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Bloomberg Law
Expert analysis on legal issues and cases in the news.
Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and scholars on the legal stories making news and shaping the world.
Episodes
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Fauci, Blanche & Pirro in the Legal News
June Grasso discusses the top stories of the week with Professor David Super of Georgetown Law, Robert Mintz of McCarter & English and former Palm Beach County…
Bloomberg LawFauci Held in Contempt & 5th Circuit Judges Cry Foul
Dave Aronberg, former Palm Beach County State Attorney, discusses a Senate committee voting to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress. Then Bloomberg…
Bloomberg LawDOJ Erases Jan 6th Cases & Pirro's Job in Jeopardy
Zoe Tillman, Bloomberg legal reporter, discusses the Trump administration dismissing the indictments for seditious conspiracy against the right -wing Oath…
Bloomberg LawBlanche AG Nomination Moves Forward & Betting on Maduro Raid
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the nomination of Todd Blanche for Attorney General, moving to the full Senate…
Bloomberg LawPirro Drops Reflecting Pool Charges & Ice Arrests at Airports
Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the DC US Attorney Jeanine Pirro, dropping felony vandalism charges against…
Bloomberg LawTrump Losses May Cost Taxpayers & Superstar Lawyer Goes to Prison
Bloomberg legal reporter Zoe Tillman discusses how the Trump administration’s losses in court could leave taxpayers footing the bill for millions in…
Bloomberg LawJudge Speaks Out Against DHS List Naming Judges 'Worst of the Worst'
Judge Esther Salas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, discusses the top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security, James Percival…
Bloomberg LawFauci Takes the Fifth & Blanche Confirmation in Jeopardy
Dave Aronberg, former Palm Beach County State Attorney, discusses Dr. Anthony Fauci’s testimony before a Senate committee and possible problems with the…
Bloomberg LawMore Tariffs & Comey Asks for Dismissal of Charges
Trade law expert Timothy Brightbill, a partner at Wiley Rein, discusses President Trump’s latest tariffs. Then First Amendment expert Timothy Zick, a…
Bloomberg LawCanadian Wildfire Damage & Trump's Multibillion Dollar Lawsuits
Columbia Law School’s Michael Gerrard, an expert on environmental law and director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, discusses the legalities…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Elections, Pardons & Endangered Species
Host June Grasso speaks to legal experts on some of the top stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg LawProposals to Ban Naturalized Judges & NFL's Hail Mary Pass
Judge Jeremy Fogel, formerly of the US District Court for the Northern District of California, discusses the objections to proposals to ban judges who were not…
Bloomberg LawTrump, Like English King, Pardons Companies
Bloomberg legal reporter Ava Benny-Morrison discusses President Trump granting clemency to companies, a first. Then Sharon Fairley, a professor at the…
Bloomberg LawQuestion of Noncitizen Voting & NJ Assault Rifle Ban Struck Down
Jonathan Diaz, Director of Voting Advocacy and Partnerships at Campaign Legal Center, discusses how 6600 noncitizens were improperly registered to vote in New…
Bloomberg LawEndangered Species Put at Risk & Prediction Markets
Pat Parenteau, a professor at the Vermont Law & Graduate School and an expert in environmental law, discusses the Trump administration’s move to severely…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: The Next AG, Justices Testify & Blocking Paramount Takeover
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the confirmation hearing for Acting Attorney Todd Blanche to be the next…
Bloomberg LawCan Blanche Become AG & Deadly ICE Traffic Stops
Amy Powell, litigation director at Lawyers for Good Government and former Justice Department senior trial counsel, discusses Acting Attorney General Todd…
Bloomberg LawTodd Blanche Faces Skeptical Senators
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the confirmation hearing for Acting Attorney Todd Blanche to be the next US…
Bloomberg LawWill Maine Case Change Super PACs & Justices Testify
Harvard Law School Professor Lawrence Lessig discusses the federal court case he is leading to uphold Maine’s law limiting contributions to super PACs…
Bloomberg LawStates Sue to Stop Paramount Takeover of Warner Bros.
Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses 12 Democratic-led states suing to block Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Who Won SCOTUS Term & Felony Vandalism
Constitutional law expert Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, discusses the winners and losers in the recent Supreme Court term. Then former…
Bloomberg LawBirthright Citizenship Again & 'Justice in Motion' Bus Tour
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses President Trump asking the Supreme Court to rehear the birthright citizenship case…
Bloomberg LawJustice Jackson Starts Statutory Interpretation Revolution
Abbe Gluck, a professor at Yale Law School, discusses Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson reigniting the statutory interpretation wars and whether some cracks are…
Bloomberg LawFifth Circuit Most Reversed & Olympian Charged With Felony
Constitutional law expert Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses the conservative Fifth Circuit becoming the circuit most…
Bloomberg LawWinners & Losers in the Supreme Court Term
Constitutional law expert Michael Dorf, a professor at Cornell Law School, analyzes the Supreme Court’s recent term from the expansion of presidential…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Presidential Power, Birthright Citizenship & Campaign Finance
Constitutional law expert Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the Supreme Court’s decision expanding presidential power. Then…
Bloomberg LawSCOTUS Eliminates Political Party Spending Caps
Andrew Schapiro, a partner in the appellate law practice at Quinn Emanuel and the former US Ambassador to the Czech Republic, discusses the Supreme Court doing…
Bloomberg LawTrump Loses as SCOTUS Affirms Birthright Citizenship
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the Supreme Court’s landmark decision affirming birthright citizenship…
Bloomberg LawSCOTUS Expands Presidential Power
Constitutional law experts Gillian Metzger, a professor at Columbia Law School, and Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discuss…
Bloomberg LawInstant Reaction: Supreme Court Blocks Trump from Firing Fed's Lisa Cook
The US Supreme Court ruled that Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can stay in her job for now, reinforcing the central bank’s independence from the…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: SCOTUS on Human Rights, Religious Rights & Etan Patz
International law expert Curtis Bradley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses Supreme Court’s decisions basically eliminating…
Bloomberg LawSCOTUS: Trump Immigration Wins & 'Vampire' Gun Law
Second Amendment expert Andrew Willinger, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the Supreme Court finding Hawaii’s…
Bloomberg LawSCOTUS Ends Human Rights Lawsuits Over Atrocities Abroad
International law expert Curtis Bradley, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses Supreme Court’s decisions basically eliminating…
Bloomberg LawSCOTUS Blocks Rastafarian's Suit Against Prison Guards
Richard Garnett, a professor at Notre Dame Law School and Director of the Notre Dame Program on Church, State & Society, discusses the Supreme Court decision…
Bloomberg LawEtan Patz Murder Conviction Reinstated & Upcoming SCOTUS Cases
Former Manhattan prosecutor and criminal defense attorney Paul Callan, of counsel at Edelman & Edelman, discusses the Supreme Court reinstating the murder…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: DOJ Defies Judge, Guns and Drugs & Knicks Tickets
Constitutional law expert Louis Michael Seidman, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the book “The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No…
Bloomberg LawGuns and Drug Users & World Cup Visa Problems
Constitutional law expert Louis Michael Seidman, a professor at Georgetown Law and author of the book “The Constitution Cannot Save Us: Why We Can No…
Bloomberg LawMangione's Psychiatric Defense & Judges Misbehaving
Criminal defense attorney Jeremy Saland, a former Manhattan prosecutor, discusses Luigi Mangione asserting a psychiatric defense at his New York murder trial…
Bloomberg LawProsecutor's Misconduct Revealed in Grand Jury Transcripts
Ric Simmons, a professor at Ohio State’s Moritz College of Law, discusses the revelations of prosecutorial misconduct in the grand jury transcripts of a…
Bloomberg LawWeaponization Fund Challenge & SBF's Appeal Fails
Amy Powell, Litigation Director at Lawyers for Good Government and former Justice Department Senior Trial Counsel, discusses a judge’s refusal to dismiss…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: H-1B Visa Fee Struck Down & How Lawyers Use AI
On this edition of Weekend Law, Amy Morris fills in for June Grasso. Leon Fresco, immigration law expert and partner at Holland & Knight discusses the latest…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Grand Jury Problems, SCOTUS Favors GOP & Taylor Swift
Former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a Professor at Notre Dame Law School, discusses why prosecutors in the Trump Justice Department are having problems…
Bloomberg LawTaylor Swift Fights Suit Over "The Life of a Showgirl" Album
Intellectual property litigator Terence Ross, a partner at Katten Muchin Rosenman, discusses the trademark infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift over her…
Bloomberg LawReluctant Grand Juries & John Bolton Plea
National security law expert Bradley Moss, a partner at Mark Zaid, discusses the expected plea of former National Security Advisor John Bolton to retaining…
Bloomberg LawWin for Transgender Troops & Midterm Maps
Shannon Mintner, the Legal Director of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, discusses the federal appellate court ruling stopping the Trump administration…
Bloomberg LawShort Seller Convicted & Tariff Refunds
Bloomberg legal reporter Erik Larson, discusses the conviction of short seller Andrew Left. Trade law expert Timothy Brightbill, a partner at Wiley Rein…
Bloomberg LawGreen Card Applicants Facing Uncertainty
Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight and the former head of the Office of Immigration Litigation in the Obama administration, discusses changes in the…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Redistricting Frenzy & FDA Allows Flavored Vapes
June Grasso talks to top legal experts about the biggest stories of the week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Bloomberg LawAlabama Map Blocked for Racial Discrimination & Trump Deregulatory Fail
Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses federal judges blocking Alabama’s US House map due to intentional…
Bloomberg LawFDA Allows Unapproved E-Cigarettes & Skechers Lawsuit
Healthcare attorney Harry Nelson, a partner at Leech Tishman Nelson Hardiman, discusses the FDA allowing companies to sell unapproved electronic cigarettes and…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Trump's $1.8B Fund, Luigi Mangione Evidence & ICE Barred
Bloomberg’s June Grasso speaks to Professor David Super of Georgetown Law, former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz of McCarter & English and immigration…
Bloomberg LawCastro Indicted, Death Penalty & Police Sue Over Trump Fund
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, discusses the indictment of Raul Castro. Then Professor M. Gregg Bloche of…
Bloomberg LawNo ICE Arrests in NYC Immigration Courts
Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a New York judge ruling that ICE cannot arrest noncitizens in Manhattan…
Bloomberg LawUnprecedented Trump Fund & Mangione Rulings
Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses the $1.8 billion dollar fund set up by the Justice Department to compensate…
Bloomberg LawMusk Loses to Altman & NLRB Rocked b y Decision
Bloomberg legal reporter Madlin Mekelburg, discusses Elon Musk losing his legal battle with Sam Altman over OpenAI. Then Anne Lofaso, a professor at the…
Bloomberg LawWeekend Law: Jimmy Kimmel, Short Seller Trial & Trump vs Monuments
Daniel Lyons, a professor at Boston College Law School and a telecommunications law expert, discusses the legal battle between ABC and the FTC. Then securities…
Bloomberg LawTrump vs Law Firms & Short-Seller Andrew Left's Trial
Former federal prosecutor James Pearce, senior counsel at Washington Litigation Group, discusses oral arguments at the DC Circuit over President Trump’s…
Bloomberg LawRedistricting Wars Again & Tariff Refunds
Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the redistricting wars and the Trump administration’s attempts to…
Bloomberg LawTrump Sued Over Attempts to Remake DC Landmarks
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani, president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, discusses the lawsuits against President Trump for his attempts to alter…
Bloomberg LawTrump Targets Naturalized US Citizens
Today we're examining an apparent aggressive new tack in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown. The Justice Department has just moved to strip…