How much of Ben Shapiro’s deranged Daily Wire column about the Supreme Court’s birthright citizenship decision was written by AI? The answer may actually surprise you! Find out on this week's Vapid Response Wednesday

Are there any questions from law in the news this week on any front that you want answered on Friday's show? Please think them very hard at us! (or reply here! Also our DMs are open)

THIS WEEK ON OA: The worst birthright citizenship takes we could find The Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby makes his first Vapid Response appearance, and it is a stinkah for the frickin' ages kehd that one time William Shatner and Dan Crenshaw teamed up to try to turn Space Force into Starfleet

This month's OA Book Club selection is a memoir by an attorney who only realized that he was living on the autism spectrum as he was about to retire at 65--and author Peter O'Neil will be joining to discuss it at our next meeting on July 26th! www.amazon.com/dp/B0BYCCZ53...

It really sucked that DOJ put @katmabu.bsky.social and the other Broadview defendants through all of that, but these transcripts that no one was ever supposed to see were funnier than anything we ever could have hoped for

We read a lot of transcripts around here, but reading the unredacted excerpts from the Broadview 6 grand jury proceedings that DOJ tried to cover up was about as much fun as we have ever had. Both parts out now on Gavel Gavel! open.spotify.com/episode/2ij6...

A great breakdown of the Prairieland sentencing by the always-excellent @openargs.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1CSa...

Trump v. Barbara may go down as one of the most expected outcomes in SCOTUS history and these people are holding it until the last minute just to look as beneficent and fair-minded as possible when they side with the plain text of the 14th Amendment over a memo that Stephen Miller wrote for Trump

the timing of this decision is the message: this is Important, and we are Making History by doing it when it is in fact much more like a shitty boyfriend making a whole thing out of actually remembering your birthday this year

This Friday on OA we'll be going deep on just how poorly constructed the government's case against the Prarieland defendants was, the absurd stretch to "terrorism" charges, and what this national travesty can tell us about how Trump's DOJ will continue to criminalize and prosecute dissent

regular reminder: most of the millions of projected USAID / DOGE deaths haven't happened yet. they are absolutely still preventable — but only if we demand that democrats prioritize it once they retake power. it's a moral imperative

Vital context for this case that every American should know something about in our interview with a @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social member and attorney. So many people have done so much to support these cases, an absolute model of community defense podcasts.apple.com/bn/podcast/p...

What should we read next for Book Club? We are looking for law-related books (fiction or non)/longform journalism pieces written for a general audience. We're aiming to have each book club meeting include time both to discuss the book amongst ourselves and at least 30 minutes with the author

Reminder to join fellow patrons next Sunday June 28th for our inaugural Book Club discussion of Peter Canellos's excellent new first-ever biography of our least favorite sitting Supreme Court justice--featuring a visit from the author! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Reveng...

Excited to share that our first book club selection will be the first actual biography of Samuel Alito ever published (not to be confused with Mollie Hemingway's hagiography) and that *the author will be joining patrons* to sit in on the first 30 mins of our inaugural meetup! See you there on 6/28

INTRODUCING OA BOOK CLUB Our latest bonus for all patrons is a monthly meetup to discuss our monthly selections of law-related reading--from the law'd awful to the law'd awesome--for non-lawyers. Subscribe today and get ready to join our first meetup later this month! patreon.com/law

If you're looking for a totally unscripted podcast where people who genuinely enjoy each other's company get into deeply researched analysis of the stuff that matters most right now with the perspective of a full-time immigration attorney *and* jokes you are looking for @openargs.bsky.social

This Friday's footnote: did Delaware really just let corporations do this?

Um, @openargs.bsky.social ? news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/corporat...

i was just listening to a recent @openargs.bsky.social about how Alito's precedent of "egregiously wrong" in Dobbs is just Kavanaugh's reheated nachos, and reading this i cannot help but think this fuckin "casus belli" shit is next into the microwave. Civil War II here we come i guess

Did USCIS really just end greencard applications for everyone in the US and force non-citizens back to their home countries? @mattcameron.bsky.social takes us through what social and traditional media got wrong and why it matters youtu.be/9NopOkKSOiE?...

Newest episode of Opening Arguments @openargs.bsky.social should be required listening for everyone currently in the US or thinking about being in the US... tr.ee/rSvbAdYqDo

🎤𖥠 ANTE UP, FOOLS! 🎤𖥠 In the spirit of Friday's footnote on Boston attorney Joe Resnek's 🔥 Top Dog Law diss track, OA is ready to throw down with every other legal podcast that anyone actually listens to.* 10 RTs on this and @legalafmtn.bsky.social gets the business first -- *and also Law & Chaos

This week on OA: Matt breaks down the biggest shock to the legal immigration system in decades--and how this will be much better for some people and much worse for others than the media coverage has conveyed so far

This footnote was one of my favorites in a long time! Extra credit to OA researcher Olivia (@mangolover808.bsky.social) for bringing this one in, and for securing what might be the coolest thing a lawyer has ever said to the media when called for comment on something

As noted in the footnote for today's episode, we did a journalism and called Boston lawyer Joe Resneck for comment on the diss track he recorded about national PI firm Top Dog Law. We print his comment in full below: "Fuck Top Dog! They ain't on the block dawg" share.google/Jcg55yCBhLeH...

Matt in the Bull glasses

Most media is not grappling w/ the full gravity of this. It’s about so much more than which party wins. A gerrymandering ban to increase white liberal representation is no answer. Callais rings the death knell for all corrective anti-discrimination policy Web: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

Callais broke my heart. Being able to share this with our audience over at @openargs.bsky.social, to provide education and space for collective grief, was a great comfort. Thanks for listening everyone. Knowing this rage doesn’t just go into the void gives me the energy I need to keep fighting

@openargs.bsky.social great episode! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

We amended the Constitution so the people instead of state legislatures elect senators because the old system resulted in corruption and dysfunction, and now we have a system where state legislatures functionally decide the composition of their House delegations before a single vote is cast.

Every headline is missing this: Callais isn’t restricted to voting. Or race. Alito says it’s always unconstitutional to use group classification. Not even Congress, empowered by the constitution to correct discrimination in this exact context, can do that. Gutted the VRA? No. Gutted Equal Protection

I’ll cover likely impacts & broader context of the Callais decision soon on @openargs.bsky.social. Basically the worst possible outcome. Find our previous coverage of oral arguments in episode 1199 & the Texas redistricting case (will likely be affected) in 1209: directory.libsyn.com/episode/inde...

The subject of this month's Law'd Awful Movies episode was a true classic: a uniquely terrible show which we all hated watching but loved talking about. Here's a visual hint! (coming soon to our coolest patrons at patreon.com/law)

Wrong answers only

Guy who promoted fake history of birthright citizenship in bad faith to disenfranchise children of immigrants backs up guy who promoted fake history of the 2020 election in bad faith to disenfranchise Georgia in defense of guy who designed fake elector scheme in bad faith to disenfranchise America

Probably just a coincidence that the law professors defending insurrectionist John Eastman are the same guys arguing against birthright citizenship, in no way reflective of a world view on who the law protects vs binds

Worried about birthright citizenship + still worried that SCOTUS might reverse it? Was this truly the worst argument they have ever heard from any Solicitor General? Also: why the answer to Gorsuch's questions re Native Americans was even worse than you thought, and so much more only on today's OA

important point! As discussed on today's @openargs.bsky.social, Johnson was well aware that the Civil Rights Act of 1866 would extend birthright citizenship to EVERYONE -- and that is exactly why he vetoed it. Not great for Saeur at all!

Today would be Renee Good's 38th birthday. Let's never forget that Renee & Becca Good were a loving, lovely, lovable couple who should have celebrated many birthdays together.

Tune in Friday for our full breakdown of the stupidest argument ever brought to the US Supreme Court by the federal government--this is going to be a fun one!

43/ pro tip: "you have a number of hurdles here" is a very funny way for a judge to say "you have the shittiest case I have ever seen"

42/ KBJ: we would have to believe that (1) Framers were not actually importing the common law birthright citizenship rule and (2) what they were doing was departing from the rule in the way that you suggest -- they were seeking to have this turn on domicile. You have a number of hurdles here.

35/ Sauer: a ruling in our favor would leave "room for Congress" lol this is exactly like saying that burning my house down gives me the room to build a new house, if the only people who could rebuild my house were a white shoe law firm with no hired labor who all hated each other

Sauer goes on about "birth tourism," a problem which is approximately as urgent as undocumented people voting. His brief relies heavily on these kinds of policy arguments, which is not usually the kind of thing that someone who expects to win a legal argument does

Sauer cites Ilan Wurman's brief, a sign that he is truly on the ropes

Also weird but true fact: many people do not know this but Wurman's show with a former chair of the MN young Republicans (Rationally Based) is the closest thing to @openargs.bsky.social that is available to podcast listeners in hell

Feels appropriate to point out on No Kings day: Allowing Trump to selectively pay employees he likes, when he feels like it, rather than having Congress solve the problem, is a real constitutional threat. From @joshchafetz.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

An important reminder of the cost of the most dangerous labor done by people we keep in a state of permanent vulnerability This OA episode honoring the dead, explaining their situation, + dogwalking our national anthem into the sun was one of my favorites of 2024 open.spotify.com/episode/3BIk...