The Legal Edition

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...

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

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 t...

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.

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.

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.

Guest: 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. A riveting true-crime story with the vic...

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 Upco...

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 –...

Attorney, 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...

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 prese...

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 prese...

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. Discuss...

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/M...

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.

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, & public education. In this discussion, Attorney Krent outlines how the Office of Legal Counsel and its infamous legal opinions often referred to as OLC...

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 – Fro...

Guest: 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-...

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 & 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 250,00...

 -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. S...

US 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 inclu...

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”...

– 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.

– 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 a...

– 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 use of biofuels and harmful environmental toxins,...