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.

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 victim – American Democracy & its Voters. A story that ‘must’ be told in anticipation of the upcoming Presidential Election.

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.

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 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.

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 mark from Boston to California – and internationally.