Florida Judge Says Congress Can't Make Noncitizen Voting a Federal Crime
OA1303 - Rapid Response Friday kicks off with two major under-the-radar stories that you may not hear anywhere else about major federal deci...
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VR46 - This week on Vapid Response Wednesday: A Bari Weiss double feature! We kick off with an amuse douche from CBS News's chill hang with...
The 5th Circuit Denied a Cop Qualified Immunity, So We Might Be in the Afterlife
OA1302 - Qualified immunity can be overcome! In the fifth circuit?! Come hear the good news, and learn some fourth amendment traffic stop ru...
DOJ Wants Every Federal Judge in Minnesota Recused (Good Luck With That)
OA1301 - IT'S FASCISM RESPONSE FRIDAY, and it's a lot. DOJ just filed a complaint trying to get every single active federal judge in Minneso...
John Yoo Wrote the Torture Memos and Never Paid for It. At All.
VR45 - Today on Vapid Response: 25 years after the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, we look back on the Forrest Gump of monstrously bad...
From Toga Guy to John Hinckley: A History of Pleading Insanity
OA1300 - The “insanity defense” might sound like a relic of a time when mental illness was viewed through the lens of demons and witches, an...
He Went to Prison for Bribing Susan Collins. She's... Totally Fine Somehow?
OA1299 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: what crimes might Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) have been complicit in, and why won't she ever b...
The Real Reason Coyote v. Acme Was Buried (It's So Much Worse Than a Tax Write-Off)
Coyote vs. Acme is such a fun movie. Thomas and Lydia saw it with the kids, Matt tried to borrow some kids to see it with, and has some fun...
The USPS Ballot Scheme Was Even Worse Than You Thought
OA1298 - Voting rights attorney Jenessa is back with a sprawling tour of election chaos, starting with the Supreme Court's unsigned order in...
Kash Patel Screws the Pooch
OA1297 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: SCOTUS once again confirms the color of the sky, the latest failures in DOJ’s attempts to prose...
Manosphere's Favorite Juror Had Active Restraining Order During Clancy Trial
VR44 - This week on Vapid Response: we survey some of MAGA’s worst takes on the recent mistrial of Lindsay Clancy, all the way from “women a...
A Blizzard of Lies - Dave Wedge on the Karen Read Trial
OA1296 - Dave Wedge is a veteran Boston reporter and New York Times bestselling author who covered (among many other things) hundreds of mur...
The 5th Circuit Says You Have No Right to Clean Water
OA1295 - Today on Rapid Response Friday: your questions about the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, actual justice for the Tate brothers, Trump’s mys...
Milo Yiannopoulos Lied About His Immigration Status (And We Can Prove It)
VR43 - Today on this special edition of Vapid Response: ICE boot enthusiast Milo Yiannopolous is not a particularly interesting person, but...
The First Openly Autistic Lawyer in Florida on What Law Firms Get Wrong
OA1294 - Haley Moss was the first openly autistic woman to practice law in Florida, and she is now an advocate for disability, autism, and n...
Most Lindsay Clancy Coverage Has the Law All Wrong
OA1293 - In this extra-special Rapid Response Friday, Thomas visits Boston to record live in Matt’s office and talk out two very different l...
ICE Went Undercover To Expose a Vast Antifa "Conspiracy"
Hey folks, no VR this week because Lydia and I are traveling. (We're in Boston, going to record RRF live together with Matt!) But folks NEED...
Supreme Court Says Why Prevent Trump Violating the Constitution Before It Even Happens?
OA1292 - Jenessa takes us through the Supreme Court's 6-3 shadow docket ruling in Trump v. California , which lifted a preliminary injunctio...
Meta Must Pay, Bannon's Judge Pushes Back, and a Dolly Parton Shoutout from the Bench
OA1291 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: the single biggest consumer protection settlement ever reached with any U.S. company puts new g...
Stephen Miller's America First Legal Has a YouTube Show (and it sucks real bad)
VR42 - Thomas, Matt, and Lydia take a long, hard look at America First Legal 's podcast "The Arena," hosted by Gene Hamilton, Stephen Miller...