You Can Crime If You Want To

<p>Leah, Melissa, and Kate dive into the raging legal battles over redistricting ahead of next year’s midterms, Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s massive oopsies in her prosecution of James Comey, developments with L’Affaire Epstein, and other assorted legal quagmires and ... Show More

<p>Kate and Leah run through the latest legal news, including updates on the SNAP benefits case, the email dump that revealed Jeffrey Epstein's deep ties to the establishment, and the political persecution of Representative LaMonica McIver. Then they catch up on the past couple w ... Show More

<p>Live from Crooked Con in Washington, Leah, Kate, and Melissa unpack the surprisingly not-awful oral arguments for <i>Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump</i>, which put the president's tariffs in the hot seat. Then the hosts are joined by Representative LaMonica McIver of New Jer ... Show More

<p>With four ongoing criminal investigations, Donald Trump is the most indicted president in U.S. history. After years of defying unwritten norms, he will now be subject to a criminal justice system defined by norms and precedents. What does due process look like for a former pre ... Show More

Another Texas abortion case headed the justices’ way and a bombshell report on Clarence Thomas and his luxury vacations upended a usual quiet spring break from Supreme Court arguments and opinions.Cases and Controversies host Kimberly Robinson explains the fast-moving district an ... Show More

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, is a longtime conservative activist who has been public about her views and support of former President Donald Trump. And text messages that surfaced last week showed that she went as far as peddling falsehoods abou ... Show More

<p>The testimony is over in the NY criminal trial against defendant Trump. The jury will hear closing arguments next week and begin deliberations. But questions remain. What will the jury be asked to decide? Will the verdict form include the lesser-include offense of falsifying b ... Show More

<p>On June 15, 2023, the Super Supremes settled a circuit split on an important issue involving venue and double jeopardy with its unanimous opinion in <a href='https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1576_e29g.pdf'>Smith v. U.S.</a> The Court’s opinion is timely in that i ... Show More

<p>In April, we published an <a href="https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/trump-inc-podcast-company-michael-cohen-kept">investigation into Michael Cohen’s past</a>. That episode traced how so many of Cohen’s associates over the years have been convicted of crimes, disbarred or face ... Show More

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “The Chauvin Prosecutors,” Preet interviews Jerry Blackwell and Steve Schleicher, the two lead prosecutors in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer who was convicted of murdering George Floyd.For show notes and a t ... Show More

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by leading environmental lawyer and Harvard professor Richard Lazarus , author of The Rule of Five: Climate History at the Supreme Court, to discuss cases currently flying under many court-watchers’ radar, which could have a huge impact on our ability to ... Show More