The Andrew Branca Show

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe John Bolton spent most of his adult life serving his country, and now the government wants him in federal prison for 60 months. That is the sentence prosecutors recommended in a memorandum filed yesterday in Maryland federal court. Bolton, Trump's former National Security Advi...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe President Trump just answered Judge Ana Reyes, and he is not backing down. On October 28, the government filed a three-page notice in the Washington National golf course litigation, DC Preservation League v. Department of Interior. The notice says the preliminary injunction demands...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. James O’Keefe and Cam Higby—two journalists I greatly admire, and one of whom I’ve met personally—set out to expose weaknesses in Minnesota's election system now face felony charges themselves. And, unfortunately, it saddens me to have to say the charges may well have actual teeth....

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Rarely, if ever, does a federal judge write an opinion that reads like a rant about the President's social media posts. But that's exactly what Judge Ana Reyes has done in DC Preservation League v. Department of Interior. On October 26, Judge Reyes enjoined the Interior Depart...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe A federal appeals court just ruled that President Trump likely lacked authority to federalize the California National Guard and send it into Los Angeles. In Newsom v. Trump, a split Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Judge Charles Breyer's preliminary injunction, with Judge Jennifer...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Brazil's polls were extended two hours on election night, and when the count finished, Lula had come back to beat Flávio Bolsonaro. Lula took 51.79 percent, and Bolsonaro is refusing to recognize the result and demanding it be annulled, claiming the rules were changed during voting...

FULL DECISION: Rodriguez v. Vergara, 26-50183:  https://lawofselfdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Rodriguez-v.-Vergara-26-50183.pdf For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Can an illegal alien who has lived here for twenty years demand a bond hearing and release from custody as matter of Constitutional right before ICE...

FULL DECISION: Rodriguez v. Vergara, 26-50183:  https://lawofselfdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Rodriguez-v.-Vergara-26-50183.pdf For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Can an illegal alien who has lived here for twenty years demand a bond hearing and release from custody as matter of Constitutional right before ICE...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. A federal appeals court just called a sitting federal judge's work "a botch job, to say the least." That judge is Henry Wingate of the Southern District of Mississippi, and the case is Jackson Federation of Teachers v. Fitch, the challenge to Mississippi's anti-DEI l...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Rep. Ilhan Omar was asked point-blank whether her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is biologically related to her, and her answer was "Not to my knowledge." Days earlier, federal agents searched her Washington, D.C. home as part of a reported immigration fraud investigation. N...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Kohen Wiley was killed by police at only 1-years-old, and the newly released body-cam and surveillance videos show exactly how it happened. On June 14, Senatobia, Mississippi police chased two women accused of shoplifting diapers and baby clothes from Walmart into the parking lot. One o...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe Ilhan Omar is now the target of a federal criminal investigation, and the reports keep coming. Eight days after Homeland Security agents searched her Washington home and seized her phone and passport, the New York Post reports, citing unnamed sources, that investigators have DNA ev...

A federal judge says the government lost all its credibility. Now she wants answers under oath.  This morning, Judge Ana Reyes called senior Trump officials into her DC courtroom. The case is DC Preservation League v. Department of the Interior.  The fight is over East Potomac Golf Links, and President Trump's "Washington National" plan to remake it as a championship course. Over a...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. The unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district Judge Ana Reyes is infamous for her lack of judicial decorum and screaming fits on the bench.   She repeated this screaming performance again just last weekend, shouting down Trump lawyers over tree maintenance on a run-d...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. The media is reporting that a horrific school shooting in gun-free zoned Bend OR was thankfully quickly stopped by a an armed father who rushed in and neutralized the pump shotgun-wielding killer. Lost were three small children, and a teacher. Another adult and child were shot and are c...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe Katie Zacharia, President Trump’s brand new White House Press Secretary, is facing allegations that  she may have committed the crime of engaging in the unlicensed practice of law in California.  Specifically, it is claimed that she held herself out as a lawyer and general counsel...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe Yet another unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior, federal district trial court judge is having a Trump Derangement Syndrome-fueled RAGE MELTDOWN over the initiatives of the Trump administration. And it’s not the first time for this particular federal judge, who also obstruc...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. The Department of Homeland Security INTENDED to merely announce a comment period for an apparently modest change in an immigration regulation about extending H1B visas. In the process of doing so, however, they also—apparently unintentionally--revealed the absolutely MASSIVE degree of H...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. The thoroughly politically corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James has been placed in charge of the Cornell 7 persecution by the state’s equally corrupt governor Kathy Hochul—and this just days after James publicly announced her conclusion that the young men wrongfully accused b...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Back in February Marco Rubio, our fantastic Secretary of State, gave a plain-spoken speech at a security conference in Germany.  In it he told Europe that they must either end third-world invasion of their continent, or cease to exist as a collection of Western nations.   I covered that...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Once again a woman is making the case that accountability—the necessary corollary for liberty to be responsibly exercised—is kryptonite for modern feminist women. A female former student at Cornell—carefully maintaining her anonymity as “Jane Doe” in court filings--has just filed a laws...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe Keving Reddington—the lawyer for “murder mommy” Lindsay Clancy—is back before Judge Sullivan today for a status hearing, including his recent motion to subject hero hold-out juror Michael Desronvil to interrogation in open court. Representing Desronvil is high-profile lawyer Edward...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe “Murder mommy” Lindsay Clancy had a hearing in Plymouth County court today to discuss a number of requests made to Judge William Sullivan about the handling of evidence, the treatment of hero juror Michael Desronvil, a potential gag order on Attorney Kevin Reddington, and MORE! I c...

For complete Medicare guidance, dial (617) 644-0093 to speak with my trusted partner, Chapter Medicare Advisors. Trump just scored a big win at the Supreme Court—over a dissent by the three SCRONES that is unusually narcissistic even by their own low standards—in his efforts to use the records of the Social Security Administration to verify US citizenship for voting purposes.  Unfortunately, Trump...

Be protected if you ever have to defend yourself or family, JOIN CCW Safe TODAY! https://lawofselfdefense.com/ccwsafe Former Deputy Eddie Duran, charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of Airman Roger Fortson in claimed self-defense, was provided a three-day self-defense immunity hearing in the first week of August—essentially a mini-trial in which the state bears the burden of disproving...