices! And, four cops at the scene of George Floyd’s murder could face the federal death penalty.
The FBI’s dawn raid of Rudy Giuliani’s apartment raises the question: Will a highlight of the Biden-Harris Administration be Rudy and Donald Trump sharing a jail cell? Randy Quaid’s making waves, could Californians soon be sporting bumper stickers saying, “Cousin Eddie for Governor”?
Most everybody agrees, Officer Derek Chauvin got what was coming to him. But what next? Does his conviction support the “defund the police” rallying cry? Will the tsunami of publicity and calls for “confrontation” by Maxine Waters and others lead to a reversal of his conviction on appeal?
Should a rapper be able to re-sell Nike shoes after adding Satanic images and a drop of human blood in each sneaker? Should Democrats be able to swell the Supreme Court to 13 members? And, did Officer Derek Chauvin make the right call, refusing to testify in the George Floyd case?
The nation’s eyes turn to Minneapolis, where an officer stands trial for allegedly murdering George Floyd. Do calls for unrest if there’s no conviction rise to the level of jury tampering? And, has the president taken the first step toward a much bigger supreme court? BREAK TIMES: about 13:51 and 29:08
We've got a candidate for "Moron of the Week" - It's the Networks News reporter who announced, yes the pandemic was tragic, but the upside is "The Earth Got A Break" - The dolphins got to swim in a quieter New York harbor.
So, how did Biden’s first press conference go? Kind of depends on which cable channel you watch. And, remember the baker who convinced the supreme court to let him refuse to bake a wedding cake for a same sex couple? Well now he’s been sued for refusing to make a cake to celebrate a woman’s gender reassignment. Break times: 10:57 and 25:30.
Kamala Harris is everywhere – well, everywhere the President shows up. Is the Democratic National Committee trying to tell us something? And, Connor and I share our political origin stories. Not nearly as fascinating as the Superman and Batman back stories, but you might be surprised by what you hear.
Are attorneys slime balls who twist the truth for a living? And, as jury selection proceeds in the trial of the cop accused of killing George Floyd by kneeing on his neck, the question comes up – how do you pick an unbiased jury when just about everybody’s made up their mind?
More stimulus checks are on the way – but should they go to incarcerated felons, like, the Boston Bomber and Scott Peterson? And, when President Biden said some of his COVID critics are guilty of “neanderthal thinking,” was that up there with Hillary calling right-wingers “deplorables”?
I’m Royal Oakes. Next time on “Two Many Lawyers”: "Listen to Too Many Lawyers on the iHeartRadio App, Apple Podcasts... or wherever you get your podcasts." PROMO Trump wows the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference – but are there cracks in his armor? And, is the Senate prepared to blow up the filibuster, to pass a $15 per hour minimum wage law? BREAK TIMES: 11:05 and 22:17
Yes, Rush Limbaugh had the worst week – the right lost an icon. But Ted Cruz had a rough one as well. We talk about how politicians, from Cruz to Christie to Newsom to De Blasio, can be tone deaf.
Democrats go for Trump Impeachment 2.0 -- was it mission accomplished in spite of the acquittal? We review the four ways the GOP might rid itself of Donald Trump between now and 2024. And, Connor takes a presidential pop quiz!
San Francisco continues to lead the league in provocative questions: Are acronyms racist? Plus, are grocery employees entitled to “hero pay”? Finally, why have Americans reversed a decades-long trend of shrinking cigarette sales?
We’re just days away, and Trump’s second impeachment trial is a bit murky. The ex-president says he just may save on legal fees by defending himself! Some say he should just send in a letter saying, hey, if the Chief Justice won’t be there I won’t either, because it’s unconstitutional to try a guy already out of office! BREAK TIMES: about 11:36 and 24:12
Was Biden’s “unity” theme tainted by dragging out the basket of deplorables? Should Trump’s pardons be overridden by the courts as saving his co-conspirators and thus himself? And is an impeachment trial now even legal?
We tackle the thorny question: Whether or not Trump technically “incited a riot,” might a stronger basis for convicting him be the fact he was hoping Mike Pence would reverse the election without an actual legal basis? And, did Twitter overreach by imposing a lifetime ban on Trump?
We tackle the top Trump questions: 25th Amendment? Impeachment? Incitement to Riot? A lifetime Twitter ban? Disqualification by the Senate? Did Trump politically self-destruct, like Joe McCarthy? And, is the double-barreled defeat in Georgia on Trump’s head?
Somebody’s gonna get punched in the nose by Alec Baldwin – the left and the right pile on his wife Hilaria for alleged cultural appropriation. And what our reaction to the death of Gilligan Island’s Mary Ann says, about us.
Politics and science make strange bedfellows. The COVID relief plan goes forward, but how do you know who to believe, when it comes to balancing the dual goals of saving lives, and saving the economy? And, we say farewell to the famous faces who passed from the scene in 2020.
As this most forgettable year wraps up, we find out how much Connor remembered about what happened in 2020. And, we try to figure out why a San Francisco High School is taking a serious look at dumping its name – Abraham Lincoln High.
