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Opening Arguments

by 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!

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1
Ballots Seized in Georgia? Voting Chaos in Dallas? Here’s What to Make Of It.Please use this Draft for 03/16 - Libsyn Ads Ops
52:58 Mar 16, 2026
2
Trump’s DOJ Lets Ticketmaster off the Hook for No Reason
57:32 Mar 13, 2026
3
Kristi Noem's career has been put out of its misery
1:24:30 Mar 11, 2026
4
The Sketchy and Incredibly Recent Origins of the Major Questions Doctrine
1:11:41 Mar 9, 2026
5
SCOTUS Likely to Strike Down the Law Used to Convict Hunter Biden
58:42 Mar 6, 2026
6
Ghislaine Maxwell's brother might be the worst person in Epstein world
1:42:39 Mar 4, 2026
7
At This Point, Traffic Court Would Be An Upgrade
40:54 Mar 2, 2026
8
Ground Control to Major Questions Doctrine
53:15 Feb 27, 2026
9
The Case That Ended Forced Institutionalization (Mostly)
59:38 Feb 23, 2026
10
Small DoJ Energy
52:43 Feb 20, 2026
11
Alan Dershowitz Thinks the Age of Consent Is Too High — and Other Epstein Creeps, in Their Own Words
1:16:13 Feb 18, 2026
12
Election News Is Great! Election LAW News Is... Mixed.
49:21 Feb 16, 2026
13
We’ve Only Now Seen a Fascist Ice Memo Kept Secret Since May
49:30 Feb 13, 2026
14
Minnesota NoICE - Matt Went to Minneapolis and Has So Much to Tell Us
56:51 Feb 11, 2026
15
In 2024, the Bronze Was Unfairly Taken from Jordan Chiles. A Recent Court Win Means She Might Get It Back!
59:07 Feb 9, 2026
16
Um... Epstein might not have killed himself...
1:45:08 Feb 6, 2026
17
So... I guess DoJ needs to arrest itself for releasing CSAM in the latest Epstein files?
1:27:05 Feb 4, 2026
18
Gavel Gavel - Liz Skeen on Luigi Mangione's Case WITH 1/30 RULINGS UPDATE
57:11 Feb 2, 2026
19
All of a Sudden SCOTUS Cares About the Real World Effects of Their Decisions
57:37 Jan 30, 2026
20
The Complicated Web of Immunities That Makes Accountability So Difficult, Part 2
1:10:57 Jan 28, 2026
21
The Complicated Web of Immunities That Makes Accountability So Difficult
1:03:13 Jan 26, 2026
22
Greenland Is Ice and ICE Is Nazis
46:21 Jan 23, 2026
23
Silky Shah has been fighting ICE for its entire existence
1:02:39 Jan 21, 2026
24
RFK Jr. Is Practically Running a Tuskegee Syphilis Study and Almost No One Is Talking About It
1:01:58 Jan 19, 2026
25
Behold My Articles of Impeachment, Three
49:59 Jan 16, 2026
26
Let's see how the arguments against #AbolishICE have aged...
1:22:49 Jan 14, 2026
27
Does OA Owe Amy Coney Barrett An Apology?
1:56:57 Jan 12, 2026
28
PROSECUTE AND ABOLISH ICE
57:25 Jan 9, 2026
29
The Dumbroe Doctrine, Part 2
1:02:55 Jan 6, 2026
30
The Dumbroe Doctrine
53:54 Jan 5, 2026
31
A New Gavel Gavel Trial! U.S. v. Dunn - Assault with a Deli Weapon
53:07 Jan 2, 2026
32
LAM1010: The Rainmaker
54:25 Dec 31, 2025
33
Van Buren v. US and Amy Coney Barrett’s So-So Textualism
1:06:45 Dec 29, 2025
34
Happy (Hot)Boxing Day! Trump Moves to Reclassify Weed — But Didn’t Biden Already Do That?
47:14 Dec 26, 2025
35
OA Bonus Content E18 Listen in app We knew the Epstein plea deal was awful. Newly released emails make it EVEN WORSE.
1:29:12 Dec 24, 2025
36
The 1968 Case That Proves the Charlie Kirk Firings Were Illegal
1:05:35 Dec 22, 2025
37
The Federalist Says Trump Should Model Horrifically Racist 1920s Immigration Policies. He Already Is.
52:44 Dec 19, 2025
38
The NYT's Biden border article could have been written by Steve Bannon. It is STUNNINGLY bad.
1:45:23 Dec 17, 2025
39
Solitary Confinement Is Inhumane, Traumatizing, and Unnecessary. So Why Are We Still Doing It To People?
48:28 Dec 15, 2025
40
But Who Will Execute the Executer? The Supreme Court.
1:00:58 Dec 12, 2025
41
Ross Douthat says Trump's Christian Nationalism just needs more Christian in it
1:13:27 Dec 10, 2025
42
Trump Keeps Racking Up Ls in the Courts
47:14 Dec 8, 2025
43
Is Trump Playing “Pardon, Marry, Kill” With Narcotraffickers?
50:47 Dec 5, 2025
44
Trump hosts (and dozes through) absolutely unhinged Antifa Round Table
1:25:44 Dec 3, 2025
45
What Happens When an FBI Agent Investigates a Friend?
52:29 Dec 1, 2025
46
Let’s Go Around the Law Office and Say What We’re Thankful For
1:14:11 Nov 27, 2025
47
The Tragedy of True Crime
1:05:06 Nov 24, 2025
48
SCOTUS Made Gerrymandering So Easy, You’d Have to Be a Texas Republican to F It Up
58:20 Nov 21, 2025
49
Epstein files reveal he was BFFs with Steve Bannon and offered him USE OF THE ISLAND. and his house.
1:23:03 Nov 19, 2025
50
Emails reveal Larry Summers went to Epstein for advice on women. He STILL teaches at Harvard.
1:11:54 Nov 17, 2025
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