Leaked memos offer glimpse to how John Roberts puts his thumb on the shadow docket
As OA puts it, who else would protect the monocled man?
https://www.patreon.com/posts/leaked-memos-and-156236724
NYT has the memos
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/18/us/politics/supreme-court-shadow-docket-papers.html
#OpeningArguments #OpenArgsPod #podcast #USpol #SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #ShadowDocket
@georgetakei The Jordan Chiles olympic medal issue was just covered by comedian and lawyer podcast Opening Arguments
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/216730810
Sounds like she got cheated but might have a chance of getting an appeal as the US had less than one day to respond and had evidence the following day that was not included
Thanks to Flav for stepping up for Chiles then and for the women's hockey team now
Listen to Opening Arguments by Opening Arguments Media LLC on Podcast Addict. 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!
Opening Arguments podcast bought the Sandwich Guy's trial transcript
They will re-enact the whole thing for their Gavel Gavel podcast, but they covered the trial and approached frame by frame analysis of the actual throwing in Friday's episode
This story involves a sub and a hero
Do not throw sandwiches ( or anything else ) at people, but this podcast episode gives one more reason to sympathize with this guy
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/214017070
Podcast w/ immigration lawyer on messed
up racist immigration coverage from the New York Times
NYT got Canadian immigrant to complain that Biden wasn't fascist enough against immigrants, claims Biden wouldn't break enough laws and make dehumanizing immigration policies
NYT says Biden did too much, yet was paralyzed while doing so
Republicans caved to Trump and killed bipartison immigration bill, NYT blames Biden
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/213012677
Listen to Opening Arguments by Opening Arguments Media LLC on Podcast Addict. 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!
Opening Arguments podcast is starting to cover supreme courts cases that were actually good
Last week they covered "The Most Important LGTBQ Rights Case You’ve Never Heard Of"
It's a 1950s ruling that paved the way for some of the recent wins we've had ( that Thomas and Alito haven't yet been able to obliterate )
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/204950074
#OpenArgsPod #OA1183 #LGTBQ+ #OpeningArguments #podcast #EqualRights #GayRights #RothvUS #USpol
Listen to Opening Arguments by Opening Arguments Media LLC on Podcast Addict. 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!
"it is further ordered, plaintiff shall not file any other documents with the cartoon dragon"
Quote from a case was cited on Opening Arguments podcast's #FootnoteFetish
Before that they covered bad court thingies and good court thingies. Yes, there was court news that was good this week
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/197586306
#OpenArgsPod - a comedian and lawyer cover the law and current events and sometimes talk fonts
Friday's #OpeningArguments reminds us many people weren't fired by Musk and Trump
Illegal efforts to fire head of special counsel, Hampton Delllinger, were illegal. Reporters should say "attempted firing" or "purported to fire" and point out that the attempted firing was unlawful
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/192276937
Same goes for actions against the inspectors general
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/192276937
Imagine, "Bonny & Clyde drove through town stopping to make a bank withdrawal"
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"Rudy Giuliani and the Possibly the Worst Legal Document Ever Filed" is almost 2 hours of a comedian and lawyers laughing at Giuliani's "don't find me in contempt" filing, well one of them
Opening Arguments podcast episode from sister Gavel Gavel podcast
https://podcastaddict.com/opening-arguments/episode/191488600
grammar nerds should avoid, might cause traumatic response
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