Opening Arguments Podcast

For sure! Thomas was taking a step back and will be more involved now but Jenessa will still be regularly involved in OA and Serious Inquiries Only

Cover page from the transcript of the first day of trial of the DC sandwich thrower (US v Dunn's)

EXCLUSIVE! By special arrangement we now have the ONLY copy of DC sandwich tosser Sean Dunn's federal trial transcript which will ever be produced after his acquittal

Look out for professional trial reenactments and analysis re: this extremely serious legal matter, soon only on #GavelGavel!

Type Artist Who Created the Font the White House Now Uses Says 'Fuck Trump' My weird, niche obsession is fonts—so when the White House's website redesign dropped, I was curious to know if the artist agreed with what their design was being used for.

Also have to admit that the official Trump 2.0 White House typeface set (Instrument Serif & Sans) is pretty solid, although condolences to the developer

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In your heart you know he is right: Calibri is not a serious font

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR

A version of the Simpsons "Lionel Hutz" newspaper ad modified to use the words in Keith's post. So bright red punctuation modifies otherwise grey text from "KILL THEM ALL" to "KILL THEM ALL?" and from "NO SURVIVORS" to "NO, SURVIVORS!"

Scoop: The letter behind Trump's pardon of Honduras' ex-president for drug trafficking The surprise announcement of Hernandez's looming pardon is a window into the unorthodox, norm-shattering way Trump grants clemency.

Coming this Rapid Response Friday: Trump plays a round of Pardon Marry Kill with international narcotraffickers, the legal aftermath of the DC National Guard shooting, and a story from Matt's week that you will have to hear to believe

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YouTube video by Serious Pod Network Trump hosts (and dozes through) absolutely unhinged Antifa Round Table

This week on Vapid Response Wednesday we pull up a seat at the White House's Antifa Round Table and find it to be disappointingly light on knights and pizza and heavy on guys who were thrown into holes

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Thanks Chris! OA is for everybody and we especially appreciate hearing from our non-American listeners

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Ready for a break from legal news? Check out our Thanksgiving special in which you'll get to meet just a few of the incredible people in my immigration law office, from George the emotional support dog to my law partner @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social

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The very best thing about hosting a podcast is the baked-in excuse to invite people whose work you admire to have a one-hour conversation with you. These were both such interesting interviews!

Thanks for listening!

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Just listened to Matt’s Thanksgiving episode. It was fantastic and uplifting. Thank you!

Congrats also to Lennon's longtime friend, champion, and publicist @meganposco.bsky.social for shepherding his book and its promotion through the extraordinary challenges presented by the realities of the author's life in Sing Sing

Proud to see that two of our favorite author interviews each made the NYT Best Non-Fiction list this year!

Well-deserved congratulations to John J. Lennon (The Tragedy of True Crime, OA1210) and Professor Michelle Adams (The Containment, OA 1198)

The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us [Lennon, John J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Tragedy of True Crime: Four Guilty Men and the Stories That Define Us

This week's conversation with author, jorunalist, & convicted murderer John J. Lennon calling in from Sing Sing is one of the most interesting we've ever had. John's new book has so much to say about the true crime industrial complex, and what it is doing to us all

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Michael Wolf for Slate on Epstein's writing: I mean, Jeffrey Epstein, in person, was actually an incredibly insightful and articulate and often amusing person. But when he would write things, I would think, God, this is like—OK, I don’t know really what’s going on here. I kind of think written words were at best secondary to him. In many of the emails that I got from Jeffrey Epstein, I thought, I do not know what he’s talking about.

Michael Wolf: "In many of the emails that I got from Jeffrey Epstein, I thought, I do not know what he’s talking about.“

Glad it's not just us! It's Epstein emails week on OA, so check out both episodes and what we can learn about the people who wheedled, enabled, and/or fully covered for him

lmao the comeuppance 👨‍🍳👌

THIS IS BIG

For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

If it were conducted honestly it would, but of course it is a political and not a legal process. But best plan would be to stick with the simplest possible articles of impeachment and not try to get into unnecessary legal or factual nuance is all

Exclusive: Trump administration holds Situation Room meeting over House effort to force release of all of DOJ’s Epstein files | CNN Politics Top Trump administration officials met Wednesday with a key GOP lawmaker about an effort in the US House to force a vote on releasing Justice Department case files related to Jeffrey Epstein, accordin...

7/ As recently as yesterday, Trump was pressuring members of his own party in another branch of government not to join the petition to release the Epstein records which is now possible with the long overdue inauguration of Adelita Grijalva yesterday. Impeachable AF!

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*not historically impeachable, and probably best to stick with the obvious kill shots in the coverup

Of the many things that Trump--or really any president in history--ever could have been impeached for, I am starting to allow myself to believe that this attempted DOJ/FBI coverup has been so obvious, so corrupt, and about something *so universally toxic* that it could actually go to conviction

DOJ goes 0-3 in requests to unseal Jeffrey Epstein grand jury materials Two other federal judges already denied DOJ’s requests to publicly release the material.

6/ Also never forget that DOJ wasted the time of three federal judges seeking Epstein grand jury transcripts--something they knew that they would never be able to get, and didn't--just so that they could claim that Trump didn't appear in them (which means nothing)

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Sadly not impeachable, but they should be mentioned as often as possible during this impeachment anyway

YouTube video by Serious Pod Network The Ghislaine Maxwell Interview Was Institutional Corruption Like We've Never Seen Before. Truly.

5/ The single worst thing? Trump sending former defense attorney/current DOJ henchman Todd Blanche to record Epstein's accomplice swearing her assurance of Trump's innocence in exchange for a prison transfer. We tried to convey to non-lawyers just how bad this was here:

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FBI personnel were told to flag Epstein files mentioning Trump, Senate Democrat says Sen. Dick Durbin questioned DOJ leadership over their handling of the Epstein files, including reports that FBI personnel were told to "flag" any mentions of Trump.

4/ We *know* that the FBI tasked ONE THOUSAND agents with scouring the Epstein files over the course of a few weeks in March, and that they were ordered to flag any which mentioned Trump. That last part should be impeachable by itself!

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