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)
OA179: Abortion and Plea Bargaining
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OA178: Trump and the NFL
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OA177: Neil Gorsuch's Epic Decision & the NFL (feat. Chris Kristofco)
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OA 176: It's Summer (Zervos) Time!
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OA175: Defending a Client In the Shadow of the Death Penalty (& So Much More!)
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OA174: Is Michael Avenatti Fit To Practice Law In New York?
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OA173: The Foreign Policy Show - Korea, Iran, and... Ann Coulter?
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OA172: Private Prisons, Judge Ellis & More
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OA171: Andrew Seidel Joins the Five-Timers Club
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OA170: All Yodel, All the Time
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OA169: Wells Fargo Goes To Jail?
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OA168: Michael Cohen Takes Five
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OA167: Neil Gorsuch, Secret Liberal?
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OA166: The Taint Team (& Also, Alex Jones)
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OA165: You Heard It Here First! (Abortion Rights, Gun Control, and Offensive T...
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OA164: As American As Baseball, Hush Money, and... Segregated Schools?
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OA163: Whatcha Gonna Do, Brother? OA vs. Sinclair Broadcasting, the CLOUD Act...
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OA162: Tariffs and Trade
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OA161: Gun Control & the Constitution
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OA160: Schrodinger's Andrew
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OA159: What Was So Bad About Watergate? Part 1: The Saturday Night Massacre
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OA158: Cambridge Analytica
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OA157: Are Originalist Judges Qualified? (w/guest David Michael)
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OA156: Conor Lamb & Pennsylvania Recounts
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OA155: Corporations Are People, My Friend... (and More Stormy)
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OA154: Stormy Daniels is a Legal Genius
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OA153: March Madness on Yodel Mountain
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OA152: Discrimination is for Dick's?
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OA151: Equal Access, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and HR 620
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OA150: Janus, The Angry Roman God Of Doorways (And Labor Law?)
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OA149: Russian Indictments & Utah Silence (feat. Bryce Blankenagel)
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OA148: The Parkland Massacre
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OA147: The Satanic Temple (featuring Lucien Greaves)
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OA146: Clearing the White Board!
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OA145: Britt Hermes and German Defamation Law
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OA144: Our Football-Free Superb Owl Edition
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OA143: Same-Sex Couples and Citizenship
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OA142: The Opioid Crisis -- A (Mostly) Non-Partisan Friday
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OA141: Stormy Daniels Answers Your Tax Questions
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OA140: DACA and More!
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OA139: Cara Santa Maria & Why Two Dudes Named Iqbal and Twombly Are Hanging Out...
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OA138: Pot, Gerrymandering, and Net Neutrality
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OA137: How to (Almost) Defame Someone and Get Away With It -- The SciBabe Story...
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OA136: Chevron Deference Has Consequences -- Particularly For Paul Manafort!
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OA135: The OA Inaugural Democratic Presidential Candidates Fantasy Draft
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OA134: Do Intergalactic Extraterrestrial Anchor Babies Use Cryptocurrency?
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OA133: So You Want To Go To Law School?
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LAM2: Miracle on 34th Street with Eli Bosnick!
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OA132: The Thomas Show! Can He Serve on the Federal Bench? Why is His High Scho...
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OA131: Andrew^2 (w/guest Andrew Seidel)
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