The Legal Edition provides the latest Legal, Business &amp; Policy News on issues that mainstream media ignores or overlooks. Whether it be Internet Privacy, Government Monitoring &amp; Surveillance, Education, Healthcare &amp; Medicaid for All, Legislative Gerrymandering &amp; Vote Dilution, Immigration, Women’s Rights &amp; Judicial Abuses–to the research &amp; lawsuits on Toxic Herbicides Sprayed on Food, GMO’s, to Disease-Causing Materials placed in human teeth, and political issues that affect you most –The Legal Edition reports it.

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The Attorneys From a Women&#39;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...

Is There a War on Women by States & the Federal Gov't ???

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How State- Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy – and What the American People Can Do to Help Save It

Vigilante Nation

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Interview 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.

Are Trump Lawyers Backsliding Democracy? How Unethical Lawyering Erodes Trust in the Rule of Law of a Democratic Nation

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Discussion 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.

Interview with Cult Expert, Dr. Steven Hassen – Author of the Best-Selling Book, The Cult of Trump

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Guest: 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.

Interview with Steve Benen – producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, & Author of the newly released book: Ministry of Truth

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Guest: 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.

Interview with Former United States Inspector General, Glenn A. Fine

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Guest: David Daley, Investigative Journalist &amp; National Best-Selling Author, &amp; his Riveting New Book ‘Antidemocratic’ Inside the Far Right’s 50 Year Plot to Control American Elections Discussion 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 &amp; its Voters. A story that ‘must’ be told in anticipation of the upcoming Presidential Election.

The Subversive Plot to Hijack American Elections & its 50 Year Headstart

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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 &amp; 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.

Gerrymandering Your Vote: (Followup to ‘Where to Draw the Line’ – 2017)

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Guests: Attorneys Lynn Hecht Schafran &amp; Azaleea Carlea of Legal Momentum – A New York City Advocacy Organization for Victims of Domestic &amp; 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 reproductive healthcare access. Where mortality statistics now show: it is now 3 times more dangerous for pregnant women living in abusive conditions where states are setting abortion laws; how data now reveals increased maternal mortality during pregnancy, or shortly after the birth of the child.

Intersection of Domestic Violence & Reproductive Justice – Where Do the Delineations Fall?

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Attorney, Lecturer, Writer – James J. Brosnahan – in an ‘in-depth’ discussion with Host &amp; 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, &#39;Justice at Trial.&#39; From prosecutor to defense attorney, from Harvard Law to Berkeley Law, Jim Brosnahan made his mark from Boston to California – and internationally.

Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases

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Guest: 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? Learn how ‘stand your ground’ laws evolved over the centuries – how our nation’s forefathers expected and envisioned who would exercise that right. Fascinating account of our nation’s past – and a look to the future on stand your ground laws across America.

Stand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 2

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Stand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 1

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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 their cause, and even merge their actions with other violent extremists groups, as seen on the January 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. A stunning review of psychological profiles of those who truly believe in their cause – willing to Act at their own peril and that of others, believing they are “Patriots” – and must subvert government, and “take” it back.

Siege at the Capitol & Homegrown Violent Extremism – Is it Here to Stay?

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Guest 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 reports, under the Trump administration the International Standards for keeping families intact – were repeatedly violated by the US. Other reports of children forcibly taken from their parents and put in Foster Care are equally disturbing. Other reports of unnecessary medical procedures and withholding of hygiene materials appear inhumane. Discussion on the mental trauma and revictimization of these migrants, after fleeing their homeland in search of safety. Is the US traumatizing another subset of future Americans by forced family separation? Are forced sterilizations of migrant women taking place? Is the US violating International Treaties and Human Rights Standards? This discussion explores all these issues with a look from someone who had an inside view from the US Department of State.

Crisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical Care

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Guest 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.

Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church

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Guest: 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, &amp; 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 government agencies, but these “secret opinions’ have been routinely withheld from the public – and ultimately lawyers.

Unmasking the First Amendment – Litigating Freedom of Information, & Office of Legal Counsel Opinions

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Guest: 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 generations with impunity, including the Catholic Church, Hollywood, government and even the private sector. She explores what it is like for victims who suffer repeated abuse as well as institutional bias – where victims are treated with contempt by society, by the judicial system and even their own families.

The Sound of Silence – The Hidden Epidemic of Domestic Abuse and Trauma

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Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the MIT.Discussion on her compilation &amp; analysis of scientific data showing how &#39;statins&#39; 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&#39;s synthesis of the data on how it should be analyzed.

The Great Cholesterol Deception - The Story Behind the Statins

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Guest: 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 &amp; Goliath, &amp; 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 member of EPIC and VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc. Discussion on how voting machines are inherently vulnerable and what can and should be done to make them safer – to the ‘Gold Standard’ of paper ballots used across American in this election. Further discussion on hacking, audits and International bad actors trying to infiltrate state election databases as well as old voting machines that are vulnerable to attack and manipulation. An open and frank discussion with a ‘security guru’ with decades of experience on how we can keep America’s democratic process of voting safe and secure.

Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System

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-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 &amp; 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 international community, while exacerbating the international norms.

The International Bill of Human Rights – Politics & Priorities – Where Does America Stand?

Legal, Business & Policy News

The Legal Edition provides the latest Legal, Business & Policy News on issues that mainstream media ignores or overlooks. Whether it be Internet Privacy, Government Monitoring & Surveillance, Education, Healthcare & Medicaid for All, Legislative Gerrymandering & Vote Dilution, Immigration, Women’s Rights & Judicial Abuses–to the research & lawsuits on Toxic Herbicides Sprayed on Food, GMO’s, to Disease-Causing Materials placed in human teeth, and political issues that affect you most –The Legal Edition reports it.