LAL — Social Media & Courts: Judge 'Limits' Trump, Allen v. Nashville Shooter, More (May 9, 2023)

<p>LALiens love the 8 o'clock start time. We've got the data. Today, Norm and Mike explore America's legitimation crisis through the lens of Social Media & the Courts. Mike regards social media as a 'savage landscape' and the two use multiple ongoing cases and matters to illustrate the widening disconnect between citizen groups in the United States. In particular, the following:<br /> <br /> › Judge Juan Merchan ordered that President Donald Trump may not distribute copies of discovery produced in the Manhattan criminal court case on social media. Judge Merchan made it explicitly clear that the ruling is not a gag order, that DA Alvin Bragg did not ask for one, and further that even if so solicited none would have been issued. What meaningful conclusions may be drawn?<br /> › New video has emerged out of New York showing one Daniel Perry rendering aid to Jordan Peely. Specifically, Perry can be seen assisting the other passengers involved in getting Peely into a left-side lateral recovery position, while onlooking passengers comment favorably about Perry's handling of the situation. Why did it take so long for this video to emerge?<br /> › The Tennessee Firearms Association, joined by former Hamilton County Sheriff, James Hammond, has sued the Nashville Police Department asking the Davidson County Chancery Court to order NPD to release the Covenant School shooter's manifesto. Compare with the events of Allen, Texas, from over the weekend. Why is it that mainstream and establishment media outlets are content to label the shooter conclusively as being of the radical right but incurious as to the nature of Audrey Hale's state of mind in the time leading up to the Nashville tragedy?<br /> › A new poll shows President Joe Biden in a deepening political basement. According to that poll, which George Stephanopoulos refers to as "brutal for President Biden," shows Trump and DeSantis as being 7 and 6 percentage points respectively ahead of Biden. On the one hand, who really trusts polling these days? On the other, is the