{"podcast":{"title":"Serious Trouble","slug":"serious-trouble-5498851","podcast_index_feed_id":5498851,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/906465.rss","website_url":"https://www.serioustrouble.show/podcast","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/906465/8304b8163a0aee7dba424b4492ff198e.jpg","author":"Josh Barro and Ken White","episode_count":183,"summary":"An irreverent podcast about the law","last_synced_at":"2026-06-13T08:17:11.388966+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851"},"episode":{"title":"Court Officers Behaving Badly","slug":"court-officers-behaving-badly","published_at":"2026-05-29T19:31:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851/court-officers-behaving-badly","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851","url":"https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/court-officers-behaving-badly","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/199765392/cd5d409586e511bdbd96a49ff83a3717.mp3","summary":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s prominent prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Federal prosecutors in Chicago brought felony charges to fanfare, then curiously dropped them, keeping only misdemeanor counts. Now we know why: they engaged in egregious misconduct to obtain the felony indictments, which they then sought to conceal from the judge, who is not amused . For all subscribers, we discuss that and US Attorney Andrew Boutros, who issued a weird memo promising reform, and the news that his office is apparently running a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll , examining whether she lied in a deposition hundreds of miles from Chicago . For paying subscribers (upgrade your subscription now at serioustrouble.show ) this week, there’s also: * Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s big and unusual win on vindictive prosecution , which is already inspiring the Southern Poverty Law Center. * A sordid case involving an Eleventh Circuit judge whose sofa cushion required forensic testing after clerks asserted she was noisily carrying on an affair in chambers . * A free speech win for West Point faculty. * An interesting new insider trading case involving Polymarket. * A probably-too-clever motion attacking the “anti-weaponization fund,” and * More bad news for ex-JP Morgan banker Chirayu Rana .","meta_description":"This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s promi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1374,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/serious-trouble-5498851/episodes/court-officers-behaving-badly/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851/court-officers-behaving-badly.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}