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The Trump Trial Is On, and Lordy There Are Transcripts!
Episode 1026 The transcript is in! The first official written record from the first trial of a former President in U.S. history was just released hours before recording, and we dig in for a first look
Did The Supreme Court Just Make Protest Illegal In 3 States?
Episode 1025 Today we take on two law stories the media have been getting wrong recently. 1) Did the Supreme Court just "end the right to protest in three states"? We go beyond the headlines to better
Trump's Criminal Trial Is Moving Right Along!
Episode 1024 We have a jury! The preliminaries are nearly complete in the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, and we take this opportunity to review what we know so far about the
T3BE Week 10! Disappearing Wallets and Fake Philanthropy
Last week's answers, this week's questions! If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at!
11 Years Ago Today, A Brutal Act of Terror
April 15th marks two significantevents in US history: the 11th anniversary of Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev's bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the first day of jury selection in the first crimina
Arizona Republican Party Like It's 1864
Episode 1022 Courts in Arizona and Florida have both ended abortion rights in very different (but both terrible) ways this month. Did Arizona actually resurrect a 160-year law passed decades before it
T3BE Week 9! Prescription Negligence and Breach of Contract
As usual, we've got last week's answers and this week's questions! Some fun and tricky ones... If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at!
RERELEASE: Immigrant Workers Died Repairing Bridge Named After Slaveholder
Hey folks, due to an annoying technical glitch, I'm just re-releasing this episode. This was some weird backend problem with our hosting. The file looks completely fine everywhere that I can see, but
Immigrant Workers Died Repairing Bridge Named After Slaveholder
OA10121 On March 26, 2024 a container ship the size of the Eiffel Tower named for the world's most famous surrealist destroyed a bridge named after the author of the U.S. national anthem yards from on
Jack Smith's Smackdown of Judge Cannon
Episode 1020! It's time for a round of Trump updates, starting in Florida with the responses to Judge Aileen Cannon's weird request that the parties try making up new law that she could try out on a j