All the Presidents' Lawyers
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All the Presidents' Lawyers
All presidents have legal issues. Some have more than others. A weekly conversation about the law, executive power, and all the presidents' lawyers, good and bad.
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The end of the road, for now
It’s been more than three years since Josh Barro and Ken White started All The President’s Lawyers (the first name of this show) to explore the legal...
Summer’s over
Just 22 days after Steve Bannon was referred to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress, we have an indictment. Is that a long time? No, ve...
Another indictment from Durham
There’s been another indictment in special prosecutor John Durham’s investigation of the investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential...
Low-hanging fruit
We now know which documents former President Trump is seeking to block from the January 6 select committee: the White House daily diary, which would s...
Guilty. Appealing. Talking. Referred for contempt.
This week, Josh Barro and Ken White catch up on a few familiar characters and tie up some loose threads.
Lev Parnas, former associate of Rudy Gi...
Testing the boundaries of executive privilege
Former President Trump has sued the National Archives and the chairman of the January 6 investigating committee, Congressman Bennie Thompson, to try t...
Is a plea bargain a good deal?
This is a special episode of All the Presidents’ Lawyers with Carissa Byrne Hessick, professor of law at the University of North Carolina. As we’ve di...
What is a state actor?
Former President Donald Trump has sued Twitter trying to get back on the platform. His suit says Twitter violated his First Amendment rights and that...
Trump Derangement Syndrome with David Lat
What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’? It’s a condition that afflicts conservatives and liberals alike – and lawyers in particular. This week, Ken Whit...
An unusual indictment, an unusual memo
John Durham, the former US attorney who was appointed special counsel to investigate the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and...
Fate of the Henchman
There’s been a lack of thumb-headed henchmen news on the show for a bit… so this week, Ken and Josh check in on one. Igor Fruman, a sometime associate...
Juniors
Trump Organization employee Matthew Calamari Jr. testified last week before the New York grand jury that’s looking into the financial practices of the...
What happens when your lawyer is MIA
What happens when you’re facing federal charges connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection and your lawyer….goes missing? And their associate, who has been...
Mistrial!
It’s a big week for Michael Avenatti. A mistrial! Judge Selna ruled that the government had withheld financial evidence they should’ve made available...
Jeffrey Rosen and Jeffrey Clark
Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified about what happened between him, Donald Trump, and former acting head of DOJ Civil Division Jef...
Seven months and 600+ people charged
This week, we’re bringing on special guest Ryan J. Reilly, senior justice reporter at HuffPost, while Ken enjoys a deserved vacation. We’ve followed a...
Tax returns return
The Biden administration said this week that the House Ways and Means Committee can have access to former President Trump’s tax returns. The committee...
DOJ threads the needle
Michael Avenatti is one week into representing himself in federal court in Southern California, where he is accused of stealing funds from his client....
A pro se pro?
This week, Michael Avenatti told a federal district judge in California that he would like to represent himself in his second of three criminal trials...
An expensive defense
Allen Weisselberg is no longer in executive positions with the Trump Organization and its subsidiaries. Does this signal anything about the relationsh...
BONUS: Josh and Ken talk about the criminal indictments against Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization
Surprise episode! Josh Barro and Ken White talk about the unsealed indictments of the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisse...
The ATPL XL Ask Us Anything Show
As of Wednesday morning, there have been no charges yet against the Trump Organization or any of its senior officials. The Wall Street Journal reporte...
"What the Fuks?"
The first Capitol riot defendant received her sentence today, more than six months after the insurrection. Ken White and Josh Barro analyze the senten...
“Pure insanity”
It’s been an interesting week for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, despite the fact that Donald Trump isn’t president anymore. This week, we saw...
A Trump legal problem becomes a Biden administration problem
Before the election, the Department of Justice under President Trump was at work defending him in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, arguing that when...