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T3BE Week 7! Best Evidence and Contract Law

Opening Arguments - March 27, 2024 03:43 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
It's week 7, and it's a Next Generation of test. Make it so! Oh also, we're still dogged by controversy, #T3BEgate2.5 but we've got a fall guy and it's Matt. Question 12 was a repeat and Matt is to blame and accepts the inevitable public shaming. But 13 was new! And, now we've got an entirely ne...

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Contractor Who Leaked Trump's Tax Return Gets 5 Years In Prison

Opening Arguments - March 25, 2024 07:19 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1017 He had a plea agreement with the government which he thought would get him 8-14 months. He ended up with 5 years. What happened? Also, was this Democrats' version of January 6th Casey joins this week to help to answer an OA patron's question about the plea agreement reached in the...

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A matter of time

Gloves Off! - March 23, 2024 14:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The return of ISIS and a country flop.

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Dumb Stuff

Gloves Off! - March 23, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Dumb stuff happening all around

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New Frontiers for Education Reform?

The Bully Pulpit - March 22, 2024 23:57 - 1 hour
CPF Director Bob Shrum joins education experts, Pedro Noguera, Macke Raymond, and Dr. Darline Robles, for a conversation on education reform and policy. They discuss the politics of public education, the role of parental rights, why some public schools are failing, what makes some charter school...

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Judge Aileen Cannon Sucks - A Definitive Guide

Opening Arguments - March 22, 2024 07:21 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Who is Aileen Cannon? Why is Aileen Cannon? We answer these important questions and many more in this brief review of the incomprehensible jurisprudence of the best federal judge in Fort Pierce, Florida. 1. Aileen Cannon's Senate Judiciary Committee nomination questionnaire 2. Map of federal...

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T3BE Week 6 - ROCKED by Scandal #T3BEgate2

Opening Arguments - March 20, 2024 03:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Massive controversy shakes T3BE to its core. Thomas and Matt respond to the international outcry and media firestorm generated by allegations that T3BE is using repeat questions. After that, we get two TOTALLY DEFINITELY NEW practice bar exam questions. Topics are appealing to SCOTUS re State ...

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Deported by an Immigration Court in a Strip Mall

Opening Arguments - March 18, 2024 05:57 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1015 Part 2 of Azul's story Folks... I implore you. I beg of you, please listen to this one all the way through. Azul tells us the rest of her story, and talks about where she is now, and it is one of if not the most inspiring, heartwarming things I have ever had the privilege of publi...

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We Have A Ruling In Fani Willis Case - EMERGENCY POD

Opening Arguments - March 16, 2024 05:14 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Emergency Bonus Pod! - Fani Willis and the Odor of Mendacity   Judge MacAfee has issued a ruling on the Fani Willis disqualification motion. Get the OA breakdown with a full analysis and plenty of opinion and context.   If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pled...

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Judge Dismisses Some Trump Charges. Should We Be Worried?

Opening Arguments - March 15, 2024 06:15 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1014 We begin by pouring a Tequila Sunrise out for the charges against three memorabilia collectors charged with stealing old Eagles lyrics, in which the unexpected airing of 6,000 pages of Don Henley's dirty laundry had Manhattan prosecutors realizing last week that they truly could ...

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T3BE Week 5! Personal Injury and Comparative Negligence

Opening Arguments - March 13, 2024 07:53 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Week 5!   Ok so last week revealed to us that the "hot unbreakable streak" was not, in fact, unbreakable. No one could have seen this coming though, so no use in playing the blame game. Thomas comes into the week 5-2. Will he go to 5-4? Or 7-2? Or perhaps the other...

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Arrested on Her 22nd Birthday. She Didn't Know She Was Undocumented.

Opening Arguments - March 11, 2024 09:03 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1013   Today, we get to meet Azul Uribe. Azul lived most of her life in the US as a devout Mormon, doing her best to get by in a sea of Whiteness. She even made jokes at her own expense about being undocumented. That all changed when she was arrested at age 22 under bizarre and very...

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Ridiculous rant...

Gloves Off! - March 10, 2024 11:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Gather round kids, grandpa's been drinking all day again.

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poop awards

Gloves Off! - March 10, 2024 11:00 - 56 seconds ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
An easy, do-it-yourself awards party alternative.

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Did the Trump Colorado Decision Make You Feel Crazy? You’re Not Alone.

Opening Arguments - March 08, 2024 07:49 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1012   Does anyone else feel like the Supreme Court decided a part of the Constitution just doesn't exist anymore? Perhaps you're like Listener Thomas S, who found this decision absolutely nuts. If so, you're in luck, because in this episode of OA, Thomas throws every argument at ac...

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T3BE Week 4! Firefighters' Rule and Interstate Commerce

Opening Arguments - March 06, 2024 07:06 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Thomas Takes the Bar Exam Week 4!   Thomas comes into this week on a HOT, some would say, UNBREAKABLE, streak! 5-0. So, naturally, he aced questions 6 and 7, right? You'll find out! After those answers, we get questions 8 and 9, pictured below! What the hell is the firefighters' rule? And ar...

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MAGA Fascists Try To Ban Drag and Fail. Repeatedly.

Opening Arguments - March 04, 2024 09:09 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1011   Here's one for everyone who enjoys stories about terrible people losing in court! Casey stops by to review Alito's complaint to America's managers about the devastating cost of marriage equality: the exclusion of anti-LGBTQ bigots from juries. Matt breaks down the total fail...

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What's the rush?

Gloves Off! - March 03, 2024 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Why are holidays given the bum's rush?

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Girl Interrupted

Gloves Off! - March 03, 2024 13:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
How Biden and the demon-crats are responsible for murder and rape.

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A Tale of Two Dons in Criminal Court

Opening Arguments - March 01, 2024 10:25 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1010   It was the worst of Dons, it was the worst of Dons. Eagles singer Don Henley was not taking it easy in a New York City courtroom this week in his testimony against three memorabilia-collecting desperadoes who had to bring their alibis to face charges of conspiring to sell sto...

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T3BE Week 3! Drugs and Hearsay

Opening Arguments - February 28, 2024 06:03 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Thomas Takes the Bar Exam!   It's time for the answers to last week's questions, plus two more!   If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law! For the time being, any profit over and above the costs of operating the show, will go towards repa...

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Project 2025 Is Terrifying

Opening Arguments - February 26, 2024 07:14 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1009    The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 has been making headlines with its promises to set the next Republican president up with a full staff of loyal civil servants and a 920-page executive branch playbook--but what is actually in this thing, and what can we learn from it? M...

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Blackmail

Gloves Off! - February 24, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
Why the Ukraine 'war" is a black mail scheme.

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Blind Eye

Gloves Off! - February 24, 2024 11:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
How the democrats turn a blind eye to Biden's sick behavior.

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Embryos Are People, My Friend

Opening Arguments - February 23, 2024 06:54 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1008   Today we are serving up a tasteful pairing of radically destructive activism from one supreme court with a refreshing adherence to basic Constitutional law from another. We start in Alabama, where the state's highest court just found with no any apparent legal, factual, or mo...

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T3BE Week 2!

Opening Arguments - February 22, 2024 09:20 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Thomas Takes the Bar Exam!   It's time for the answers to last week's questions, plus two more!   If you'd like to support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at patreon.com/law! For the time being, any profit over and above the costs of operating the show, will go towards repa...

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The Fani Willis Hearings - Your Comprehensive Guide 2

Opening Arguments - February 21, 2024 08:07 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1007   It's Part 2! Fani testifies! It is high drama. Not only that, we hear from an incredible Cohen Brothers movie character for some reason. We also hear from Fani Willis's dad, someone who has led a fascinating life. Then finally, they put Wade's ex-partner Bradley on the stand ...

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The Fani Willis Hearings - Your Comprehensive Guide

Opening Arguments - February 20, 2024 09:18 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 3.4K ratings
Episode 1006   Part 1! We watched 17 hours of Fulton Country Superior Court so you don't have to! Cohabitating lawyers Matt and Casey are here to break down many of the legal issues, from the mundane to the outright bizarre. These hearings were truly extraordinary. Some of the craziest cour...

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Freak show

Gloves Off! - February 18, 2024 14:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
How ridiculous once respectable institutions have become.

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A year late and a brain cell short...

Gloves Off! - February 18, 2024 14:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
The obviously phony visit to Palestine...Ohio.