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Election Night: We Streamed Until We Got Tired of Winning

VR49 - Live midterms watch party! Thomas, Matt, and Jenessa parked in front of three screens on election night and just let the good vibes happen. We've got Mike Johnson

Here's Why Voter Fraud Is Virtually Nonexistent, and What Experts Actually Fear

OA1310 - We all know by now that election fraud is rare, but do you know why? What mechanisms are in place that make us so sure it's rare, and not just rarely reported? J

"You Gotta Spend Voter Fraud to Make Voter Fraud" - James O'Keefe

OA1309 - With Matt out sick, we're doing a GG crossover, with a hot off the presses new story suitable for Rapid Response Friday. Back in August, James O'Keefe's rebrande

The Christian Reboot of the Scopes Monkey Trial Nobody Asked For

WE WATCHED A MOVIE SO CHRISTIAN WE HAD TO DOSE IT OUT IN TWO SITTINGS. Thomas and Matt are joined by Lydia for Alleged, a 2010 Christian retelling of the Scopes Monkey

They Wouldn't Be Flailing This Hard If They Thought They Were Winning

OA1308 - The election is coming up fast, with early voting already underway in many states. With an administration that is, let's say "do we really need elections?" curio

The More We Learn About the Ilhan Omar Raid, the Worse It Looks

OA1307 - Matt's got an update on the Ilhan Omar search warrant saga. We get into the genuinely bizarre citizenship limbo they're trying to put her in. In other news, FEMA

Tommy Teepell Gets Publicly Owned, and the Worst Cornell 7 Take Yet

VR48 - Today on Vapid Response Wednesday: the extremely believable backstory of some guy named Tommy who got publicly owned by Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul

Can You Sue a Drug Company When You Don't Know Which One Made the Pill?

OA1306 - We're on a winning streak! ...because we picked the winners. This week we cover two cases where the little guy comes out on top against the big corporation, and

NY Defense Attorney Calls the Tompkins County DA's Cornell Decision "Truly Stunning"

OA1305 - Matt's under the weather, so no normal Friday show this week. But don't panic, because we've got a treat instead: a crossover from Gavel Gavel where criminal def

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