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Save the Date! Q&A Coming Up!

Come hang out with Thomas, Lydia, and Matt (and maybe other special guests)!

Wednesday, February 26th, at 3pm Pacific/6pm Eastern!

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We Have a King Now I Guess. Cool. Cool.

OA 1128 - First: an urgent question from a patron on Trump’s latest executive power grab. Matt explains the history of the “unitary executive theory” and the Federalist Society-backed movemen...

What Should We Cover on RRF?

Help us narrow down what things we need to be covering this week for you all! Chime in below with what legal news has been on your mind that could use some good OA analysis. Don't forget to heart a...

T3BE59!

Since you fine folks already heard the second part of the Thursday Night Massacre, this one is just T3BE and the shoutouts!

2025-02-19 10:47:24 +0000 UTC View Post

The Thursday Night Massacre

OA1126 - Law'd Awful Boves

We interrupt your regularly-scheduled LAM for readings and commentary on the documents at the heart of what has quickly become one of the most...

Episode delay

Hey folks, we recorded a gargantuan amount (with Liz Skeen!) on the Thursday Night Massacre and I need some extra editing time. Will get it out sometime tomorrow!

Thank you!

Drinking from the Firehose of Fascism

OA1125 - (NOTE: Acting US Attorney for SDNY Danielle Sassoon’s resignation letter and DOJ acting deputy Emil Bove’s acceptance of that letter were published while we were recording this episode...

It's Wednesday! Which Means #RRF Prep!

You know the drill - tell us what kind of legal goings-on have been on your mind that you need answers to ("all of them" is a totally fair response because what is this world anymore), and be sure ...

DoJ Memo Written In Crayon On Olive Garden Kids Menu Directs SDNY to Drop Eric Adams Case

OA1124 and T3BE58 - Emil Bove drafted an insanely stupid and corrupt memo ordering SDNY to stop prosecuting the case against the insanely stupid and corrupt (and guilty) Mayor Eric...

How the Insurrectionist Might Use the Insurrection Act to Go After Non-insurrectionists

OA1123 - Insurrection enthusiast Donald Trump sure seems to be looking for an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 in a little-noticed section of one of his flurry of Inauguration Day exec...

It's Only Been 18 Days, But That's An Eternity in DOGE Years

OA1122 - We’re not even three weeks into the second Trump administration and already well into our first Constitutional crisis. How was the world’s richest man given access to the nation’s ch...

Comment Your #RRF Questions!

It's Wednesday which means it's prep-time for our Rapid Response Friday episode. The focus is likely going to be Elon Musk's coup, so drop any questions you have in that realm, and be sure to heart...

The Pro-vaccine Republican Doctor Who Just Just Gave His Vote to RFK, Jr.

OA1121 and T3BE57 - Senator Bill Cassidy is one of the few remaining Republicans in national politics that resembles a normal human being. He is a doctor, and is very pro...

Rudy Giuliani and the Possibly the Worst Legal Document Ever Filed

OA1120- This episode was first published on our sister show, Gavel Gavel, and has been made available at no charge for our w...

People Are Fighting Back Against Trump’s Fascist Agenda in the Courts, and They’re Already Winning

OA1119 - Trump's executive orders are bad for humanity--and just plain badly written. We survey some of the 20 major legal challenges which have been filed against this nonsense--including two earl...

Calling All #RRF Questions

Oh boy, well we have somehow made it another week, which means we're getting to work on preparing our episode for Friday. Tell us what kind of legal goings-on have been on your mind that you need a...

Key Figure Behind Project 2025 Lies His Way Through Confirmation

OA1118 and T3BE56 - Russell Vought lied in his confirmation hearing, but who is Vought and why should we care? Lydia gets us up to speed on this capital-d Doozy, with his back...

The Vacancies Act - How Trump Has Used and Abused It, and Might Again

OA1117 - As Donald Trump’s executive branch nominees continue to work their way through the confirmation process, we welcome Stanford Law professor Anne Joseph O’Connell to learn more about one...

Give us your questions! Patron QnA in ~2hrs

Calling all patrons! While the live hangout is reserved for folks at $3 and up tiers, we wanted to open up the ability to ask questions for all you fine folks!

Post your...

It's Hangout/Q&A Time!

Come hang out with Thomas, Lydia, and Matt (and maybe other special guests)!

Tuesday, January 28th, at 3pm Pacific/6pm Eastern!

What to know:

• The Zoom lin...

  2025-01-27 05:32:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Triaging All the Horrible

OA1116 - We take stock a few days into the second Trump administration to consider the current state of ICE enforcement, Trump’s blatantly unlawful overrule of the recent Supreme Court decision f...

A #RRF Thread in the Darkest Timeline

Well it has been THE LONGEST WEEK EVER, but we're looking forward to answering questions you may have for Rapid Response Friday! Matt has some things up his sleeve, but we'd love to hear from our f...

Trump's Executive Orders Are All Absurd and Horrible. But Which of them Actually Matter?

OA1115 - Matt joins for a special Wednesday to provide an initial review of some of the most notable of the 26 executive orders which Donald Trump signed after his inauguration on ...

We (Disrespectfully) Dissent.

OA1114 - “We are now faced, my friends, with the fact that tomorrow is today.” --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4, 1967)

We begin the second Trump administration exactly wher...

We've Had One Jack Smith Report, Yes. But What About Second Report?

OA1113 - Special counsel Jack Smith recently resigned and turned final reports in each of Donald Trump’s federal cases to Attorney General Merrick Garland. We examine the enigma of the man and th...

Democratic Senators Faced Their First Test in the Trump 2.0 Era - the Hegseth Confirmation

OA1112 and T3BE55! 

But who will watch the doozy watchers? We will. We watched Pete Hegseth's confirmation hearing, but our focus might have been a bit different than el...

We Watched the Eastman Documentary Trump Screened at Mar-a-Lago

OA1111 - The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice? 

We're giving everyone half of this Law'd Awful Movies! We watched John Eastman's... 2025-01-13 10:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post

Trump Has His Own Entire Genre of Law Now

OA1110 - For the first time in US history, an American President (both former and future) is facing criminal sentencing. We review Judge Juan Merchan’s most recent ruling on Donald Trump’s moti...

What do YOU want to hear this #RRF?

Friday is quickly approaching, so as always, we're asking our fine patrons to share what legal explainers they're looking for!

Comment below with your suggestions on wh...

The Hysterical Victimhood Complex of John Eastman

OA1109 and T3BE54 - John Eastman is many things: a hack, a liar,  a disgraced law school dean, a failed Wikipedia editor, and a mostly-disbarred, twice-indicted traitor to the Constitution on ...