Arizona Republican Party Like It's 1864

Opening Arguments

Episode 1022

Courts in Arizona and Florida have both ended abortion rights in very different (but both terrible) ways this month. Did Arizona actually resurrect a 160-year law passed decades before it was even a state? And how weird can it get when you go full originalist on a law that is younger than most people in Florida?

Before we get there, Matt opens by sharing his experience with the OJ Simpson trial at the age of 14 and how it shaped his understanding of US criminal law. We then make sure to pay appropriate respects to the violent domestic abuser who (do we even have to say "allegedly" anymore?) brutally murdered Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman on June 12, 1994.

Also, two different countries have committed extreme and unprecedented violations of international law involving embassies in the past week. How does the Vienna Convention protect diplomatic posts, and what actually happens when these international agreements are broken?

The first of the Trump trials will finally begin in New York in one business day! How does jury selection even work in a case where everyone on the planet has an opinion about the defendant?

1) Planned Parenthood v Florida (4/1/24)

2) In Re: TW, 551 So. 2d 1186 (1989)

3) Planned Parenthood of AZ v. Mayes (4/9/24)

3) The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961)

4) Judge Merchan's letter to the parties in NY v. Trump outlining jury selection process

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