America On Trial with Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest Trump executive order news, updates us on what Trump's DOJ is currently filing at SCOTUS, provides us the lay of the land when it comes to Senate confirmations for Trump's Cabinet officials, and previews the bombshell birthright citizenship SCOTUS case that is eventually to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks all the latest news in Washington, D.C.: President Trump's heroic FACE Act pardons, John Ratcliffe's CIA director confirmation, left-wing judges acting wild on Trump's J6 pardons, and the coming judicial war on the crucial constitutional issue of birthright citizenship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer unpacks the full breadth and depth of President Trump's absolutely massive, remarkable executive order banning DEI in the federal government—and beyond! Plus, the Laken Riley Act passes Congress, the substantive constitutional argument against illegal alien birthright citizenship, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer continues to unpack the unprecedented flurry of dynamic, oftentimes -paradigm-shifting executive orders that President Donald Trump has thus far signed into law. Josh also unpacks the sweeping J6 pardon that the Left has been melting down over. Plus: A new bombshell lawsuit challenges Trump's YUGE birthright citizenship executive order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Josh Hammer reviews the patently insane slew of Biden pardons on his way out the door, unpacks the Day 1 Trump immigration and energy agenda, and makes the case for why President Trump should sign an executive order banning birthright citizenship for children of illegal aliens posthaste. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks all the many, many executive orders that we can expect today from President Donald Trump after he is officially re-inaugurated as president of the United States. Hint: It's going to be a wild and busy (but also great) day! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer unpacks all the various moving parts pertaining to TikTok's current precarious legal position. To wit: Will TikTok really be banned in the U.S. as of this Sunday? Also, will President Trump actually try to save it—and can he even do so, legally? Plus, Ron DeSantis takes on the RINOs in Tallahassee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer analyzes yesterday's blockbuster Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, the two-time former Florida attorney general who has been tapped by President Donald Trump for attorney general of the United States. Bondi faced a number of questions from Senate Democrats who seemed confused about the nature of the relationship between president and attorney gene...

In today's jam-packed episode, your host Josh Hammer analyzes SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth's contentious Senate confirmation hearing, reviews the final special counsel reports from both Hunter Biden prosecutor David Weiss and Donald Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, and previews today's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks the unfortunate news that so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's final report on his Washington, D.C. prosecution against President Trump will apparently see the light of day. Also: Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to kick butt in Florida, a crucial legal ruling against the soft tyranny of ESG, and Pete Hegseth's big day in the U.S. Senate. Learn more about your ad choic...

Your host Josh Hammer recaps and explains what the heck happened on Friday in "Justice" Juan Merchan's fetid NYC courtroom. President Donald Trump was sentenced to "unconditional discharge" in the so-called "hush money" case. What in the world does that mean? And what are the implications? Also, Josh reviews TikTok at SCOTUS, previews Pornhub at SCOTUS, and more. Learn more about your ad choices....

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks all the day's major legal headlines: the fate of Donald Trump's "hush money" sentencing in NYC, the fate of TikTok at SCOTUS, the fate of Joe Biden's unilateral Title IX rewrite, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks Attorney General Merrick Garland's apparent decision to release part of so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's final report for his anti-Trump prosecutions in both Florida and Washingon, D.C. What is motivating Garland's decision—and is this decision being made in good faith? Plus, Trump seeks a SCOTUS emergency stay of his NYC "hush money" sentencing, previewing Ti...

Your host Josh Hammer analyzes President Trump's final loss in his attempt to halt his Friday sentencing in NYC judge Juan Merchan's courtroom. What will the "criminal" sentence be in this truly farcical case, and what will Trump's inevitable appeal(s) look like? Plus, another big legal victory for Trump in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom, Pam Bondi's attorney general confirmation hearing...

Your host Josh Hammer explains President Donald Trump's latest, and likely final, attempt to halt this Friday's criminal sentencing in his so-called "hush money" case in New York City. Also, yesterday's electoral certification non-event at the U.S. Capitol, a tough but necessary truth on Social Security reform, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks and excoriates the third-world, banana republic-esque impending criminal sentencing of President Donald Trump this Friday in Juan Merchan's New York City courtroom. What an outrage this ordeal has been, from start to finish! Also, what we can expect today at the U.S. Capitol, as Congress certifies the results of the 2024 presidential election. Learn more about your ad...

Your host Josh Hammer explains why he is skeptical of the FBI's official narrative that the terrible New Orleans and Las Vegas New Year's Day attacks are not in any way connected to one another. Plus, what judicial confirmation opportunities await Donald Trump following his inauguration on January 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer has all the details about the horrific New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, apparently committed by an ISIS-sympathizing radical Muslim. Also, SCOTUS, SCOTUS, and more SCOTUS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer sounds off on a military appeals' court's upholding of the loathsome plea deals reached earlier this year between the federal government and the 9/11 masterminds, including arch-jihadist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed himself. This is a tremendous insult to our great nation! Also, a controversial new Florida social media/pornography law goes into effect today. Learn more about your ad choices....

Josh Hammer analyzes the Second Circuit's unfortunate ruling yesterday, in which the court upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for allegedly sexually assaulting left-wing columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Also, why is everyone—even on the Right—suddenly acting like Jimmy Carter was a great president? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer explains two hot legal issues where President Donald Trump, unfortunately, appears to be misguided: banning Chinese-owned TikTok and ending the H-1B "high-skill" visa program. Plus, embattled Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis can now be subpoenaed by a Georgia Senate special committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer unpacks the raging intra-GOP war on the issue of high-skill immigration between the nationalist-populist MAGA core and the so-called "tech bros," led by X/Tesla/SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk. What exactly is going on here, and what is ultimately at stake? Also, the ultra-woke U.S. pardon attorney you've probably never heard of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone...

In light of his patently petty veto of the bipartisan JUDGES Act, your host Josh Hammer reviews Joe Biden's judicial branch legacy. There is one thing we can definitively say: This president has not based his judicial picks on merit, but rather on "DEI." Also, a truly remarkable later-in-life admission from Abe Foxman, the long-time leader of the liberal Anti-Defamation League. Learn more about yo...

Josh Hammer explains a novel legal theory, put forward earlier this week by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), that suggests Joe Biden's 37 federal death row inmate commutations this week are actually null and void. Could this possibly be right? Josh also explains the potent symbolism and serendipity of Christmas and Chanukah falling on the same day this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah to all! Lea...

Your host Josh Hammer dives headlong into one of the most contentious cultural, political, and constitutional debates of them all: Is birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens actually mandated by the U.S. Constitution? The answer may surprise you. Also, Congress releases the much-anticipated Matt Gaetz ethics report, Joe Biden commutes the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates...