Opening Arguments show

Opening Arguments

Summary: Every episode, legal expert Andrew and comic relief Thomas will tackle a popular legal topic and give you all the tools you need to understand the issue and win every argument you have on Facebook, with your Uncle Frank, or wherever someone is wrong on the Internet. It's law. It's politics. It's fun. We don't tell you what to think, we just set up the Opening Arguments.

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 OA258: Title X and Trump's War on Women | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:08:21

Today's episode takes a deep dive into the latest regulations promulgated by Trump's Department of Health and Human Services regarding Title X funding.

 OA257.5 Michael Cohen Testifies, Part 2 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:15:14

Today's episode continues our breakdown of ex- Trump fixer Michael Cohen's testimony before the House of Representatives and all the Yodel Mountain implications that stem from it. We also check in on Roger Stone aide Andrew Miller's quest to invalidate the Mueller investigation AND a weird development in Paul Manafort's sentencing.

 OA257: Michael Cohen Testifies, Part 1 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:07:42

Today's episode breaks down ex-Trump fixer Michael Cohen's testimony before the House of Representatives and all the Yodel Mountain implications that stem from it.  What's next?  Listen and find out!

 OA256: The Bladensburg Cross | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:02:35

Today's episode takes a deep dive into the Bladensburg Cross case currently pending before the Supreme Court with special guest Sarah Henry of the American Humanist Association. 

 OA255: Wall of Emergency | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:19:41

Today's episode breaks down Trump's recent declaration of a state of national emergency as a pretext to build his big, dumb wall.  What's being done about it?  What can be done about it?  Listen and find out!

 OA254: Mueller, She Wrote! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:05:40

Full-length interview with AG of Mueller She Wrote

 OA253: Religious Freedom and Domineque Ray | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:14:49

Today's episode tackles the recent Dunn v. Ray decision in which the Supreme Court used a procedural mechanism to allow the State of Alabama to execute a devout Muslim without affording him the same sorts of religious freedom they do to Christian inmates. 

 OA252: Constitutional Conventions & the "Proud Boys" | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:09:33

Today's episode features a deep dive into a listener question about Article V Constitutional Conventions.  Are they dangerous?  (Yes.)  Are they a good idea?  (No.)  We also discuss the latest ridiculous defamation lawsuit.. and discover why this one is a little different.

 OA251.5 Abortion Special - More on June Medical Services v. Gee | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 46:11

This rapid-response bonus episode tackles the Supreme Court's late-breaking stay of the 5th Circuit's opinion in June Medical Services v. Gee, with a particular emphasis on dissecting Justice Brett Kavanaugh's dissent.  What does it all mean?  Listen and find out!

 OA251: Gerrymandering in Maryland Heads Back to SCOTUS | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:23:00

Today's episode returns to one of the most critical political issues of our time:  gerrymandering of congressional districts, and in particular, the state of MD-6, which pits the Democrats as villains and Republican voters as the plaintiffs alleging disenfranchisement. 

 OA250: One Quarter of a Thousand Episodes! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:24:12

Today's very special episode is our 250th!  To celebrate, we've assembled a compilation of some of our favorite moments over the past two and  half years.

 OA249: Overturning Roe v. Wade Starts Today | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:25:22

Today's episode sounds the alarm as to whether our activist right-wing Supreme Court is ready to effectively overturn Roe v. Wade and essentially permit the entire state of Louisiana to all but ban the right to an abortion in that state.  We're NOT an alarmist podcast, but this is something you need to be watching.  We also follow up on the Trump Shutdown, answer a listener question regarding the Hilton lawsuit from last episode, and (of course) take our weekly visit to Yodel Mountain, this time on the b

 OA248: The Cert(iorari) Show! | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:13:42

Today's episode features a deep dive into a bunch of different issues around granting the writ of certiorari -- "cert" -- and some of the intricacies of how the Trump administration is trying to take advantage of the activist Supreme Court.  Oh, and we also tackle a lawsuit that's being grossly misrepresented by the media.

 OA247: Status of the Trans Ban | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:34:56

Today's episode tackles the recent Supreme Court orders in the Trump ban on transgender servicemembers.  How did we get here and what's next?  Listen and find out.

 OA246: Alex Jones & Sandy Hook | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:18:15

Today's episode features a deep dive into the latest developments in the lawsuit brought by parents of the victims in the Sandy Hook Massacre against Alex Jones and Infowars for repeatedly portraying the school shooting as a hoax. We also discuss who's to "blame" for the 2016 Presidential Election AND take a trip to Yodel Mountain.

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