The Legal Edition

Nov 27 2023

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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.

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Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases

Nov 27 2023 39 mins

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

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

Dec 27 2021 27 mins

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

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

Dec 27 2021 24 mins

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

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

May 24 2021 41 mins

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, includin

Crisis at the Border – Migrants, Motherhood & Medical Care

Apr 04 2021 37 mins

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 girl

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

Mar 06 2021 32 mins

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.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations

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

Jan 31 2021 26 mins

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 r

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

Jan 16 2021 48 mins

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 o

The Great Cholesterol Deception - The Story Behind the Statins

Nov 29 2020 29 mins

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

Election Security: Securing the Vote While Securing the System

Nov 19 2020 30 mins

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