Trump Messed With the Mouse. Now He Gets the Ears.
OA1289 - Is Disney/ABC’s bold new legal action against the Trump administration one of the most important First Amendment challenges of our...
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20 of 1,275 episodesBaseball Crank Asks "What Have Refugees Done for Me Lately"
VR41 - What does a “moderate conservative” sound like in August 2026? Thomas and Matt take a closer look at two very different self-proclaim...
Police Sued for Blatant Misuse of Facial Recognition. It's NUTS.
OA1288 - What happens when a hotheaded cop who isn’t interested in putting in much effort to solve a crime meets up with another cop who thi...
The Tates Seek Release, Super-Duper Promise They Won't Flee
OA1287 - Today on Rapid Response Friday: Todd “Two Taints” Blanche flexes his new freedom as two Tates blanch at the loss of theirs, and a l...
Ross Douthat Leaves NYT for Bari Weiss. Here Were Some of His Worst Columns.
VR40 - This Vapid Response Wednesday, we note the end of Ross Douthat’s 17-year run as the resident New York Times conservative columnist wi...
Melissa Murray Gives the Constitution Some Strict Scrutiny
OA1286 - NYU Law professor and Strict Scrutiny co-host Melissa Murray joins to discuss (among many other things) her new book, Sonia Sotomay...
Cornyn and Tillis Negotiate Meaningless Concession from Blanche
OA1285 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: regulators, mount up! We take a closer look at the actual documents provided to the Senate Judi...
Did Mamdani Wipe Little Italy Off the Map?
VR39 - Vapid Response Wednesday returns with a tasteful pairing of stories about alleged anti-Italian discrimination that go together like c...
How a Bank Robbery Became a Fourth Amendment Landmark
OA1284 - Can a modern court implement modern solutions? It really depends on your perspective. Despite some baffling misconceptions about ho...
The Most Brazen and Corrupt Heist in American History (GG Crossover!)
Apologies for being a little late on this one! Donald Trump sued the IRS, an agency he currently runs, for leaking his own tax returns, and...
LAM1015: Outlaw
LAM1015 - Jimmy Smits stars as a gambling, sports-shooting Supreme Court Justice with a law clerk paid to fend off his advances, in NBC's fo...
How SCOTUS Paved the Way for Flock Cameras
OA1282 - Is anything private any more? Depends which Supreme Court Justice you ask. To kick off a series of episodes around data privacy and...
Todd Blanche Can Also Lie and Dodge Questions in Writing Too!
OA1281 - As we wait on the final vote tally for Attorney General nominee Todd Blanche, we take a look at written responses which he recently...
Law on the Spectrum, with Peter O'Neil
OA1280 - Peter O’Neil was preparing for retirement after decades of practicing law when he learned that he was autistic at the age of 65. Th...
What Happened to You, Todd Blanche?
OA1279 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: A federal judge rips up the corrupt “settlement” Trump reached with his own IRS at the unpreced...
Nancy Mace Thinks Anyone With a Foreign Name Is Disloyal
VR38 - This week in Vapid Response Thomas, Lydia, and Matt review some truly awful takes from a MAGA economist on the true cause of low crim...
The MAGA Justices Get Torched by... Amy Coney Barrett?!
OA1278 - On its face, the decision in Watson is a pretty narrow ruling. Some states allow ballots postmarked on or before election day, but...
It's Not Just Prairieland and Broadview. More Lives Are Being Ruined by Unjust Prosecutions.
OA1277 - We continue our coverage of the Trump administration’s criminalization of dissent with a brief update on the sentencing of the last...
Ben Shapiro is having AI write his columns, and apparently not even the good models
VR37 - Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh both wrote furious, error-riddled columns attacking the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling in T...
Trump Is Once Again Trying to Change the Law With Memos
OA1276 - Who could have predicted this? Us! The Trump administration has made their complete disdain for people with disabilities clear sinc...