Law & Court Cases

• TThe Lawfare Podcast2026-09-18Audio✓ Read

  Lawfare Daily: Julia Curlee and John Sipher on John Ratcliffe’s Tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: Julia Curlee and John Sipher on John Ratcliffe’s Tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence from The Lawfare Podcast. Senior Editor Michael Feinberg talks with Lawfare Public Service Fellow Julia Curlee and former CIA Case Officer John Sipher about John Ratcliffe’s tenure as the Director of Central Intelligence and cultural changes in the intelligence community writ large.To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare.

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• OOpening Arguments2026-09-18Audio✓ Read

  Kash Patel Screws the Pooch

  OA1297 - This week on Rapid Response Friday: SCOTUS once again confirms the color of the sky, the latest failures in DOJ’s attempts to prosecute Trump’s political opponents, why the most important immigration agency you’ve never heard of has decided as a matter of law that Trump fixed Venezuela by illegally kidnapping its president, and how NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is  trying to stop Trump 2.0 from bringing new life to one of the worst failed immigration policies of 1.0.

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• SStrict Scrutiny2026-09-17Audio✓ Read

  We Need To Talk About Judicial Review

  In the third installment of our Hot Supreme Court Reform September series, Leah sits down with Daphna Renan and Nikolas Bowie to discuss how judicial supremacy became the default operating system of the federal government, and how limiting the Supreme Court’s power to decline to enforce federal statutes is a crucial tool for reining it in. Niko and Daphna’s book is Supremacy: How Rule by the Court Replaced Government by the People. Enter the giveaway here!

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• TThe Lawfare Podcast2026-09-16Audio✓ Read

  Lawfare Daily: Far-Right Gains and a Political Reckoning in Germany

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: Far-Right Gains and a Political Reckoning in Germany from The Lawfare Podcast. On today’s podcast, Executive Editor Natalie Orpett sits down with Constanze Stelzenmüller, Director and Fritz Stern Chair of the Center on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution, to discuss what’s going on in the German political scene, where a far-right party, the AfD, is making a strong showing in state elections.

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  Manosphere's Favorite Juror Had Active Restraining Order During Clancy Trial

  VR44 - This week on Vapid Response: we survey some of MAGA’s worst takes on the recent mistrial of Lindsay Clancy, all the way from “women are too woke and emotional to be on juries," to “the man who acted out of emotion to ignore the law is the true hero.” Also: the manosphere’s casual endorsement of domestic violence against women who want to talk about their own mental health, and a quick refresh on the incredibly nuanced reality of a mental health defense in Massachusetts.

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• SStrict Scrutiny2026-09-15Audio✓ Read

  BREAKING: SCOTUS Blocks Trump’s Mail-In Ballot BS

  Kate, Leah and Melissa hop on to break down the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration’s Postal Service regulation announcing it would not deliver mail-in ballots unless states adopted a bunch of last-minute, unnecessary, burdensome, and impossible policies governing mail in ballots. They cover Trump’s tantrum over the decision, Brett Kavanaugh’s endlessly pathetic pick-me energy, and Sam Alito’s God tier false equivalencies.

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  Lawfare Daily: ‘A Whole Other Country,’ with Zoe Kurland and Terence O’Rourke

  Listen to Lawfare Daily: ‘A Whole Other Country,’ with Zoe Kurland and Terence O’Rourke from The Lawfare Podcast. On today’s episode, Lawfare Managing Editor Tyler McBrien sits down with Zoe Kurland, Senior Producer at Marfa Public Radio, and Terence O’Rourke, an attorney based in Houston, Texas. They discuss “A Whole Other Country,” the Edward R. Murrow Award-winning six-part podcast series, hosted and produced by Kurland, that tells the story of a secessionist movement in the mid-90s called the “Republic of Texas.”

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• AAdvisory Opinions2026-09-15Audio✓ Read

  Barely Averting a Constitutional Crisis

  Sarah Isgur and David French debate David’s latest New York Times column on the Missouri Supreme Court blocking a congressional map. Then, the two review two law articles: Andy Smarick of the Manhattan Institute’s elegantly simple piece on unenumerated rights, and University of Virginia law professor Caleb Nelson’s amazing yet horrifying publication on the unitary executive.

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