

CAFE Insider
CAFE
Co-hosts Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance help you to make sense of law and politics each week, plus weekly notes and bonus content exclusive to CAFE Insider members.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Apr 8, 2022 • 6min
Note From Preet: When Joy is on the Run
Note From Preet is part of the CAFE Insider newsletter. Read, listen, and let us know your thoughts at letters@CAFE.com

Apr 8, 2022 • 9min
Note from Elie: A New Rule for Confirming Supreme Court Justices
Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie's Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription.

Apr 7, 2022 • 10min
Stay Tuned Bonus 4/7: David Frum
In this bonus from Stay Tuned, David Frum, the Atlantic staff writer and conservative political commentator, addresses Sarah Palin’s bid for Congress and a prediction he made during Trump’s second impeachment hearing. Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai.

Apr 6, 2022 • 7min
Note From Joyce: Don’t Leave Your Common Sense at the Door
Joyce Vance is a former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, a professor at the University of Alabama Law School, and an MSNBC legal analyst.

Apr 5, 2022 • 47min
CAFE Insider 4/5: DOJ Pressure & January 6th
On the CAFE Insider docket this week:– The reports indicating that the Department of Justice is expanding the January 6th investigations to include people who funded and planned that day’s events;– The likelihood that Attorney General Merrick Garland feels pressure from the January 6th Committee to intensify investigations;– The utility of a criminal referral from the January 6th Committee to DOJ about former President Donald Trump;– The forthcoming House vote on whether to hold former Trump aides Dan Scavino & Peter Navarro in contempt for defying Committee subpoenas;– The Committee’s recent meeting with Jared Kushner; and– The reports indicating that the Committee will not issue subpoenas to members of Congress.Vote for Stay Tuned with Preet for the 2022 Webby Awards.Ask your friends and family to join you in the conversation about the latest legal and political news making the headlines. For every person you refer to the CAFE Insider community, you’ll get a free month added to your subscription. Learn more at CAFE.com/referral.We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at letters@cafe.com with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. Shownotes & transcript can be found at CAFE.com.This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network.

Apr 5, 2022 • 14min
Now & Then, Backstage, 4/5
“Backstage” is a special segment of Now & Then exclusively for members of CAFE Insider. In this installment, Heather and Joanne discuss how they might create a more just trial system. Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community.

Apr 1, 2022 • 8min
Note From Elie: Refuse to Recuse – A Bad Look for Justice Thomas & The Court
Note From Elie is part of the free weekly CAFE Brief newsletter. Audio recordings of Elie's Note are part of the CAFE Insider subscription.

Mar 31, 2022 • 6min
Stay Tuned Bonus 3/31: Tim Urban
In this bonus from Stay Tuned, Tim Urban, the blogger who writes “Wait But Why,” tells Preet why he thinks artificial intelligence is a more existential issue than climate change.Thank you for being a member of the CAFE Insider community.Stay Tuned with Preet is brought to you by CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network.Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Senior Editorial Producer: Adam Waller; Technical Director: David Tatasciore; Audio Producer: Nat Weiner; Editorial Producers: Sam Ozer-Staton, Noa Azulai.

Mar 30, 2022 • 6min
Note From Barb: The Patriotism of Public Defenders
"Note From Barb" is now a part of the CAFE Insider subscription. Barb McQuade is the former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, a law professor at the University of Michigan, and an NBC News/MSNBC legal analyst.To access the full transcript of Barb’s note, head to CAFE.com: https://cafe.com/notes-from-contributors/note-from-barb-the-patriotism-of-public-defenders/

Mar 29, 2022 • 58min
CAFE Insider 3/29: Trump Trouble & Thomas Texts (with Dan Goldman)
This week on the CAFE Insider podcast, Dan Goldman guest co-hosts with Joyce Vance. Dan served as House Majority Counsel during the first impeachment of Donald Trump, and before that, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York under Preet.On the docket this week:– The court order in which a federal judge determined that Trump likely committed crimes in his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results;– The texts Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent to Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in which she pressed Meadows to help overturn the election results; and– The reports that Jared Kushner will meet with the January 6th Committee later this week.Get tickets to Stay Tuned with Preet live show in NYC on March 31, featuring Preet in conversation with Ben Stiller, Garry Kasparov, and special guest Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman (Ret.): cafe.com/eventsAsk your friends and family to join you in the conversation about the latest legal and political news making the headlines. For every person you refer to the CAFE Insider community, you’ll get a free month added to your subscription. Learn more at CAFE.com/referral.We hope you’re finding CAFE Insider informative. Email us at letters@cafe.com with your suggestions and questions for Preet and Joyce. Shownotes & transcript can be found at CAFE.com.This podcast is brought to you by CAFE Studios and Vox Media Podcast Network.


