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A "Break Glass" Moment
Episode 157
President Trump’s pressure campaign to take action against perceived adversaries is unrelenting. Mary and Andrew start this week by breaking down a public push for Attorney General Pam Bondi to prose…
Published on 11 hours ago
Real Life Consequences
Episode 156
Last week’s fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk was deeply disturbing, and as Andrew establishes at the start, “murder is murder” and those responsible must be held to account. So Mary and Andrew begin wi…
Published on 1 week ago
Upending the Law
Episode 155
This episode begins with Mary and Andrew digesting the 2-1 decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals halting the Trump administration’s ability to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuela…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Assault on Congress
Episode 154
After a Labor Day weekend that saw a judge halt the Trump administration's attempt to deport dozens of Guatemalan children already loaded onto airplanes, Andrew and Mary had planned to start their co…
Published on 3 weeks ago
We are in a Different Place
Episode 153
On Monday, after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into ICE custody, Judge Paula Xinis temporarily barred the Trump administration from deporting him to Uganda. Mary and Andrew begin here, reminding lis…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Normalizing Militarization
Episode 152
It's been another wild week, after the D.C. Attorney General sued the government for attempting to install the head of the D.E.A. as D.C.’s emergency police commissioner. Following an emergency heari…
Published on 1 month ago
Demonstrably False
Episode 151
When “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength” we are living in an era of alternate facts. Mary and Andrew apply this Orwellian concept to what's happening this week, after President …
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Distractions and Sideshows
Episode 150
Accountability or weaponization? That's the question Andrew and Mary tackle in their 150th episode together, starting with the distraction of the Office of the Special Counsel's investigation into Ja…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
An Unrecognizable Justice Department
Episode 149
If it’s customary, it’s probably not happening in this Justice Department. Starting with the latest from the Epstein controversy, Andrew and Mary unpack what to make of the two days Deputy Attorney G…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Disestablishment of the Law
Episode 148
Pressured for transparency from all sides of the aisle, the Department of Justice made a surprising move to try and unseal grand jury materials from the Jeffery Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. A…
Published on 2 months ago