{"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":"DOJ Asks Judge to Grant Trump an Emergency Ballroom","slug":"doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom","published_at":"2026-04-29T07:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646/doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/opening-arguments-1055646","url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/86258/doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom","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/30_VR30.mp3?dest-id=455562","summary":"The United States Department of Justice has reached a humiliating but undeniably hilarious new low in its defense of Donald Trump's illegal efforts to create a massive new building on the White House grounds without approval from his Congressional landlords.. Are the president's balls really a matter of national security? Did three of the most important people in DOJ really just put their names on a filing which reads more like a Trutth Social post than a serious motion in a serious case? We waltz in for a closer look. Judge Leon’s order staying ballroom construction (3/31/2026) Defendant’s Rule 62.1 Motion For An Indicative Ruling Staying the Court’s Injunction (4/27/2026)","meta_description":"The United States Department of Justice has reached a humiliating but undeniably hilarious new low in its defense of Donald Trump's illegal efforts to cre…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4122,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/opening-arguments-1055646/episodes/doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom/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/doj-asks-judge-to-grant-trump-an-emergency-ballroom.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}