Episode 1026
The transcript is in! The first official written record from the first trial of a former President in U.S. history was just released hours before recording, and we dig in for a first look from the first full day of proceedings (Monday April 23rd) to find out which of the 4...
2024-04-24 10:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1025
Today we take on two law stories the media have been getting wrong recently.
1) Did the Supreme Court just "end the right to protest in three states"? We go beyond the headlines to better understand Justice Sonia Sotomayor's denial of certiorari in a negligence suit broug...
2024-04-22 07:20:24 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks,
I was reminded that we used to use quotes for 25 episodes. Seems like we're due for a change! Here is where you can suggest them like old times. To have the best chance of getting your quote picked, make sure to link a good quality source, with a timestamp, and make sure the quot...
2024-04-19 20:06:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1024
We have a jury! The preliminaries are nearly complete in the first criminal trial of a former president in US history, and we take this opportunity to review what we know so far about the Manhattan DA's prosecution of Donald Trump for funneling hush money to Stormy Daniels thre...
2024-04-19 08:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill, what do you want to hear OA cover for Friday?
Please let us know! And also, please use that heart button on comments to give us an indication of numbers, so we can gauge interest!
And, if you have specific legal questions on a given topic, fee...
2024-04-17 21:37:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Last week's answers, this week's questions!
April 15th marks two significant events in US history: the 11th anniversary of Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev's bombing of the Boston Marathon, and the first day of jury selection in the first criminal trial of a former US President. These two very different situations both share one im...
2024-04-15 10:03:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1022
Courts in Arizona and Florida have both ended abortion rights in very different (but both terrible) ways this month. Did Arizona actually resurrect a 160-year law passed decades before it was even a state? And how weird can it get when you go full originalist on a law that is y...
2024-04-12 09:58:52 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill, what do you want to hear OA cover for Friday?
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2024-04-10 23:44:35 +0000 UTC View Post
As usual, we've got last week's answers and this week's questions! Some fun and tricky ones...
OA1021
On March 26, 2024 a container ship the size of the Eiffel Tower named for the world's most famous surrealist destroyed a bridge named after the author of the U.S. national anthem yards from one of the most notable sites of our country's least popular war. Who was Francis Scott Key an...
2024-04-08 08:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for a round of Trump updates, starting in Florida with the responses to Judge Aileen Cannon's weird request that the parties try making up new law that she could try out on a jury if this case ever finally makes it to one. Is Jack Smith's response to this nonsense everything we'd w...
2024-04-05 08:54:39 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill, what do you want to hear OA cover for Friday?
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2024-04-03 20:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Can you believe it, it's T3BE8! You know the drill, we answer last week's questions, honor two winners, and then ask two more questions!
But Matt has a new bar exam book, and it's going to be quite fun, if these questions are any indicator. Deviously hard, needlessly complex, extremely sil...
2024-04-03 06:18:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Most criminal defendants can't kill 346 people and expect to get off with a light fine and three years of probation, but most criminal defendants are not The Boeing Company. In today's show, we examine the differences between different kinds of pretrial diversion agreements and why the best ones ...
2024-04-02 09:35:17 +0000 UTC View PostThe normal Sunday night episode will be Monday night this week, due to Easter and some stuff going on in Matt's schedule.
See you then!
2024-03-31 22:46:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1018 - GOOD NEWS EPISODE!
It's positive vibes only as we celebrate the impending disbarment of MAGA law toadies John Eastman and Jeffrey Clark, the first but-actually-for-real-this-time Trump trial date, and some extremely real threats to your favorite President's sacred F...
2024-03-29 06:33:51 +0000 UTC View PostYou know the drill, what do you want to hear OA cover for Friday?
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2024-03-27 19:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
It's week 7, and it's a Next Generation of test. Make it so! Oh also, we're still dogged by controversy, #T3BEgate2.5 but we've got a fall guy and it's Matt. Question 12 was a repeat and Matt is to blame and accepts the inevitable public shaming. But 13 was new! And, now we've got an entirely new...
2024-03-27 05:31:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1017
He had a plea agreement with the government which he thought would get him 8-14 months. He ended up with 5 years. What happened? Also, was this Democrats' version of January 6th Casey joins this week to help to answer an OA patron's question about the plea agreement reached in ...
2024-03-25 08:31:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Who is Aileen Cannon? Why is Aileen Cannon? We answer these important questions and many more in this brief review of the incomprehensible jurisprudence of the best federal judge in Fort Pierce, Florida.
Hey folks, since last week's post was a massive success, let's make it a weekly tradition! We've got a lot of news we're tracking, but what do you want to hear OA cover for Friday?
Please let us know! And also, please use that heart button on comments to give us an indication of num...
2024-03-20 18:19:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Massive controversy shakes T3BE to its core. Thomas and Matt respond to the international outcry and media firestorm generated by allegations that T3BE is using repeat questions.
After that, we get two TOTALLY DEFINITELY NEW practice bar exam questions. Topics are appealing to SCOTUS re Sta...
2024-03-20 03:57:40 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1015 Part 2 of Azul's story
Folks... I implore you. I beg of you, please listen to this one all the way through. Azul tells us the rest of her story, and talks about where she is now, and it is one of if not the most inspiring, heartwarming things I have ever had the privilege of pu...
2024-03-17 07:08:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Emergency Bonus Pod! - Fani Willis and the Odor of Mendacity
Judge MacAfee has issued a ruling on the Fani Willis disqualification motion. Ge...
2024-03-16 05:33:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1014
We begin by pouring a Tequila Sunrise out for the charges against three memorabilia collectors charged with stealing old Eagles lyrics, in which the unexpected airing of 6,000 pages of Don Henley's dirty laundry had Manhattan prosecutors realizing last week that they truly...
2024-03-15 06:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostLet us know what issues you want to hear coverage of on #RapidResponseFriday
We have our eyes on some stories, but we were also thinking it would be super helpful to know what folks are curious about and think needs more/better coverage. So what legal topics in the news are you hoping OA co...
2024-03-13 19:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Week 5!
Ok so last week revealed to us that the "hot unbreakable streak" was not, in fact, unbreakable. No one could have seen this coming though, so no use in playing the blame game. Thomas comes into the week 5-2. Will he go to 5-4? Or 7-2? Or perhaps the other p...
2024-03-13 07:57:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1013
Today, we get to meet Azul Uribe. Azul lived most of her life in the US as a devout Mormon, doing her best to get by in a sea of Whiteness. She even made jokes at her own expense about being undocumented. That all changed when she was arrested at age 22 under bizarre and very u...
2024-03-11 10:23:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 1012
Does anyone else feel like the Supreme Court decided a part of the Constitution just doesn't exist anymore? Perhaps you're like Listener Thomas S, who found this decision absolutely nuts. If so, you're in luck, because in this episode of OA, Thomas throws every argument at actu...
2024-03-08 08:17:02 +0000 UTC View Post