America On Trial with Josh Hammer

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