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)
OA324: Trump's 9 Crimes and Misdemeanors
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OA323: LA Live Show QnA!
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OA322: Blackouts, Taxes & House Rules
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OA321: More on #Brexit
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OA320: The (Idiotic) Hearsay Defense
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OA319: Your Guide To Impeachment!
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OA318: Quid Pro Quo Burger
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OA317: North Carolina Rep. Christy Clark
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Bonus! Whistleblower Breakdown
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OA316: Unsealing Mueller's Grand Jury Testimony & Other Yodel Mountain Madness
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OA315: North Carolina & Brexit
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OA314: The Supreme Court and Trump's Asylum Rules
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OA313: Devin Nunes Is A Crazy Cow Farmer
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OA312: Gerrymandering in North Carolina
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OA311: Opioids Are A Nuisance!
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Law'd Awful Movies #28: Alex Jones Deposition
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OA310: Citizenship and the Military and...
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OA309: Can Stormy Daniels Bring Down Hope Hicks?
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OA308: Faithless Electors
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OA307: Apportionment - The Census Fight Is Not Over
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OA306: From Gavin Grimm to Jeffrey Epstein
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OA305: Live From New York!
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OA304: Chelsea Manning & More
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OA303: Katy Perry & Facebook
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Introducing Sean Carroll's Mindscape
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OA302: #DemocracyRIP
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OA301: The Good News Show!
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OA300: Mueller Testifies!
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OA299: Executive v. Judiciary (Worcester v. Georgia)
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OA298: Hope Hicks & Weaponized Ticks
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OA297: Twitter, Emoluments & Labor Unions
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OA296: Understanding the Jeffrey Epstein Indictment
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OA295: A Bladensburg Post-Mortem With Monica Miller
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OA294: How To Fix The Supreme Court!
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OA293: My Deference & Auer Deference (Kisor v. Wilkie)
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OA292: The End of Democracy
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OA291: Wildcard, Clownhorns! (Non-Compete Clauses & More)
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OA290: Executive Privilege, Hope Hicks & Don McGahn
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OA289: #OpposeJustinWalker
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OA288: More Led Zeppelin! (& Legal Ethics with Amy Chua)
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OA287: Down the Hatch (Act)?
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OA286: The Census and Disenfranchisement
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OA285: Tulsi Gabbard & Michael Flynn
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OA284: Drain the Swamp, Starring Gordon Hartogensis
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OA283: Mueller Speaks! (& Clarence Thomas Pens a Nonsensical Concurrence)
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OA282: OREO (& The Real HUD Scandal)
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OA281: Follow the Money! (Analyzing Judge Mehta's Order)
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OA280: Abortion Rights Under Assault
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OA279: Deutsche Wanna Loan?
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OA278: The Founding Myth (w/guest Andrew Seidel)
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