# Opening Arguments

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Episodes: 1260

## Resource

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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## Episodes
- [Nancy Mace Thinks Anyone With a Foreign Name Is Disloyal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/nancy-mace-thinks-anyone-with-a-foreign-name-is-disloyal) — 2026-07-15T09:42:00+00:00
- [The MAGA Justices Get Torched by... Amy Coney Barrett?!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/the-maga-justices-get-torched-by-amy-coney-barrett) — 2026-07-13T07:29:00+00:00
- [It's Not Just Prairieland and Broadview. More Lives Are Being Ruined by Unjust Prosecutions.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/it-s-not-just-prairieland-and-broadview-more-lives-are-being-ruined-by-unjust-prosecutions) — 2026-07-10T07:55:00+00:00
- [Ben Shapiro is having AI write his columns, and apparently not even the good models](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/ben-shapiro-is-having-ai-write-his-columns-and-apparently-not-even-the-good-models) — 2026-07-08T07:55:00+00:00
- [Trump Is Once Again Trying to Change the Law With Memos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/trump-is-once-again-trying-to-change-the-law-with-memos) — 2026-07-06T08:31:00+00:00
- [Matt's Complete Supreme Court Term Recap](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/matt-s-complete-supreme-court-term-recap) — 2026-07-03T07:45:00+00:00
- [The New Cover on Alito's TPS Reports Is for Racism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/the-new-cover-on-alito-s-tps-reports-is-for-racism) — 2026-07-01T09:47:00+00:00
- [Worst Dude Hires Even Worse Lawyer to Legally Harass Woman Who Posted About Him](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/worst-dude-hires-even-worse-lawyer-to-legally-harass-woman-who-posted-about-him) — 2026-06-29T07:02:00+00:00
- [Prairieland - 30 Years for Moving Magazines. These Are Real Human Lives, Ruined.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/prairieland-30-years-for-moving-magazines-these-are-real-human-lives-ruined) — 2026-06-26T09:53:00+00:00
- [Why Is Alito Like This? with Peter Canellos](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/why-is-alito-like-this-with-peter-canellos) — 2026-06-22T06:01:00+00:00
- [He's Literally the Worst Dealmaker Ever. EVER.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/he-s-literally-the-worst-dealmaker-ever-ever) — 2026-06-19T07:31:00+00:00
- [The National Review’s Defense of Todd Blanche Is So Bad It's Confusing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/the-national-review-s-defense-of-todd-blanche-is-so-bad-it-s-confusing) — 2026-06-17T08:07:00+00:00
- [When It Comes to Juries, All of a Sudden the Supreme Court Can See Race](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-it-comes-to-juries-all-of-a-sudden-the-supreme-court-can-see-race) — 2026-06-15T09:18:00+00:00
- [LAM1014: Green Card](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/lam1014-green-card) — 2026-06-14T06:26:00+00:00
- [Trump Is Trying to Blanche His Taint](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/trump-is-trying-to-blanche-his-taint) — 2026-06-12T06:28:00+00:00
- [Is Fender Threatening Anyone Who Makes Strat-Shaped Guitars?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/is-fender-threatening-anyone-who-makes-strat-shaped-guitars) — 2026-06-08T09:41:00+00:00
- [35 Judges Say Trump's DOJ Committed Fraud on the Court](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/35-judges-say-trump-s-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court) — 2026-06-05T08:18:00+00:00
- [Molly Hemingway's Alito Book Is EMBARRASSING Propaganda](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/molly-hemingway-s-alito-book-is-embarrassing-propaganda) — 2026-06-03T09:18:00+00:00
- [When Super Soaker Got Sued by a Totally Lame Squirt Gun](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-super-soaker-got-sued-by-a-totally-lame-squirt-gun) — 2026-06-01T09:20:00+00:00
- [Judge Eviscerates Blanche’s DOJ, Tosses Abrego Garcia Indictment](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/judge-eviscerates-blanche-s-doj-tosses-abrego-garcia-indictment) — 2026-05-29T07:29:00+00:00
- [Did Trump’s DHS Just End Green Cards? Not Exactly.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/did-trump-s-dhs-just-end-green-cards-not-exactly) — 2026-05-27T08:31:00+00:00
- [Woman in Labor Spent 3 Hours Fighting a Judge on Zoom to Avoid a Forced C-Section](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/woman-in-labor-spent-3-hours-fighting-a-judge-on-zoom-to-avoid-a-forced-c-section) — 2026-05-25T09:19:00+00:00
- [The Biggest Scandal in US History. Todd Blanche Should Be in Prison. And Trump, Obviously.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/the-biggest-scandal-in-us-history-todd-blanche-should-be-in-prison-and-trump-obviously) — 2026-05-22T06:38:00+00:00
- [MAGA Says the ’60s Were Too Woke and Wants Racial Immigration Quotas Back](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/maga-says-the-60s-were-too-woke-and-wants-racial-immigration-quotas-back) — 2026-05-20T08:35:00+00:00
- [When Alito’s Jurisprudence Is Kavanaughs All the Way Down](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-alito-s-jurisprudence-is-kavanaughs-all-the-way-down) — 2026-05-18T09:52:00+00:00
- [We May Get All the Files on Renée Good's Killing... Because of a Different Case](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/we-may-get-all-the-files-on-ren-e-good-s-killing-because-of-a-different-case) — 2026-05-15T09:05:00+00:00
- [Clarence Thomas Delivers An Incomprehensibly Stupid Speech](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/clarence-thomas-delivers-an-incomprehensibly-stupid-speech) — 2026-05-13T09:17:00+00:00
- [Callais Is Worse Than You Think. No, Even More Worse. Nope, STILL WORSE THAN THAT.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/callais-is-worse-than-you-think-no-even-more-worse-nope-still-worse-than-that) — 2026-05-11T08:45:00+00:00
- [James Comey, Seashell Assassin](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/james-comey-seashell-assassin) — 2026-05-08T06:25:00+00:00
- [LAM1013: Bull](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/lam1013-bull) — 2026-05-06T08:40:00+00:00
- [Is Social Media the Asbestos of the Internet? with Matthew Bergman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/is-social-media-the-asbestos-of-the-internet-with-matthew-bergman) — 2026-05-04T08:20:00+00:00
- [Thomas and Lydia Take the Marriage Exam](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/thomas-and-lydia-take-the-marriage-exam) — 2026-05-01T08:07:00+00:00
- [DOJ Asks Judge to Grant Trump an Emergency Ballroom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom) — 2026-04-29T07:30:00+00:00
- [When You Oppose War, But Not Religiously](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-you-oppose-war-but-not-religiously) — 2026-04-27T10:22:00+00:00
- [SPLC Indicted for Being the SPLC; 10 Commandments in Classrooms; Trump’s Stupid Ballroom](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/splc-indicted-for-being-the-splc-10-commandments-in-classrooms-trump-s-stupid-ballroom) — 2026-04-24T08:22:00+00:00
- [Leaked Supreme Court Memos Reveal the Shadow Docket's Extremely Stupid (and Corrupt) Origins](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/leaked-supreme-court-memos-reveal-the-shadow-docket-s-extremely-stupid-and-corrupt-origins) — 2026-04-22T10:05:00+00:00
- [An Under-the-Radar Copyright Case with Huge Implications](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/an-under-the-radar-copyright-case-with-huge-implications) — 2026-04-20T06:33:00+00:00
- [Trump Puts the “Pervert” in Perversion of Justice](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/trump-puts-the-pervert-in-perversion-of-justice) — 2026-04-17T06:32:00+00:00
- [Go to Hell, Swalwell.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/go-to-hell-swalwell) — 2026-04-15T08:31:00+00:00
- [Peaceful Protestors Are Facing Decades in Prison - Inside the Prairieland Trial](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/peaceful-protestors-are-facing-decades-in-prison-inside-the-prairieland-trial) — 2026-04-13T08:58:00+00:00
- [Farewell to Pam Bondi, the worst AG in US History... SO FAR!](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/farewell-to-pam-bondi-the-worst-ag-in-us-history-so-far) — 2026-04-10T09:32:00+00:00
- [That Time Sociopaths Tried to Inception a Fake 14th Amendment History into Legal Scholarship](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/that-time-sociopaths-tried-to-inception-a-fake-14th-amendment-history-into-legal-scholarship) — 2026-04-08T06:16:00+00:00
- [When You Fall Out of Bed and Land in the Supreme Court](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/when-you-fall-out-of-bed-and-land-in-the-supreme-court) — 2026-04-06T09:00:00+00:00
- [Trump's Birthright Citizenship Arguments Were Laughed Out of Court](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/trump-s-birthright-citizenship-arguments-were-laughed-out-of-court) — 2026-04-03T05:21:00+00:00
- [LAM1012: The Juror - Preview](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/lam1012-the-juror-preview) — 2026-04-01T07:21:00+00:00
- [Subnautica Part 2 - It Does Not Go Well for Idiot Krafton CEO](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/subnautica-part-2-it-does-not-go-well-for-idiot-krafton-ceo) — 2026-03-30T07:56:00+00:00
- [Social Media Is a Defective Product](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/social-media-is-a-defective-product) — 2026-03-27T04:51:00+00:00
- [Pete Hegseth's books are racist trash written in crayon. We've got some highlights for you.](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/pete-hegseth-s-books-are-racist-trash-written-in-crayon-we-ve-got-some-highlights-for-you) — 2026-03-25T07:32:00+00:00
- [Idiot CEO Used ChatGPT to Try to Screw Over Subnautica Creators](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/idiot-ceo-used-chatgpt-to-try-to-screw-over-subnautica-creators) — 2026-03-23T06:46:00+00:00
- [DOJ Just Convicted Several People of Imaginary Antifa Terrorism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/doj-just-convicted-several-people-of-imaginary-antifa-terrorism) — 2026-03-20T06:33:00+00:00
- [US v Dunn 2 - "If You Spit, We Hit"](https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/us-v-dunn-2-if-you-spit-we-hit) — 2026-03-18T06:56:00+00:00

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