Expert analysis on legal issues and cases in the news.
Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and scholars on the legal stories making news and shaping the world.
Michael Gerrard, a professor at Columbia Law School and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses the Trump administration’s revocation of the bedrock of climate rules. Constitutional law professor David Super of Georgetown Law, discusses the tens of billions of dollars President Trump is suing various organizations and people for. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Bloomberg Law senior reporter Holly Barker discusses the trial of superstar Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein on tax charges. Then former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, talks about Luigi Mangione’s outburst in court. And immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the Trump administration’s mandatory detention policy. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the double jeopardy claims at Luigi Mangione’s federal and state trials. Holly Barker, Bloomberg Law senior reporter, discusses superstar lawyer Tom Goldstein’s testimony at his criminal tax trial. June Grasso hosts. To contact the reporter on this story: See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg legal reporter Zoe Tillman discusses how courts have stopped President Trump’s cuts to funding in more than half of the spending fights last year. Then an expert in tort law, Michael Green, a professor at Washington University School of Law, discusses the implications of the $8.5 million verdict against Uber in a case alleging sexual assault by a driver. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, and the former head of the Office of Civil Immigration Litigation during the Obama administration, discusses the Fifth Circuit allowing the Trump administration to keep immigrants in detention without bond. Then Bloomberg Law reporter Suzanne Monyak discusses the DC appeals court weighing whether to undo the block a judge placed on the government's freezing of federal grants. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Bloomberg legal reporter David Voreacos discusses the outburst of Luigi Mangione in court over being prosecuted by both state and federal prosecutors for the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Then Dana Whitfield, a partner at Spar & Bernstein, discusses Uber losing its first case over sexual assault by a driver. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
June Grasso talks to the top lawyers about the biggest legal stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Environmental law expert Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law & Graduate School, discusses the five straight court losses the Trump administration has suffered in the attempt to stop wind farms. Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the policing of intellectual property at the Olympics. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Barbara McQuade, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School and a former US Attorney, discusses the implications of the FBI’s raid on the main election center for Fulton County, Georgia. Environmental law expert Dave Owen, a professor at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco, discusses the Arizona Republican legislature trying to bypass the State’s Democratic Governor and Attorney General to challenge a monument designation by former President Joe Biden. June...
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the case of a 5-year-old boy taken by federal immigration authorities and two judges blasting the Trump administration for its immigration enforcement policies. Then Bloomberg Law senior correspondent Alex Ebert discusses the confidential documents the Pulitzer Prize Board is demanding from President Trump in his defamation lawsuit against the Board. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...
Elections law expert Rebecca Green, a professor at William & Mary Law School, discusses the implications of the FBI seizing the voter rolls of Fulton County, Georgia. Holly Barker, Bloomberg Law senior reporter, discusses the trial of Tom Goldstein, a well-known Supreme Court litigator. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Dave Aronberg, Former Palm Beach County State Attorney, discusses the possible prosecution of the federal immigration agents involved in killing two US citizens in Minnesota. Then Colin Walke, a cybersecurity and data privacy partner at Hall Estill, discusses the first social media addiction trial. And Ron Bienstock, an entertainment lawyer and partner at Fox Rothschild, discusses Kid Rock’s testimony about the astronomical costs of concert tickets. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener...
Colin Walke, a cybersecurity and data privacy partner at Hall Estill, discusses the landmark social media addiction trial against the tech giants starting in Los Angeles. Bloomberg law reporter, Suzanne Monyak, discusses the Supreme Court’s emergency docket by the numbers. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Christy Lopez, a Professor at Georgetown Law and the Former Deputy Chief in the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department, discusses the Trump administration’s Minnesota crackdown where two people have been killed by federal agents. Then Madlin Mekelburg, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses Republicans asking the Supreme Court to block California’s new voting map. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Reilly Steel, a professor at Columbia Law School and an expert on the intersection of business and politics, discusses President Trump suing JP Morgan Chase and CEO Jamie Dimon. Retired federal judges Shira A. Scheindlin and John E. Jones III, discuss a new initiative entitled, “The Principles on Preserving the Independence of the Legal Profession.” June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Second Amendment expert Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the SCOTUS oral arguments on a Hawaii gun law called the “vampire rule.” Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses SCOTUS oral arguments on President Trump’s attempt to fire Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the immigration issues of the week, from the confrontations between protesters and ICE agents in Minneapolis, to the turn the case of Mahmoud Khalil has taken. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments over President Trump trying to fire Fed Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. Then Hayley Lawrence, the Executive Director of the Duke Center for Firearms Law, discusses Supreme Court arguments over a Hawaii law restricting the carrying of guns. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
David Cole, a professor at Georgetown Law and the former National Legal Director of the ACLU, discusses Supreme Court oral arguments on state laws banning transgender girls and women from competing on female athletic teams. Then environmental law expert Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law & Graduate School, discusses Louisiana’s fight against Big Oil at the court. And Anya Bidwell, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, discusses whether the ICE officer who shot a Minneapo...
Anya Bidwell, a senior attorney at the Institute for Justice, discusses whether the family of the woman shot by an ICE officer can sue for damages. Then Jessica Peake, the Director of International and Comparative Law Program at UCLA Law School, discusses President Trump’s rhetoric about acquiring Greenland. And First Amendment attorney Jeff Lewis discusses the FBI searching a reporter’s home. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Columbia Law School Professor Suzanne Goldberg, Director of the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, discusses the Supreme Court oral arguments on state laws banning transgender girls and women from competing on female athletic teams. Former federal prosecutor Marisa Darden, a partner at Benesch, discusses the upcoming trial of former Supreme Court advocate Tom Goldstein. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Bloomberg Intelligence senior litigation analyst Elliott Stein discusses the criminal investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Then trial attorney David Ring, a partner at Taylor & Ring, discusses the trial of a former Texas police officer accused in the Uvalde school shooting. And constitutional law professor Harold Krent of the Chicago-Kent College of Law, talks about a judge ordering Lindsey Halligan to explain why she's still claiming to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Vir...
Former Manhattan prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Paul Callan, of counsel at Edelman & Edelman, discusses the fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis by an ICE agent. Then immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the status of undocumented Venezuelans and the latest news on H1-B Visas. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
International law expert Monica Hakimi, a professor at Columbia Law School and a former State Department official, discusses the Trump administration’s interest in acquiring Greenland, a self-governing territory of Denmark. Maia Spoto, Bloomberg Law Los Angeles correspondent, discusses upcoming cases between California and the Trump administration. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Joshua Kastenberg, a professor at the University of New Mexico Law School and a former judge and lawyer in the US Air Force, discusses the Defense Secretary's unprecedented censure of US Senator Mark Kelly. Then Bloomberg Law reporter Mike Vilensky discusses the 92-year-old judge, Manhattan US District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, who will be overseeing the Nicolas Maduro prosecution. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information....
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, and Jessica Peake, Director of the International & Comparative Law Program at UCLA Law School, discuss the federal charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
President Donald Trump said the US would run Venezuela until a transition could be organized, hours after a US operation captured leader Nicolás Maduro, ousting the strongman from power after months of mounting military and economic pressure on his regime. “We’re going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” Trump said Saturday at a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida. “So we don’t want to be involved with having somebody else ge...
June Grasso speaks to legal experts about top Supreme Court decisions to be handed down in 2026 regarding President Trump's tariffs, presidential control over independent agencies and music piracy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this special edition of Bloomberg Law, guest host Nathan Hager speaks with Harold Krent, professor of law at the Chicago-Kent School of Law to preview some of the high profile cases before the Supreme Court in the New Year. Plus, we hear an extended conversation with former Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Constitutional law expert David Super discusses the top Supreme Court decisions of 2025 involving everything from LGBTQ rights to nationwide injunctions. Then former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, discusses Luigi Mangione’s attempt to get key evidence thrown out of his eventual murder trial. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
