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The Legal EditionIs There a War on Women by States & the Federal Gov't ???The Attorneys From a Women's Advocacy Organization - Legal Momentum, Share Plenary Reasons to Believe So...Discussion about trends in politics today cutting funding for much needed programs for women and children - including those protecting victims of violence.From reproductive rights, to financial and voting rights, to childcare issues, the outlook is bleak unless both houses of Congress get together and work for the American people. Now with new budget votes, these issues are more dire than ever. Take a listen, and learn what is really going on...Support this podcast at...
2025-05-3037 minThe Legal EditionVigilante NationHow State- Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy – and What the American People Can Do to Help Save It Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2025-04-2835 minThe Legal EditionAre Trump Lawyers Backsliding Democracy? How Unethical Lawyering Erodes Trust in the Rule of Law of a Democratic NationInterview with Scott Cummings – Professor of Ethics at UCLA School of Law – Author of Numerous Books on Ethics in Gov’t and Accountability.Discussion on the MAGA lawyers being disbarred and ethics violations unheard of in years past, and how to curtail abusive lawyering by legal professionals. We discuss the concept of how lawyers concerned with prestige and power – pushing falsehoods and cases that should never be brought to court – by their actions are aiding in democratic backsliding of the rules of law and consequently our nation. Specific MAGA lawyers and their legal perils are discussed.Sup...
2024-11-0343 minThe Legal EditionInterview with Cult Expert, Dr. Steven Hassen – Author of the Best-Selling Book, The Cult of TrumpDiscussion centers on the psychological factors that go into becoming a cult-leader an what is required of those that follow. How personality types and other life factors create a susceptible structure and approval process that is ready to be converted to full obeyance to even outrageous comments by those seeking to control. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2024-10-2835 minThe Legal EditionInterview with Steve Benen – producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, & Author of the newly released book: Ministry of TruthGuest: Steve Benen and Mary Kay Elloian of The Legal Edition discuss his new book that chronicles the MAGA movement and the Trump presidency, detailing the Economy under Trump compared to Biden and Obama to reveal the blatant mistruths of the former president on the health of the economy under his presidency.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2024-10-2437 minThe Legal EditionInterview with Former United States Inspector General, Glenn A. FineGuest: Former IG Glenn A. Fine, discusses the little known but vitally important role Inspectors General bring to any administration – providing transparency, efficiency, and ethical accountability to the American people.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2024-10-1338 minThe Legal EditionThe Subversive Plot to Hijack American Elections & its 50 Year HeadstartGuest: David Daley, Investigative Journalist & National Best-Selling Author, & his Riveting New Book ‘Antidemocratic’ Inside the Far Right’s 50 Year Plot to Control American ElectionsDiscussion on how this plot to invade the sacrosanct province of American Elections came about, when it did, who is behind it, and what we can do as voters to stop it. A riveting true-crime story with the victim – American Democracy & its Voters. A story that ‘must’ be told in anticipation of the upcoming Presidential Election.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2024-09-1944 minThe Legal EditionGerrymandering Your Vote: (Followup to ‘Where to Draw the Line’ – 2017)Guest: Dr. Daniel Breen, JD, PhD – Sr. Lecturer of Legal Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.Discussion on recent US Supreme Court ruling in Sourth Carolina v NAACP, effectively ‘prioritizing’ Partisanship over Race. How recent SCOTUS decision has Weaponized ‘Partisan Gerrymandering’ – Further Eroding Racial Inequities.(Our 2017 program, ‘Where to Draw the Line…’ Foretold Upcoming Partisan Gerrymandering Rulings by SCOTUS to Discriminate & Disenfranchise’ Using Partisanship as a Proxy for Race for drawing the lines in the future…) That Future is Here Now in 2024. A Must See Primer to Current Rulings on Redistricting.Support this podcast at — http...
2024-07-3047 minThe Legal EditionIntersection of Domestic Violence & Reproductive Justice – Where Do the Delineations Fall?Guests: Attorneys Lynn Hecht Schafran & Azaleea Carlea of Legal Momentum – A New York City Advocacy Organization for Victims of Domestic & Sexual Violence the nation’s first and longest-serving legal advocacy group for women in the United States.Discussion of how living in a Post Roe America after the US Supreme Court ruling in Dobbs – overturning 50 years of legal precedent on abortion – sending it back for individual states to determine. How this decision has negatively affected pregnant women, especially those living in abusive conditions across the country, and specifically in states that have severe restrictions on repro...
2024-07-1040 minThe Legal EditionJustice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking CasesAttorney, Lecturer, Writer – James J. Brosnahan – in an ‘in-depth’ discussion with Host & Producer, Mary Kay Elloian, Esq., on Jim’s sixty plus years of experience trying and winning high profile civil and criminal cases – all of it outlined in his groundbreaking new book, 'Justice at Trial.' From prosecutor to defense attorney, from Harvard Law to Berkeley Law, Jim Brosnahan made his mark from Boston to California – and internationally.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2023-11-2839 minThe Legal EditionStand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 2Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship.Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun owner? Did race, status and gender play a role?
2021-12-2827 minThe Legal EditionStand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 1Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship.Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun owner? Did race, status and gender play a role?
2021-12-2824 minThe Legal EditionSiege at the Capitol & Homegrown Violent Extremism – Is it Here to Stay?Guest: Dr. Michael Jensen. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. He leads the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project – a first of its kind database on the radicalization of U.S. homegrown extremists used by the US Justice Department, including the FBI.Discussion on how extremists get radicalized, who they are, and why they do it. An in-depth discussion on the psychological motivations of those who become home-grown violent extremists, how they identify th...
2021-05-2441 minThe Legal EditionCrisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical CareGuest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border.Discussion focuses on the Trump administration and its treatment of migrant women and girls up to and including before President Biden took office. According to official report...
2021-04-0537 minThe Legal EditionClandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic ChurchGuest is Attorney Mitchell Garabedian – the attorney who litigated many of the first child sexual-abuse cases in the nation – representing survivors of the clergy abuse taking place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and later around that nation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2021-03-0732 minThe Legal EditionUnmasking the First Amendment – Litigating Freedom of Information, & Office of Legal Counsel OpinionsGuest: Attorney Stephanie Krent, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The mission of the Institute and its attorneys, is to defend freedom of speech and the press in the digital age – through strategic litigation, research, & public education.In this discussion, Attorney Krent outlines how the Office of Legal Counsel and its infamous legal opinions often referred to as OLC opinions, are of critical importance to those who need to know the law, comply with it, or challenge it. All too often, those outside of government need to know what is established precedent for gov...
2021-01-3126 minThe Legal EditionThe Sound of Silence – The Hidden Epidemic of Domestic Abuse and TraumaGuest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.Discussion on the insidiousness and pervasiveness of domestic abuse – and the mistreatment of victims by the very people and institutions that should be protecting them. How these institutions have functioned for gene...
2021-01-1648 minThe Legal EditionThe Great Cholesterol Deception - The Story Behind the StatinsGuest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the MIT.Discussion on her compilation & analysis of scientific data showing how 'statins' work in the body, the metrics on how successful they are in managing high-cholesterol and LDL. Also discussed is the fact that many of these meds have been over-prescribed by doctors in the US. Questions include, What are the side-effects to statin use? Are doctors informed about the unintended consequences of high-dose statin use? What are the long-term unintended consequences of regular statin use? Discussion includes data analysis by medical scientists and Dr. Seneff's...
2020-11-3029 minThe Legal EditionElection Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the SystemGuest: Bruce Schneier, is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books — including Data & Goliath, & Click Here to Kill Everybody — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School; a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board me...
2020-11-2030 minThe Legal EditionThe International Bill of Human Rights – Politics & Priorities – Where Does America Stand? -Guest: Attorney, Jamil Dakwar, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program (HRP)Discussion is on the International Bill of Rights – (3 parts) including: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948 after WWII, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights. Specifically, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICESCR), is a “multilateral treaty” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1966, and put in force in March 1976. Yet, the Trump State Department is weakening the rapport with both the...
2020-11-0952 minThe Legal EditionParallels in Patriotism: Educating One Generation of America at a TimeUS History of Immigration & Bigotry: From the Armenian Genocide, to the Jewish Holocaust, to Mexican & Central American Migration– Guest: Adam Strom, Director of Re-Imagining Migration, an education project with UCLA and Harvard Graduate School of Education; bringing understanding of immigration–past & present, to classrooms and educational leaders across the globe.His writings include: George Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry; Stories of Identity & Religion; America’s Civil Rights Movement; Crimes Against Humanity and Civilizations–including the Jewish Holocaust, and the Armenian Genocide.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.co...
2020-11-0430 minThe Legal EditionThe Affordable Care Act–Liberty, Justice & Expansion for All…Medicaid Expansion vs No Expansion, Rural Hospital Closures, Medical Deserts, Lack of Critical Care – And the Effect on the American people.– Guest: Nicole Huberfeld, Attorney, Author, & Professor at Boston University Professor-BU School of Law & Public Health: on Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights.Discussion focus in on the role of Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “ObamaCare”–how states refusing Medicaid expansion have caused hospital closures and critical care units to disappear in rural America–many necessary to treat the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal...
2020-11-0427 minThe Legal Edition“Roundup®” – Is it Ready for Another Trial?… Monsanto Herbicide Cases– Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT.Discussion on the multi-million jury awards to those who developed Non-Hodgkins lymphoma where causal evidence suggests that the regular use of the herbicide “Roundup” caused the victims to develop the fatal disease and what if anything, the company is doing about it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2020-11-0427 minThe Legal Edition“Conquering the Enemy, the Memory Within” – discussion on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) appearing in Abuse Survivors and Veterans of War– Guest: Dr. Roger Pitman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, & Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) on PTSD in Abuse & Trauma Survivors & Veterans of War.Discussion on what is PTSD, how it is acquired, how to identify it, and ultimately, how to work to make the bad memories go away. Part of our series on Sexual Assault, Trauma & Abuse. Dr. Pitman appeared past appearances on ‘60 Minutes’ – sharing his research on the causes, and treatments of PTSD.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2020-11-0427 minThe Legal EditionRunning on Fumes: Biofuels, the Environment & Your Health – COVID Edition– Guest: Stephanie Seneff, PhD – Sr. Research Scientist at MITDiscussion of the potential relationship between the prevalence of COVID and the use of biofuels, and it’s effects upon human health. Dr. Seneff provides insightful analysis of statistical and empirical data used by scientists and academics showing a troubling correlation between the use of biofuels and harmful environmental toxins, to the prevalence of COVID19. She postulates how environmental pollutants may be setting the stage for COVID to literally take our breath away.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations
2020-10-3030 minThe Legal EditionReconstructing the Reconstruction – the Aftermath of Slavery, and the Continuing Fight for Equal JusticeGuest: Michael David Cohen, PhDDr. Cohen is a research professor in the Department of Government and a faculty fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, in Washington, DC. He is a historian of nineteenth-century America, and currently serves as editor and project director of the Correspondence of the twelfth and thirteenth presidents of the United states, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. His previous works include: the letters of the eleventh president of the United States, James K. Polk, and the the Papers of Women’s Rights Activists & Abolitionists: Eliz...
2020-10-3035 minThe Legal Edition“Liberty, Justice & Healthcare for None – Litigating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) During COVID”– Guest: Attorney, Author, Professor Nicole Huberfeld, BU School of Law & Public Health.Discussion on the Litigating the ACA during the COVID CRISIS. Answering the hard questions: Why the Trump Administration is Heading to the US Supreme Court on November 10th – just after the US Presidential Election – to Try, Once Again – to Repeal the Affordable Care Act, When Millions of Americans Rely on it – and Now, More Than Ever, is Critical to Have it… and, Why South Carolina Senator Lindsay Graham, states he wants to “kill” the ACA – at a time when all Americans, including South Carolinians...
2020-10-2637 min
The Legal Edition“The Altered States of America: the Psychological Effects of Donald Trump”– Guest: Dr. Seth D. Norrholm – is a translational neuroscientist with over 20 years experience identifying psychopathologies in humans.Discussion of Trump’s magic-talk about the COVID virus just going away, his flouting of health and safety rules by holding mass rallies during a pandemic, and embracing dictators like Russian President Putin. Dr. Norrholm answers, why Trump engages in repeated lies, childish name-calling, denigration of the dead, and those who died in the military – what this shows us about his mental state, his fitness for the presidency, and most importantly, what all this is doing to the American people.
2020-10-2557 min