Wednesday, April 9th, 2025 Today, Judge James Boasberg has canceled a Tuesday afternoon hearing on the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday evening that the administration could resume carrying out such deportations; the Supreme Court paused a ruling to reinstate over 16000 probationary federal workers; Senator Brian Schatz has put a hold on over 300 trump nominees; Elon Musk and ...
Apr 09, 2025•47 min•Ep. 1608
Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 Today, stocks take another dive as the Trump regime plays fast and loose with tariffs; the en banc panel for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has reinstated Cathy Harris and Gwynne Wilcox to their jobs at the NLRB and MSRP; the North Carolina Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a lower court ruling requiring 65,000 people to cure their ballots; NIH researchers have made a cancer breakthrough but layoffs are delaying it; a second unvaccinated child has died of measles an...
Apr 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 1607
Monday, April 7th, 2025 Today, millions protested Musk and Trump in over 1300 Hands Off rallies in all 50 states, DC and abroad; a court orders North Carolina voters to cure their ballots in the state Supreme Court race; a federal judge rules that the Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador must be returned to the US; prosecutors are asking for 87 months in prison for George Santos; the Supreme Court lets Trump suspend teacher grants; the South Korean court upheld President Yoon Suk Yeol'...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 1606
Friday, April 8, 2022 In the Hot Notes: the Department of Justice is investigating the 15 boxes of classified material Donald stole from the White House; the New York Attorney General asks the court to hold Donald in civil contempt; the Manhattan DA says he’s continuing Cy Vance’s investigation into Trump despite the resignations of Pomerantz and Dunne; two men were arrested in DC For impersonating federal officers and giving gifts to Secret Service agents including an agent protecting the First...
Apr 06, 2025•45 min
Thursday, April 4th, 2024 Today, we have more information about the man who rammed his vehicle into a barrier at the Atlanta FBI Field office; Jack Smith files a scathing rebuke of Judge Cannon in the espionage obstruction documents case in Florida; Judd Blevins is recalled in Oklahoma for his association with white nationalists; two more people have pled guilty in the insider trading with a Russian porn bank Putin associate Truth Social case; President Biden will speak with Netanyahu today as B...
Apr 05, 2025•59 min
Friday, April 4th, 2025 Today, the acting Inspector General for the Department of Defense has launched an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal chat messages; the Senate has voted to rescind some of Trump’s tariffs which caused the third biggest stock market crash in modern history; federal prosecutors have dropped the charges against the guy Nancy Mace says assaulted her; massive layoffs at the FDA include scientists working on bird flu and pet food safety; Judge Boasberg held a hearing in t...
Apr 04, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1605
Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 Today, Susan Crawford has defeated Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race while Democrats ate into Republican leads in two Florida House districts; Elon Musk's disclosure of a planned Social Security fraud arrest troubles top law enforcement officials; Judge Dale Ho has dismissed the charges against Eric Adams with prejudice; ousted DOJ officials are set to testify before Congressional Democrats Monday; a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to r...
Apr 03, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 1604
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 Today, possible results in the Wisconsin and Florida elections; Senator Cory Booker takes to the Senate floor to disrupt business as usual; Mike Waltz used GMAIL to discuss national defense information; Senator Adam Schiff says he will put an indefinite hold on the confirmation of Ed Martin as D.C. US Attorney; multiple plaintiffs have filed suit to block Trump’s voter suppression executive order; internal fallout has paused the firing of 10000 Health and Human Service...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 1603
Tuesday, April 1st, 2025 Today, Wisconsinites are hitting the polls and casting votes in the state Supreme Court election between Brad Schimel and Jennifer Crawford; The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump administration's request to allow immediate removal of transgender troops from the military; a federal judge has barred the Trump administration from ending "temporary protected status" for 350,000 Venezuelan nationals; a second federal judge barred Secretary of Defense Pete Hegs...
Apr 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 1602
Monday, March 31st, 2025 Today, we’re just hours away from the Wisconsin Supreme Court election which will decide the balance of the highest court in the state; law firm Skadden Arps gives $100M in free legal services; the plaintiffs in the Alien Enemies Act case have filed a motion for a preliminary injunction as Judge Boasberg extends his temporary restraining orders; the Trump administration is looking to gut funding to combat child labor abroad; Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is shot d...
Apr 01, 2025•50 min•Ep. 1601
Friday, March 29th, 2024 Judge McAfee seems skeptical of Trump’s arguments in Fulton County today; the Republican Vice Chair in Georgia has been found guilty of voter fraud; Matt Maddock posts photos of NCAA Gonzaga busses and tells his followers the busses are full of “illegal invaders”; crypto chode Sam Bankman-Fried has been sentenced to 25 years in prison; two bodies have been recovered from a vehicle underwater at the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse site; Matt Schlapp’s accuser was paid t...
Mar 30, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Monday, March 28th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: The Manhattan DA has begun returning evidence in the stalled case against Trump; depositions have been scheduled for Donald and his kids in a civil case against their pyramid scheme; an update in the We Build the Wall fraud case; the 1/6 committee weighs a subpoena for Ginni Thomas after the release of 29 text messages to the former White House Chief of Staff; President Biden unveils a new minimum tax on the rich; and Russian generals are getting killed...
Mar 29, 2025•31 min
Friday, March 28th, 2025 Today, a Tufts University grad student was snatched off the street by unmarked cops wearing masks; Judge Reyes rejects the Pentagon’s new guidance for banning transgender people from serving in the military; Trump has pulled his nomination of Elise Stefanik for UN ambassador; Kari Lake backs down in the legal fight to shutter Radio Free Europe; Judge Boasberg holds his first hearing in the Signalgate lawsuit filed by American Oversight; the US sent a married father with ...
Mar 28, 2025•58 min•Ep. 1600
Thursday, March 27th, 2025 Today, Jeffrey Goldberg from the Atlantic has released the entire Signal chat except for the name of the CIA agent; the Republican Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee Wicker and the ranking member Jack Reed have called for an investigation into the Signal chat; a Democrat has won a Pennsylvania State Senate seat for the first time in history; the Supreme Court has upheld Biden’s ghost gun limits; an anti-vaxxer has been hired to head a study on vaccines; the T...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1599
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025 Today, one of the Venezuelan men deported to CECOT in El Salvador was a legal refugee; Trump has signed an executive order that will upend voter registration; members of Congress react to the Signal chat Yemeni war plans leak; a judge has enjoined Kari Lake from shuttering Radio Free Europe; American Oversight is suing members of the Signal chat for violations of the Federal Records Act; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Guest: Evan Sutton TeslaTakedown — j...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 1598
Tuesday, March 25th, 2025 Today, Judge Boasberg denies Trump’s motion to vacate his orders to turn the planes around in the Alien Enemies Act case; top Pentagon and intelligence officials shared Yemeni war plans with a journalist on Signal; a Ukrainian man is the third to die in ICE custody in a facility in South Florida; a federal judge in New Jersey has barred the Trump administration from taking steps to separate two decorated transgender members of the military; the Trump administration has ...
Mar 25, 2025•44 min•Ep. 1597
Monday, March 24th, 2025 Today, the Pentagon set up a briefing with Elon Musk on Chinese war plans; Trump rescinds an executive order attacking the Paul Weiss law firm after the firm agrees to give him $40M in free legal services; Leland Dudek has threatened to shut down the Social Security Administration; the Trump administration has re-hired nearly 25K probationary employees; the military has agreed not to separate any transgender service members until at least March 28th; Trump is revoking th...
Mar 24, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1596
March 22nd, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Confirmation hearings begin for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson; the US Secret Service takes the stand in the Couy Griffin bench trial; a witness tells the 1/6 committee that Meadows helped organize the march on the Capitol; and some Reuters reporters tell Politico they’re over the Reuters partnership with Russian media partner TASS; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Reminder - you can see the pod pics if you become a Patron. The good ne...
Mar 23, 2025•52 min
Friday, March 24th, 2023 In the Hot Notes; more delays for the Manhattan DA Grand Jury as Alvin Bragg claps back at Jim Jordan; a judge rules that E. Jean Carroll jurors can remain anonymous for security reasons; Kari Lake loses Arizona again; Trump’s lawyers make an appearance in the Pence subpoena case; Ray Epps has sent a letter to Tucker Carlson demanding a retraction; and abortion is legal again in Wyoming; plus AG and Dana deliver your Good News. Charlotte Clymer https://charlotteclymer.su...
Mar 22, 2025•47 min
Friday, March 21st, 2025 Today, a judge had ordered Musk and DOGE to get out of the Social Security systems and to uninstall all their software; Judge Boasberg has issued a show cause order in the Alien Enemies Act case; the Trump administration believes they can enter homes without a warrant; Trump has signed the executive order eliminating the Department of Education; a Georgetown researcher has been detained by ICE and a judge has ordered he not be deported pending litigation; the Social Secu...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 1595
Thursday, March 20th, 2025 Today, Judge Chutkan has blocked Trump and Musk from cancelling $20B in climate grants; Judge Ana Reyes has blocked the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people serving in the military; Trump has fired the Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission; Judge Beryl Howell has denied the temporary restraining order for the US Institute of Peace; Republican members of the Senate and House armed services committee are pushing back on Trump’s plan to abandon a ...
Mar 20, 2025•59 min•Ep. 1594
Wednesday, March 19th, 2025 Today, A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways”; a German national with a United States Green Card is being held in an ICE facility; the Trump administration has gutted the US Institute of Peace; an update on the Alien Enemies Act deportation case; John Roberts has issued a rare public rebuke of Trump calling ...
Mar 19, 2025•38 min•Ep. 1593
Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 Today, Judge Boasberg holds another emergency hearing over whether Trump defied his order to turn the deportation planes around; a Brown University professor has been deported despite a court order; a Navy veteran and his wife say that TRICARE rescinded a $100K healthcare claim paid over a year ago; what musicians did after an executive order on DEI led to the cancellation of U.S. Marine Band collaboration; the 9th Circuit has denied Trump’s motion to pause a federal co...
Mar 18, 2025•41 min•Ep. 1592
Monday, March 17th, 2025 Today, Chuck Schumer caves on the continuing resolution and leaves House Democrats in the lurch; Trump and Marco Rubio have defied Judge Boasberg’s temporary restraining order barring the administration from deporting people under the Alien Enemies Act; a second judge orders thousand of probationary employees to be reinstated; classified U.S. intelligence reports cast doubt on Vladimir Putin’s willingness to end the war against Ukraine; Newsmax has settled with Smartmati...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 1591
Thursday, March 17th, 2022 In the Hot Notes: Biden identifies 50 Russian elites as targets in a global hunt to seize assets after Zelensky addresses a joint session of Congress; a judge orders the DoJ to produce documents in the Steve Bannon contempt case; the 1/6 Committee obtains the Proud Boys’ documentary crew footage; the DoJ charges five people for targeting US residents critical of Beijing; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Follow our guest on Twitter: Hugo Lowell https://twit...
Mar 16, 2025•35 min
March 17, 2021 Biden’s ODNI has confirmed that Russia tried to interfere in the 2020 election; Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg’s former daughter in law is cooperating with prosecutors in the Manhattan DA’s office; the Biden administration is racing to blunt a potential fourth surge of COVID cases; the Arizona GOP has been ordered to pay the legal fees for their frivolous election lawsuit against the Secretary of State; Yevgeny Vindman is set for a promotion to full colonel despite bad evals from...
Mar 15, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Friday, March 14th, 2025 Today, Judge Alsup has reinstated all probationary employees fired across the government on February 13th and 14th and demands testimony from an Office of Personnel Management official; Trump has ordered the Pentagon to draw up options for troop deployment to Panama; Texas pastor Robert Morris has finally been indicted for sex crimes; a new CNN poll shows Americans disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy; Tim Walz is launching a tour of town hall rallies in Republi...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 1590
Thursday, March 13th, 2025 Today, Judge Beryl Howell has granted the law firm Perkins Coie a temporary restraining order blocking challenge sections of Trump's executive order; MSW media has partnered with national security counselors to file a FOIA request for the USAID destroyed document logs; House Republicans have passed a bill to fund the government, but Senate Democrats are divided; the Trump administration is still refusing to produce the head of OPM to testify under oath in court; a judg...
Mar 13, 2025•39 min•Ep. 1589
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025 Today, Judge Alsup has denied Trump's request to block the under oath testimony of the head of the Office of Personnel Management in court; Republicans in Congress are cobbling together a terrible resolution to fund the government; a Justice Department official was fired when she refused to restore Mel Gibson's gun rights; Ukraine and Russia have agreed to a 30 day ceasefire; a Texas man has been accused of violent assault on an American Airlines flight from Wichita t...
Mar 12, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 1588
Tuesday, March 11th, 2025 Today, a damning affidavit is filed in the lawsuit against Musk gaining access to the Social Security Administration systems; the Department of Homeland Security has begun polygraph tests to determine who is leaking to the press; the Trump administration is backtracking on forcing Maine parents to visit Social Security offices to register newborns; Trump's Department of Justice is allowing the assassination attempt rifle to be shipped to Florida for inspection by the al...
Mar 11, 2025•45 min•Ep. 1587
