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♦ Upcoming Interview with Cult Expert, Dr. Steven Hassen – Author of the Best-Selling Book, The Cult of Trump.
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.
A riveting discussion from a world-renowned thought leader – someone who knows cults from the inside-out.
Dr. Hassan discusses his early years, where he was susceptible to indoctrination by the cult of the Moonies in the 1970’s and what it finally took for him to get out.
Special focus on why Trump is so dangerous, why so many people blindly follow a cheat and a felon; and how family members and friends not indoctrinated, shake their heads in disgust. Dr. Hassen outlines it is easy to get caught up in cults, and why it is so hard to get out.
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♦ Upcoming Interview with Scott Cummings – Professor of Ethics at UCLA School of Law – Author of Numerous Books on Ethics in Gov’t and Accountability.
Scott Cummings is the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics at the UCLA School of Law, where he teaches and writes about the legal profession, legal ethics, access to justice, and local government law. A recipient of the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, Professor Cummings is the founding faculty director of the UCLA Program on Legal Ethics and the Profession, which promotes empirical research and innovative programming on the challenges facing lawyers in the twenty-first century, and a long-time member of the UCLA David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
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.
Professor Cummings was selected as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the European University Institute and a fellow at the Stanford Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences to study the role of lawyers in strengthening the rule of law. He was awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship to study the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding.
Professor Cummings’s recent books explore how innovative legal mobilization produces transformative social change.
♦ Women & the Law: Yesterday & Today
Guest Attorneys: James Brosnahan – Author of Justice at Trial: Courtroom Battles & Groundbreaking Cases; Retired Judge, Carol Brosnahan of the Alameda County Court, CA
The Brosnahan’s take us back to the days when the practice of Law was seen as exclusively in the purview of men, with women having no rightful place as a student of law, and certainly as a practitioner of it. From the Law School Dean scolding, taunting and ostracizing the women students; telling them by their presence alone, they were wrongfully displacing men for the coveted seats at Harvard Law School. They recount conversations, events and correspondence with their former classmate, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and conversations with the first female Justice of the US Supreme Court, Sandra Day O’Connor long before her appointment. Judge Brosnahan speaks of the difficult journey as women legal pioneers, blazing a trail for future women lawyers.
Discussion takes us from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, and how current US Supreme Court rulings are now abridging the rights of women these novel law students sought to protect. Rights under assault: reproductive rights and reproductive healthcare for women across America. Included in discussion: how current rulings re-victimize women who have already been abused, often alongside their children. A juxtaposition of what it was like for the first women to venture into the legal field over sixty years ago, and today what it is like for women, including own their daughters and granddaughters who are the victims of the same justice system these trailblazing women fought to create.
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♦ Women’s Health in Litigation: From IVF to Mifepristone – Do Courts & Legislators Really Know Best?
Guest Attorneys in Discussion over IVF, Abortion to Mifepristone – What it Means in the Real World to Real Women & Families
More information upcoming.
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