Opening Arguments

What the Media Are Getting Wrong About the Ilhan Omar Raid

VR47 - Federal agents raided Ilhan Omar's house this week, possibly over a decades-old conspiracy theory. Matt Explains what the media are getting wrong about the inciden

This Guy Beat Qualified Immunity Twice, in Two Different Circuits

OA1304 - Qualified immunity does not strike again! In a case out of the 10th circuit, with the same plaintiff from last week's Rosales v. Lewis/Terrell, the court once ag

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 decisions out of Florida and Massa

Samuel Alito's Victory Lap and Douglas Murray's Deportation Jetpack Fantasy

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 a cool guy from Trenton. Samue

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 rules along the way. CHECK YOU

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 Minnesota booted off immigration case

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 legal takes: former DOJ lawye

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, and it turns out it is… but also

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 be prosecuted for any of them?

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 legal observations for us. B

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 USPS v. California: nobody kn

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 prosecute Trump’s political opponen

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 are too woke and emotional to b

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 murder trials as a reporter for t

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 mystery meat, and the Fifth Circu

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 his recent unexpected removal

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 neurodiversity in the workplace

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 legal stories in the news that

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 to hear this episode of Gavel

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 injunction blocking Trump's executive or