Opening Arguments
Opening Arguments Media LLC
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!
Episodes (1281)
OA229: Andrew Miller & the Appointments Clause
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OA228: Jim Acosta, Sovereign Immunity & More!
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OA227: Brian Frosh Takes On Matthew Whitaker & More!
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OA226: How Dems Can Force Trump's Tax Returns
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OA225: Elections Have Consequences... for Jeff Sessions
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OA224: Andrew Debates Prof. Justin Walker!
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OA223: A Victory for Voting Rights in Pennsylvania!
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OA222: Entire WV Supreme Court Impeached?!
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OA221: Elections Have Consequences, Florida Edition
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OA220: Carter Page, Clownhorn
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OA219: Harvard and Affirmative Action
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OA218: Ashers Baking Co., Net Neutrality & Stormy!
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OA217: Can Ethics Complaints Take Down Kavanaugh?
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OA216: Court Packing & More (w/guest Chad Schneider)
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OA215: Is Gamble v US the Real Reason Behind Kavanaugh?
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OA214: Free Speech, NAFTA & Trump's Trans Ban
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OA213: Rachel Mitchell to Cross-Examine Dr. Ford at Kavanaugh Hearings
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OA212: Rod Rosenstein and... G. Zachary Terwilliger?
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OA211: Manafort Flips (and more on Kavanaugh)
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OA210: Cash Bail, Glucksburg and More
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OA209: Kavanaugh's Confirmation
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OA208: Moore is Still Less
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OA207: Brett Kavanaugh's Confirmation Hearings
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OA206: Will This ONE WEIRD TRICK Unravel the Mueller Investigation?
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OA205: More on Masterpiece, Younger & the Catholic Church (w/guest Andrew Seidel...
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OA204: The Perjury Trap (w/guest Randall Eliason)
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OA203: Paul Manafort Convicted, Michael Cohen Pleads
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OA202: Roundup (With Special Guest the SciBabe!)
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OA201: Follow Up Friday!
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OA200: Reporters and Confidential Sources
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OA199: Asbestos??!? (Or: Why Is This Man Smiling?)
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OA198: What Is Alan Dershowitz Thinking?
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OA197: Undetectable, Untraceable, 3-D Printed Guns
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OA196: Voting and Sore Losers
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OA195: Lordy, There Are Tapes!
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OA194: Paul Manafort is Going to Trial! (& McDonald's!)
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OA193: This Is Worse Than Watergate - PLUS Mandalay Bay Suing Victims?
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OA192: Capital Punishment, the Eighth Amendment &... Obergefell?
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OA191: Fact and Fiction About Brett Kavanaugh
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OA190: Good News, Everyone! (On Abortion Rights & More)
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OA189: Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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OA188: Three Cases About Voting Rights
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OA187: Lowering the Lukumi Bar?
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OA186: Anthony Kennedy & the Future of the Supreme Court
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OA185: Gerrymandering & Other Good (?) News
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OA184: Families at the Border
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OA183: Dissenting on the Supreme Court
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OA182: Paul Manafort is Going to Prison
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OA181: Michael Avenatti is Never Going To Come On Our Show (#NotAllLawyers)
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OA180: Masterpiece Cakeshop
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