Passing Judgment Podcast
1) Mifepristone - What Do You Need To Know About The Abortion Pill Litigation?
In a nation of complicated legal machinations, the mifepristone situation is especially complicated. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk last week suspended a number of laws regulating the popular a...Show More
Mifepristone - What Do You Need To Know About The Abortion Pill Litigation?
12:30 | Apr 14th, 2023
2) How Strong Is DA Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump?
Depending on what you've heard, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's case against former President Trump is somewhere between frivolous or airtight. And it is likely that one's position depends on the beholder'...Show More
3) What Is It Like To Cover the Supreme Court For More Than Three Decades? (Guest - David Savage)
Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage joins Jessica on this special episode of Passing Judgment. Savage has been covering the Supreme Court for more than 30 years, a time period that h...Show More
4) Everything You Need to Know About the $1.6 billion Dominion v Fox Case
The biggest defamation case we've seen in decades is about to go to trial. Dominion Voting Systems, a manufacturer of electronic voting machines and associated software, has sued Fox News and Fox Corp...Show More
5) Everything You Need to Know About Trump's Indictment
Former President Trump will be criminally indicted. This is a historic first. But what does it mean legally and politically? Jessica walks through what we're likely to see in the indictment, what an a...Show More
6) Why I'm Worried the New York District Attorney Will Indict Trump
It looks likely that former President Donald Trump will soon be indicted by New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg for his role in the 2016 hush money payment to adult film performer Stormy Daniels st...Show More
7) Will the Supreme Court invalidate Pres. Biden’s student loan program? (Guest - Adam Liptak)
Will the Supreme Court conclude that President Biden overstepped his authority when he created a $400 billion student loan forgiveness program? Adam Liptak, the Supreme Court reporter for The New Yor...Show More
8) Will the Supreme Court Upend Legal Protections for Tech Companies? (Guest - Michael Macagnone)
This week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could change the Internet as we know it. Two cases, one case was brought against YouTube by the family of an individual was killed in an...Show More
9) Spy Balloons and UFOs (Guest: Mariana Alfaro)
On January 28th of 2023, what appears to be a Chinese surveillance balloon entered U.S. airspace north of the Aleutian Islands in Alaska. President Biden ordered the balloon to be shot down. In subseq...Show More
10) Getting to the Bottom of the SCOTUS Leak. Or Not. (Guest: Steven Mazie)
Something rare happened in the Supreme Court last year: News that the decision in the Dobbs case would scuttle nearly half-century-old abortion protections of Roe v Wade leaked before the Court announ...Show More