Best Merrick Garland Podcasts (2025)

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February 19th, 2025: What Exactly Is DOGE? 18:39

31m ago18:39

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Trump White House lawyers made a curious admission about Elon Musk's role in a recent court filing before Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C. This admission, in turn, then raises the obvious question: What exactly is DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, legally speaking? Plus, Josh fills us in on his travels this week. Learn more abou…

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The politics of DOJ and the law of DOGE 29:25

18h ago29:25

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It’s our regular mash-up with none other than Molly Jong-Fast, in which Molly fires legal question that have been occupying her at Harry, and Harry reciprocates with political questions for Molly. This mash-up is in the middle of the burgeoning Department of Justice scandal over the Eric Adams prosecution, and Harry presses Molly on whether the sca…

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February 18th, 2025: The New Trump Administration Prepares for Its First SCOTUS Showdown 21:35

1h ago21:35

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Josh Hammer unpacks the seemingly imminent SCOTUS case involving the Trump administration's attempt to cashier Hampton Dellinger, head of the Office of Special Counsel. Will SCOTUS take up this structural constitutional case—and how will the justices rule, if so? Plus, Josh argues why Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris also needs to directly tee…

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February 17th, 2025: What’s Going On With Eric Adams and the Prosecutor Resignations? 23:39

23h ago23:39

23:39

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest Trump administration-related news and then goes deep on the Eric Adams-related turmoil now afflicting the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Why is Mayor Adams' federal public corruption case being dropped, and what is up with these recent SDNY prosecutor resignations? Plus, everything you n…

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“Not anything any of us ever expected to see in America" 54:25

3d ago54:25

54:25

Trump continued to bend the political system to his will, but the courts and his own Dept of Justice pushed back. Alisyn Camerota, Norm Ornstein, & Jacob Weisberg join Harry to assess Trump’s checkered week. A series of federal courts temporarily froze some of Trump’s more brazen power grabs, and a cascade of DOJ prosecutors resigned rather than co…

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THURSDAY NIGHT MASSACRE AT THE DOJ 24:17

6d ago24:17

24:17

Harry talks to Kristy Greenberg, former Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division in the Southern District of New York, about the burgeoning scandal involving the resignation of the acting United States Attorney and multiple other officials in her office and at Main Justice. The resignations all come in response to an improper command by the acting dep…

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February 14th, 2025: We Need All Hands on Deck To Stop the Judicial Insurrection 22:09

4d ago22:09

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Josh Hammer explains how all three branches of the federal government must work together to rein in the wayward lower-court judges who are acting aggressively—and lawlessly—against the Trump administration. Plus: What is going on with Mayor Eric Adams in NYC? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Listen Now: Being Trans 48:47

6d ago48:47

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We’re dropping something special in your feed this week- we’re reexploring BEING Trans. BEING Trans was the first series of its type when it premiered in 2022- it’s reality TV for your ears. No scripts, no interviews, just real life as it happens. The show follows four trans people as they go about their lives in Los Angeles. You’ll be there for th…

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February 13th, 2025: Make Judicial Impeachment Great Again 21:56

5d ago21:56

21:56

Josh Hammer makes the full-throated case for mass judicial impeachment of wayward left-wing activist lower-court judges. Let's get this ball rolling A.S.A.P.! Plus, everything else Congress can do besides impeachment to rein in the raging judicial insurrection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Talking San Diego presents Chris Hayes With His #1 Bestselling Book, “The Sirens’ Call” 56:04

7d ago56:04

56:04

In the latest conversation in the Talking San Diego series, Harry sits down with Chris Hayes before a live San Diego audience on the evening when Hayes’s new book, “The Sirens’ Call,” was named to the top position on the New York Times’s Bestseller List. Hayes’s focus is attention – how it has become our scarcest resource and the constant bombardme…

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February 12th, 2025: The Real ‘Constitutional Crisis’ Is Coming From the Judicial #Resistance 19:20

6d ago19:20

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Josh Hammer explains how, contra the legacy media's predictable and sensationalist "reporting," there is no "constitutional crisis" coming from the new Trump administration's blistering start. But there is a real, genuine constitutional crisis that we are rapidly walking into—from the left-wing judicial "#resistance." Learn more about your ad choic…

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February 11th, 2025: Rhode Island Judge Threatens Trump Admin With Criminal CONTEMPT 26:17

7d ago26:17

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Josh Hammer explains yesterday's big spat between left-wing Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of Rhode Island and the Trump administration. The judge, ludicrously, is threatening the administration with criminal contempt. But as Alexander Hamilton, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln likely all would have responded: You and what enforcer, Your Honor? Lea…

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Jeff Toobin Talks Righteous and Corrupt Pardons 22:26

9d ago22:26

22:26

Harry sits down with Jeff Toobin on the day of the publication of Toobin’s latest book, “The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.” Toobin’s work spans the history of controversial pardons over the last 50 years, with a ground-setting, detailed focus on President Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon. The conventional wisdom about that pardon…

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February 10th, 2025: Judges Gone Wild! Robed Tyrants Seek To Thwart MAGA Agenda. 23:25

8d ago23:25

23:25

Josh Hammer explains how left-wing judges all across the country have already mobilized to thwart President Trump's blistering, dynamic second-term agenda. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy The First TV

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Too Many Musks on the Field 44:15

10d ago44:15

44:15

An all-contrarian roundtable—Paul Krugman, Norm Eisen, and Jen Rubin—chronicles the first signs of pushback against Trump’s constitutional assaults and analyzes the vacuous tariffs initiatives. Norm provides some dispatches from the litigation front, which has secured multiple injunctions against Trump’s lawless, harmful policies. Paul proceeds to …

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February 7th, 2025: Not Tired of WINNING: Trump Bans Men in Women’s Sports 24:09

12d ago24:09

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Your host Josh Hammer checks in on the status of Kash Patel's nomination for FBI director, assesses a new DOJ lawsuit against "sanctuary city" Chicago, unpack President Trump's new order on so-called "transgender women" competing in women's sports, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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February 6th, 2025: The Left-Wing Judicial ‘Resistance’ Is Back With a Vengeance 24:27

13d ago24:27

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Your host Josh Hammer explains how the left-wing judicial "resistance," which sought to hamstring President Donald Trump's agenda during his first administration, is now back. Exhibit A: yesterday's judicial ruling that yet again stayed Trump's landmark birthright citizenship executive order. Related, when will SCOTUS finally rule that so-called "n…

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Signposts of Democratic Decline 54:15

14d ago54:15

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Harry talks with Andrea Pitzer, who has reported extensively on democratic decline in countries such as Chile, Russia, and Hungary, and has written extensively about historical examples especially Nazi Germany. She discusses signal developments in authoritarian democracy that degraded into authoritarian rule, bringing the illustrations back to comp…

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BONUS CONTENT: Will U.S. Really Take Over The Gaza Strip? 15:20

13d ago15:20

15:20

Josh Hammer joined Jesse Kelly on I'm Right to discuss President Donald Trump's major announcement for the Middle-East. Will the United States really take over the Gaza Strip? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy The First TV

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February 5th, 2025: AT LONG LAST: Trump Moves to End U.S. Department of Education 22:48

14d ago22:48

22:48

Your host Josh Hammer provides updates on new lawsuits against the Trump administration, explains the Trump administration's incipient plans to unwind the U.S. Department of Education, and checks in on the current state of the defanged USAID. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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February 4th, 2025: MORE WINNING: Bye-Bye, USAID! 23:56

15d ago23:56

23:56

Josh Hammer analyzes the seeming end of USAID, which was transformed into a de facto liberal NGO slush fund in recent decades. Also, Donald Trump wins the North American tariff war before shots are even fired. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy The First TV

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February 3rd, 2025: Immigration Standoff in Florida: Who Will Blink First? 23:10

16d ago23:10

23:10

Your host Josh Hammer analyzes President Donald Trump's new tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico, unpacks the big immigration standoff in Tallahassee between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and RINOs in the Florida legislature, explains why the USAID website went dark over the weekend, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi…

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DEFCONstitution 53:19

17d ago53:19

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The worst assault by a president on constitutional norms of any week in history, save possibly only last week. A great panel stocked with political experience & law enforcement experience—Asha Rangappa, Stuart Stevens & Rick Wilson—join Harry to analyze the dregs of Trump’s nominees, whose prospects for confirmation cannot be counted out given Trum…

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January 31st, 2025: The State of Play for Trump’s Most ‘Controversial’ Cabinet Picks 22:57

19d ago22:57

22:57

Josh Hammer assesses the criminal sentencing of former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), dives back into the illegal alien birthright citizenship constitutional debate, analyzes the state of play of President Trump's three most "controversial" Cabinet picks (RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel), and opens up about the aviation tragedy this week in Wash…

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January 30th, 2025: A Big Day in Washington: Impoundment, RFK Jr., Bondi, and the Laken Riley Act 24:45

21d ago24:45

24:45

Your host Josh Hammer breaks down an unexpected administration quasi-reversal on the Trump OMB's recent impoundment memo, updates us on the RFK Jr. and Pam Bondi Senate confirmation battles, and explains the significance of President Trump's first signed piece of legislation, the Laken Riley Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm…

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Mayday at DOJ (Special Episode) 54:56

21d ago54:56

54:56

Trump’s anticipated reprisal campaign against the DOJ began with a series of moves aimed at punishing professionals involved in his prosecutions while simultaneously destabilizing the department as a whole. In this special emergency episode, some of the most outstanding and experienced DOJ alumni—Paul Fishman, Amy Jeffress, Mimi Rocah—take stock of…

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Executive Orders – What Can’t Trump Do? 31:04

21d ago31:04

31:04

Harry talks with federal courts and constitutional law expert Steve Vladeck about the hailstorm of Trump executive orders in the first week. Professor Vladeck explains in general terms what executive orders can accomplish and what they can’t. The two then zero in on the orders concerning birthright citizenship, TikTok, and immigration. They finish …

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January 29th, 2025: The Presidential Impoundment Debate Is Back! 22:31

21d ago22:31

22:31

Josh Hammer analyzes the Trump OMB's Monday memo that implements a "temporary pause" on all "federal financial assistance programs"—even those programs that have been duly authorized by Congress. But does the president of the United States actually possess this discretionary authority? Josh breaks down the constitutional debate over impoundment, on…

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January 28th, 2025: It’s Time for Justice at the Justice Department 25:34

22d ago25:34

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Josh Hammer provides the latest updates on this week's Cabinet official confirmation hearings, unpacks the DeSantis v. RINO special legislative session standoff in Tallahassee, explains why the Trump administration should formally change its position in the Tennessee transgender case pending at SCOTUS, and explains why yesterday's firing of Jack Sm…

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January 27th, 2025: Where Do Trump’s Cabinet Picks Now Stand? 22:47

23d ago22:47

22:47

Josh Hammer unpacks the latest Trump executive order news, updates us on what Trump's DOJ is currently filing at SCOTUS, provides us the lay of the land when it comes to Senate confirmations for Trump's Cabinet officials, and previews the bombshell birthright citizenship SCOTUS case that is eventually to come. Learn more about your ad choices. Visi…

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