{"podcast":{"title":"Opening Arguments","slug":"opening-arguments-1055646","podcast_index_feed_id":1055646,"rss_url":"https://openargs.libsyn.com/","website_url":"http://openargs.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/2/6/1/9/261949e1b6a8cd5ae55e3c100dce7605/OA_Podcast_2024_FINAL-20240722-03wker1cxp.jpg","author":"Opening Arguments Media LLC","episode_count":1260,"summary":"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!","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T20:19:28.616997+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646"},"episode":{"title":"35 Judges Say Trump's DOJ Committed Fraud on the Court","slug":"35-judges-say-trump-s-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court","published_at":"2026-06-05T08:18:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/35-judges-say-trump-s-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/86258/35-judges-say-trumps-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/35/clrtpod.com/m/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/openargs/OA1267.mp3?dest-id=455562","summary":"OA1267 - Is Trump’s 1.8 billion dollar “anti-weaponization” fund really done, or is there something else going on here? Also can a few dozen federal judges really reopen any given civil suit with one magic filing? We take a closer look before going behind the recent commutation of former Mesa County (CO) elections clerk Tina Peters’ sentence by Colorado governor Jared Polis to the actual legal basis behind her successful appeal of her sentence to the Colorado Appeals Court. Finally in today’s footnote: an NPR host’s lawsuit claiming that Google stole his voice. People v. Peters , Colorado Appeals Court #2026COA24 (4/2/2026) “MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM JUDGMENT OR ORDER, OR, IN THE ALTERNATIVE, FOR LEAVE TO APPEAR AS AMICI CURIAE BY THIRTY-FIVE FORMER FEDERAL JUDGES ,” Trump v. IRS , filed 5/27/2026 Initial complaint in Green v Google et al (filed 1/23/2026) Check out the OA Linktree for all the places to go and things to do!","meta_description":"OA1267 - Is Trump’s 1.8 billion dollar “anti-weaponization” fund really done, or is there something else going on here? Also can a few dozen federal judge…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2524,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/opening-arguments-1055646/episodes/35-judges-say-trump-s-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/35-judges-say-trump-s-doj-committed-fraud-on-the-court.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}