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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 43 days 7 hours 26 minutes
episode 10: T3BE Week 10! Disappearing Wallets and Fake Philanthropy
Last week's answers, this week's questions! If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at !
episode 1023: 11 Years Ago Today, A Brutal Act of Terror
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...
episode 1022: Arizona Republican Party Like It's 1864
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...
episode 9: T3BE Week 9! Prescription Negligence and Breach of Contract
As usual, we've got last week's answers and this week's questions! Some fun and tricky ones... If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at !
episode 1021: RERELEASE: Immigrant Workers Died Repairing Bridge Named After Slaveholder
Hey folks, due to an annoying technical glitch, I'm just re-releasing this episode. This was some weird backend problem with our hosting. The file looks completely fine everywhere that I can see, but internet goblins decide otherwise, I guess. Sorry...
episode 1021: Immigrant Workers Died Repairing Bridge Named After Slaveholder
OA10121 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...
episode 1020: Jack Smith's Smackdown of Judge Cannon
Episode 1020! 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...
episode 8: T3BE Week 8! Elaborate Crimes and Psychedelics
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...
episode 1019: Boeing Killed 346 People. So Why Did They Get a Sweetheart Deal?
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...
episode 1018: The Mifepristone Case Is an Insult to the Concept of Standing
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...