On The Case
The First Amendment. Gun litigation. President Donald Trump's impact on the judiciary. The hurricane of daily legal news seems to never let up. A new podcast series from Reuters columnist Alison Frankel takes you into the eye of the storm, talking about law and precedent with experts who know their stuff inside and out.
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The trillion-dollar question: Can private lawye...
Cities, states and counties across the country have hired private lawyers to sue the pharmaceutical companies that they blame for the addiction crisis that has cost tens of thousands of lives – and billions of dollars. One of the leaders of th...
39 min
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Free speech v. government regulation on the Int...
Congress and the White House are talking about regulating Google, Twitter, Facebook and other Internet content companies. First Amendment guru Eugene Volokh – who predicted the Babel of voices on the Internet more than 20 years ago – explains why searc...
35 min
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Meanwhile, back at 1 First Street
With the Kavanaugh crisis resolved, the U.S. Supreme Court returns to business as usual. We get the inside skinny from Supreme Court lawyer (and former Antonin Scalia clerk) Kannon Shanmugam about appearing before the highest court in the land...
39 min
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Can the president control the Justice Department?
Donald Trump is challenging the independence of the Justice Department in unprecedented ways – and neither the U.S. Constitution nor Congress has set explicit limits on presidential authority over federal prosecutors. But law professor and historian Re...
47 min
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Courting Change: Trump’s impact on the federal ...
While all eyes are on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, this is far from the full story of Trump’s impact on the federal judiciary. In less than two years, Trump has appointed 26 judges to the&n...
34 min
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Guns and lawsuits: Is America actually safer be...
State and federal laws make it almost impossible to hold gunmakers accountable when killers go on murderous sprees. Shooting victims’ families are fighting an uphill battle to get around those rules. But, in this epi...
34 min
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NFL protesters, Omarosa and John Brennan: When ...
What do NFL protesters, Omarosa and John Brennan have in common? President Donald Trump wants them all to shut up. Trump’s efforts to control what other people say stir up some really complicated questions about the 1st amendment, employment law and na...
27 min