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Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses the First Circuit Court of Appeals upholding U.S. border security officials’ ability to search travelers’ mobile phones and other digital devices without a warrant. Peter Jeffrey, Bloomberg News Legal Editor, discusses drunken driving charges being dismissed against rock star Bruce Springsteen and the battle of the exercis...

The former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, a partner at Honigman discusses the confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed against MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell by Dominion Voting Systems. June Grasso hosts. See omnyst...

Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses a judge's ruling that asset managers for Revlon lenders do not have to return half a billion dollars Citibank mistakenly sent to them, due to employee error. Adam Abensohn, a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the law firm representing the winning investment firms, discusses the decision. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informa...

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses a Democratic member of Congress suing former President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, claiming they conspired to incite the January 6th Capitol riot in violation of a law enacted to combat the Ku Klux Klan. Clark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, discusses the criminal investigation...

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, joining the Supreme Court’s Democratic appointees to block Alabama from executing an inmate without his pastor in the chamber. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses why allowing cameras in courtrooms, establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices, or slowly adding lower court judges are ways a biparti...

Rick Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses a divided U.S. Supreme Court ordering California to let indoor church services resume. Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the case for the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jonathan Peters, Media Law Professor at the University of Georgia, discusses Fox News' motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit against it filed by voting-technology firm Smartmatic Corp. Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News Cybersecurity Reporter, discusses the background of the Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuits. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses why former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort can’t be prosecuted by New York for the same offenses for which he received a presidential pardon. Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin, discusses the opening arguments in the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts. See...

Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Law Team Leader for the Business of Law, discusses how a court order forcing some of Donald Trump’s former top tax lawyers to give thousands of documents to investigators shows the risk attorneys face when their own actions go under a microscope. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the second impeachment trial of Trump...

Caroline Mala Corbin, a Professor at the University of Miami School of Law, discusses the case of a high school football coach who says he has the right to pray at the 50-yard line after games. Audrey Anderson, who heads the higher education practice at Bass Berry & Sims, discusses President Joe Biden’s Justice Department dropping a Trump administration lawsuit accusing Yale University of disc...

M.C Sungaila, the chair of the appellate practice at Buchalter, discusses the Supreme Court's ruling that heirs of Jewish art dealers cannot sue at this time in U.S. courts to recover a collection of medieval relics sold to the Nazis for a third of their value during World War II. Lydia Wheeler, Senior Legal Reporter at Bloomberg Law, discusses vaccine shortages and the possibility of lawsuits ove...

Former federal prosecutor Elie Honig, discusses the legal strategy of each side in the second impeachment trial of former President Trump. Robin Effron, a professor at Brooklyn Law School, discusses how the Supreme Court will handle a case involving Trump’s use of his personal Twitter account for official business now that it's moot. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

Commercial trial lawyer David Bissinger, a partner at Bissinger, Oshman & Williams LLP, discusses frustrated investors who are suing online brokerage Robinhood Markets, after getting locked out of trading in frenzied shares like GameStop. Family law attorney Dan Lipschutz, of Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, discusses divorces since Covid 19 and how the rich are using private judges to accelerate...

Immigration law expert Rick Su, a professor at the University of North Carolina Law School, discusses President Joe Biden's first major court setback after a Texas federal judge, a Trump appointee, blocked the new administration’s plan to pause deportations of undocumented immigrants for 100 days. Stephanie Barclay, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the Ninth Circuit hearing on a hig...

Bloomberg Legal Reporter David Yaffe-Bellany discusses how lawyers for the charged Capitol Hill rioters are coming up with defenses for their clients, including blaming former President Trump. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Bloomberg Supreme Court Reporter Greg Stohr discusses Chief Justice John Roberts’s refusal to preside over Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial, giving Republicans an opportunity to focus on the process rather than the charges. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses why the conservative legal movement is facing a post-Trump reckoning. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Michael Graetz, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book, "The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It," discusses the Supreme Court asking for the Biden administration’s views on a state-against-state clash over billions of dollars in income taxes paid by people who work from home during the Covid-19 pandemic. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Repor...

Pat Parenteau, an environmental law professor at Vermont Law School, discusses President Joe Biden kickstarting his environmental agenda. Matthew Schettenhelm, Bloomberg Intelligence Litigation & Government Analyst, discusses why the Supreme Court is likely to let the FCC relax media-ownership limits. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tina Davis, Executive Editor of Bloomberg Legal News, discusses what is facing former President Donald Trump from his finances to legal challenges ahead. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the controversial last minute pardons Trump issued. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the civil lawsuits Trump is facing. June Grasso hosts. See...

Michele Goodwin, a professor at the University of California Irvine and author of "Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood," discusses a divided U.S. Supreme Court reinstating a requirement that women visit a medical facility to obtain abortion-inducing pills. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the death penalty and how an appeal involving the Boston Mar...

Shirin Sinnar, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses whether President Trump can be prosecuted for inciting the Capitol riot. Sinan Aral, a professor at MIT and author of "The Hype Machine," discusses how the signs of violence could be seen in social media well before the riot. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri Law School, discusses the precedents for holding President Trump's second impeachment trial after he leaves office. Stephen Vladeck, a professor at the University of Texas Law School, discusses the pressure on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to resign. June Grasso hosts.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses why pop star Taylor Swift was featured prominently during Supreme Court arguments in a case about when government officials can shake off past constitutional violations. John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court ordering a new look at the convictions of four men in an insider-trading case inv...

Frank Bowman, a professor at the University of Missouri and author of "High Crimes & Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump," discusses the second impeachment of President Trump. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the possible charges against President Trump and the pro-Trump mob that stormed the capitol. June Grasso host...

Constitutional law expert Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the new cases the Supreme Court will take up when it resumes this week. Elections law expert Derek Muller, a professor at the University of Iowa Law School, on what we learned from the 2020 elections. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.