Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments

Opening Arguments Media LLC

Episodes 1,246
Avg. Duration 1h 5m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.3 (3,565)
Since Aug 2016
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Opening Arguments is a law show that helps you make sense of the news! Comedian Thomas Smith brings on legal analysts to help you understand not only current events, but also deeper legal concepts and areas! The typical schedule will be M-W-F with Monday being a deep-dive, Wednesday being Thomas Takes the Bar Exam and patron shoutouts, and Friday being a rapid response to legal issues in the news!

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Trump Is Trying to Blanche His Taint

Jun 12, 2026 53m

OA1269 - It’s official: Donald Trump has nominated Acting Attorney General “Two Taint” Todd Blanche to run the Department of Justice for real. We review Blanche’s three-year career as Trump’s…

Is Fender Threatening Anyone Who Makes Strat-Shaped Guitars?

Jun 08, 2026 1h 8m

OA1268 - Patents, trademarks, and copyrights, ach mein! How did the Fender Stratocaster, a guitar that has been in continuous manufacture since 1954, Suddenly become the subject of an intellectual…

35 Judges Say Trump's DOJ Committed Fraud on the Court

Jun 05, 2026 42m

OA1267 - Is Trump’s 1.8 billion dollar “anti-weaponization” fund really done, or is there something else going on here? Also can a few dozen federal judges really reopen any given civil suit with one…

Molly Hemingway's Alito Book Is EMBARRASSING Propaganda

Jun 03, 2026 1h 9m

VR34 - This week in Vapid Response: Vanilla Ice provides the platonic ideal of an amuse douche before we order up an excerpt of the worshipful new Alito biography by the editor-in-chief of The…

When Super Soaker Got Sued by a Totally Lame Squirt Gun

Jun 01, 2026 53m

OA1266 - Can wearing a corset be considered a “public” use of the product? What makes someone (or some thing) an inventor? What is it exactly that makes the Super Soaker so rad? Get the answers to…

Judge Eviscerates Blanche’s DOJ, Tosses Abrego Garcia Indictment

May 29, 2026 49m

OA1265 - THIS IS SUCH A GOOD NEWS SHOW. Seriously. It was so good that Matt invented a new form of entertainment that you need to hear about. We've got Markwayne saying possibly THE dumbest thing a…

Did Trump’s DHS Just End Green Cards? Not Exactly.

May 27, 2026 1h 5m

VR33 - Did Trump’s DHS really just “end greencards” for people living in the US? Is everyone here on a visa going to have to return to their home countries--potentially with legal bars to returning…

Woman in Labor Spent 3 Hours Fighting a Judge on Zoom to Avoid a Forced C-Section

May 25, 2026 1h 2m

OA1264 - Sherise Doyley was in the early stages of labor, in a hospital bed, preparing to deliver her baby, when nurses wheeled in a computer. On the screen was a judge, notifying her of an emergency…

The Biggest Scandal in US History. Todd Blanche Should Be in Prison. And Trump, Obviously.

May 22, 2026 53m

OA1263 - Two of the most egregiously impeachable things ever to happen in the United States have just occurred on the same day this week:  The so-called “settlement” between Donald Trump and his…

MAGA Says the ’60s Were Too Woke and Wants Racial Immigration Quotas Back

May 20, 2026 1h 21m

VR32 - As the economic effects of Trump’s war of choice in the Middle East begin to hit home, his party is playing the one card it has going into the midterms: the promise of fully restoring open…

When Alito’s Jurisprudence Is Kavanaughs All the Way Down

May 18, 2026 58m

OA1262 - How are a car accident in California, a tax fraud case in Nevada, and two bus accidents in New York and Pennsylvania all connected to the Dobbs abortion case? Find out on this week’s…

We May Get All the Files on Renée Good's Killing... Because of a Different Case

May 15, 2026 49m

OA1261 - Today on Rapid Response Friday: a new fight for reproductive rights reaches SCOTUS, (some) justice on ICE, and two very different kinds of dicks get their day in court. (N.B.: Shortly after…

Clarence Thomas Delivers An Incomprehensibly Stupid Speech

May 13, 2026 1h 5m

VR31 - Is Justice Clarence Thomas the single most interesting person in American public life right now? Matt is here to argue that case upon the dismal milestone of Thomas officially becoming the…

Callais Is Worse Than You Think. No, Even More Worse. Nope, STILL WORSE THAN THAT.

May 11, 2026 1h 4m

OA1260 - The Supreme Court lectures us on the right way to combat racism, which is to close our eyes and pretend it’s not happening. In Louisiana v. Callais… the court guts the Voting Rights Act,…

James Comey, Seashell Assassin

May 08, 2026 59m

OA1259 - This week in Rapid Response Friday: who is the government protecting but not binding these days--and who are they binding but not protecting? We consider DOJ’s newest low in the absurd…

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May 06, 2026 48m Bonus

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Is Social Media the Asbestos of the Internet? with Matthew Bergman

May 04, 2026 43m

OA1258 - The Social Media Victims Law Center just made history in a Los Angeles courtroom by holding Meta and Google accountable for mental health harms which they successfully argued to a jury…

Thomas and Lydia Take the Marriage Exam

May 01, 2026 1h 22m

In this very special episode, Thomas and Lydia Smith celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary in the most normal and romantic way possible: subjecting themselves to an extended interrogation about…

DOJ Asks Judge to Grant Trump an Emergency Ballroom

Apr 29, 2026 1h 8m

The United States Department of Justice  has reached a humiliating but undeniably hilarious new low in its defense of Donald Trump's illegal efforts to create a massive new building on the White…

When You Oppose War, But Not Religiously

Apr 27, 2026 1h 6m

OA1256 - Will there ever be a draft again? Who knows. But if there is, what does one have to do to claim "conscientious objector” status? During the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court grappled with how…

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