May 19, 2026 • 10 mins
Mimi Brown breaks down the day. Trump's nearly $2 billion fund for January 6 defendants. The American Bar Association just killed law school diversity rules. And Kim Kardashian just paid the bond to free a man from Oklahoma's death row after 29 years. Plus the Tuesday Two-Minute Take.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
President Trump just dropped a ten billion dollar lawsuit against
the IRS days before judge demanded answers here that decision, you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Would have to go first my desk. And it's so
fully strange to make a decision where I'm banging myself.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And the American Bar Association has voted to end a
decades old diversity role for law schools.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two steps forward and fifteen steps backwards and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Twenty nine years on Oklahoma's death Row, a man is
now free on bond with help from Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, I'm just thankful for about life and my attorneys,
and I'm just happy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's Tuesday, May nineteenth. From the Black Effects Podcast Network.
I'm Mimi Brown. This is front Page, and here are
today's biggest stories plus today on the two minute take
Fox News, redistricting and the lie underneath the joke. Stay
with me. A ten billion dollar lawsuit five by President
(01:00):
Trump against the IRS has been dropped by the President himself.
But what's coming next is the bigger story. Court documents
showed Trump is moving to set up a one point
seven billion dollar fund paid for by US taxpayers, to
compensate people who claim they were wrongfully investigated under the
Biden administration. According to ABC News, the fund is being
(01:21):
called the President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission.
The commission would pay people who claimed they were victims
of quote weaponization of the Justice Department under President Biden.
According to multiple news reports, that category includes January sixth defendants,
members of the Oath Keepers, members of the Proud Boys,
(01:42):
including some who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and then
pardoned by President Trump earlier this year. In other words,
the same people the President pardoned for January sixth would
now be eligible to receive taxpayer funded settlements through a
commission he controls. The commission would have five members. Trump
would have the right to remove any of them without cause,
(02:03):
and it would not be required to disclose how it
decides who gets paid.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I don't even know how that's allowable to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
This all stems from a lawsuit filed by Trump and
his two oldest sons against the IRS for ten billion dollars.
The lawsuit accused the agencies of failing to protect Trump's
tax returns after a former IRS contractor leaked his tax
returns to the press. The contractor was convicted and sentenced
to five years in prison, but the lawsuit itself raised
(02:32):
a problem. Trump sued as a private citizen, but the irs,
the Treasury Department, and the Justice Department. Attorneys defending those
agencies all fall under his presidential authority.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's interesting because I'm the one that makes a decision, right,
and that decision would have to go first my desk,
And it's softfully strange to make a decision where I'm
buying myself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The judge overseeing the case raised that concern in open court.
She asks outside lawyers to brief her on whether the
case was even appropriate for the court to hear. Those
experts came back with serious concerns. On Monday, Trump dropped
the case with prejudice, meaning he can't file it again.
But minutes later, nearly one hundred House Democrats submitted a
(03:14):
brief to the court accusing Trump of quote blatant self dealing.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Is setting up a one point seven billion dollar political
slush fund for the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers and
his other political lieutenants and hangers on.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For taxpayers, here's the math. Every dollar in that fund
comes from you. The same agencies that collect your taxes
are being asked to pay them back out to people
the President has decided were wronged by the previous administration.
The decades old role that required every American law school
to commit to diversity is being repelled. On Friday, the
(03:51):
American Bar Association Council that controls law school accreditations voted
to repeal Standard two six. That role has for years
acquired every ABA accredited law school to show a real
commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming. If
the law school wanted its graduates to be eligible for
the bar in most states, it had to show real
(04:12):
effort to recruit Black, Latino, Asian, American, Native American, and
women's students.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Some schools when they were banning African Americans, women and
other minority groups from being admitted, the ABA was lifting
some of those barriers out of the way. And so
when you have folks in the room that have went
through those types of things and had to go around
or jump over barriers, it makes it easier for you
to say and argue to the board, hey, we shouldn't
have these policies in place. And so, yes, the bar
(04:40):
is equal, but the access in the opportunity to get
to law school is not equal.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The rule have been frozen since February of last year
pause as soon as the Trump administration returned to the
White House and federal pressure on diversity, equity and inclusion
programs accelerated. The Department of Education had already warned other
accreditors that in racial diversity standard would be treated as
a violation of federal law.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I can understand that there are attacks in all locations
in our country right now, and this is one of them,
with attack on diversity, equity, inclusion, and as it continues
to be attacked, you'll see more organizations do things like this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
In one calendar year. The ABA is potentially repealing for
civil rights related standards at once. The rules on racism, bias,
non discrimination, and disability accommodation are lined up right behind it.
The repeal still has to clear the ABA's House of
Delegates in August. The official elimination may not be in
the books until twenty twenty seven, but the direction is set.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What I can say is, I don't think this is
the end. This is just a we're on a roller
coaster ride, and right now we're in that point in
history in our country where folks are fed up with
the efforts that we're being made with diversity, equity, inclusion,
and just like in the fifties and sixties, typically you
see people that are frustrated with it and then at
some point you get back on the upswing.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All right, it's Tuesday, which means it's time for the
front page two minute take. Every Tuesday, I take two
minutes to talk about something in the headlines that deserves
a little more honesty, a little more context, the thing
underneath the thing. And today we need to talk about
Jesse Waters Fox News and what was actually said on
national television because a few days ago on the Five,
(06:25):
Jesse Waters was talking about Black Americans losing congressional districts
and somehow his conclusion was black people need to have
more babies. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I did some research on the blacks. As Jude Jinine
so eloquently would said, the solution at Ha Kim's problem
the Scay Obama is baby making. Blacks for one hundred
and fifty years have only represented ten to fifteen percent
of the American population. Okay, that's not that much. So
if they want to have more seats, they got to
(06:58):
get in between the sheets.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
First of all, did everybody catch the part where this
man referred to black people as the blacks and then
they all laugh? Okay, and here's Senator Corey Booker. He
went on MS Now with Jonathan Kapart. So, first of all,
I just I'm sorry that was grotesque and I pity him.
He's right, it was disgusting. But let's be very clear
(07:21):
about something. Black Americans are not losing political power because
Black women aren't having enough children. That's not what's happening
in this country. Black voters are losing districts because maps
are being redrawn, because courts have weakened part of the
Voting Rights Act, because states are carving up Black communities
that have organized politically for decades. That's what this is.
(07:42):
And honestly, the audacity of telling black women they need
to do more in this country is really what got me,
because who has been doing more than black women politically?
Who keeps showing up for elections, who keeps organizing, who
keeps saving Senate races, governor races, presidential elections? Who keeps
dragging democracy across the finish line every time the country
(08:03):
gets in trouble? Black women? And now the conversation on
Cable News is, well, maybe y'all should produce more voters. No,
maybe stop suppressing the ones already here, because here's the
part that Jesse Waters skip. You could double the black
population tomorrow and politicians would still try and move district
lines around black voters. If the goal is maintaining power.
(08:25):
That's the real story, not the birth rates, not the blacks,
not some weird population panic on Fox News. The story
is that black political power keeps getting treated like a
problem to manage instead of citizens to represent. And maybe
before Cable News starts offering reproductive advice to black women,
they should explain why the people who do the most
(08:45):
voting somehow keep ending up with less representation. That's the conversation,
and that's your two minute take. After twenty nine years
on death row, Richard Glossop just walked that of prison,
his freedom paid for by Kim Kardashian. What's it like
to be out today?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What is this day like for you?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's overwhelming, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
At the same time, Glossip was convicted in the late
nineteen nineties for the murder of a motel owner. Prosecutors
say he masterminded a murder for higher plot He has
maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
They've offered me a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Life sentence at my second trial, and I turned it
down because I'm not going to.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Stand there and admit to doing something that I didn't do.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court threw out his conviction.
The court ruled the Oklahoma prosecution allowed a key witness
to lie under oath knowing the testimony was false.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
This conviction is an unjust conviction. It has been unjust
for thirty years. This never if the police had done
even a halfway decent investigation, this never would have happened.
If the prosecutors would have not cheated in the trials,
this never would have happened.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The state still plans to retry him, but the Attorney
General has said they will not seek the death penal
this time.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They can't prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So let's have that trial this weekend. In Oklahoma, judge
granted Glossop a five hundred thousand dollars bond to walk out.
He needed to post just ten percent fifty thousand dollars
in cash. Kim Kardashian wrote the check Kardashian, who is
currently studying law, has been quietly using her money and
her platform to pay for the release of people she
(10:26):
believes the system has failed. But here's the bigger picture.
Richard Glossip came within minutes of execution multiple times for
a case the US Supreme Court has now said was
built on a line that's your front page, I Me
Me Brown. This podcast is brought to you by the
Black Effect Podcast Network.
President Trump just dropped a ten billion dollar lawsuit against
the IRS days before judge demanded answers here that decision, you.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Would have to go first my desk. And it's so
fully strange to make a decision where I'm banging myself.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
And the American Bar Association has voted to end a
decades old diversity role for law schools.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Two steps forward and fifteen steps backwards and.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Twenty nine years on Oklahoma's death Row, a man is
now free on bond with help from Kim Kardashian.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, I'm just thankful for about life and my attorneys,
and I'm just happy.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
It's Tuesday, May nineteenth. From the Black Effects Podcast Network.
I'm Mimi Brown. This is front Page, and here are
today's biggest stories plus today on the two minute take
Fox News, redistricting and the lie underneath the joke. Stay
with me. A ten billion dollar lawsuit five by President
(01:00):
Trump against the IRS has been dropped by the President himself.
But what's coming next is the bigger story. Court documents
showed Trump is moving to set up a one point
seven billion dollar fund paid for by US taxpayers, to
compensate people who claim they were wrongfully investigated under the
Biden administration. According to ABC News, the fund is being
(01:21):
called the President Donald J. Trump Truth and Justice Commission.
The commission would pay people who claimed they were victims
of quote weaponization of the Justice Department under President Biden.
According to multiple news reports, that category includes January sixth defendants,
members of the Oath Keepers, members of the Proud Boys,
(01:42):
including some who were convicted of seditious conspiracy and then
pardoned by President Trump earlier this year. In other words,
the same people the President pardoned for January sixth would
now be eligible to receive taxpayer funded settlements through a
commission he controls. The commission would have five members. Trump
would have the right to remove any of them without cause,
(02:03):
and it would not be required to disclose how it
decides who gets paid.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
I don't even know how that's allowable to happen.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
This all stems from a lawsuit filed by Trump and
his two oldest sons against the IRS for ten billion dollars.
The lawsuit accused the agencies of failing to protect Trump's
tax returns after a former IRS contractor leaked his tax
returns to the press. The contractor was convicted and sentenced
to five years in prison, but the lawsuit itself raised
(02:32):
a problem. Trump sued as a private citizen, but the irs,
the Treasury Department, and the Justice Department. Attorneys defending those
agencies all fall under his presidential authority.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's interesting because I'm the one that makes a decision, right,
and that decision would have to go first my desk,
And it's softfully strange to make a decision where I'm
buying myself.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
The judge overseeing the case raised that concern in open court.
She asks outside lawyers to brief her on whether the
case was even appropriate for the court to hear. Those
experts came back with serious concerns. On Monday, Trump dropped
the case with prejudice, meaning he can't file it again.
But minutes later, nearly one hundred House Democrats submitted a
(03:14):
brief to the court accusing Trump of quote blatant self dealing.
Speaker 5 (03:18):
Is setting up a one point seven billion dollar political
slush fund for the Proud Boys and the Oathkeepers and
his other political lieutenants and hangers on.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
For taxpayers, here's the math. Every dollar in that fund
comes from you. The same agencies that collect your taxes
are being asked to pay them back out to people
the President has decided were wronged by the previous administration.
The decades old role that required every American law school
to commit to diversity is being repelled. On Friday, the
(03:51):
American Bar Association Council that controls law school accreditations voted
to repeal Standard two six. That role has for years
acquired every ABA accredited law school to show a real
commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions, and student programming. If
the law school wanted its graduates to be eligible for
the bar in most states, it had to show real
(04:12):
effort to recruit Black, Latino, Asian, American, Native American, and
women's students.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Some schools when they were banning African Americans, women and
other minority groups from being admitted, the ABA was lifting
some of those barriers out of the way. And so
when you have folks in the room that have went
through those types of things and had to go around
or jump over barriers, it makes it easier for you
to say and argue to the board, hey, we shouldn't
have these policies in place. And so, yes, the bar
(04:40):
is equal, but the access in the opportunity to get
to law school is not equal.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
The rule have been frozen since February of last year
pause as soon as the Trump administration returned to the
White House and federal pressure on diversity, equity and inclusion
programs accelerated. The Department of Education had already warned other
accreditors that in racial diversity standard would be treated as
a violation of federal law.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I can understand that there are attacks in all locations
in our country right now, and this is one of them,
with attack on diversity, equity, inclusion, and as it continues
to be attacked, you'll see more organizations do things like this.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
In one calendar year. The ABA is potentially repealing for
civil rights related standards at once. The rules on racism, bias,
non discrimination, and disability accommodation are lined up right behind it.
The repeal still has to clear the ABA's House of
Delegates in August. The official elimination may not be in
the books until twenty twenty seven, but the direction is set.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What I can say is, I don't think this is
the end. This is just a we're on a roller
coaster ride, and right now we're in that point in
history in our country where folks are fed up with
the efforts that we're being made with diversity, equity, inclusion,
and just like in the fifties and sixties, typically you
see people that are frustrated with it and then at
some point you get back on the upswing.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
All right, it's Tuesday, which means it's time for the
front page two minute take. Every Tuesday, I take two
minutes to talk about something in the headlines that deserves
a little more honesty, a little more context, the thing
underneath the thing. And today we need to talk about
Jesse Waters Fox News and what was actually said on
national television because a few days ago on the Five,
(06:25):
Jesse Waters was talking about Black Americans losing congressional districts
and somehow his conclusion was black people need to have
more babies. Listen to this.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
I did some research on the blacks. As Jude Jinine
so eloquently would said, the solution at Ha Kim's problem
the Scay Obama is baby making. Blacks for one hundred
and fifty years have only represented ten to fifteen percent
of the American population. Okay, that's not that much. So
if they want to have more seats, they got to
(06:58):
get in between the sheets.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
First of all, did everybody catch the part where this
man referred to black people as the blacks and then
they all laugh? Okay, and here's Senator Corey Booker. He
went on MS Now with Jonathan Kapart. So, first of all,
I just I'm sorry that was grotesque and I pity him.
He's right, it was disgusting. But let's be very clear
(07:21):
about something. Black Americans are not losing political power because
Black women aren't having enough children. That's not what's happening
in this country. Black voters are losing districts because maps
are being redrawn, because courts have weakened part of the
Voting Rights Act, because states are carving up Black communities
that have organized politically for decades. That's what this is.
(07:42):
And honestly, the audacity of telling black women they need
to do more in this country is really what got me,
because who has been doing more than black women politically?
Who keeps showing up for elections, who keeps organizing, who
keeps saving Senate races, governor races, presidential elections? Who keeps
dragging democracy across the finish line every time the country
(08:03):
gets in trouble? Black women? And now the conversation on
Cable News is, well, maybe y'all should produce more voters. No,
maybe stop suppressing the ones already here, because here's the
part that Jesse Waters skip. You could double the black
population tomorrow and politicians would still try and move district
lines around black voters. If the goal is maintaining power.
(08:25):
That's the real story, not the birth rates, not the blacks,
not some weird population panic on Fox News. The story
is that black political power keeps getting treated like a
problem to manage instead of citizens to represent. And maybe
before Cable News starts offering reproductive advice to black women,
they should explain why the people who do the most
(08:45):
voting somehow keep ending up with less representation. That's the conversation,
and that's your two minute take. After twenty nine years
on death row, Richard Glossop just walked that of prison,
his freedom paid for by Kim Kardashian. What's it like
to be out today?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What is this day like for you?
Speaker 4 (09:06):
It's overwhelming, but it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
At the same time, Glossip was convicted in the late
nineteen nineties for the murder of a motel owner. Prosecutors
say he masterminded a murder for higher plot He has
maintained his innocence since the day he was arrested.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
They've offered me a.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Life sentence at my second trial, and I turned it
down because I'm not going to.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
Stand there and admit to doing something that I didn't do.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Earlier this year, the US Supreme Court threw out his conviction.
The court ruled the Oklahoma prosecution allowed a key witness
to lie under oath knowing the testimony was false.
Speaker 5 (09:38):
This conviction is an unjust conviction. It has been unjust
for thirty years. This never if the police had done
even a halfway decent investigation, this never would have happened.
If the prosecutors would have not cheated in the trials,
this never would have happened.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
The state still plans to retry him, but the Attorney
General has said they will not seek the death penal
this time.
Speaker 5 (10:01):
They can't prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
So let's have that trial this weekend. In Oklahoma, judge
granted Glossop a five hundred thousand dollars bond to walk out.
He needed to post just ten percent fifty thousand dollars
in cash. Kim Kardashian wrote the check Kardashian, who is
currently studying law, has been quietly using her money and
her platform to pay for the release of people she
(10:26):
believes the system has failed. But here's the bigger picture.
Richard Glossip came within minutes of execution multiple times for
a case the US Supreme Court has now said was
built on a line that's your front page, I Me
Me Brown. This podcast is brought to you by the
Black Effect Podcast Network.
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