Opening Arguments
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Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas!The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!
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Episodes (1281)
OA707: Peter Navarro Gets Spanked By Government In Presidential Records Case Wit...
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OA706: Flynn "Sold Out" His Country... and Now He's Suing It!
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OA705: Can Dominion Really Take Down Fox News??
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OA704: Democrats Play Offense On January 6!
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OA703: You Win a Toy Yoda! And 100 Grand!
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OA702: Will Donald Trump Be Held Civilly Liable for Inciting the January 6th Ins...
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OA701: Fox's Defamation F-Tussle and the Texas Broodmare Tax
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OA699: Will Scumbag Payday Lenders Use the Supreme Court to Crush Liz Warren's D...
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OA700: Rumors Of Trump's Testimony In Strzok Suit May Be Greatly Exaggerated
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OA698: Will Clarence Thomas Break the Internet? (Probably Not.)
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OA697: Feelin' the Brn(ovich)
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OA696: In Which James O'Keefe Pretends to Be A Journalist
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OA695: Ken Paxton Isn't the Boss of You
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OA694: Dominion v. Fox: Defamation Suits Are Hard But Shutting Up is Harder
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OA693: Is It A Good Thing When Your Lawyer Is Subpoenaed by a Grand Jury to Test...
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OA693: Mike Pence Can't Testify Against Trump, 'Cause He's a Senator Now!
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OA691: Donald Trump and the Magical Classified Nightlight
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OA690: Jack Smith Speaks Softly but Carries a Big Subpoena
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OA689: Lawsuit or Interpretive Dance? Why Not Both!
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OA688: Oh No, the Privilege is MINE!
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Andrew Torrez - Apology
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OA687: Trump Sues Woodward, Gets Close to Making a Valid Legal Argument
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OA686: The Robot Lawyers Are Coming! ...Or Are They?
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OA685: The Alec Baldwin Charges
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OA684: Why We Haven't Seen the Georgia Grand Jury Report Yet
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OA683: Peter Navarro Pursues Executive Privilege Through the Sands of Time
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OA682: Trump Forced to Pay SO Many Other People's Legal Fees...
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OA681: The New Republican House Rules Are... Yikes.
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OA680: The Pathetic SCOTUS Leak Investigation Fizzles
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OA679: Norm Can't Stop Effing Up at Lawyering
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OA678: Dersh's Sanctions Defense Somehow Keeps Getting Worse
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OA677: Our Critical Hit (Piece) On the Gizmodo's Critical Hit (Piece) on Wizards...
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OA676: Kel McClanahan on the Biden Docs
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OA675: Gizmodo's Critical Hit (Piece) on Wizards of the Coast
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OA674: Norm Pattis Is Taking A Little Mandated Break From Lawyering
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OA673: "Don't Sanction Me, I'm Old!" – Dersh
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OA672: How Conservative Courts Rewrite History
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OA671: Speaker McLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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OA670: Cassidy Hutchinson's Lawyer Was Working Against Her
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OA669: The Witnesses Against Donald Trump
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OA668: A New Case Right Wing Sources Are Blatantly Lying About
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OA667: The Referrals Have Been Made. Now What Will It Take To Convict?
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OA666: This Week on Liz's LOLsuits
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OA665: Kari Lake Should Have Quit Several Sanctionable Lawsuits Ago. And Yet She...
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OA664: Trustees Call BS on Alex Jones's Bankruptcy Shenanigans
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OA663: Elon Dumps 42 Million More Shares of Tesla
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OA662: The Nothingburger Twitter Files
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OA661: Monster Cable and the Best CnD Response Ever
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OA660: Alex Jones... Declares... (personal) BANKRUPTCYYYYYY
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OA659: Trump Is Ffffffffffbleeped
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