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June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and scholars, analyzing legal issues and cases in the news.
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Feb 27, 2021 • 22min
Supreme Court Slams the Door on Trump
Greg Stohr, Bloomberg News Supreme Court Reporter, discusses the Supreme Court turning away former President Trump on disclosure of his taxes and rejecting eight appeals to overturn the results of the presidential election. Ellen Gilmer, Senior Legal Reporter for Bloomberg Law, discusses whether consumers can sue when the power goes out. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 26, 2021 • 18min
Airport Officials Can Search Your Mobile Phones
Former federal prosecutor George Newhouse of Richards Carrington, discusses the First Circuit Court of Appeals upholding U.S. border security officials’ ability to search travelers’ mobile phones and other digital devices without a warrant. Peter Jeffrey, Bloomberg News Legal Editor, discusses drunken driving charges being dismissed against rock star Bruce Springsteen and the battle of the exercise bikes. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 24, 2021 • 20min
The Next United States Attorney General
The former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, a partner at Honigman discusses the confirmation hearings for Attorney General nominee, Judge Merrick Garland. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit filed against MyPillow Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mike Lindell by Dominion Voting Systems. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 20, 2021 • 14min
Finders Keepers in Citibank's $500 Million Mistake
Chris Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses a judge's ruling that asset managers for Revlon lenders do not have to return half a billion dollars Citibank mistakenly sent to them, due to employee error. Adam Abensohn, a partner at Quinn Emanuel, the law firm representing the winning investment firms, discusses the decision. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 19, 2021 • 29min
Trump Facing Criminal Charges and a Lawsuit by NAACP
Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses a Democratic member of Congress suing former President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, claiming they conspired to incite the January 6th Capitol riot in violation of a law enacted to combat the Ku Klux Klan. Clark Cunningham, a law professor at Georgia State University, discusses the criminal investigation by a Georgia district attorney into Trump's attempts to interfere in the presidential election in that state. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 18, 2021 • 23min
Newest Justice Shows Independent Streak
Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses newest justice, Amy Coney Barrett, joining the Supreme Court’s Democratic appointees to block Alabama from executing an inmate without his pastor in the chamber. Madison Alder, Bloomberg Law Reporter, discusses why allowing cameras in courtrooms, establishing term limits for Supreme Court justices, or slowly adding lower court judges are ways a bipartisan commission appointed by President Joe Biden could recommend reshaping the judiciary. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 13, 2021 • 31min
Will Supreme Court Expand Religious Rights?
Rick Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses a divided U.S. Supreme Court ordering California to let indoor church services resume. Jimmy Gurule, a professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses the case for the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 13, 2021 • 28min
Billion Dollar Revenge of the Voting Machines
Jonathan Peters, Media Law Professor at the University of Georgia, discusses Fox News' motion to dismiss the defamation lawsuit against it filed by voting-technology firm Smartmatic Corp. Kartikay Mehrotra, Bloomberg News Cybersecurity Reporter, discusses the background of the Smartmatic and Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuits. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 12, 2021 • 31min
Manafort Is In the Clear Because of Double Jeopardy
Former federal prosecutor Jennifer Rodgers, a Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School, discusses why former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort can’t be prosecuted by New York for the same offenses for which he received a presidential pardon. Former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin, discusses the opening arguments in the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Feb 11, 2021 • 27min
Line Between Lawyering and Complicity in Trump Taxes
Christopher Opfer, Bloomberg Law Team Leader for the Business of Law, discusses how a court order forcing some of Donald Trump’s former top tax lawyers to give thousands of documents to investigators shows the risk attorneys face when their own actions go under a microscope. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the second impeachment trial of Trump. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


