#opening arguments

At this point I don’t know if they will be able to agree on any of these and they might end up stuck! I mean of course from my perspective I’m looking at the more moderate Republican representatives and going “come on. You know the quickest way out of this is for five or six of you to vote for Jeffries.” That seems very unlikely but honestly I don’t know if any of the other possible scenarios are more likely.

Here's what I have so far:

2020 presidential candidate and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was first mentioned by NPR in 1991, when she was interviewed on All Things Considered for a story about people filing for bankruptcy during the economic recession. At the time, Warren was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of one the largest studies ever done on bankruptcy.

"We have to rebuild our infrastructure to deal with climate change that is bearing down upon us. The urgency of the moment on climate change cannot be overstated. It's upon us and we need to make change and make change fast.” 

-Elizabeth Warren, from Morning Edition's Election 2020: Opening Arguments series.

Photo: American academic (and future US Senator) Professor Elizabeth Warren teaches a class at University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, early 1990s. NPR first mentioned Warren in 1991.

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2020 presidential candidate Kamala Harris was first mentioned by NPR in a 2003 Morning Edition broadcast. She had just defeated two-term San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, making her the first woman, African American and South Asian to serve as that county’s district attorney. She would later go on to serve as Attorney General of California, and then become a U.S. Senator.

“I disagree with any policy that would turn America's back on people who are fleeing harm. I frankly believe that it is contrary to everything that we have symbolically and actually said we stand for.” 

-Kamala Harris, from Morning Edition's Election 2020: Opening Arguments series.

Photo: Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Kamala Harris at the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland, California on March 28, 1997. NPR first mentioned Harris in 2003.

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Listened to the beginning of the latest dear old dads episode this morning and Thomas was like "I'm back on opening arguments! Listen to it!" And I was like "good! I think. What does this mean?" So I headed to the reddit.

So the basic gist as I understand it is that the company opening arguments LLC got put into receivership for the duration of the court battle, which is far from over. But a receivership means a third party gets put in charge of how the business is run to preserve its value. Each side put forward a candidate (Thomas picked a woman who had retired from her popular podcast, Andrew was like "she is going to be biased towards Thomas because reasons, what about this media management guy who also is involved in small podcasts" and Thomas was like "but he has never been involved in a large podcast and his small podcasts would be competing with OA" ) and the court liked Thomas's pick better, and she agrees that the best way to maintain the brand is for Thomas to record new episodes with other lawyers for the time being.

So I guess things are going as well as could be expected when dealing with that shitshow.

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