The 10 Best Opening Arguments Podcast Episodes
1) Polygraphs and the Limits of Scientific Evidence in Court
OA1200 - We've got another great law and science episode for ya! Are polygraphs admissible? Do they work? Matt and Jenessa talk about the history, law, and science of polygraphs, and how criminal cour...Show More
2) They’re Going to End the Voting Rights Act. But at Least We Got to Hear KBJ Murder a Guy in Court
OA1199 - Voting rights expert Jenessa Seymour takes us through this week’s oral arguments in one of the most important cases before the Supreme Court this term: Louisiana v. Callais, which has the pot...Show More
3) Atlantic publishes Caitlyn Flanagan's love letter to Bari Weiss for some reason
It’s Vapid Response Wednesday, and Thomas, Lydia, and Matt are back to take apart more bad-faith nonsense from some of the worst people in public life. First up: The Atlantic's Caitlyn Flanagan on why...Show More
4) The National Emergency Continues to Nationally Emerge
OA1197 - The National Guard is being federalized and sent into cities that the President doesn’t like against the explicit will of state governors and local populations. Matt covers as much as we know...Show More
5) That Time the Supreme Court BANNED PRAYER in Schools... Except They Didn’t
OA1196 - This week in our continuing Still Good Law series, Matt and Jenessa take on the 1963 Supreme Court case which is still believed to hold the record for angering the most Americans at the same ...Show More
6) Stephen Miller Is Just Having People Killed Now
OA1195 - How much of the federal government has actually shut down, and why? We explore the truth behind the spin, and Matt breaks the exclusive story of how at least one part of the executive branch ...Show More
7) Take It From Two Defense Attorneys - DO NOT TALK TO THE COPS
OA1194 - NY defense attorney Liz Skeen joins to talk about the evolution (or devolution?) or our Miranda rights in the past several decades. How does an actual criminal defense attorney who deals with...Show More
8) KATZ RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME
OA1192 - This week in Still Good Law: Katz v. U.S., the 1967 Warren Court case which on its face decided that the Fourth Amendment may apply to a public phone booth. But that’s hardly all: the federal...Show More
9) Charlie Kirk sucked and we won't be pretending otherwise
VR 7 - Part 1 of 2. Vapid Response Wednesday has been blessed with a surplus of truly awful takes in the days following the murder of MAGA luminary Charlie Kirk. After a brief reminder of who this man...Show More
10) Miranda v. Arizona, and the Fascinating Science of False Confessions
OA1190 - “You have the right to remain silent.” Anyone who grew up on American crime dramas can recite the rest of these famous warnings from memory, but do you know the whole story of Miranda v. Ariz...Show More