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)
OA565: How Madison Cawthorn Could Be Kept off the Ballot
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OA564: The Reteyerment; At-Will Employees Forced to Stay? and Avenatti vs Stormy...
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OA563: Microsoft, Activision, and Monopoly Law!
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OA562: Supreme Court Rules Against Trump; Interview with Rep. Raja Krishnamoorth...
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OA561: Why Ghislaine Maxwell Could Get a New Trial
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OA560: Supreme Court Just Plain Making Sh*t Up In Vaccine Ruling
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OA559: Nirvana Baby Lawsuit Dismissed... Or Was It?
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OA558: One Year Since 1/6 - What Merrick Garland Said (and Didn't Say)
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OA557: Terpsichore's Comically Terrible $1.7 Billion Lawsuit
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OA556: Maxwell Convicted; BBC Invites Dershowitz to Comment Despite Massive Conf...
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OA555: Dems Must Gerrymander to Level the Playing Field - A Look at Redistrictin...
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OA554: 6th Circuit Overrules Atrocious 5th Circuit Ruling on Vax Mandates
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OA553: The Supreme Court Commission Failed. Gabe Roth Joins Us to Discuss Why
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OA552: Will Joe Manchin Save Democracy? No, Really! ... Stop Laughing...
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OA551: Trump May Out of Office but His Federal Judges Are Not
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OA550: Oxford Shooter's Parents Charged
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OA549: Greedy Billionaire MLB Owners Stage Lockout
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OA548: Supreme Court Signals Roe v. Wade's Demise
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OA547: Can Alex Jones Take the 5th?
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OA546: Three Racist Murderers Found Guilty of Murdering Ahmaud Arbery
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OA545: The 1/6 Commission Continues To Do Work
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Bonus: Rittenhouse Acquitted on All Charges
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OA544: Debunking the Left's Rittenhouse Trial Myths
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OA543: Morgan Stringer Breaks Down The Astroworld Tragedy
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OA542: Oklahoma Supreme Court Overturns Verdict Against Opioid Companies
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OA541: Monica Miller on Happy the Elephant and Legal Personhood for Animals
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OA540: The Bizarre Case of Steven Donziger
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OA539: Pablo Escobar's Cocaine Hippos Are People, My Friend (?)
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OA538: The Rittenhouse Trial Instructions, Explained
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OA537: Why CA Prop 22 Was Ruled Unconstitutional
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OA536: The Tennessee Judge Who Keeps Jailing Kids
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OA535: Roe is Doomed. Contraceptives Could Be Next - Part 2
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OA534: State and Federal Agencies Now Fighting EACH OTHER in Blizzard Activision...
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OA533: Roe is Doomed. Contraceptives Could Be Next
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OA532: OK I'll Bite What is the Debt Ceiling
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OA531: Pop-law! Nirvana Sued by the Nevermind Baby; and a #FreeBritney Update!
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OA530: Andrew Testifies to Congress on Christian Healthshare Ministries!
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OA529: The Weird Al Deep-Dive We Didn't Know We Desperately Needed
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OA528: Disgraced Ex-President Sues Niece Mary Trump
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OA527: The Hilarious Legal Battle Over 'OlneyFans' Parody Article
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OA526: Updates from Five Cases on the OA Docket
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OA525: Insurrectionist Mounts Sovereign Citizen Legal Defense, Hilarity Ensues
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OA524: Laurence Tribe Thinks Grendel's Den Case Will Stop the Texas Abortion Law...
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OA523: Is the CA Recall Unconstitutional?
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OA522: Roe v. Wade is Dead.
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OA521: Knowledge Fight Explains the Owen Shroyer Grift
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OA520: Kraken Lawyers Hit with Sanctions! YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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OA519: No, Britney Spears' Dad Is NOT Stepping Down as Conservator
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OA518: Terpsichore Tries Her Hand at Frivolous Lawsuits
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OA517: Cuomo Resigns; Dominion Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss - AKA Conseque...
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