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 Le ...
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Are Trump Lawyers Backsliding Democracy? How Unethical Lawyering Erodes Trust in the Rule of Law of a Democratic Nation
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43:24Interview 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 p…
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Interview with Cult Expert, Dr. Steven Hassen – Author of the Best-Selling Book, The Cult of Trump
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35:03Discussion 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…
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Interview with Steve Benen – producer of the Rachel Maddow Show, & Author of the newly released book: Ministry of Truth
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37:24Guest: 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://redci…
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Interview with Former United States Inspector General, Glenn A. Fine
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38:05Guest: 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/donationsBy Mary Kay Elloian, MBA, JD, Esq
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The Subversive Plot to Hijack American Elections & its 50 Year Headstart
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44:13Guest: David Daley, Investigative Journalist & National Best-Selling Author, & 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…
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Gerrymandering Your Vote: (Followup to ‘Where to Draw the Line’ – 2017)
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47:15Guest: 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 201…
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Intersection of Domestic Violence & Reproductive Justice – Where Do the Delineations Fall?
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40:26Guests: 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…
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Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases
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39:58Attorney, 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…
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Stand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 2
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27:26Guest: 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 …
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Stand Your Ground: the Story of Race, Gender & Privilege in the US - Part 1
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24:12Guest: 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 …
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Siege at the Capitol & Homegrown Violent Extremism – Is it Here to Stay?
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41:32Guest: 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…
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Crisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical Care
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37:33Guest 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 Treatme…
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Clandestine Clergy: Politics and Policies on Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church
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32:18Guest 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…
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Unmasking the First Amendment – Litigating Freedom of Information, & Office of Legal Counsel Opinions
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26:42Guest: 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 in…
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The Sound of Silence – The Hidden Epidemic of Domestic Abuse and Trauma
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48:43Guest: 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, Tr…
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The Great Cholesterol Deception - The Story Behind the Statins
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29:55Guest: 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. …
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Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System
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30:48Guest: 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 Sc…
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The International Bill of Human Rights – Politics & Priorities – Where Does America Stand?
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52:50-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 Cove…
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Parallels in Patriotism: Educating One Generation of America at a Time
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30:13US 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 leader…
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The Affordable Care Act–Liberty, Justice & Expansion for All…
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27:54Medicaid 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 Car…
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“Roundup®” – Is it Ready for Another Trial?… Monsanto Herbicide Cases
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27:59– 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…
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“Conquering the Enemy, the Memory Within” – discussion on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) appearing in Abuse Survivors and Veterans of War
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27:21– 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 Ass…
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Running on Fumes: Biofuels, the Environment & Your Health – COVID Edition
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30:45– Guest: Stephanie Seneff, PhD – Sr. Research Scientist at MIT Discussion 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 us…
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Reconstructing the Reconstruction – the Aftermath of Slavery, and the Continuing Fight for Equal Justice
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35:52Guest: Michael David Cohen, PhD Dr. 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 t…
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“Liberty, Justice & Healthcare for None – Litigating the Affordable Care Act (ACA) During COVID”
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37:34– 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 Affordabl…
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“The Altered States of America: the Psychological Effects of Donald Trump”
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57:30– 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. …
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