America On Trial with Josh Hammer

Your host Josh Hammer rebuts misguided critics of the House's just-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act before today's "deep dive" then unpacks the myriad legal strategies for fighting back against the pro-Hamas anarchy now tearing American university campuses apart. Today's "closing argument" then weighs in on MTG's plan to file a motion to vacate Mike Johnson's House speaker chair next week. Learn...

Your host Josh Hammer updates us on some pressing transgender-related legal matters during today's "around the horn" segment, and today's "deep dive" then attempts to understand what exactly Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is thinking by prosecuting Donald Trump in the hush-money case the bizarre way he presently is. Finally, today's "closing argument" unpacks some possible legal remedies...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive centers on yesterday's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in Trump v. United States. It's looking like Donald Trump could be in good shape in Special Counsel Jack Smith's crown jewel D.C. criminal probe. Today's closing argument then checks in on Alvin Bragg's farcical criminal trial of Trump in NYC, which is now at the end of i...

Josh first tears through a wild, jam-packed "around the horn" segment, which includes updates on Trump's NYC criminal trial, preliminary analysis of wild new 2020 election-related indictments in Arizona, and much more. Today's "deep dive" then discusses today's massive oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Trump v. United States. Will Trump's claim of full presidential immunity f...

Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" focuses on today's opening arguments in Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial. Today's "closing argument" then tackles the shocking and appalling rise of anti-Semitism on Ivy League university campuses, which coincides with the beginning of the Passover holiday tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoice...

Your host Josh Hammer rips through a timely "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks everything you need to know about the emerging juror pool for Donald Trump's criminal trial now unfolding in NYC. Today's "closing argument" then looks at Israel's retaliatory strikes last night against the Iranian regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" through Trump's various prosecutions before today's "deep dive" focuses on Senate Democrats' appalling and disgraceful undermining yesterday of the very political "norms" they often claim to cherish—in this case, when it comes to the impeachment of DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Today's "closing argument" then takes us back to NY Attorney General Tish Jam...

Your host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," with a special focus on yesterday's big Supreme Court oral argument involving January 6 defendants. Today's "deep dive" then analyzes the seven jurors already selected for Trump's criminal trial in NYC and presents one theory for how Trump might be able to secure an acquittal. Finally, today's "closing argument" provides an update on yesterda...

Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" brings us to Justice Juan Merchan's NYC courtroom, where the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president commenced yesterday. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks some disturbing new developments this morning from across the pond, in Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Your host Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" gives you all you need to know about today's historic commencement of the first criminal trial of an ex-president in U.S. history. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks this weekend's huge news in the Middle East, where Iran launched an unprecedented attack against Israel. Learn more about your ad choi...

Your host Josh Hammer goes around the horn before spending today's deep dive recapping and explaining the significance of his debate last night in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, on the proper limits of speech (or, more accurately, so-called "speech") on university campuses in the aftermath of the horrific Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023. Learn more about your ad ch...

Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" focuses on the Arizona Supreme Court's much-discussed, controversial decision this week to uphold an 1864 pro-life law that would outlaw most abortions in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rips through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns us to Trump's impending criminal prosecution in NYC, where DA Alvin Bragg is about to cross the Rubicon and take us to a harrowing point of no return in these United States. Today's "closing argument" then highlights an interesting and potentially very important gun rights ruling out in Was...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an absolutely jam-packed "around the horn" segment, filled with many pressing Trump updates from all across the country. Today's "deep dive" segment then unpacks the still-percolating debate, partially sparked by Trump himself yesterday, over whether abortion is properly a "states' rights" issue or whether it instead must be ultimately resolved at the nationa...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" highlights an important Wall Street Journal op-ed today from constitutional stalwarts Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), which correctly argues that the Senate must hold an expeditious impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now that he has been impeached by the House. Today's "closing argument"...

Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment covers an interesting Electoral College debate in Nebraska, Jeffrey Clark's possible disbarment in Washington, D.C., an unfortunate setback for Donald Trump in Fani Willis' Georgia prosecution, and more. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks yesterday's Presidential Records Act ruling in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom, and what it means for Trump mo...

Today's "around the horn" covers a ton of terrain, including an expected massive Trump fundraiser in Palm Beach this weekend and yesterday's high-profile Fifth Circuit oral argument for Texas's S.B. 4 immigration law. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks what's going on in the NYC courtroom of Justice Juan Merchan, who is now facing calls to recuse himself from the Alvin Bragg-led Trump prosecution th...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an action-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains the controversy over Judge Reggie Walton's recent highly inappropriate on-air comments to CNN. Today's "closing argument" then analyzes whether Florida will be a swing state once again, in light of the forthcoming ballot initiatives this November. Learn more about your ad choices....

Today's jam-packed "around the horn" brings you everything you need to know about President Trump's latest, from an extended gag order in Alvin Bragg's NYC prosecution to his posted bond payment in Tish James's NYC fraud trial and much more. Today's "deep dive" then explains everything you need to know about yesterday's big day at the Florida Supreme Court, where the justices permitted sweeping pr...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" returns to the U.S. Supreme Court, the site of the massive showdown later this month on the scope of former President Donald Trump's immunity from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution in Washington, D.C. Josh's "closing argument" then addresses the painful loss yesterday by his beloved Duke Blue Devils basketball team...

Your host Josh Hammer navigates us through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns to Fulton County, Georgia to discuss the latest twists and turns in the ongoing saga of far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. Today's "closing argument" then borrows from Josh's syndicated column out today to urge a simple message: Put down your phones and go touch some gras...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment, with updates on Texas's ongoing S.B. 4 immigration litigation and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's big victory over The Walt Disney Company. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the war against John Eastman, the long-time legal scholar who legally represented President Trump after the 2020 presidential election, which is now cul...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's disappointing U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in the abortion pill case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Josh then describes his night out at the Miami Open tennis tournament and the importance of "touching grass" amidst our raucous 24/7 news cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's big news out of New York City, where President Trump's outrageous bond payment in AG Tish James' "fraud" trial was reduced by an appellate judicial panel. Today's closing argument then unloads on the Biden administration for its disgraceful abstention yesterday at the UN Security Council. Learn more about...

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive returns to Trump's civil fraud case in New York City—will Attorney General Tish James really start seizing assets potentially as soon as today? Today's closing argument discusses yesterday's "Meet the Press" controversy, wherein former host Chuck Todd threw NBC News' own brand-new contributor under the bus on national TV. Lear...