America On Trial with Josh Hammer

In today's jam-packed show, Josh Hammer criticizes the scoundrel Tate brothers, makes the case for deportation of pro-Hamas foreign students, explains how SCOTUS is finally showing signs of life as it pertains to the raging lower-court judicial insurrection, and tries to make sense of what the heck happened with yesterday's Jeffrey Epstein document release. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest legal headlines before spending today's "deep dive" on the ever-pressing issue of SCOTUS nominations. The scuttlebutt continues to be that Justice Samuel Alito is more likely than not to resign after this present court term. If so, how exactly should President Trump select his replacement? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer updates us on a busy week at SCOTUS and an equally busy week in the lower-court anti-Trump judicial "resistance." When will SCOTUS finally rein in these wayward lower-court judges? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer breaks down the bombshell news that household name podcaster/radio host Dan Bongino will imminently be joining Kash Patel as deputy FBI director. This is a tremendous hire by President Trump. But what does it mean, exactly, about the Trump FBI's priorities? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer explains what happened at SCOTUS over the weekend in the continuing legal saga of Hampton Dellinger, the Office of Special Counsel head who President Trump attempted to fire on February 7. Why did SCOTUS punt—and when will they decide this pressing case on the merits? Plus, what we can begin to expect from FBI Director Kash Patel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/ad...

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest litigation filed against the Trump administration before diving deep into a new 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the administration's landmark executive order on birthright citizenship. When will SCOTUS weigh in on this crucial issue? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer checks in on the latest DOGE-induced governmental resignations before assessing the current state of play for FBI Director-designate Kash Patel. Could today be Kash's big day? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trump White House lawyers made a curious admission about Elon Musk's role in a recent court filing before Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C. This admission, in turn, then raises the obvious question: What exactly is DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, legally speaking? Plus, Josh fills us in on his travels this week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer unpacks the seemingly imminent SCOTUS case involving the Trump administration's attempt to cashier Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Will SCOTUS take up this structural constitutional case—and how will the justices rule, if so? Plus, Josh argues why Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris also needs to directly tee up the issue of "nationwide injunction" constitut...

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest Trump administration-related news and then goes deep on the Eric Adams-related turmoil now afflicting the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Why is Mayor Adams' federal public corruption case being dropped, and what is up with these recent SDNY prosecutor resignations? Plus, everything you need to know about Hampton Dellinger. Learn more ab...

Josh Hammer explains how all three branches of the federal government must work together to rein in the wayward lower-court judges who are acting aggressively—and lawlessly—against the Trump administration. Plus: What is going on with Mayor Eric Adams in NYC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer makes the full-throated case for mass judicial impeachment of wayward left-wing activist lower-court judges. Let's get this ball rolling A.S.A.P.! Plus, everything else Congress can do besides impeachment to rein in the raging judicial insurrection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer explains how, contra the legacy media's predictable and sensationalist "reporting," there is no "constitutional crisis" coming from the new Trump administration's blistering start. But there is a real, genuine constitutional crisis that we are rapidly walking into—from the left-wing judicial "#resistance." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer explains yesterday's big spat between left-wing Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island and the Trump administration. The judge, ludicrously, is threatening the administration with criminal contempt. But as Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln likely all would have responded: You and what enforcer, Your Honor? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Josh Hammer explains how left-wing judges all across the country have already mobilized to thwart President Trump's blistering, dynamic second-term agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer checks in on the status of Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director, assesses a new DOJ lawsuit against "sanctuary city" Chicago, unpack President Trump's new order on so-called "transgender women" competing in women's sports, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer explains how the left-wing judicial "resistance," which sought to hamstring President Donald Trump's agenda during his first administration, is now back. Exhibit A: yesterday's judicial ruling that yet again stayed Trump's landmark birthright citizenship executive order. Related, when will SCOTUS finally rule that so-called "nationwide injunctions" are unconstitutional? Learn...

Josh Hammer joined Jesse Kelly on I'm Right to discuss President Donald Trump's major announcement for the Middle-East. Will the United States really take over the Gaza Strip? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer provides updates on new lawsuits against the Trump administration, explains the Trump administration's incipient plans to unwind the U.S. Department of Education, and checks in on the current state of the defanged USAID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer analyzes the seeming end of USAID, which was transformed into a de facto liberal NGO slush fund in recent decades. Also, Donald Trump wins the North American tariff war before shots are even fired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer analyzes President Donald Trump's new tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico, unpacks the big immigration standoff in Tallahassee between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and RINOs in the Florida legislature, explains why the USAID website went dark over the weekend, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer assesses the criminal sentencing of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), dives back into the illegal alien birthright citizenship constitutional debate, analyzes the state of play of President Trump's three most "controversial" Cabinet picks (RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel), and opens up about the aviation tragedy this week in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Vis...

Your host Josh Hammer breaks down an unexpected administration quasi-reversal on the Trump OMB's recent impoundment memo, updates us on the RFK Jr. and Pam Bondi Senate confirmation battles, and explains the significance of President Trump's first signed piece of legislation, the Laken Riley Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer analyzes the Trump OMB's Monday memo that implements a "temporary pause" on all "federal financial assistance programs"—even those programs that have been duly authorized by Congress. But does the president of the United States actually possess this discretionary authority? Josh breaks down the constitutional debate over impoundment, one of the oldest in the history of the republic. Le...

Josh Hammer provides the latest updates on this week's Cabinet official confirmation hearings, unpacks the DeSantis v. RINO special legislative session standoff in Tallahassee, explains why the Trump administration should formally change its position in the Tennessee transgender case pending at SCOTUS, and explains why yesterday's firing of Jack Smith's lawyers at DOJ should be just the beginning...