America On Trial with Josh Hammer
As Donald Trump prepares for his historic second term, America on Trial with Josh Hammer brings you breaking news and analysis on the biggest legal issues facing the nation. What will happen to President Trump’s legal cases? Will Joe Biden pardon his son before departing the White House? Can Trump pardon himself? America on Trial covers all the action every morning, helping you stay one step ahead of the media spin... Subscribe and listen to America on Trial with Josh Hammer wherever you download your favorite podcasts. America on Trial covers all the action every morning, helping you stay one step ahead of the media spin on decisions that will impact our nation for years to come. ABOUT THE HOST: Josh Hammer is the host of the brand-new First TV Podcast "America on Trial." - He's also Senior Editor-at-Large of Newsweek, where he hosts "The Josh Hammer Show" podcast and a syndicated radio program. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal and cultural issues, Josh is also a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, a fellow with the Palm Beach Freedom Institute and counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project.
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Josh Hammer unpacks all the various moving parts pertaining to TikTok's current precarious legal position. To wit: Will TikTok really be banned in the U.S. as of this Sunday? Also, will President Trump actually try to save it—and can he even do so, legally? Plus, Ron DeSantis takes on the RINOs in Tallahassee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer analyzes yesterday's blockbuster Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, the two-time former Florida attorney general who has been tapped by President Donald Trump for attorney general of the United States. Bondi faced a number of questions from Senate Democrats who seemed confused about the nature of the relationship between president and attorney general. To wit: Is the AG actually "independent" of the POTUS? Also, Josh assesses yesterday's big SCOTUS oral argument in the Big Porn case of Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's jam-packed episode, your host Josh Hammer analyzes SecDef nominee Pete Hegseth's contentious Senate confirmation hearing, reviews the final special counsel reports from both Hunter Biden prosecutor David Weiss and Donald Trump prosecutor Jack Smith, and previews today's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks the unfortunate news that so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's final report on his Washington, D.C. prosecution against President Trump will apparently see the light of day. Also: Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to kick butt in Florida, a crucial legal ruling against the soft tyranny of ESG, and Pete Hegseth's big day in the U.S. Senate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer recaps and explains what the heck happened on Friday in "Justice" Juan Merchan's fetid NYC courtroom. President Donald Trump was sentenced to "unconditional discharge" in the so-called "hush money" case. What in the world does that mean? And what are the implications? Also, Josh reviews TikTok at SCOTUS, previews Pornhub at SCOTUS, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks all the day's major legal headlines: the fate of Donald Trump's "hush money" sentencing in NYC, the fate of TikTok at SCOTUS, the fate of Joe Biden's unilateral Title IX rewrite, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks Attorney General Merrick Garland's apparent decision to release part of so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's final report for his anti-Trump prosecutions in both Florida and Washingon, D.C. What is motivating Garland's decision—and is this decision being made in good faith? Plus, Trump seeks a SCOTUS emergency stay of his NYC "hush money" sentencing, previewing TikTok's big day at SCOTUS tomorrow, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer analyzes President Trump's final loss in his attempt to halt his Friday sentencing in NYC judge Juan Merchan's courtroom. What will the "criminal" sentence be in this truly farcical case, and what will Trump's inevitable appeal(s) look like? Plus, another big legal victory for Trump in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom, Pam Bondi's attorney general confirmation hearing appears set for next week, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains President Donald Trump's latest, and likely final, attempt to halt this Friday's criminal sentencing in his so-called "hush money" case in New York City. Also, yesterday's electoral certification non-event at the U.S. Capitol, a tough but necessary truth on Social Security reform, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks and excoriates the third-world, banana republic-esque impending criminal sentencing of President Donald Trump this Friday in Juan Merchan's New York City courtroom. What an outrage this ordeal has been, from start to finish! Also, what we can expect today at the U.S. Capitol, as Congress certifies the results of the 2024 presidential election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains why he is skeptical of the FBI's official narrative that the terrible New Orleans and Las Vegas New Year's Day attacks are not in any way connected to one another. Plus, what judicial confirmation opportunities await Donald Trump following his inauguration on January 20. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer has all the details about the horrific New Year's Day terrorist attack in New Orleans, apparently committed by an ISIS-sympathizing radical Muslim. Also, SCOTUS, SCOTUS, and more SCOTUS! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer sounds off on a military appeals' court's upholding of the loathsome plea deals reached earlier this year between the federal government and the 9/11 masterminds, including arch-jihadist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed himself. This is a tremendous insult to our great nation! Also, a controversial new Florida social media/pornography law goes into effect today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes the Second Circuit's unfortunate ruling yesterday, in which the court upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump for allegedly sexually assaulting left-wing columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Also, why is everyone—even on the Right—suddenly acting like Jimmy Carter was a great president? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains two hot legal issues where President Donald Trump, unfortunately, appears to be misguided: banning Chinese-owned TikTok and ending the H-1B "high-skill" visa program. Plus, embattled Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis can now be subpoenaed by a Georgia Senate special committee. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks the raging intra-GOP war on the issue of high-skill immigration between the nationalist-populist MAGA core and the so-called "tech bros," led by X/Tesla/SpaceX head honcho Elon Musk. What exactly is going on here, and what is ultimately at stake? Also, the ultra-woke U.S. pardon attorney you've probably never heard of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In light of his patently petty veto of the bipartisan JUDGES Act, your host Josh Hammer reviews Joe Biden's judicial branch legacy. There is one thing we can definitively say: This president has not based his judicial picks on merit, but rather on "DEI." Also, a truly remarkable later-in-life admission from Abe Foxman, the long-time leader of the liberal Anti-Defamation League. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains a novel legal theory, put forward earlier this week by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), that suggests Joe Biden's 37 federal death row inmate commutations this week are actually null and void. Could this possibly be right? Josh also explains the potent symbolism and serendipity of Christmas and Chanukah falling on the same day this year. Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukah to all! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer dives headlong into one of the most contentious cultural, political, and constitutional debates of them all: Is birthright citizenship for the children of illegal aliens actually mandated by the U.S. Constitution? The answer may surprise you. Also, Congress releases the much-anticipated Matt Gaetz ethics report, Joe Biden commutes the sentences of 37 federal death row inmates, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains the power of President Trump's ultimate ace up his sleeve when it comes to his New York and Georgia prosecutions: the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution. Plus, Trump's fantastic new announced picks to lead his Department of Justice, SCOTUS agrees to hear an important new abortion-related case, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer analyzes Thursday's bombshell legal update, in which ethically and financially compromised Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis was finally booted off the Trump RICO prosecution. This is yet another tremendous legal victory for Donald Trump. Also, Matt Gaetz's House Ethics Committee report is now set to come out, UnitedHealthcare assassin Luigi Mangione is extradited to NYC to face justice, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains why the U.S. Supreme Court must grant a writ of certiorari and agree to hear the case of Snope v. Brown, an appeal out of Maryland that challenges the state's complete ban on modern semiautomatic rifles (i.e., "AR-15s"). The Second Amendment has been treated as a "second-class right" for far too long—it must stop. Plus, SCOTUS agrees to expedite TikTok's emergency appeal to avoid being banned in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks the new grand jury indictment of Luigi Mangione, who recently murdered UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood on the streets of Midtown Manhattan. Thankfully, the NYC grand jury got it right here—but a deeply disturbing new Emerson College poll on the matter bespeaks a broader societal rot. Plus, we at the Article III Project just notched a big judicial ethics win against a far-left federal judge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes the latest bit of left-wing judicial hackery from notorious anti-Trump judge Juan Merchan in New York City. It is ludicrous that Merchan has not yet declared a mistrial in Trump's so-called "hush money" case—and now, the judge has doubled down! Where in the world does this end? Also, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg does NOT charge cold-blooded UnitedHealthcare assassin Luigi Mangione with first-degree murder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer analyzes Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis's recent flippant middle finger to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan. It doesn't look like Fani is dropping her ludicrous lawfare any time soon! But will the Constitution ultimately force her hand? Plus, Josh opens up on becoming a father for the first time, Joe Biden's outrageous pardon/commutation spree, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains why so-called DEI ("Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion") is not merely cancerous and terrible, but also outright unconstitutional. If President Trump enforces that legal understanding in office, it will be a game changer for the whole country. Plus, a wild Tesla shareholder lawsuit against Elon Musk, SCOTUS opens up a gallery viewing lottery for the first time ever, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes the selection of Andrew Ferguson and Mark Meador, President Donald Trump's two excellent Federal Trade Commission picks. President Trump has a veritable antitrust dream team emerging—they must be really nervous out in Silicon Valley! Plus, the latest on the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin, President Biden's threat to veto an anodyne judgeship bill, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer joined Jesse Kelly to discuss why Donald Trump's nominee picks could possibly die in the Senate...and why it's essential that Pete Hegseth be confirmed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer explains how Manhattan DA and New York State AG Letitia "Tish" James have both doubled down in their ludicrous anti-Trump legal persecutions. Also, the latest on the UnitedHealthcare killer, Lina Khan finally notches a big antitrust victory, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer unpacks U.S. Marine veteran Daniel Penny's acquittal in New York City. This case should never have been brought, but justice has thankfully prevailed. From a Good Samaritan incentive standpoint, however, has the damage already been done? Also, the UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer is arrested in Pennsylvania, the case for DEI's unconstitutionality, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer has all the analysis of Friday's landmark D.C. Circuit opinion, in which a politically heterodox panel unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Congress's new law requiring Chinese-owned ByteDance to sell TikTok by Jan. 19, 2025 in order to continue operating in the U.S. Also, Daniel Penny's homicide trial, Gail Slater's DOJ Antitrust Division nomination, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On Thursday, so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith moved to dismiss—for a second time—his prosecution against President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. What is the purpose of this second, supplementary motion? Is the lawfare finally over? Also, we revisit the big transgender case at SCOTUS, Pete Hegseth's SecDef nomination fight, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks yesterday's high-profile SCOTUS oral argument in the crucial transgender case of U.S. v. Skrmetti. Also, updates on Daniel Penny's manslaughter trial, Pete Hegseth's chances to be confirmed as SecDef, a horrific assassination in Midtown Manhattan, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer continues to explore the various constitutional implications of President Joe Biden's historically unprecedented, sweeping pardon of his prodigal son Hunter. To wit: Can Hunter invoke the 5th Amendment in a future setting, or is that now off the table? Also, President Donald Trump's lawyers move (again) to withdraw his NYC "hush money" case, Daniel Penny's NYC manslaughter case goes to a jury, and the massive SCOTUS oral argument today in U.S. v. Skrmetti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks everything you need to know about the presidential pardon seen and heard around the world: that of prodigal son Hunter Biden. Also, updates on Fani Willis, Google's antitrust woes, Daniel Penny's manslaughter trial, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer makes the case for Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's inspired pick to reform the literal belly of the Deep State beast: the FBI. Plus, updates on Hunter Biden's forthcoming sentencing and possible pardon, the likelihood of pardons for the persecuted J6-ers, lower-court judicial nominees in Trump's second term, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
With the long-overdue demise of the Democrat-Lawfare Complex, Josh Hammer gives us his extended take on what now needs to happen, moving forward, to right the lawfare ship in these United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Happy Thanksgiving from everyone at "America on Trial with Josh Hammer!" Let's not forget what today's holiday is all about: gratitude and appreciation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes what so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's fateful withdrawal of his two federal cases against President Donald Trump means for the 45th and 47th president's OTHER legal cases—especially the state-level prosecutions in New York City and Fulton County, Georgia. Are those prosecutions now over too? Also, Josh excoriates the ICC for its ludicrous witch hunt against Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks Monday's bombshell news that so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith has finally thrown in the towel and moved to withdraw his politicized anti-Trump prosecutions in both Florida and Washington, D.C. This is a great victory for the rule of law, but we need much more action to follow. January 20 cannot come soon enough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes whether Friday's sentencing delay from Justice Juan Merchan in NYC is FINALLY the end of the road for Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's ludicrous "hush money" case against President Donald Trump. Also, Josh unpacks some pressing legal updates in Fulton County, Georgia, the Google antitrust case, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes Matt Gaetz's abrupt withdrawal from consideration as Donald Trump's attorney general. Was this the plan all along? And regardless, who would be a better pick for attorney general? Also, an update on the Judicial Conference of the United States's planned Article III power grab, Chuck Schumer and John Thune reach a deal on federal judges, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks the meaning and ramifications of Wednesday's decision by the U.S. House Ethics Committee to punt on any public release of its report on Matt Gaetz's alleged sexual misconduct. At this point, it looks like the report won't be released—what does that mean for Gaetz? Also, the Manhattan DA's office formally agrees to delay Trump's sentencing until after his presidency in the so-called "hush money" case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer shreds Senate Republicans for letting a radical 11th Circuit judicial nominee slip through a confirmation vote, provides an update on President Donald Trump's NYC "hush money" case, and previews today's momentous House Ethics Committee decision over whether or not to release its report on Trump AG pick Matt Gaetz. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains the current status of Matt Gaetz's attorney general confirmation fight, condemns the House Ethics Committee's possible release of its Gaetz report tomorrow, lauds President Trump's inspired pick of Brendan Carr for FCC chair, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer wades into the roiling debate over whether the House Ethics Committee should still release its much-anticipated report on now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), now that President Trump has tapped Gaetz to be the next attorney general of the United States. Plus, the latest on some other key Trump picks for both his DOJ and White House. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer provides a deep dive on what the Constitution says—and does not say—about the president's recess appointment power, now that everyone seems to be offering hot takes after Wednesday's surprising announcement of Matt Gaetz for attorney general. Plus, so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith formally moves to halt his classified documents case against Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks the already-fierce controversy over Trump announcing controversial Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for U.S. attorney general, lauds the inspired pick of Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense, and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer unpacks the current state of the Trump presidential transition, analyzes NYC judge Juan Merchan's fateful decision to yet again kick the can down the road in the Stormy Daniels "hush money" case, and revisits the topic of a possible pardon for prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer previews the emerging competition for U.S. attorney general, offers an endorsement for U.S. education secretary, previews today's huge decision from NYC judge Juan Merchan, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Tomorrow is anti-Trump NYC judge Juan Merchan's self-imposed deadline for deciding whether to dismiss Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's ridiculous Stormy Daniels/"hush money" witch hunt. Will he do the right thing and dismiss it on presidential immunity grounds, or are we really heading toward sentencing on November 26? Plus, we take a deeper look at the state of play of Trump's main two *civil* cases—corporate fraud and defamation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes one of the most pressing questions on all of our minds, now that Donald Trump has secured a massive electoral victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides an update on some additional state-level legal fallout from Tuesday's elections and analyzes Wednesday's bombshell legal scoop from NBC News: Merrick Garland's DOJ is calling off so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith from his persecution of former and future President Donald Trump. Plus, the future of lawfare once Trump takes power again in January. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer recaps some of last night's most interesting legal and legal-adjacent election results, assesses the likelihood of major personnel changes at the U.S. Supreme Court under President Donald Trump, and blasts Democrats for their ludicrous hypocrisy on the issue of the U.S. Senate filibuster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special-edition Election Day episode, Josh Hammer lays out the legal and judicial stakes in this most monumental of presidential elections like never before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides updates on so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith, Elon Musk, and the war against the legal profession during today's jam-packed "around the horn segment." Today's "deep dive" then assesses the likelihood that the legal dispute over mail-in ballots in battleground Pennsylvania could prove to be the next Bush v. Gore-style election-dispositive SCOTUS case. To wit: Will SCOTUS decide this election? Plus, an update on the Federalist Society shamefully canceling Josh last week after he was engulfed by a pro-Hamas campus mob. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Check out this new bonus episode from the new podcast BOLLING! It's 8 years since Hillary Clinton was sure she had the presidency within her grasp, only to lose it to Donald Trump. Fast forward to now, and Hillary can't decide what she hates more: another Trump presidency, or the fact that Kamala Harris may accomplish what she could not. Plus, Trump-supporting women lash out at Harris surrogate Mark Cuban for his disgusting comments, and Eric Bolling lays out the truth about the latest polling. Subscribe to Bolling! here: https://link.chtbl.com/kTlmPMOU Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains the stakes in this Tuesday's election for U.S.-Israel relations, and for U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East more generally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to various battleground states' various legal concerns and offers an in-depth "deep dive" on what will happen to President Donald Trump's many legal issues after the election. In today's "closing argument," Josh then recounts the leftist mob he faced at Loyola University Chicago School of Law on Wednesday—and his subsequent Federalist Society event that was canceled because of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Conservatives and constitutionalists finally got a big legal win on Tuesday, when SCOTUS issued a one-page order permitting the Commonwealth of Virginia to secure its voter rolls. This is a tremendous victory for election integrity. But separately, what the heck is happening with mail-in ballots in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? Josh Hammer breaks it all down. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer uses the occasion of Steve Bannon's release from federal prison to paint a stark picture of the 2024 election stakes when it comes to lawfare and the politicized bastardization of the rule of law. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh explains the massive 2024 election stakes for SCOTUS and the entire federal judiciary. Given current Democratic Party radicalism, it is not an exaggeration to say that SCOTUS itself is on the ballot this year! Josh also brings us up to speed on the Commonwealth of Virginia's latest legal efforts to secure its voter roll from illegal alien corruption. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's 2024 election-centric "around the horn" segment is followed by a "deep dive" analysis of recent comments President Trump made to radio host Hugh Hewitt about firing so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith if he reascends to the White House come January. Today's "closing argument" then addresses a patently silly bit of Washington Post legal fear-mongering. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains the significance of President Joe Biden saying the quiet part out loud and calling for former President Donald Trump to be "locked up." This is simply astounding. Will the American people make Democrats pay a price for this shocking admission from Uncle Joe? Also, Kamala Harris goes full tyrant on abortion and religious liberty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's newsy "around the horn" segment is followed by a "deep dive" that zooms out and asks a broader question: Has all the republic-destabilizing nonsense we have seen from the Democrat-Lawfare Complex over the past year and a half actually been worth it? Also, why Mark Cuban is wrong to casually dismiss Kamala Harris's unconstitutional taxation proposals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "deep dive" unpacks the shocking new transcript of the Jim Jordan-overseen House Judiciary Committee's recent deposition of former Fulton County, Georgia "special prosecutor" Nathan Wade. Fani Willis and Nathan Wade ought to be in some big, big trouble after this—they were colluding with the White House along! Today's "closing argument" then assesses Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's latest unfortunate salvo against former President Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
So-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith, the leading hit man for the "Democrat-Lawfare Complex," has desperately tried to tilt the 2024 election to his Democratic Party paymasters. After Friday's dud of an anti-Trump legal filing in Washington, D.C., the jury is in for Smith: He has failed. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks another malicious campaign trail from cackler-in-chief Kamala Harris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on the latest gambit from corrupt Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis during today's "deep dive." Can the scandal-ridden Willis revive her moribund, nakedly political crusade against Trump and his co-defendants? Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Alabama AG Steve Marshall's bombshell amicus brief in the landmark transgender-related SCOTUS case of United States v. Skrmetti. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on this past weekend's California Trump rally arrest and Nathan Wade's House Judiciary Committee deposition in today's "around the horn" segment. Our "deep dive" segment then unpacks DOJ Civil Rights Division head Kristen Clarke's nakedly political voter roll lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Virginia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer tears through the latest leftist legal insanity before today's "deep dive" answers a foundational question, raised by a new Wall Street Journal article: Who, and which organizations, will comprise the "conservative legal movement" during a potential second Trump administration? To wit: Will the Federalist Society continue its outsize role in advising judicial nominations? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on the latest left-wing legal shenanigans during today's "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks Democratic veep nominee Tim Walz's ham-fisted attacks on the Electoral College, one of the Constitution's great counter-majoritarian institutional checks. Today's "closing argument" explains the latest twists and turns in the Donald Trump-Jack Smith standoff in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Donald Trump's lawyers filed their much-anticipated reply to so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's brazen election interference in Washington, D.C., and today's "deep dive" takes us to New Orleans, where a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard a crucial oral argument on the constitutionality of Barack Obama's "DACA" executive amnesty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains the importance of the latest legal victory for the besieged Jack Phillips, owner of Lakewood, Colorado-based Masterpiece Cakeshop. When will SCOTUS finally put an end once and for all to these evil "bake the damn cake, bigot!"-style lawsuits? Today's "closing argument" then flags an important Mitch McConnell-penned op-ed railing against a new proposed judicial deep state power grab. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Following Tuesday's high-profile SCOTUS oral argument in the "ghost gun" case of Garland v. VanDerStok, Josh Hammer uses today's "deep dive" to preview some of the new SCOTUS term's high-profile, politically and culturally salient cases. Today's "closing argument" then updates us on Elon Musk's now-resolved free speech feud with the left-wing Brazilian Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Our "deep dive" today focuses on an under-discussed possibility—namely, that the U.S. Supreme Court may be forced to step in and decide the ultimate outcome of the presidential election. Could we really see a Bush v. Gore redux? Josh then uses his "closing argument" to discuss President Trump's inspiring appearance last night at his eponymous Doral, Florida golf resort, where the 45th president memorialized the horrific Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack in Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley has written an exceptional new op-ed that emphasizes much of what Josh Hammer has also been saying on "America on Trial": So-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith and Judge Tanya Chutkan are waging an election interference war against President Donald Trump! Plus, keep your eyes on America's universities today, as we recognize the one-year anniversary of the barbaric Hamas terrorist attack against Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" provides the latest news on second would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh, and our "deep dive" then brings us back to Judge Tanya Chutkan's Washington, D.C. courtroom. How can Judge Chutkan and so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith justify their latest stunt as anything other than blatant election interference? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's illegitimate election interference during today's "around the horn" segment. Our "deep dive" then takes us to West Palm Beach, Florida, where second would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh has pled not guilty to all five counts of his indictment—including the monumental charge of attempted assassination of a former president of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh updates us on numerous Donald Trump legal proceedings before today's "deep dive" unpacks an assault on the independence and integrity of the judicial branch that you've probably never heard of: the Judicial Conference of the United States' attempt to end all single-judge divisions. Josh explains why this is something we should all care about. Today's "closing argument" then revisits the federal indictment of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" is followed by a "deep dive" on so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's latest hyper-partisan stunt: attempting to make public key portions of his recently filed 180-page anti-Trump brief. The reason is simple: election interference. Also in today's show: DOJ sues Alabama on behalf of illegal aliens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's jam-packed episode, Josh Hammer updates us on the latest with Jack Smith and Tish James in our "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks everything you need to know about the shocking five-count federal indictment of NYC Mayor Eric Adams. Our "closing argument" then takes us to the University of Pennsylvania and its embattled law professor, Amy Wax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's characteristically action-packed "around the horn" intro is followed by a "deep dive" on a bipartisan U.S. Senate Committee's absolutely scathing interim report on the U.S. Secret Service's manifold failures in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. Today's "closing argument" then returns to the topic of the Senate filibuster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" is followed by a "deep dive" on Vice President Kamala Harris's horrific—and deeply myopic—stance in favor of nuking the Senate filibuster. Today's "closing argument" then provides a legal update for the second would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains all the latest legal news pertaining to the second would-be Trump assassin, Ryan Routh, who is now being held in prison without bail. It looks like the DOJ is also set to bring an additional high-profile charge—and not a moment too soon. Today's "closing argument" then addresses Friday's disappointing Secret Service report on what went wrong in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's antitrust-centric "around the horn" segment is followed by a "deep dive" return to the trials and tribulations of presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden. Will Hunter be sentenced to jail in either his Delaware gun case or his California tax case? Regardless, will Joe pardon his son on his way out the door, come January 2025? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" is followed by a "deep dive" look at a new prosecution of an Alaska man for issuing repeated threats against SCOTUS. Why was Attorney General Merrick Garland not similarly prosecuting those "protesting" outside the justices' homes following the abortion opinion leak in 2022? Today's "closing argument" analyzes Ron DeSantis' plans for would-be presidential assassin Ryan Routh. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis' latest legal defeat in today's "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" brings us back to this past Sunday's second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Will we ever get answers—or accountability? Today's "closing argument" then provides an update on the post-Students for Fair Admissions legal fallout in elite higher education. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" segment covers legal terrain as vast as Sean "Diddy" Combs and so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith. Josh Hammer's "deep dive" then returns to the topic of this weekend's appalling New York Times leak about SCOTUS. How can the High Court operate in such a disastrously leaky environment? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks all you need to know about Sunday's appalling second attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. What is wrong with the U.S. Secret Service? And what is wrong with Democrats and the corporate press, who continue to incite violence against President Trump? Today's "closing argument" then explains TikTok's insane interpretation of the First Amendment that it advanced yesterday in federal court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" is followed by a "deep dive" return to Fulton County, Georgia, where former President Donald Trump has continued his winning streak against DA Fani Willis. What does it all mean? Today's "closing argument" then explains why this very, very leaky U.S. Supreme Court is a massive problem. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer's jam-packed "around the horn" segment is followed by a blistering "deep dive" on Attorney General Merrick Garland's Thursday speech, in which he defended the alleged "independence" of the U.S. Department of Justice. How stupid does Merrick Garland think Americans are? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer analyzes RFK Jr.'s ballot-access issues and the latest Fani Willis legal drama during today's "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks a fascinating 42-state AG coalition letter sent to Congress urging the application of a Surgeon General warning for Big Tech products. Will Congress listen? Today's "closing argument" then takes us back to Tuesday's presidential debate fireworks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides a pressing Jan. 6-related legal update before explaining a crucial bill now pending before the House after passing the Senate, the Kids Online Safety Act. Today's "closing argument" then explains the constitutional illiteracy of a pro-transgender ACLU lawyer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to a few Trump-related legal updates before today's "deep dive" explains a bombshell new DOJ indictment charging a Guatemalan illegal alien with illegally voting and obtaining multiple U.S. passports. Today's "closing argument" then previews tonight's must-watch presidential debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer, now back in the saddle and behind the "America on Trial" microphone, brings us up to speed on all the bombshell news surrounding Donald Trump's "hush money" sentencing delay in NYC, Hunter Biden's tax crime guilty plea in L.A., the DOJ's indictment for Russia-funded Tenet Media, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Chamberlain of the Article III Project fills in for Josh Hammer and takes us “around the horn” on recent legal and legislative action. Will discusses an interesting Plea change from Hunter Biden's legal team using the unconventional Alford Plea argument and Donald Trump's Legal team continues the Battle in D.C. to Question Jack Smith's legal ability to bring any cases on behalf of the DOJ. Today’s “closing argument” focuses on the new indictment of new indictment of Laren Chen and her media company Tenet as intentionally hiding ties to the Russian government for its funding. Josh Hammer Will return to American on Trial next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Will Chamberlain of the Article III Project fills in for Josh Hammer and takes us “around the horn” on recent legal and legislative action in New York regarding former President Donald Trump and Fani Willis and Nathan Wade were spotted together in Georgia sparking new questions. Today’s “closing argument” focuses on the recently unsealed U.S. indictment of six Hamas leaders covered by the New York Times, three of whom are already deceased, and seemingly dating back to as early as February of 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Mike Davis of the Article III Project fills in for Josh Hammer and takes us “around the horn” on recent legal and legislative action in New York and Washington, DC. Today’s “closing argument” focuses on the importance of this election, registration, and the need for you to vote early. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special-edition episode, Josh is joined by Mike Davis and Will Chamberlain of the Article III Project for a deep look at the Left's corruption of the rule of law at the Department of Justice and throughout the intelligence agencies, what a Kamala Harris administration might do when it comes to lawfare, and the future of the U.S. Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us through a characteristically jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" revisits and unpacks so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's superseding indictment filed against former President Donald Trump this week in Washington, D.C. Today's "closing argument" then explains another crushing legal loss for the Biden-Harris administration at the Supreme Court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer first provides pressing Donald Trump and Kamala Harris legal updates during today's blockbuster "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then explains why the Biden-Harris administration suffered a crushing legal defeat for its new executive amnesty in the Eastern District of Texas, and today's "closing argument" unloads on a new New York Times hit piece on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" explains so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's new appeal at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit to reinstate his stalled classified documents prosecution against former President Donald Trump. Today's "closing argument" then explains the pressing congressional debate over the SAVE Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer first provides legal updates on political prisoner Steve Bannon, Biden-Harris immigration lawlessness, and the Second Amendment during today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then explains Donald Trump's latest huge win against so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer, host of The First's "America on Trial with Josh Hammer" podcast, unpacks the various legal issues surrounding Donald Trump's impending criminal sentencing in New York City. Will Juan Merchan, the notorious presiding judge, do the right thing and dismiss Trump's sham guilty verdict? And if not, will Merchan actually sentence Trump to prison? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to pressing Hunter Biden and Fani Willis legal updates before today's "deep dive" explains yesterday's massive win for Arizona at the U.S. Supreme Court when it comes to securing the franchise from illegal alien corruption. This is a foundational, monumentally important issue of American sovereignty. Today's "closing argument" then provides some friendly-ish unsolicited advice to controversial FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on a number of high-profile legal matters, including a major loss for controversial FTC Chair Lina Khan, before today's "deep dive" explains how disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) is now appealing his recent guilty-on-all-counts verdict on sprawling federal corruption charges. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks a major victory against transgender-related compelled speech in Ohio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks House Republicans' brand-new report recommending the impeachment of outgoing President Joe Biden. The report is entirely defensible on the substance, but the timing is rather curious. Does the House GOP intend to actually do anything with this new bombshell document? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) pleading guilty to two federal crimes in New York to a notorious D.C. Council member being arrested on bribery charges. Today's "deep dive" then re-explores whether Donald Trump's upcoming criminal sentencing in NYC will be delayed in light of a fascinating new letter from the Manhattan DA's office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" and updates us on former Rep. George Santos's legal problems before today's "deep dive" explains Friday's major SCOTUS order retaining lower courts' blocking of the Biden-Harris administration's illegal pro-transgender Title IX legislative rewrite. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer leads us through a newsy "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks the concurrent debates now unfolding over (1) whether Judge Juan Merchan will throw out the "hush money" case in NYC against former President Trump; and (2) what Trump's sentencing will be, if Merchan does not toss it out. Today's "closing argument" then checks in on so-called "Special Counsel" Jack Smith's stillborn Washington, D.C. case against Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks a huge new preliminary injunction against the University of California, Los Angeles, which failed horrifically to protect its Jewish students during recent pro-Hamas uprisings on campus. Today's "closing argument" then explores the latest bombshell corruption news involving presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" analyzes the newly launched Bipartisan House Task Force on the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. It is truly astounding that the news cycle has already largely moved on from what transpired in Butler, Pa. on July 13, 2024—can the Bipartisan House Task Force refocus our collective attention? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on Hunter Biden's forthcoming federal tax trial in California before today's "deep dive" unpacks President Donald Trump's brand-new lawsuit that he is filing against President Joe Biden's DOJ under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to multiple Trump trial updates before today's "deep dive" then unpacks a horrible ruling in the liberal-leaning U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which has ruled that so-called "assault weapons" are not constitutionally protected under the Second Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to Judge Tanya Chutkan and Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis before today's "deep dive" unpacks a crucial new filing from Special Counsel David Weiss in Hunter Biden's forthcoming tax trial in California. It looks like Hunter's well-known foreign corruption is finally going to have its day in federal court. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on Trump's NYC case and the "fake electors" case in Arizona before today's "deep dive" returns to the landmark Google antitrust ruling earlier this week and explains what it means from a broader legal perspective. Today's "closing argument" then touches on the roiling anarchy in the U.K. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer recaps a huge victory for Ohio in the fight against radical gender ideology before today's "deep dive" explains why SCOTUS rejected Missouri AG Andrew Bailey's long-shot lawsuit that sought to hold Soros-funded Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg accountable for his anti-Trump lawfare. Today's "closing argument" then slams VP Kamala Harris for capitulating to Democrats' Hamas/Hezbollah wing in her running mate choice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" centers on yesterday's massive, much-anticipated, and potentially legal paradigm-shifting antitrust ruling against Google. This is a rare tremendous legal victory for both the Trump and Biden administrations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer breaks down a massive legal news cycle: Hunter Biden has a sentencing date in his Delaware gun case, Donald Trump's lawyers once again try to get his NYC "hush money" case dismissed, Defense Sec. Lloyd Austin pulls a 180 on the 9/11 plotters' appalling plea deal, and all you need to know about the return of Jack Smith's anti-Trump probe in D.C. to Judge Tanya Chutkan's trial courtroom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Democrats have anointed Kamala Harris as their nominee after successfully staging a coup against Joe Biden. Now, as the honeymoon phase begins to end, Josh Hammer shifts the focus to Kamala's record. Josh speaks with Mike Needham of American Compass on various ways to expose Kamala's record. Oren Cass of American Compass also joins the program to discuss Kamala as well. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on Hunter Biden's upcoming federal tax trial in California before today's "deep dive" unpacks yesterday's blockbuster multi-country prisoner swap, which freed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich and former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, among others. But the specific timing of the long-overdue deal suggests a potentially ulterior motive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In an effort to "defend Democracy", Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have decided to rollout a plan to pack the Supreme Court with left-wing radicals. This came after a series of decisions that they didn't like. So what's going to happen next and what other plans does Kamala have for this country? Josh Hammer chats with fellow Article III Project colleague Mike Davis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before teeing off on the brand-new plea deal the U.S. Defense Department has reached with the leading 9/11 plotters, which will unconscionably allow those mass-murdering jihadists to avoid the death penalty. Today's "closing argument" segment updates us on a big immigration win in federal court for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In a swift sweep, Israel has taken out two of its top enemies. First, it was Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, followed up by the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Josh Hammer explains who these people are and what it means now that they're gone. Plus, Hammer reveals the U.S. response to all of this and why it was a big mistake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" explains the Trump campaign's golden political opportunity to punch back hard on the newly ascendant Biden-Harris declaration of war on the U.S. Supreme Court. Today's "closing argument" then laments the Trump campaign/Project 2025 divorce, which reached an unfortunate boiling point yesterday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment is followed by Josh's "deep dive" analysis of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's shocking new proposed assaults on the integrity of the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats will come to regret this dastardly attack on the American constitutional order. Josh's "closing argument" then urges fellow conservatives to sit back, enjoy the ongoing Olympics, and root for the U.S. to kick commie butt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" updates us on where things currently stand for so-called "special counsel" Jack Smith in his two federal cases against former President Donald Trump. Today's "closing argument" then excoriates the GOP "bed-wetters" prematurely sounding the alarm about Trump running mate pick J.D. Vance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial, joined Mike Slater on the First TV special WHO IS J.D. VANCE? In this special, Josh and Mike discuss J.D. Vance's past & present to get a better idea of who he is as both a person and politician. Watch the full special here: https://youtu.be/IHvc2cyf7JY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" analyzes President Biden's recent menacing comments about the U.S. Supreme Court and flags a powerful new essay by Fifth Circuit Judge James C. Ho that pushes back on recent attacks on the federal judiciary. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks the Kamala Harris veepstakes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" focuses on presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden's forthcoming federal tax trial, now set to start September 9 in California. What can we expect? And why hasn't Hunter received a sentencing date yet for his federal gun conviction in Delaware? Today's "closing argument" then analyzes Israeli Prime Minister's Wednesday address to a joint session of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer weighs in on Sen. Bob Menendez and Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's resignation announcements during today's "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then returns to New York Attorney General Tish James' outrageous corporate fraud civil case against Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, which resulted in a massive $450-plus million judgment earlier this year. Trump's lawyers are now appealing—will they be vindicated on appeal? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides us numerous Hunter Biden-related legal updates during today's "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns to the raucous national conversation about Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and what the heck is going on right now in the White House. To wit: Is there a real chance that Kamala Harris will try to invoke the 25th Amendment on her ailing boss if Uncle Joe doesn't first resign? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as always before today's "deep dive" answers the big questions on everyone's minds after yesterday's bombshell news: Who will the Democrats' new presidential nominee be? Will that nominee now get easy access to the Biden campaign war chest? What happens if the nominee is someone other than Kamala Harris? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on a pressing Title IX development in the lower courts and a new potentially fascinating SCOTUS petition before today's "deep dive" explains why, despite his lawyers' protestations to the contrary, prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden will not benefit from Judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal of "special counsel" Jack Smith's classified documents case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as always before today's "deep dive" explains Joe Biden's desperate, last-ditch effort to propose radical changes to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to boost his left-wing bona fides. Today's "closing argument" then updates us on the latest development for discredited Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains why Hunter Biden will not benefit from Judge Aileen Cannon's special counsel analysis during today's "around the horn," and today's "deep dive" then explains all you need to know about the stunning jury verdict yesterday in Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) corruption trial in NYC. Will Menendez now be expelled from the U.S. Senate? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" centers on Judge Aileen Cannon's earth-shattering decision yesterday to find that "special counsel" Jack Smith was illegally appointed—therefore dismissing former President Donald Trump's classified documents case in its entirety. Today's "closing argument" then discusses Trump's inspired VP selection of Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on various pressing matters during today's "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains why Merrick Garland's Department of Justice simply cannot be trusted to lead the probe into this weekend's assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump. This is the same DOJ, after all, that still retains Jack Smith as special counsel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer rebukes the House GOP's latest pathetic "failure theater" and finds himself in the unusual position of praising Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) before today's "deep dive" revisits the very real (and very under-discussed) legal and logistical obstacles to Democrats swapping out Joe Biden as their presidential nominee at this late stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the utter stupidity and likely unconstitutionality of AOC's new impeachment articles filed against Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito. Today's "closing argument" then returns to the 12th Amendment debate over a Trump-Rubio GOP ticket. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides us pressing updates on Hunter Biden's gun case and Bob Menendez's corruption trial before today's "deep dive" highlights an incisive Wall Street Journal editorial on the complete and utter failure of the Democrat-Lawfare Complex. When even the right-leaning establishment media is seeing this clearly, you know the Democrats have really failed! Today's "closing argument" then contextualizes the ongoing 25th Amendment debate surrounding Joe Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as usual before today's very-timely "deep dive" explains why the 12th Amendment cannot simply be ignored—and why this is actually a potentially major problem if former President Donald Trump picks Senator Marco Rubio to be his vice president. Today's "closing argument" then provides a lens into the National Conservatism Conference, where Josh is speaking later today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer first provides some crucial updates in former President Donald Trump's New York and Florida cases, as well as the fate of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) in his corruption trial. Today's "deep dive" then explains why "Special Counsel" Jack Smith has been illegally appointed and cannot actually prosecute President Trump. Josh also makes his closing veepstakes pitch in today's "closing argument" segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special episode, Josh Hammer does an extended "around the horn" to bring us the latest updates on where things stand in all of President Trump's legal cases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the massive victory yesterday for Donald Trump in NYC, where his lawyers successfully postponed the former president's criminal sentencing by over two months. Will the Trump "hush money" case now result in a mistrial? Today's "closing argument" then returns to the many legal obstacles Democrats would face if they try to replace Joe Biden at this late stage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's blockbuster show, Josh Hammer fills us in on everything we need to know about Donald Trump's huge victory yesterday in the bombshell U.S. Supreme Court case of Trump v. United States, pertaining to the scope of constitutional presidential immunity. Josh also analyzes Justice Clarence Thomas's powerful concurring opinion casting doubt on the legality of Special Counsel Jack Smith's office. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's jam-packed show, Josh Hammer updates us on a major House GOP lawsuit against Attorney General Merrick Garland, Friday's massive victories at the U.S. Supreme Court (including the long-overdue demise of "Chevron deference"), and the big question on all of our minds: Can Democrats actually replace Joe Biden? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides some pressing SCOTUS updates during today's "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" explains why conservatives are not getting consistent victories from this putatively right-of-center Supreme Court. What has to change on the Right, moving forward, when it comes to judicial nominations? Josh then offers his reaction to Joe Biden's utterly disastrous debate performance during today's "closing argument" segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer joined Mike Slater on The First TV immediately following the First Presidential Debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as always before today's "deep dive" unpacks yesterday's devastating SCOTUS decision in Murthy v. Missouri, the high-profile Big Tech/free speech case involving state-corporate censorship. Josh also offers his final lawfare-related advice to President Trump for tonight's big debate during today's "closing argument" segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" segment provides the latest on the Trump legal front across multiple different venues and also explains the latest Biden program to be stymied by the federal courts. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks yesterday's troubling, incorrect, and unfortunate ruling by the Oklahoma Supreme Court, pertaining to religious charter schools. Our "closing argument" then concludes with all things SCOTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer gives his take on the Julian Assange plea deal and Special Counsel Jack Smith's push for an anti-Trump gag order in Florida during today's "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then brings you up to speed on all you need to know about the multiple massive Big Tech/free speech cases still pending at SCOTUS. One way or the other, this week will prove to be a truly historic week in our roiling Big Tech wars. Finally, Josh offers some unsolicited advice to Trump in today's "closing argument." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer first updates us on the latest in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom and Sen. Bob Menendez's ongoing corruption trial in NYC during today's "around the horn." Today's "deep dive" then unpacks Friday's much-anticipated U.S. Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Rahimi, which saw the Court's conservative justices disagree among themselves over the correct application of originalism and the Second Amendment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides some crucial updates in today's "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains why the corporate media and Democrat-Lawfare Complex are teaming up to cast doubt on Judge Aileen Cannon, who is presiding over President Trump's classified documents case in Florida federal court. Today's "closing argument" section then explains why the long-standing administrative law doctrine of "Chevron deference" will likely soon fall at SCOTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's modified "around the horn" segment highlights all the major remaining SCOTUS cases this term (with some opinions dropping today!), and then our "deep dive" explains why Louisiana is entirely justified in requiring that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all the state's public school classrooms. Josh then dives into the Trump veepstakes for today's "closing argument." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on some important transgender-related litigation and the ongoing Bob Menendez corruption trial during today's "around the horn" segment. Today's "deep dive" then explains why the mass, unilateral executive amnesty being promulgated this week by President Biden is profoundly illegal: It is both lacking statutory authority and is offensive to basic principles of constitutional structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as usual before today's "deep dive" explains how the Biden-Harris presidential campaign has revealed its hand for all to see, in terms of the political nature of the Democrat-Lawfare Complex's multifront assault against Donald Trump. In running ads highlighting Trump's New York hush money case, the Biden-Harris campaign is giving away the game: It's all politics! Today's "closing argument" then unpacks a fascinating New York Times op-ed by the surgeon general of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on important developments in Judge Aileen Cannon's South Florida federal courthouse before today's "deep dive" explains why the mainstream media has gotten the story so terribly wrong in reporting on Friday's big bump stock case at SCOTUS, Garland v. Cargill. In reality, this was an extraordinarily straightforward case of statutory interpretation. Josh then offers his thoughts on CNN's announced presidential debate rules during today's "closing argument" segment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on the latest U.S. Supreme Court activity before today's "deep dive" unpacks what comes next for prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden, now that he has been found guilty on three federal gun felony charges. Today's "closing argument" segment then analyzes the escalating separation-of-powers stand-off between the GOP-controlled House and Attorney General Merrick Garland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America on Trial host appeared on 'I'm Right w/Jesse Kelly' to discuss the guilty verdict of Hunter Biden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains everything you need to know about today's historic guilty verdict for presidential prodigal son Hunter Biden in his federal gun trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains some pressing legal updates from around the country before today's "deep dive" centers on the Hunter Biden gun trial now concluding in Wilmington, Delaware. Hunter is absolutely dead to rights on these gun charges—but can a jury really find him guilty in the state where the Biden family still remains king? Today's "closing argument" then unpacks all the media misinformation surrounding this weekend's European Parliament elections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" centers on the imminently concluding federal gun trial of prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden. Friday's testimony from Hunter's daughter Naomi Biden went very poorly for the defense. Plus, in today's "closing argument": Why is the corporate media freaking out about "revenge prosecutions" from Donald Trump? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America On Trial Host Josh Hammer joined Mike Slater on The First TV's recent special "Can Trump Be President From Prison." The two discussed if the former President will really see jail time, AND if he could be President from prison if he does. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer decries the unjust political persecution of Steve Bannon and the outrageous targeting of a "gender clinic" whistleblower in Texas before today's "deep dive" and then unpacks the latest shocking revelations from Hunter Biden's federal gun trial. A recently released text exchange between Hunter and Hallie Biden from October 2018, the same month the prodigal presidential son purchased the infamous Colt revolver, is extraordinarily damning. Today's "closing argument" then explains some headline-grabbing testimony from Bob Menendez's ongoing corruption trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on a major congressional criminal referral for the Biden crime family and a juicy development in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom before today's deep dive unpacks the prosecution's very strong, very aggressive gun case in federal court against prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden. Today's closing argument then explains a huge development in the Trump trial in Fulton County, Georgia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on all we need to know about Donald Trump and Bob Menendez's ongoing legal proceedings before today's deep dive focuses on prodigal presidential son Hunter Biden's ongoing federal gun trial in Wilmington, Delaware. The testimony introduced thus far this week is positively juicy—and utterly damning. Hunter is dead to rights on these charges. But will it matter? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
President Biden is finally caving to political reality with his anticipated invocation today of 212(f) in order to close the southern border, and today's deep dive then unpacks all you need to know about the start of the first-ever criminal trial of a child of the sitting U.S. president. Is Hunter Biden doomed in Delaware federal court? Today's closing argument then explains why fast-tracking his New York appeal to SCOTUS may not actually be in Donald Trump's best interest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates us on other pressing legal developments before we focus on the continued fallout from last week's first-ever criminal conviction of a former president of the United States. Will Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg actually try to throw Trump in jail? Will Judge Juan Merchan really allow it? Also, in other huge news, Hunter Biden's federal gun trial starts today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On May 3, an incident took place at Quantico Marine Corps base. Todd Bensman of the Center For Immigration Studies believes this to be a terror attack. He's seeking more information, and shares what he knows to Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special episode of "America on Trial with Josh Hammer," Josh explains how in the world we arrived at this horrible moment—the first-ever criminal conviction of a former president of the United States. Josh then explains what needs to happen from here to try to restore sanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
America On Trial host Josh Hammer appeared on The First TV immediately following the verdict delivered by a New York City jury find Former President Donald Trump Guilty on 34 charges. Josh shares his instant reaction. Subscribe now so you don't miss Josh's full analysis of the decision in Friday's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Robert De Niro just teamed up with the Biden campaign for a press conference outside of Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York City. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls this a move of desperation and a huge unforced error. Hear Spicer's reasoning in this interview with America On Trial's Josh Hammer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides updates on the disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) during today's "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the jury instructions and all the other huge climaxing drama surrounding the trial of the century: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. Will we finally get a verdict today? Today's "closing argument" then analyzes Justice Samuel Alito's righteous response yesterday to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A New York City jury is deliberating the fate of former and potential future president Donald Trump. Will they find him guilty? Top Trump Legal ally Mike Davis thinks so and if they don't, they'll try him again. Listen to Davis explain himself to Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" segment is followed by a must-listen-to "deep dive," in which Josh unpacks everything you need to know about the closing arguments, jury instructions, and jury deliberations in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president of the United States, People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. Today's "closing argument' then provides an important update in Trump's separate classified-documents criminal case in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment is followed by Josh's "deep dive" on closing arguments and jury instructions in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president of the United States, Donald Trump. The prosecution has not come anywhere close to meeting its legal burden, but will it matter? Today's "closing argument" then analyzes Joe Biden's unexpected trip to visit daughter-in-law Hallie ahead of prodigal son Hunter's imminently forthcoming federal gun trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we'd like to direct your attention to another podcast, The Erick Erickson Show. Erick Erickson hosts the Erick Erickson Show across the United States live every weekday from 12pm to 3pm ET. In this episode, Erick covers a variety of trending topics in the news, including the Trump raid by the FBI and how almost no Gaza aide has made its way to the Palestinians. Want more of the Erick Erickson Show? You can listen live at erickericksonshow.com or find it anywhere you listen to podcasts. Stream — Erick Erickson Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" explains why, as a matter of international law, Norway, Spain, and Ireland are so grievously wrong to conclude that Israel is a nefarious "occupier" of the Palestinian-Arabs, which led all three countries to unilaterally recognize an independent "Palestinian" state earlier this week. Today's "closing argument" then delivers Josh's Memorial Day message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on Joe Biden's latest student loan "cancelation" boondoggle in today's "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks The New York Times' disgraceful smearing of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as being somehow ethically compromised for flying certain flags on his properties. How ludicrous! Today's "closing argument" then provides an important update on Hunter Biden's California tax probe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks the beginning of the end of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's utterly shambolic case against former President Trump in NYC. The defense has rested, and closing arguments are now set for Tuesday. What in the world will the jury instructions possibly be? Finally, today's "closing argument" also addresses an interesting new development in Hunter Biden's own legal drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on the corruption legal proceedings of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) before today's "deep dive" unpacks another bombshell day in Juan Merchan's NYC courtroom, in which Michael Cohen yet again beclowned himself on the witness stand. Is this the single most outrageous prosecution of our lifetimes? Today's "closing argument" then explains why the Left is once again disingenuously attacking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as usual before today's "deep dive" takes us back to the ongoing criminal trial of President Doanld Trump in NYC. Can the prosecution somehow reestablish any credibility for so-called "star witness" Michael Cohen? Is Trump going to take the stand himself? Today's "closing argument" then unpacks the International Criminal Court's outrageous pursuit of the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" segment explains Michael Cohen's epic flop on the witness stand yesterday in Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial, as well as the latest in the corruption trial for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Today's "deep dive" then unpacks a very disappointing decision yesterday from the U.S. Supreme Court, in which a seven-justice majority (led by the great Clarence Thomas, no less) upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" segment updates us on Michael Cohen's ongoing anti-Trump testimony in NYC and the separate legal troubles of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.). Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the high-profile separation-of-powers clash underway between the Biden administration and the U.S. House, pertaining to the audio recording of former Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview of POTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains why neither Stormy Daniels nor Michael Cohen has helped Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his assistant Matthew Colangelo prove their actual legal case against former President Donald Trump. Today's "closing argument" then provides important updates on Hunter Biden's own legal troubles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer dives into Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) corruption trial before unpacking the ramifications of prosecutorial "star witness" Michael Cohen's testimony this week in the ongoing NYC criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Today's closing argument then explains the forthcoming separation-of-powers clash, in which the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees apparently plan to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us around the horn, as always, before today's deep dive previews prosecutorial "star witness" Michael Cohen's testimony later today (and perhaps also later this week) in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer explains a crucial update in Hunter Biden's federal gun charge prosecution before today's deep dive unpacks the latest updates in the first-ever prosecution of a former president of the United States, now unfolding before our very eyes in NYC. Given their setbacks everywhere else, the Democrat-Lawfare Complex is now all-in in NYC. But have they really thought this through? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates you on what you need to know about Trump's ongoing criminal trial in NYC before today's "deep dive" takes us back to Georgia, where the state Court of Appeals has formally agreed to hear an appeal as to whether Fulton County DA Fani Willis must be disqualified from her own prosecution of Trump. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Joe Biden's treasonous behavior toward American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer updates us on Trump's Florida trial before today's deep dive analyzes porn star Stormy Daniels' tawdry and salacious testimony yesterday in Trump's NYC trial. How did America fall so far and reach this point, where a former president and current leading presidential candidate is being subjected to courtroom testimony from a discredited porn star—while being deprived of both his free speech rights and right to hit the campaign trail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer provides an update on Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial before today's deep dive unpacks the latest on-campus stand-off between police and mini-jihadis, this time at no less a free speech bastion than the University of Chicago. Josh explains why so many are wrong about what is and what is not "free speech" under our constitutional and moral order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer breaks through the latest insane illegal alien headlines in today's "around the horn" segment, while also breaking down the terrible misinformation and mischaracterizations swirling about the House-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act. Today's "deep dive" then explains why former Trump White House aide Hope Hicks' Friday testimony in former President Trump's NYC criminal trial is not nearly as damaging as the media is telling you it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the law, politics, and morality of the internal debates Republicans and pro-lifers are now having all across the country. Were Arizona Senate Republicans morally correct to join forces with Democrats to repeal the state's strong pro-life law? And what can we expect in Florida this year, with another big abortion ballot initiative looming? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer rebuts misguided critics of the House's just-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act before today's "deep dive" then unpacks the myriad legal strategies for fighting back against the pro-Hamas anarchy now tearing American university campuses apart. Today's "closing argument" then weighs in on MTG's plan to file a motion to vacate Mike Johnson's House speaker chair next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates us on some pressing transgender-related legal matters during today's "around the horn" segment, and today's "deep dive" then attempts to understand what exactly Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is thinking by prosecuting Donald Trump in the hush-money case the bizarre way he presently is. Finally, today's "closing argument" unpacks some possible legal remedies to the pro-Hamas insanity now tearing American universities apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive centers on yesterday's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in Trump v. United States. It's looking like Donald Trump could be in good shape in Special Counsel Jack Smith's crown jewel D.C. criminal probe. Today's closing argument then checks in on Alvin Bragg's farcical criminal trial of Trump in NYC, which is now at the end of its second week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh first tears through a wild, jam-packed "around the horn" segment, which includes updates on Trump's NYC criminal trial, preliminary analysis of wild new 2020 election-related indictments in Arizona, and much more. Today's "deep dive" then discusses today's massive oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Trump v. United States. Will Trump's claim of full presidential immunity from criminal prosecution prevail at SCOTUS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" focuses on today's opening arguments in Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial. Today's "closing argument" then tackles the shocking and appalling rise of anti-Semitism on Ivy League university campuses, which coincides with the beginning of the Passover holiday tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer rips through a timely "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks everything you need to know about the emerging juror pool for Donald Trump's criminal trial now unfolding in NYC. Today's "closing argument" then looks at Israel's retaliatory strikes last night against the Iranian regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" through Trump's various prosecutions before today's "deep dive" focuses on Senate Democrats' appalling and disgraceful undermining yesterday of the very political "norms" they often claim to cherish—in this case, when it comes to the impeachment of DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Today's "closing argument" then takes us back to NY Attorney General Tish James' woeful "fraud" case against The Trump Organization. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," with a special focus on yesterday's big Supreme Court oral argument involving January 6 defendants. Today's "deep dive" then analyzes the seven jurors already selected for Trump's criminal trial in NYC and presents one theory for how Trump might be able to secure an acquittal. Finally, today's "closing argument" provides an update on yesterday's thuggery in Brussels, wherein Belgian police threatened to shut down the National Conservatism Conference currently being held there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" brings us to Justice Juan Merchan's NYC courtroom, where the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president commenced yesterday. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks some disturbing new developments this morning from across the pond, in Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" gives you all you need to know about today's historic commencement of the first criminal trial of an ex-president in U.S. history. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks this weekend's huge news in the Middle East, where Iran launched an unprecedented attack against Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer goes around the horn before spending today's deep dive recapping and explaining the significance of his debate last night in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, on the proper limits of speech (or, more accurately, so-called "speech") on university campuses in the aftermath of the horrific Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" focuses on the Arizona Supreme Court's much-discussed, controversial decision this week to uphold an 1864 pro-life law that would outlaw most abortions in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer rips through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns us to Trump's impending criminal prosecution in NYC, where DA Alvin Bragg is about to cross the Rubicon and take us to a harrowing point of no return in these United States. Today's "closing argument" then highlights an interesting and potentially very important gun rights ruling out in Washington State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an absolutely jam-packed "around the horn" segment, filled with many pressing Trump updates from all across the country. Today's "deep dive" segment then unpacks the still-percolating debate, partially sparked by Trump himself yesterday, over whether abortion is properly a "states' rights" issue or whether it instead must be ultimately resolved at the national level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" highlights an important Wall Street Journal op-ed today from constitutional stalwarts Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), which correctly argues that the Senate must hold an expeditious impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now that he has been impeached by the House. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Donald Trump's newly announced abortion stance for the 2024 general election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment covers an interesting Electoral College debate in Nebraska, Jeffrey Clark's possible disbarment in Washington, D.C., an unfortunate setback for Donald Trump in Fani Willis' Georgia prosecution, and more. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks yesterday's Presidential Records Act ruling in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom, and what it means for Trump moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's "around the horn" covers a ton of terrain, including an expected massive Trump fundraiser in Palm Beach this weekend and yesterday's high-profile Fifth Circuit oral argument for Texas's S.B. 4 immigration law. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks what's going on in the NYC courtroom of Justice Juan Merchan, who is now facing calls to recuse himself from the Alvin Bragg-led Trump prosecution there due to his daughter's heavy involvement in Democratic Party fundraising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an action-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains the controversy over Judge Reggie Walton's recent highly inappropriate on-air comments to CNN. Today's "closing argument" then analyzes whether Florida will be a swing state once again, in light of the forthcoming ballot initiatives this November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today's jam-packed "around the horn" brings you everything you need to know about President Trump's latest, from an extended gag order in Alvin Bragg's NYC prosecution to his posted bond payment in Tish James's NYC fraud trial and much more. Today's "deep dive" then explains everything you need to know about yesterday's big day at the Florida Supreme Court, where the justices permitted sweeping pro-life legislation to take effect while simultaneously green-lighting two troubling ballot initiatives to go before the people of Florida this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" returns to the U.S. Supreme Court, the site of the massive showdown later this month on the scope of former President Donald Trump's immunity from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution in Washington, D.C. Josh's "closing argument" then addresses the painful loss yesterday by his beloved Duke Blue Devils basketball team in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA Tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer navigates us through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns to Fulton County, Georgia to discuss the latest twists and turns in the ongoing saga of far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. Today's "closing argument" then borrows from Josh's syndicated column out today to urge a simple message: Put down your phones and go touch some grass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment, with updates on Texas's ongoing S.B. 4 immigration litigation and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's big victory over The Walt Disney Company. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the war against John Eastman, the long-time legal scholar who legally represented President Trump after the 2020 presidential election, which is now culminating in the California Bar's seemingly impending disbarment of him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's disappointing U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in the abortion pill case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Josh then describes his night out at the Miami Open tennis tournament and the importance of "touching grass" amidst our raucous 24/7 news cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's big news out of New York City, where President Trump's outrageous bond payment in AG Tish James' "fraud" trial was reduced by an appellate judicial panel. Today's closing argument then unloads on the Biden administration for its disgraceful abstention yesterday at the UN Security Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive returns to Trump's civil fraud case in New York City—will Attorney General Tish James really start seizing assets potentially as soon as today? Today's closing argument discusses yesterday's "Meet the Press" controversy, wherein former host Chuck Todd threw NBC News' own brand-new contributor under the bus on national TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes you around the horn before today's deep dive returns us to New York Attorney General Tish James' Orwellian "fraud" case in New York. The chief prosecutor of the Empire State is now formally preparing to seize the former president's assets in suburban Westchester County. Today's closing argument segment then discusses the return of everyone's favorite sports craziness: March Madness! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates you on yesterday's big news in Fulton County, Georgia and much more before today's deep dive then unpacks the roiling litigation pertaining to Texas's S.B. 4 immigration statute. Today's closing argument then analyzes an interesting op-ed today from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, pertaining to the Trump immunity case at SCOTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive thoroughly unpacks the long and winding saga of Donald Trump's "fraud" litigation in New York State. The way Trump is being treated by NY Attorney General Tish James and the state's judiciary is patently un-American. Finally, today's closing argument analyzes last night's big GOP Senate primary in Ohio, won by Bernie Moreno. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates you on an assortment of Trump trial news and interesting SCOTUS orders before today's deep dive unpacks yesterday's huge SCOTUS oral argument in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, pertaining to the government's bone-chilling attempts to work with Big Tech to crack down on "dissident" speech. Today's closing argument then analyzes Trump's legally dicey situation in NYC, where he has thus far been unable to secure a $454 million surety bond in NY Attorney General Tish James' outrageous "fraud" case there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates you on Trump's New York "fraud" case and Washington, D.C. prosecution before today's deep dive unpacks Friday's huge ruling by Judge Scott McAfee in Fulton County, Georgia, in which the judge concocted a bespoke (and bizarre) remedy in the Fani Willis disqualification saga. Today's closing argument then previews today's massive SCOTUS oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates us on Trump's Florida and Georgia prosecutions before today's deep dive analyzes a stunning filing in NYC, where Alvin Bragg is now seeking a delay of his own prosecution of the embattled former president on hush money payment grounds. Today's deep dive then unpacks Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's disgraceful Senate floor speech yesterday, in which he called for regime change in Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer updates you on a big development in Judge Scott McAfee's Fulton County, Georgia courtroom before today's deep dive unpacks Hunter Biden's forthcoming trial in Delaware for his firearms charges, now that there is finally a trial date set. Then, today's closing argument explains the fallacy of the "free speech" objectors to the House's common-sense TikTok bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn to Trump's prosecutions in Florida and Georgia before today's deep dive unpacks former Special Counsel Robert Hur's big day testifying yesterday at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Today's closing argument then focuses on the forthcoming Trump-Biden presidential rematch this fall, now that both men have officially secured the delegates to be their parties' presumptive nominees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive, which unpacks former DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur's big day testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his damning report on President Biden's illicit classified documents retention. Today's closing argument then explains the roiling fight over whether America should ban TikTok—at least with its current Chinese Communist Party-affiliated corporate ownership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn before today's deep dive takes us back to the Fulton County courtroom of Judge Scott McAfee, who is now facing a far-left judicial primary challenger as he prepares to issue his much-anticipated ruling on whether District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade are disqualified. Will McAfee still do the right thing? Today's closing argument then breaks through the corporate media noise on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to Mar-a-Lago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn, focusing on updates in Trump's multiple New York-based legal cases, before today's deep dive brings us to the Sunshine State and the big forthcoming showdown in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom over the extent to which the Presidential Records Act shields Trump from Jack Smith's classified documents probe there. Finally, today's closing argument analyzes President Biden's nakedly partisan State of the Union Address. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this special bonus episode, Josh Hammer previews tonight's State of The Union Address with First TV host Mike Slater. Is Joe Biden planning to lean into January 6th as an attempt to convince America that Donald Trump is a threat to Democracy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to the latest Trump lega drama in Florida and Georgia, Trump's latest funding struggles, and more. Today's deep dive then takes us back to Alabama, where Josh argues state Republicans have markedly overcorrected when it comes to their state supreme court's much-discussed recent decision on embryonic human life. Finally, today's closing argument previews President Biden's State of the Union Address tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn to check in on a few of Trump's criminal prosecutions, as well as the state of his finances when it comes to both legal fees and assessed damages. Today's deep dive then takes us back to Monday's unanimous Trump v. Anderson victory at SCOTUS, after which America's liberal commentariat and liberal legal academia really need to eat some very rich humble pie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to Trump's prosecutions in Florida and Georgia, as well as former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's guilty plea yesterday in New York City. Today's deep dive then unpacks and explains everything you need to know about yesterday's outstanding unanimous SCOTUS opinion in Trump v. Anderson. March 4, 2024 will be remembered as a great day for American republican self-governance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer reviews Friday's busy legal day for Trump in both Florida and Georgia before today's deep dive then centers on the all-important question of "who decides"—is it "We the People" of which the Constitution speaks, or is it a patchwork system of unelected actors all across the country? The U.S. Supreme Court should indicate a partial response today, when it decides the Trump v. Anderson case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host takes us around the horn, focusing on the SCOTUS drama in Donald Trump's ballot-access and presidential immunity cases. Today's deep dive then returns to Texas to dissect a deeply misguided immigration ruling from a rogue federal judge, which could have grave implications for the Lone Star State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn, focusing on Hunter Biden's big day yesterday on Capitol Hill, a reckless Illinois judge deeming Donald Trump ineligible for the ballot, Trump's "fraud" appeal in New York, and more. Today's deep dive then analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court's massive, election-altering decision to expedite a hearing on the question of the existence and scope of Trump's presidential immunity, which could have the effect of foreclosing Jack Smith's D.C. prosecution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn from Trump's ballot-access case at SCOTUS to Alvin Bragg's request for a gag order in NYC to Hunter Biden's potentially explosive closed-door testimony in Congress today, and more. Today's deep dive then explains why DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith is very, very confused when it comes to Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and retaining classified documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to discuss the latest in former President Trump's legal cases in Washington, D.C., New York, and Georgia. Today's deep dive then unpacks yesterday's high-profile SCOTUS showdown between the states of Texas and Florida, which each passed recent laws reining in social media censorship, and the Big Tech titans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss former President Trump's pending ballot-access case (Trump v. Anderson) at SCOTUS, the continued fallout from his outrageous "fraud" verdict in Justice Arthur Engoron's New York City courtroom, and more. Today's "deep dive" then takes us back to Fulton County, Georgia, where new bombshell revelations cast even more doubt on embattled DA Fani Willis and her illicit lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss Trump's two SCOTUS-pending cases, the Ohio v. EPA case that was argued at SCOTUS this week, and more. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the roiling debate over Florida's controversial defamation bill, which just passed the state's House Judiciary Committee and has already greatly divided conservatives (both in Florida and nationally). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss the continued fallout from last Friday's bonkers "fraud" ruling against Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, Joe Biden's new executive order "canceling" over $1 billion of student debt, and more. Today's "deep dive" then analyzes a legally straightforward recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court that has nonetheless engendered great controversy due to the fact it involves protecting unborn human life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss the state of play in Trump's two SCOTUS-pending cases, Alvin Bragg's sham prosecution in NYC, the curious case of the indicted ex-FBI source Alexander Smirnov, and more. Today's "deep dive" then brings us back to Georgia, where it is increasingly likely that the case against Trump and his co-defendants will have to be moved out of deep-blue Fulton County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to recap the state of play in Trump's criminal cases, discuss the continued fallout of Friday's Stalin-esque civil "fraud" ruling in New York, preview the possible upcoming Senate impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and more. Today's "deep dive" then brings us back to Trump's insane defamation case with the unhinged E. Jean Carroll, whose lawyer had some choice words Monday evening for Jen Psaki on MSNBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On this Presidents' Day special episode of "America on Trial," your host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to recap the state of play in Doanld Trump's Washington, D.C. cases and the state of play in Fulton County, Georgia after last week's wild two-day evidentiary hearing on codefendant Michael Roman's motion to dismiss DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Then, today's "deep dive" is on Friday afternoon's bombshell (and totally bonkers) verdict of massive liability for Trump and The Trump Organization in New York AG Tish James' Stalin-esque fishing expedition of a civil fraud case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," focusing on the now-official start date of Alvin Bragg's anti-Trump prosecution in New York City, the imminently forthcoming verdict in Tish James' anti-Trump civil fraud case in New York State, and Special Counsel Robert Hur's forthcoming congressional testimony about President Biden's mental state. Today's "deep dive" is then on yesterday's absolutely explosive evidentiary hearing (which continues today) in Fulton County, Georgia, where DA Fani Willis melted down on the stand and the prosecution's entire case is collapsing in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," focusing on Special Counsel Jack Smith's SCOTUS reply to former President Trump in the sprawling D.C. Circuit case, the imminently forthcoming verdict in Trump's New York State civil fraud case, and the explosive evidentiary hearing today and tomorrow in Fulton County, Georgia as to whether DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade are fit to bring charges against Trump and his co-defendants. Today's "deep dive" is then on Alvin Bragg's prosecution of Trump in New York City, where the former president is attending a hearing today that will finalize the trial start date there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on Donald Trump's request for a SCOTUS stay of his D.C. Circuit finding of no presidential immunity in the Jack Smith probe and the continued political fallout of Special Counsel Robert Hur's damning report last week about Joe Biden. Today's "deep dive" then previews tomorrow's blockbuster evidentiary hearing in the Fulton County, Georgia courtroom of Judge Scott McAfee, pertaining to the possible disqualification of DA Fani Willis from pursuing her case against Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on yesterday's pretrial hearings in Florida federal court and Thursday's big evidentiary hearing in Georgia state court, before doing a "deep dive" on former President Trump's formal request that the U.S. Supreme Court stay last week's D.C. Circuit panel denial of his claim of sweeping presidential immunity, which if accepted would preclude Special Counsel Jack Smith's 2020 election-related criminal probe there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
As we start our third week of "America on Trial," your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on today's major deadline at SCOTUS for Donald Trump to seek a stay of last week's D.C. Circuit ruling against his sweeping claim of presidential immunity from prosecution. Josh then does a "deep dive" on the continued political fallout of Special Counsel Robert Hur's blistering report last Thursday on President Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this 10th episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from the Trump's D.C. Circuit "immunity" appeal timeline to N.Y. Attorney General Tish James' "fraud" trial timeline to Special Counsel Robert Hur's utterly damning report about President Joe Biden's precipitously declining mental state to the Hawaii Supreme Court's anarchic rejection of SCOTUS's recent Second Amendment jurisprudence. Josh then does a "deep dive" on Thursday's big SCOTUS oral argument, the Colorado ballot access case of Trump v. Anderson, where the former president is poised for a massive—and potentially unanimous—victory. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this ninth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before doing a deep dive on the huge oral argument today at the U.S. Supreme Court: the case of Trump v. Anderson, which pertains to the attempt to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot this fall on specious 14th Amendment "Insurrection Clause" grounds. Josh breaks down everything you need to know about this momentous oral argument and makes a prediction for how the Court will rule. Ultimately, this case implicates the most foundational questions in all of our politics: "Who decides?" Is it We the People, or is it unelected judges and bureaucrats? Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this eighth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before doing a deep dive on yesterday's big D.C. Circuit ruling that President Donald Trump is NOT immune from Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal prosecution pertaining to the events of the 2020 presidential election. What will be next in this complex litigation? What would Josh advise if he were one of Trump's lawyers? Tune in to find out. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this bonus episode of "America on Trial," Josh teases the huge ruling from the D.C. Circuit today that President Trump is NOT immune from federal prosecution for his actions pertaining to the 2020 election and January 6, 2021. Tune into tomorrow's show to hear Josh's full analysis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this seventh episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to reset where all of Trump's prosecutions stand before then doing a deep dive on the crucial case, being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court this Thursday, on President Donald Trump's ability to access the ballot this fall. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this sixth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from a now-formal delay in Special Counsel Jack Smith's much-hyped D.C. prosecution to a delay in NY Attorney General Tish James' "fraud" fishing expedition against The Trump Organization to this week's huge SCOTUS argument on the crucial question of Trump's ballot access. Josh then does a deep dive on the seeming implosion of the case against Trump in Georgia, where DA Fani Willis has now formally admitted to a scandalous affair and where House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan is now subpoenaing her for possible misuse of taxpayer funds. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this fifth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on the now-formally delayed trial start date in Washington, D.C. and the possible plea deal in NYC for longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Josh then does a deep dive on the recurring, and now once again roiling, constitutional debate over the 1973 War Powers Resolution and the interplay of congressional and executive powers in foreign affairs and warmaking—sparked by President Biden's latest military strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this fourth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on the big upcoming hearing in Georgia to possibly dismiss DA Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade. Josh then does a deep dive on the huge victory yesterday in federal court yesterday for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida over The Walt Disney Company, which had alleged unconstitutional retaliation in violation of its First Amendment rights. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this third episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from Nathan Wade's divorce settlement in Georgia to the latest ham-handed attempts to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot, and more. Josh then does a deep dive on the constitutional debate surrounding House Republicans' new attempt to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this second episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from E. Jean Carroll's latest idiotic comments to New York Attorney General Letitia James' "fraud" fishing expedition against The Trump Organization. Josh then does a deep dive on the tense standoff at the U.S.-Mexico border between the state of Texas and the Biden administration, which reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this pilot episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer introduces the show and takes us "around the horn" from Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis' scandalous corruption to New York Attorney General Letitia James' misplaced "fraud" vendetta, and elsewhere. Josh then does a deep dive on Friday's outrageous and likely unconstitutional award of $83.3 million in defamation damages, including $65 million in punitive damages, levied against President Donald Trump. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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