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Serious Trouble
An irreverent podcast about the law from Josh Barro and Ken White.
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Serious TroubleInformation Overload
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: James Comey has been charged with federal crimes again, sort…
Serious Trouble‘Esquire’ Is My Middle Name
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week, we got our hands on the actual lawsuit Eric Deters has filed…
Serious TroubleSchrodinger’s Lawyer
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Remember Katie Zacharia? She was White House press secretary for a few…
Serious TroubleNot Paid for By the US Government
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show President Trump said he’d stop using taxpayer money to air what certainly…
Serious TroubleVery Special Prosecutors
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show A former Cornell University student has filed a Jane Doe lawsuit accusing…
Serious TroublePublic Disclosure of Privates Facts
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Donald Trump tried to ban CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House…
Serious TroubleKennedy, Centered
Remember Joseph DiGenova? He was a Trump defender from the first administration brought back to help with the investigation into the investigators that DOJ is…
Serious TroubleMistrial
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: the Lindsay Clancy murder trial jury hung 11-1, ending in a…
Serious TroubleIf You Can’t Trust Michael Cohen, Who Can You Trust?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Most federal prosecutors win almost all the time, in part because they…
Serious TroubleThe Happiest Place on Earth (a Courtroom)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Like some of the big law firms, Disney hoped to buy peace with the Trump…
Serious TroubleBecause I Got Highly Likely to Lose an Anti-SLAPP Motion
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The Tate brothers want bail pending their extradition proceedings to the…
Serious TroubleWho's to Judge Jeanine?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Jeanine Pirro would like everyone to know this embarrassing…
Serious TroubleComey's Got the Moves
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Did you miss James Comey? Well, he’s back: he’s filed a flurry…
Serious TroubleLater, Tater
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show What a reversal of fortune for Andrew and Tristan Tate! One minute you’re…
Serious TroubleStretching the Limits of the Courts
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week: Judge Kathleen Williams’ eviscerates President Trump’s…
Serious TroubleHumphrey's Executioner
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Humphrey’s Executor, which has been obviously dead for some time, is now…
Serious TroubleAt Least the Fancy Lawyers Are Still Getting Rich
David Lat joins Josh Barro for a conversation about the state of the legal industry under Donald Trump — how Big Law and the legal industry are faring after…
Serious TroubleAmerica's Next Top Tort
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The U.S. Attorney’s office in Chicago has dismissed another high-profile…
Serious TroubleA Vouch Too Far
This week: the grand jury transcripts from the Broadview Six case show an array of embarrassing misconduct by AUSAs from the office of the US Attorney for the…
Serious TroubleThis Shrek Film Was Not In Theaters
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week’s Serious Trouble comes to you live from a perch overlooking…
Serious TroubleCourt Officers Behaving Badly
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The ‘Broadview Six’ case was one of the Trump administration’s prominent…
Serious TroubleThe No-Judgment Fund
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Donald Trump has announced a new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization fund”…
Serious Trouble'Advice of Counsel' Does Not Apply to Advice from Licensed Airboat Captains
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The lurid JP Morgan sex case has gotten more interesting: apparently, the…
Serious TroubleDon't Use the Public Chatbot Lawyer
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show There's a lot of stupid litigation to cover this week, starting with the…
Serious TroubleI'm Still Mad He Put Martha Stewart In Prison
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the James Comey indictment, this time…
Serious TroubleThis Episode Contains No Administrative Procedure Act Coverage
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss several big defamation suits. The Atlantic…
Serious TroubleCall the Swalwell Hotline
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss Eric Swallwell and how prosecutors in…
Serious TroubleWelcome Home, Michael
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss updates on three of their favorite…
Serious TroubleStrictly Prohibited Ballroom
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss Anthropic's big win, the injunction on…
Serious TroublePro Se Exam
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss Judge Lewis Kaplan losing some patience…
Serious TroublePound Cake for Everyone
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the Afroman trial and also look at a rough…
Serious TroubleYou Can't Stop the Computer
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss the Customs Service saying its computers…
Serious TroubleActually, I Would Like to File The Opposite Thing, Please
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss how The Trump Administration surprised…
Serious TroubleBut Are the Wings Wild?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss more on tariffs — what awaits litigants…
Serious TroubleIEEPA, You EEPA, We EEPA
This week Ken and Josh discuss the Supreme Court's ruling in Learning Resources v. Trump, throwing out the massive country-specific tariffs the president…
Serious TroubleHell No Bill
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week Ken and Josh discuss a D.C. grand jury declining to indict…
Serious TroubleCourt Therapy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week, Ken and Josh discuss Julie Le, the DOJ lawyer who vented in…
Serious TroubleLemon Law
This week Ken and Josh discuss how the Feds got an arrest warrant for Don Lemon after all. Before prosecutors got the grand jury indictment, they tried through…
Serious Trouble120 Days
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week, Ken and Josh discuss the end of Lindsey Halligan's purported…
Serious TroubleYou Are Not Jay Powell
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Fed Chair Jerome Powell dropped a bombshell on Sunday: a video disclosing…
Serious TroubleCartel De Los Soles
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week’s episode starts with the arrest and indictment of Nicolas…
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Some of the Epstein files have been released, but there's a lot of blacked-out text and pictures. The Justice Department is supposed to redact certain…
Serious TroubleWhat Part of 'No Bill' Don't You Understand?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show A grand jury has refused to indict Letitia James — no, this isn’t a…
Serious TroubleYou Can Take the Girl Out of New Jersey
This week: more news in the Letitia James and James Comey cases. DOJ tried to re-indict James, but they got a no-bill, and in the Comey case, the government is…
Serious TroubleCases Dismissed
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show The criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James were both…
Serious TroubleHere Come the Epstein Files
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Now that Congress has voted overwhelmingly to require the release of the…
Serious TroubleSandwiches For All
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Sandwich Guy is free! Sean Dunn was acquitted of simple assault by a jury…
Serious TroubleSnap Decisions
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show On this week's show for everyone: two court decisions direct the Trump…
Serious TroubleLiteral Truth and Theoretical Conflicts
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week, both James Comey and Letitia James continue to seek dismissal…
Serious TroubleInsider Betting
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show This week in the free episode: the indictment of John Bolton and how it's…
Serious TroubleDrake's Not Like Us (Familiar With Defamation Law)
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Letitia James has been indicted, as President Trump’s retribution…
Serious TroubleRace To Trial
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show James Comey has been arraigned and has a trial date of January 5. Both…
Serious TroubleGrand Jury Shopping
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show We know more this week about indictment of James Comey. Maybe the grand…
Serious TroubleStop Making Us Defend James Comey
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show James Comey has been indicted, charged with making a false statement and…
Serious TroubleFederal Censorship Commission
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.serioustrouble.show Disney has “indefinitely” ceased airing Jimmy Kimmel Live under pressure…
Serious TroubleSurprising Federal Crimes
This week’s show takes a look at federal charges in the widely discussed Charlotte train murder case. Murder, of course, is not generally a federal crime, but…
Serious TroubleTriple No Bill
This week: Jeanine Pirro has returned to her roots as a prosecutor, but prosecutors in her office have failed to secure felony indictments in at least three…
Serious TroubleGodmother of Greenpoint
As Eric Adams says, New York is the Zagreb of America. People from all over the world come to New York to make their dreams come true. And sometimes, those…
Serious TroubleI Threw The Sandwich, But I Did Not Throw the Panini
Judge Paul Engelmeyer has refused the Trump administration’s request to release the grand jury transcripts from Ghislaine Maxwell’s prosecution. He notes…
Serious TroubleArenas Poker Club
This week Ken and Josh discuss the next steps the Trump administration may be considering to deal with the Epstein mess: what to do about the files, what to do…