America On Trial with Josh Hammer

Josh Hammer explains the current status of Matt Gaetz's attorney general confirmation fight, condemns the House Ethics Committee's possible release of its Gaetz report tomorrow, lauds President Trump's inspired pick of Brendan Carr for FCC chair, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer wades into the roiling debate over whether the House Ethics Committee should still release its much-anticipated report on now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), now that President Trump has tapped Gaetz to be the next attorney general of the United States. Plus, the latest on some other key Trump picks for both his DOJ and White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Your host Josh Hammer provides a deep dive on what the Constitution says—and does not say—about the president's recess appointment power, now that everyone seems to be offering hot takes after Wednesday's surprising announcement of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Plus, so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith formally moves to halt his classified documents case against Trump. Learn more about your...

Josh Hammer unpacks the already-fierce controversy over Trump announcing controversial Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for U.S. attorney general, lauds the inspired pick of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer unpacks the current state of the Trump presidential transition, analyzes NYC judge Juan Merchan's fateful decision to yet again kick the can down the road in the Stormy Daniels "hush money" case, and revisits the topic of a possible pardon for prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer previews the emerging competition for U.S. attorney general, offers an endorsement for U.S. education secretary, previews today's huge decision from NYC judge Juan Merchan, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tomorrow is anti-Trump NYC judge Juan Merchan's self-imposed deadline for deciding whether to dismiss Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's ridiculous Stormy Daniels/"hush money" witch hunt. Will he do the right thing and dismiss it on presidential immunity grounds, or are we really heading toward sentencing on November 26? Plus, we take a deeper look at the state of play of Trump's main two *civil* cases—co...

Josh Hammer analyzes one of the most pressing questions on all of our minds, now that Donald Trump has secured a massive electoral victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer provides an update on some additional state-level legal fallout from Tuesday's elections and analyzes Wednesday's bombshell legal scoop from NBC News: Merrick Garland's DOJ is calling off so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith from his persecution of former and future President Donald Trump. Plus, the future of lawfare once Trump takes power again in January. Learn more about your ad c...

Josh Hammer recaps some of last night's most interesting legal and legal-adjacent election results, assesses the likelihood of major personnel changes at the U.S. Supreme Court under President Donald Trump, and blasts Democrats for their ludicrous hypocrisy on the issue of the U.S. Senate filibuster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special-edition Election Day episode, Josh Hammer lays out the legal and judicial stakes in this most monumental of presidential elections like never before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer provides updates on so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith, Elon Musk, and the war against the legal profession during today's jam-packed "around the horn segment." Today's "deep dive" then assesses the likelihood that the legal dispute over mail-in ballots in battleground Pennsylvania could prove to be the next Bush v. Gore-style election-dispositive SCOTUS case. To wit: Will SCOTUS d...

Check out this new bonus episode from the new podcast BOLLING! It's 8 years since Hillary Clinton was sure she had the presidency within her grasp, only to lose it to Donald Trump. Fast forward to now, and Hillary can't decide what she hates more: another Trump presidency, or the fact that Kamala Harris may accomplish what she could not. Plus, Trump-supporting women lash out at Harris surrogate Ma...

Josh Hammer explains the stakes in this Tuesday's election for U.S.-Israel relations, and for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East more generally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to various battleground states' various legal concerns and offers an in-depth "deep dive" on what will happen to President Donald Trump's many legal issues after the election. In today's "closing argument," Josh then recounts the leftist mob he faced at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on Wednesday—and his subsequent Federalist Society event that was c...

Conservatives and constitutionalists finally got a big legal win on Tuesday, when SCOTUS issued a one-page order permitting the Commonwealth of Virginia to secure its voter rolls. This is a tremendous victory for election integrity. But separately, what the heck is happening with mail-in ballots in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? Josh Hammer breaks it all down. Learn more about your ad choices....

Josh Hammer uses the occasion of Steve Bannon's release from federal prison to paint a stark picture of the 2024 election stakes when it comes to lawfare and the politicized bastardization of the rule of law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh explains the massive 2024 election stakes for SCOTUS and the entire federal judiciary. Given current Democratic Party radicalism, it is not an exaggeration to say that SCOTUS itself is on the ballot this year! Josh also brings us up to speed on the Commonwealth of Virginia's latest legal efforts to secure its voter roll from illegal alien corruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit me...

Today's 2024 election-centric "around the horn" segment is followed by a "deep dive" analysis of recent comments President Trump made to radio host Hugh Hewitt about firing so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith if he reascends to the White House come January. Today's "closing argument" then addresses a patently silly bit of Washington Post legal fear-mongering. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

Josh Hammer explains the significance of President Joe Biden saying the quiet part out loud and calling for former President Donald Trump to be "locked up." This is simply astounding. Will the American people make Democrats pay a price for this shocking admission from Uncle Joe? Also, Kamala Harris goes full tyrant on abortion and religious liberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphon...

 Today's newsy "around the horn" segment is followed by a "deep dive" that zooms out and asks a broader question: Has all the republic-destabilizing nonsense we have seen from the Democrat-Lawfare Complex over the past year and a half actually been worth it? Also, why Mark Cuban is wrong to casually dismiss Kamala Harris's unconstitutional taxation proposals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

Today's "deep dive" unpacks the shocking new transcript of the Jim Jordan-overseen House Judiciary Committee's recent deposition of former Fulton County, Georgia "special prosecutor" Nathan Wade. Fani Willis and Nathan Wade ought to be in some big, big trouble after this—they were colluding with the White House along! Today's "closing argument" then assesses Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell'...

So-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith, the leading hit man for the "Democrat-Lawfare Complex," has desperately tried to tilt the 2024 election to his Democratic Party paymasters. After Friday's dud of an anti-Trump legal filing in Washington, D.C., the jury is in for Smith: He has failed. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks another malicious campaign trail from cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris....

Josh Hammer updates us on the latest gambit from corrupt Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis during today's "deep dive." Can the scandal-ridden Willis revive her moribund, nakedly political crusade against Trump and his co-defendants? Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Alabama AG Steve Marshall's bombshell amicus brief in the landmark transgender-related SCOTUS case of United States v. Skrm...

Josh Hammer updates us on this past weekend's California Trump rally arrest and Nathan Wade's House Judiciary Committee deposition in today's "around the horn" segment. Our "deep dive" segment then unpacks DOJ Civil Rights Division head Kristen Clarke's nakedly political voter roll lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices