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Formerly XXceedingly Persuasive, episodes 1 through 50! In XXP, Mackenzie Joy Brennan (Court Attorney for the NY Supreme Court) and Brooke Rogers (politics writer) tackle the fearsome world of law and policy one issue at a time.
XXceedingly Persuasive offers nuanced analyses in digestible doses-- adding the cultural, historical and political context to current issues. As young women from different backgrounds and fields, Mackenzie and Brooke show that these issues can be hashed out in a way that feels like a chat with friends: with an eye toward reason, an openness to learning and one or three Michelob Ultra(s)™️.
On Instagram @BrookeAngeline & @MkzJoyBrennan
On Twitter @BkeRogers & @MkzJoyBrennan
To watch video episodes or submit questions, go to mkzjoybrennan.com!
Theme music by Shithead's Rainbow
Cover Photo by Natasha Wilson; text excerpt edited from United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 546 (1996)
(Hosts’ views are expressed solely in personal capacities and should not be imputed to the Court System, Judges or judicial officers therein, or any publication. No content is intended as political endorsement or formal legal advice.)
XXceedingly Persuasive offers nuanced analyses in digestible doses-- adding the cultural, historical and political context to current issues. As young women from different backgrounds and fields, Mackenzie and Brooke show that these issues can be hashed out in a way that feels like a chat with friends: with an eye toward reason, an openness to learning and one or three Michelob Ultra(s)™️.
On Instagram @BrookeAngeline & @MkzJoyBrennan
On Twitter @BkeRogers & @MkzJoyBrennan
To watch video episodes or submit questions, go to mkzjoybrennan.com!
Theme music by Shithead's Rainbow
Cover Photo by Natasha Wilson; text excerpt edited from United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515, 546 (1996)
(Hosts’ views are expressed solely in personal capacities and should not be imputed to the Court System, Judges or judicial officers therein, or any publication. No content is intended as political endorsement or formal legal advice.)
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As the entertainment industry strikes continue, here’s a convo with a Hollywood costumer Nicole Suerez Jones-- whose IATSE local unions aren't on strike, but are still suffering the effects of studios’ greed, poor working conditions, and an industry at an impasse.
More strikes in more industries are looming, too.
You know what I say? If these workers can’t take the heat, why don’t they just hurl themselves out of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?! ˢᵒʳʳʸ
New docuseries sheds light on the religious sect behind the Duggars and other families that use parents’ rights, religious freedom, and homeschooling (enabled by lax laws!) to indoctrinate the next generation
We're ending pride month, so I'm re-boosting this remembrance of my uncle Stewart Joy, lost to the AIDS crisis in 1988. We got to speak to his former partner & caretaker, John Ascher, about healthcare policy, homophobia, and changing attitudes. Happy pride, be kind, and remember
What the hell is “judicial bypass,” how does it hurt young people, and why is nobody aware of it? Indulge me on a walk thru the work that desperately few of us do assisting pregnant minors.
(Read on at mkzjoybrennan.substack.com !)
Part 2 of 2 on interpreting the Second Amendment, its jurisprudential history & evolution (ending with Heller and Bruen), and how that track record has facilitated lax gun laws like "Stand Your Ground" and the "Castle Doctrine" of self-defense.
Interpreting the Second Amendment, its jurisprudential history & evolution, and how that track record has facilitated lax gun laws like "Stand Your Ground," the defense to 3 recent shootings of unarmed young people.
(Also credit to Bojack Horseman or Netflix or Raphael Bob-Waksberg, from whom I stole a Bojack clip)
Slay 'em
Abortion bans are closing in on all of us, even where we feel safest. I've been working on sharing my own story having a procedural (aka surgical) abortion at Planned Parenthood NY. Abortion ban battles continue in Arizona (and many other states) and a nationwide abortion medication ban looms via an FDA case challenging mifepristone in Texas federal court. It doesn't have to be this complex.
Exploring the mystical world of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the immunity it provides social media sites, and the pending Supreme Court case to roll it back.
To read this (and more) in newsletter form, visit & subscribe at mkzjoybrennan.substack.com !
This episode is dedicated to celebrating the Mother of the Disability Rights movement, Judith "Judy" Heumann. Judy passed away this weekend and I feel tremendously lucky to have chatted with her last year. In addition to countless personal, nationwide, and worldwide achievements, Judy helped get the Americans with Disabilities Act (r ADA) passed and was featured in the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary "Crip Camp." As we begin Women’s History & Disability Awareness Month, here’s to Judy
Therapist-in-training Amita Padiyar and I watched the "Casey Anthony: Where the Truth Lies" docuseries on Peacock, so you don't have to (& honestly, came away with more questions than we thought we'd have)!
A recap of the 2022 US midterm elections, which are (mostly) completed: the issues that motivated voters (abortion, inflation, party frustration); false predictions of a "red wave;" state/senate/house highlights; and what the results mean for the next few years!
In part two of the pre-midterm-election VOTE PLEASE! series, we are talking about voting third party or abstaining from voting: from the history of third party presidential candidates, the laws that make third parties unlikely to win, and-- by comparison-- some long-term strategies to implement systemic change (while doing what we can to minimize immediate harm in the meantime).
In the first part of a miniseries on voting, election law, and pre-midterm desperation, public interest lawyer Mackenzie Joy Brennan talks about voting in a two-party, federalist system; harm reduction strategies; and our short-term versus long-term goals when we go to the ballot box.
In reproductive rights pt 2, we're piecing together the lineage n legal framework of the right to choose: from the Framers' regard for natural rights (like the right to privacy), to Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey using the due process liberty interest, to the current Supreme Court's disregard for these rights and precedents.
Plus, a whirlwind tour debunking abortion misconceptions (no pun intended). Tune in to our repro stream with Jackie Zebrowski & Dr. Jordan at twitch.tv/ohnoitsjackie May 17 at 8 pm PST/11 pm EST!
Find citations, reproductive services, or learn more at mkzjoybrennan.com
Roe & Casey's reproductive protections have been all but scrapped by the US Supreme Court (with honorable mention to Texas). Let's arm ourselves w/ medical facts, stats, precedent, and other paper bullets of the brain!
In part 1, we're talking about the realities of abortion procedures and reproductive rights. In part 2, we'll dig into the jurisprudential and constitutional-interpretive history from the framers to the present.
Cites and other repro' resources at mkzjoybrennan.com
Justice Stephen Breyer has announced that he's stepping down from the US Supreme Court. While he's far from the first Justice to retire, Breyer is responding to mounting pressure for the Court's older, liberal members to leave while Democrats control the Senate and Presidency. Political influence on the Court has been mounting ever since Reagan's controversial nomination of Robert Bork in 1987, and has carried through to the constitutional violations and nomination battles that shaped current SCOTUS.
(Watch this ep as a two-part video on mkzjoybrennan.com !)
The baby on the album cover of Nirvana's "Nevermind" has re-filed his lawsuit against the band after his initial complaint was dismissed last month. The baby (now-adult Spencer Elden) claims what, you ask? CHILD PORN. Child porn is a reprehensible scourge on human existence but Nirvana's album cover depicting a naked baby swimming is not, per se, pornographic (in the opinion of this humble description writer)...
Will this lawsuit hold water?!
In the early 2000s, everyone was certain Scott Peterson had murdered his pregnant wife Laci. We all “knew,” thanks to sordid & relentless media coverage, that there was no doubt in his guilt.
BUT almost everything we heard on the news was incorrect, the investigation was flawed, the facts don’t add up, and the trial was rife with misconduct. Scott Peterson is now appealing his conviction and death sentence n I’m parsing through it (thanks to the A&E docuseries, "The Murder of Laci Peterson" on Hulu)
Kyle Rittenhouse killed two & wounded another with an AR-15 style gun he brought to a protest over the killing of an unarmed black man, Jacob Blake. Rittenhouse’s acquittal has raised questions about self defense claims by armed aggressors, judicial bias, and unequal outcomes in the criminal justice system.
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30 minutes about girls hymens? This is politics?! No thanks. I’m not trying to discount all the many more struggles and problems women face in our male dominated culture but if you want to discuss sexual mutilation then look at circumcising boys. It’s so accepted most people think it’s gross to not be, that’s a seriously ingrained sexual mutilation that takes place right here right now
the Paul Newman and Robert Redford comparison today would be shamar Moore and Idris elba