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)
OA277: The Republican Civil War
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OA276: Did Kansas Really Show Us The Way Forward on Abortion Rights?
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OA275: Yes, Bill Barr Perjured Himself
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OA274: Arguing Before the Supreme Court (with Monica Miller)
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OA273: Sears, Steve Mnuchin & "The Producers"
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OA272: Impeachment, Redactions, and Russia
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OA271: Dis-Barred (?) – The Mueller Report
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OA270: Happy Tax Day!
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OA269: Julian Assange Arrested
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OA268: Article V Conventions (w/Lawrence Lessig)
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OA267: Originalism and the Eighth Amendment (Bucklew v. Precythe)
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OA266: Auer Deference & Florida Felons
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OA265: The Investigation is Over, But the Investigations Continue (feat. Randall...
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OA264: The Barr Summary of the Mueller Report
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OA263: Nielsen v. Preap and Due Process Due Aliens
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OA262: Is Gideon v. Wainwright in Trouble??
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OA261: Sentencing Paul Manafort
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OA260: Res Ipsa Loquitur
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OA259: Your Guide to the Congressional Investigations
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OA258: Title X and Trump's War on Women
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OA257.5 Michael Cohen Testifies, Part 2
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OA257: Michael Cohen Testifies, Part 1
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OA256: The Bladensburg Cross
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OA255: Wall of Emergency
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OA254: Mueller, She Wrote!
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OA253: Religious Freedom and Domineque Ray
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OA252: Constitutional Conventions & the "Proud Boys"
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OA251.5 Abortion Special - More on June Medical Services v. Gee
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OA251: Gerrymandering in Maryland Heads Back to SCOTUS
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OA250: One Quarter of a Thousand Episodes!
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OA249: Overturning Roe v. Wade Starts Today
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OA248: The Cert(iorari) Show!
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OA247: Status of the Trans Ban
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OA246: Alex Jones & Sandy Hook
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OA245: More on Barr and the Shutdown
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OA244: Clarence Thomas vs. Thurgood Marshall
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OA243: Build That Wall!!
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OA242: Larry Klayman is Still Crazy After All These Years
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OA241: Is This The C-Hook That Could Send PG&E To Prison??
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OA240: Libertarianism is Still Bad & You Should Still Feel Bad
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OA239: The Fourth Circuit's Puzzling Emoluments Ruling
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OA238: Merry Christmas! (With Matt Donnelly)
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OA237: Lowering the... Barr (Memo)
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OA236: Stairway to... the Supreme Court??
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OA235: Corporations Are People, My Friend... Criminal People
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OA234: Civil Forfeiture, Berkeley & More!
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OA233: [REDACTED] & Wisconsin
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OA232: Trump's Plan to Weaponize the Census (& Bridgegate!)
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OA231: The End of the Beginning (for Trump)
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OA230: TOO MUCH MEAT!
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