The Legal Weekly W(h)ine

Hunter Biden was convicted by a Delaware federal jury this week. Find out about the weapon and drug charges and the implications of his guilty verdict. Additionally, stay tuned with us as we discuss this week's Supreme Court decisions on abortion rights and trademark law. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court just ruled that doctors lacked legal standing to challenge the FDA's rules about abo...

We didn't see this coming! Former President Donald Trump was just convicted of all 34 felony counts against him in a New York state court on May 30, 2024, in the Stormy Daniels Hush Money case.  Grab a glass of wine and join two attorneys and an political science and constitutional law expert as we break down this monumental verdict and our predictions.   Find out more about the background and exp...

Closing arguments, jury instructions, and jury deliberations - join us for the final wrap-up of the Stormy Daniels criminal hush-money jury trial against Trump before the review of the shocking guilty verdict. We taped this episode before the verdict, so find out our legal take on the final week of trial and what the prosecution and defense got right and wrong. See for yourself if, from our discus...

Donald Trump presented two witnesses in his defense case this week and closed his case without testifying in Week #6 of the hush money criminal jury trial involving payouts to porn star Stormy Daniels. Get the best legal insights on Trump's defense rom a former prosecutor, 2 trial attorneys, and a political scientist. Find out why we think Trump's defense team made a mistake in calling attorney Co...

Michael Cohen testified this week against Donald Trump in Week #5 of Donald Trump's hush money criminal jury trial involving payouts to porn star Stormy Daniels. Get the best legal insights on Michael Cohen's testimony from a former prosecutor, 2 trial attorneys, and a political scientist. Find out why we think Michael Cohen's testimony was better than expected for the prosecution, why we think Do...

Stormy Daniels testified this week against Donald Trump in Week #4 of Donald Trump's hush money criminal jury trial. Get the best legal insights on Stormy Daniels' testimony from a former prosecutor, 2 trial attorneys, and a political scientist. Find out why we think Stormy Daniels' testimony was so harmful to Trump, why we think Donald Trump's lawyers dropped the ball, and why Donald Trump could...

College students are protesting on campuses across the nation against Israel and the war in Gaza. What started at Columbia University and other Ivy League schools has spread to over 70 schools. Students have even broken into and occupied buildings after first setting up tent encampments on the school grounds. Hundreds of students have already been arrested, and other students are preparing for cla...

The Donald Trump hush money Stormy Daniels criminal case reached it's THIRD week. Join us for a lively legal recap of WEEK 3 of the jury trial, during which Judge Merchan ruled that Donald Trump violated the gag order on 9 occasions and fined him $1,000 for each violation. The judge also warned Trump that he would not tolerate continued violations of the gag order and could end up in jail if he pe...

Grab a glass of wine or your favorite drink and spend the week with co-hosts Virginia Tehrani, Esq., Chelsey Rogers, Esq., and Dr. John Vile, as they break down the arguments from Donald Trump's privileged immunity case in front of the United States Supreme Court. Learn the legal details of the case and the constitutional history, including former President Nixon's Watergate scandal and case of Ni...

The #donaldtrump hush money Stormy Daniels criminal case reached it's second week. Join us for a lively discussion on WEEK 2 of the jury trial, during which the parties did opening statements, direct examination (and some cross examination) of the prosecution's first witness, David Pecker (the former CEO of American Media, which runs the National Enquirer), and the hearing for the alleged violatio...

The #donaldtrump hush money criminal case began this week in Manhattan by prosecutor #alvinbragg. Join us for a lively discussion on WEEK 1, during which the parties chose the jury. Find out about Trump's jury selection process, the gag order against Trump to prevent him from talking about jurors and witnesses, the alleged violations of the gag order and Trump's comments that may violate that orde...

Closing arguments wrapped up in the Fani Willis hearings, and the Judge will be ruling within 2 weeks as to whether to keep her and Prosecutor Wade on the Georgia election criminal case against #donaldtrump. Find out our take on the testimony and the case and whether Fani Willis will prevail. This week, #scotus accepted #donaldtrump's privileged immunity case! Jack Smith's DC criminal case now hea...

EXPLAINED: Weigh in with us on the ground-breaking and life-altering embryo decision from the Alabama Supreme Court on February 16, 2024. Our legal and political experts discuss the underlying facts of the case surrounding the wrongful death lawsuit and IVF treatments and then analyze the Court's decision and its implications. Learn about the implications for freezing and keeping embryos and the p...

EXPLAINED: Learn all about the #SCOTUS oral arguments for Trump's 14th Amendment disqualification case from Colorado. Find out what the Supreme Court Justices asked, what the arguments were, and why they are all so important. EXPLAINED: Learn about the issues surrounding Fani Willis' conflict of interest and ethical violation claims in Georgia. Should she be taken off of Trump's criminal case in G...

No privileged immunity for Trump for his criminal cases. The Michigan shooter's mother convicted of 4 counts of involuntary manslaughter. These are the week's hottest legal topics. With this episode, we break down the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals' unanimous (per curium) decision that Trump does not have executive privileged immunity for his actions relating to alleged election interference in 202...

The first execution by nitrogen gas occurred this week, so for the week's hottest legal topics, we start out with an analysis of the 8th Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment. We also discuss Texas's defiance of the Supreme Court ruling preventing it from making it's own immigration rules. E. Jean Carroll just won an $83.3 million verdict against #donaldtrump, so we talk about trial test...

The second E. Jean Carroll defamation trial against #donaldtrump started this week with lots of fireworks! We saw antics from #donaldtrump and his lawyer Alina Habba, who was admonished multiple times by Judge Lewis Kaplan. Our legal team explains why the actions by #donaldtrump and attorney Alina Habba are not normal during trials and what behaviors are actually expected of attorneys and clients...

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments this week on Trump's presidential immunity claim for his DC criminal charges brought back Jack Smith. Listen to our legal and constitutional experts explain the arguments for Jack Smith and Donald Trump, including the full presidential immunity claim, including for assassination of presidential rivals. Learn about...

Texas just enacted legislation to criminalize illegal immigration into Texas. The rule imposes fines and jail time on those convicted of these crimes. However, the Department of Justice just sued Texas, saying that Texas, as an individual state, cannot enact and impose separate and additional laws and sanctions on immigration that add to or contradict those imposed by the federal government. Find...

Jack Smith just filed a preliminary motion to prevent Trump from claiming election interference from foreign governments, interference from undercover agents in the January 6th events, politically motivated prosecutions, and more. In this episode, find out whether he can prevent such claims, and if so, why he would be able to do that if #donaldtrump has the First Amendment right to free speech. Al...

Trump was disqualified this week from the primary ballot in Colorado by the Colorado Supreme Court. In a 4-3 decision, the high court overturned part of the Colorado District Court decision in which Trump was found to have committed insurrection and rebellion according to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment but was also found not to qualify as an "officer" under the Constitution. Join us this holiday...

Two cases were appealed to #scotus this past week. 2 defendants in January 6th criminal cases have appealed to the Supreme Court to determine whether the criminal obstruction of a government proceeding charges are constitutional. The Supreme Court's decision will have implications on the D.C. criminal charges against #donaldtrump, because he has also been charged with those two particular crimes....

Two different courts ruled against #donaldtrump on December 1, 2023. In Blassingame v. Trump, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia decided that Trump does not have immunity from civil suits related to his actions surrounding January 6th. They ruled that there is a difference between the actions of a President, which would allow immunity, from the actions as a presidential candida...

A Colorado District Court just ruled that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment does NOT disqualify #donaldtrump from the presidential ballot. HOWEVER, she also issued more than a 100 page decision with findings of fact that #donaldtrump engaged in insurrection and rebellion on January 6th. Grab a glass of wine and join us for this special Thanksgiving edition as we provide a constitutional and legal an...

#donaldtrump filed for a mistrial this week in his NY civil fraud case, and his public statements have become more inflammatory. Congress members are fighting (even more than usual and even physically!). And #scotus issued its own code of ethics. Overall, it seems like our country's leaders are more fractured and divided than ever before. Grab a glass of wine and join us this week for a legal anal...