The answer for T3BE41 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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We are excited to welcome Georgetown law professor Steve Vladeck back to Opening Arguments for a look back at how the Supreme Court responded to the infamously unruly--and increasingly more extreme--Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in its last term. How did the 5th “win by losing,” and why is there still cause for future concern even after SCOTUS reversed all but three of the eleven cases it took up from them? What kind of messages are the high court justices trying to send back to...
2024-09-23 05:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1070
We begin today’s show with updates on two small victories for the power of art against the Donald Trump legal-industrial complex before turning to our main story: the biggest leak of internal communications in Supreme Court history. We review what we can learn about how Chief Justice John Roberts has been managing his (and the Court’s) public image from the extremely unauthorized release to the New York Times of memos that we were never supposed to read. <...
2024-09-20 08:14:10 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Wednesday, all! What do you want to hear OA cover this week?
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2024-09-18 19:38:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE40 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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OA1069
Matt is doing a bit of blending of work and pleasure today, by sharing with everyone his footnote fetish. Let's all make this a safe place for Matt to share his more controversial proclivities. Joining us is the author of the book in the episode title, Peter Charles Hoffer. Professor Hoffer is Distinguished Research Professor of...
2024-09-16 08:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1068
We begin with a quick review of some of the stranger legal issues raised in this week’s Presidential debate, including such mysteries as whether it is legal to murder babies upon delivery and the factual guilt of the Central Park Five 22 years after they were exonerated by DNA evidence and a third-party confession. In our main story, we review the chaos that the Supreme Court’s legalization of Presidential crime is already causing in Donald Trump’s hush-money case and discu...
2024-09-13 08:07:46 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE39 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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We're recording this week's RRF a little earlier, so we need your feedback early too! What do you want to hear OA cover? What are your burning questions/topics/concerns?
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2024-09-10 19:53:53 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1067
After some of the strangest post-conviction twists in US legal history, the Supreme Court of Maryland has just reinstated Serial killer Adnan Syed’s conviction for the murder of his high school ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee 25 years ago. We begin by revisiting Matt’s first-ever legal podcasting deep dive with Thomas on Serious Inquiries Only (SIO354) shortly after Syed’s conviction was initially reinstated by the Maryland Appellate Court last April. Ho...
2024-09-09 05:28:26 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1066
Privyet, fellow citizens! We begin with a quick look at recent events following Jack Smith’s new superseding indictment in Trump’s January 6th case in DC. Why are Trump’s lawyers saying that Clarence Thomas “directed” them to file a motion to dismiss? And does DC federal judge Tanya Chutkan even care that this defendant who happens to be charged with four counts of trying to overturn an election is running for President at all?
Then i...
2024-09-06 06:22:39 +0000 UTC View PostHappy Wednesday! As we prep for Friday's episode, we want to know (as always) what do you want to hear OA cover this week?
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2024-09-04 21:06:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE38 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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OA1065
(This episode first appeared on Gavel Gavel Aug. 18th)
Three years ago, cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on the set of Alec Baldwin's film, Rust. Alec Baldwin (in addition to armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed) was subsequently criminally charged with involuntary manslaughter. Recently, Baldwin's counsel brought a motion for dismissal and sanctions, and after a sho...
2024-09-02 06:33:03 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1064
One angry Matt brings us two stories from this week’s news:
After taking some time to think about the Supreme Court’s decision that former US presidents can’t be prosecuted for anything involving--or in any way touching on--”official acts,” special counsel Jack Smith has returned to a grand jury to obtain a superseding indictment in his DC prosecution of Donald Trump. How has he retooled the charges relating to the January 6th conspiracy? How much weaker will this...
2024-08-30 08:35:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, we're settled on this week's topics for Friday's show, but want to hear any particular questions you may have so we can try to address them. And, as always, heart the ones you'd like to have answered on the show!
We'll be covering the Jack Smith news, as well as the stay issued by the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the Keeping Families Together program.
2024-08-28 22:02:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE37 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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Hey folks! Wanted to give you all a preview of the bonus we just released. If you'd like to hear the full thing, please head to patreon.com/law and pledge at the 2nd tier or above! Thanks!
Yay LAM is back and booker than ever! Neil Gorsuck wrote an incredibly bland book and Matt read it for some reason. Let's find out how much suck can a Gorsuck suck if a Gorsuck coul...
2024-08-27 06:44:56 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1063
We are excited to bring you a fascinating conversation with Attorney Diana Adams (they/them) of the Chosen Family Law Center, a New York City-based non-profit which advocates for LGBTQIA and other non-traditional families of all backgrounds and descriptions. Diana is one of the nation’s leading advocates for rethinking how governments, courts, employers, and other institutions can accommodate committed relationships beyond the norms of romantic and/or sexual monogamy, including...
2024-08-26 06:37:09 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1062
We begin with a brief update on Disney’s truly Mickey Mouse arguments in a Florida wrongful death lawsuit before discussing three other questionable legal claims from the week’s news:
As expected, Hunter Biden has tried to use findings from a Florida federal court that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed to have his own pending federal tax charges dismissed in California. Can this creation of Aileen Cannon’s imagination survive in the wild? 2024-08-23 05:52:54 +0000 UTC View Post
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2024-08-21 19:22:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE36 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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OA1061
This week Matt shares a mostly under-the-radar story which has completely changed his understanding of the events of September 11, 2001.
As the 23rd anniversary of the attacks approaches, a mountain of information emerging from lawsuits filed by 9/11 families has revealed far more extensive ties between both al-Qaeda and at least two of the hijackers to the Saudi government than were ever previously known. Why has justice taken so long? How does the law even allow thi...
2024-08-19 07:05:39 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1060
This week Matt breaks down four very different legal actions:
1. Donald Trump is suing the United States--yes, the same United States that he is running to be the President of--for $100 million based on the FBI’s alleged violation of the Florida common law tort of “intrusion upon seclusion” in executing a valid search warrant on Mar-A-Lago two years ago. Is Trump just spiking the legal football after his big win in front of federal judge Aileen Cannon in Jack Sm...
2024-08-16 08:47:16 +0000 UTC View PostFolks, we have some ideas lined up for this week but still want to know we're covering what you all are looking for on #RRF. What do you want to hear OA cover this week?
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2024-08-14 18:35:22 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE35 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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OA1059
This week we welcome Rhode Island state senator Meghan Kallman for a conversation about the power of state lawmaking and ordinary people in elected office.
Meghan is a professor of sociology at UMass Boston whose work in both the theory and practice of how people organize led her to a parallel career in politics. As the Democratic Presidential ticket coalesces around a woman and (for the first time since 1980!) a non-lawyer, we discuss the unique challenges which women stil...
2024-08-12 09:50:43 +0000 UTC View Post
OA1058
We begin with Neil Gorsuch’s recent appearance on Fox News. How normal is it for a sitting Supreme Court justice to go on Fox News, and did Gorsuch really just threaten the Biden administration over its relatively minor court reform proposals?
In our main story, we break down two major antitrust suits from the past week: Elon Musk’s ridiculous claim that corporations which refuse to advertise on a social media platform which has failed to regulate ne...
2024-08-09 07:20:34 +0000 UTC View PostWhat do you want to hear OA cover this week?
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2024-08-07 18:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post
The answer for T3BE34 is coming your way, and we launch our next Bar Prep question with Heather!
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