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Aug 27, 2020 • 9min

Court Overturns Scott Peterson's Death Sentence

Professor John Blume of Cornell Law School, the Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses why the California Supreme Court overturned Scott Peterson's 2005 death sentence for the murder of his wife and unborn child. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 14, 2020 • 31min

Chaos in the Criminal Courts

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the many issues criminal trial lawyers are having during the pandemic, from not being able to confer adequately with their clients to potentially skewed jury pools. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Democrat's win in a court fight over the testimony of former White House counsel Donald McGahn. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 13, 2020 • 30min

False Concerns About Mail-In Voting

Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges ahead in the 2020 election and what states are trying to do now to ensure mail-in balloting is successful. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the skeptical en banc panel former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn faced at the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 13, 2020 • 27min

Will New York Dissolve the NRA?

Second Amendment expert, Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the New York Attorney General's lawsuit to dissolve the NRA. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses Qualcomm's victory at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 11, 2020 • 34min

Trump Administration is Soft on White Collar Crime

John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book, “Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement,” discusses how the prosecution of white collar crime has dropped 30% under President Trump, as well as a drop in fines on corporations. Matt Dallek, a professor at Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, discusses whether Trump’s pandemic relief orders are likely to face legal challenges. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 10, 2020 • 30min

Supreme Court Leaks Show Justice's Maneuvers

Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses an extraordinary breach of the Supreme Court's rules of confidentiality and what it revealed about the inner workings of the court. Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses why the Supreme Court hasn’t shown much willingness during the Covid pandemic to second-guess emergency orders issued by public officials. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 7, 2020 • 19min

2020 Election is a Legal Logjam

Election law expert Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses why the 2020 election is on track to be the most litigated in U.S. history, with lawsuits pending in 42 states and D.C. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 6, 2020 • 31min

New Concerns About Accuracy of the Census

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses new concerns about the 2020 Census. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Trump's upcoming list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Christopher Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how a bail hearing for the teenager accused in the Twitter hack, got hacked. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 5, 2020 • 30min

N.Y. Prosecutor Suggests Fraud Part of Trump Inquiry

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. suggesting his office may be investigating potential bank and insurance fraud by President Trump and the Trump Organization, as it seeks access to the president’s tax returns and other financial records. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses Judge Esther Salas calling for more security for federal judges after a shooter killed her son and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Aug 4, 2020 • 29min

Ghislaine Maxwell Fights to Stop Document Release

Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses some revelations in newly unsealed documents in the Ghislaine Maxwell case and her attempts to block her deposition from 2016 from being revealed. Robert Bloom, a professor at Boston College Law School, discusses a federal appeals court throwing out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. June Grasso hosts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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