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The end of the road, for now from 2021-11-25T00:02:30

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 problems of then-President Donald Trump, and...

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Summer’s over from 2021-11-17T23:46:05

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, very much not. Ken says that’s the speed you’d...

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Another indictment from Durham from 2021-11-10T22:57:44

There’s been another indictment in special prosecutor John Durham’s investigation of the investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. It’s another indictment...

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Low-hanging fruit from 2021-11-03T20:16:41

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 show his movements and meetings; phone record...

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Guilty. Appealing. Talking. Referred for contempt. from 2021-10-27T01:57:32

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 Giuliani: convicted of six counts of charges...

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Testing the boundaries of executive privilege from 2021-10-20T23:58:25

Former President Trump has sued the National Archives and the chairman of the January 6 investigating committee, Congressman Bennie Thompson, to try to prevent the disclosure of White House pape...

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Is a plea bargain a good deal? from 2021-10-13T19:00

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 discussed previously on the show, some federal...

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What is a state actor? from 2021-10-06T23:47:06

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 they broke a new Florida law that purports t...

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Trump Derangement Syndrome with David Lat from 2021-09-29T22:35:43

What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’? It’s a condition that afflicts conservatives and liberals alike – and lawyers in particular. This week, Ken White and special guest David Lat discuss the at...

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An unusual indictment, an unusual memo from 2021-09-23T01:29:24

John Durham, the former US attorney who was appointed special counsel to investigate the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and its alleged connections to Russia, has turn...

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Fate of the Henchman from 2021-09-15T22:24:15

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 of Rudy Giuliani, has pleaded guilty to one...

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Juniors from 2021-09-09T00:22:35

Trump Organization employee Matthew Calamari Jr. testified last week before the New York grand jury that’s looking into the financial practices of the Trump Organization. It’s the same grand jur...

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What happens when your lawyer is MIA from 2021-09-01T23:56:06

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 showing up in court, is not a licensed attor...

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Mistrial! from 2021-08-25T22:53:13

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 to Avenatti as he defended himself in the ca...

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Jeffrey Rosen and Jeffrey Clark from 2021-08-18T22:34:54

Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified about what happened between him, Donald Trump, and former acting head of DOJ Civil Division Jeffrey Clark in a closed session with the DOJ ...

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Seven months and 600+ people charged from 2021-08-11T22:43:32

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 and referenced Ryan’s reporting on prosecutio...

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Tax returns return from 2021-08-05T00:13:49

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 says it wants the returns as part of an ong...

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DOJ threads the needle from 2021-07-28T22:23:36

Michael Avenatti is one week into representing himself in federal court in Southern California, where he is accused of stealing funds from his client. Is he doing a good job lawyering for himsel...

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A pro se pro? from 2021-07-21T22:36:17

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, in which he is charged with stealing milli...

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An expensive defense from 2021-07-14T22:11:06

Allen Weisselberg is no longer in executive positions with the Trump Organization and its subsidiaries. Does this signal anything about the relationship between the former CFO and the company? W...

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BONUS: Josh and Ken talk about the criminal indictments against Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization from 2021-07-02T02:40:41

Surprise episode! Josh Barro and Ken White talk about the unsealed indictments of the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. They’re alleged to have engaged in a ...

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The ATPL XL Ask Us Anything Show from 2021-07-01T01:49:06

As of Wednesday morning, there have been no charges yet against the Trump Organization or any of its senior officials. The Wall Street Journal reported that charges for tax related crimes are ex...

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"What the Fuks?" from 2021-06-24T00:06:32

The first Capitol riot defendant received her sentence today, more than six months after the insurrection. Ken White and Josh Barro analyze the sentencing memos from the woman’s lawyer and the g...

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“Pure insanity” from 2021-06-16T22:33:45

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 communications from Trump administration off...

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A Trump legal problem becomes a Biden administration problem from 2021-06-10T00:43:25

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 Trump denied Carroll’s accusation that he h...

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Michael Flynn and Myanmar from 2021-06-02T22:49:54


Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn made some news this week at a rally when he seemed to say a coup like the one in Myanmar earlier this year should happen in the United St...

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Blast from the past from 2021-05-26T23:58:03


Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has empaneled a special grand jury that is expected to decide whether to indict former President Donald Trump, his business, or his business associ...

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This podcast is no longer purely civil in nature from 2021-05-20T00:40:18


We know that allies of Rudy Giuliani have been pushing for former President Trump to pay his legal fees or to pay him so he can pay his legal fees. But there’s another urgent ask that ...

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Hushing the hush payments from 2021-05-12T22:53:14


Do you remember Essential Consultants, LLC? Michael Cohen’s company established to make hush payments to Stephanie Clifford (a.k.a. Stormy Daniels) and Karen MacDougal to stop them fro...

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The Rudy raid from 2021-05-06T00:23:59


On a typical Wednesday, just hours after Josh Barro and Ken White recorded an episode to capture the news of the week, federal investigators executed a search warrant at Rudy Giuliani’...

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Destroying phone now from 2021-04-29T00:01:29


In the weeks after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice came up with a plan to cast a wide net in its investigation. This would have involved investigating o...

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The Chauvin verdict from 2021-04-22T01:47:29


We got a remarkably rapid guilty verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chuavin this Tuesday, convicted of counts including second degree unintentional murder....

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A matter of public concern from 2021-04-15T03:52:31


Josh Barro and Ken White discuss the different way Rudy Giuliani is responding to Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against him. Why might he have taken a different approach ...

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Gaetzgate from 2021-04-07T22:45:44


Josh Barro and Ken White discuss reports of a federal investigation into Congressman Matt Gaetz. What are the legal issues here? Was it smart for Gaetz to give a prime time interview a...

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Relationship to the truth from 2021-03-31T23:38:18


For the past three years, All The Presidents’ Lawyers has focused a lot on defamation cases, and there’s an obvious reason for that: former President Trump has been (and still is) the ...

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Loose lips from 2021-03-25T01:49:10


Michael Sherwin, who was the acting U.S. attorney in Washington overseeing the prosecution of Capitol rioters, gave a revealing interview to 60 Minutes this week. Its ripple effects in...

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Is approximately half good enough? from 2021-03-18T01:25:11


Government officials believe about 800 rioters entered the building on January 6. About 300 people have been charged and the government expects to charge at least 100 more, according t...

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Cease and desist from 2021-03-11T01:09:50


Josh Barro and Ken White talk about former President Trump’s efforts to keep Republican groups from using his image to fundraise. Were his cease-and-desist letters performative, or doe...

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Could another campaign help Trump with some of his legal problems? from 2021-03-04T00:41:05


Former President Trump spoke at CPAC this past weekend, and it got some people talking (apparently, some of Trump’s advisers included): if he were to run for office again, would it hel...

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SCOTUS and the subpoena from 2021-02-25T18:43:04


The Supreme Court finally declined to block the Manhattan District Attorney’s subpoena for financial records related to Donald Trump and the Trump Organization from his accountants at ...

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The end of impeachment, but not the end of legal exposure from 2021-02-17T21:42:59


Former President Trump was acquitted over the weekend in his second impeachment trial. A record seven members of his own party voted to convict him but that wasn’t enough to bar Trump ...

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First impressions of the second impeachment from 2021-02-11T01:16:46


Josh Barro and Ken White talk about President Trump’s lawyers’ first day of impeachment arguments, and more on the legal cases of those arrested during the riot. President Biden seekin...

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When you’re surprised anyone is surprised from 2021-02-04T01:14:46


Last week, Josh Barro and Ken White talked about the very normal legal team defending President Trump in his impeachment trial. Well, one week later, the entire team is gone and a new ...

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Colloquially collusion from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Senate Intelligence Committee has released its report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president says the report is a hoax though his aides also say it confirms what t...

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Hot en banc action from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held its en banc hearing to reconsider whether Judge Emmet Sullivan should be forced to dismiss the charges against former national security adv...

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The value [of this podcast] is unascertainable. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

First, a correction to last week’s show: Ken and Josh talked about Attorney General Bill Barr’s House committee testimony in which he said federal prosecutors had brought charges he didn’t...

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Meat and potatoes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Attorney General Bill Barr testified before the House Judiciary Committee this week and it went, well, basically how you might expect. There was some news: in justifying his intervention i...

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Why was Michael Cohen sent back to prison? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Michael Cohen is suing to be let out of prison, saying the government violated his First Amendment rights by sending him back to prison when he refused to agree to terms that would have bl...

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The greatest hits from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Why didn’t Roger Stone get a full pardon from the president? Is the president’s commutation or pardon power reviewable? Nope. He gets to do whatever he wants, but Congress could decide it’...

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When the horse is out of the barn from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

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Trump vs. the tell-alls from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Mary Trump, President Trump’s niece, has a tell-all book about the president that’s supposed to be published later this summer. The president doesn’t want it to be published and he says Ma...

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Flynnterrupted from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Well, it wasn’t quite a Friday Night Massacre but Friday night was pretty weird. Attorney General Bill Barr released a statement late Friday saying Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the...

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Bolton’s book from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The US government is suing former national security adviser John Bolton. Details about Bolton’s tell-all White House memoir started to come out right after we taped this episode, but let’s...

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What should Judge Sullivan do? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

Where were we? Right: Michael Flynn. Listeners will recall the president’s former national security adviser pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI investigators, but following hi...

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I am your podcast of law and order from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week we were going to talk to you about President Trump’s executive order directed at Twitter and other social media companies. But then news overtook us. Ken White speaks with nation...

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Should Joe Scarborough sue President Trump? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

The Michael Flynn saga continues, and it’s still very unusual. So remember: Flynn pleaded guilty to a charge of lying to federal investigators, then the government reversed course and move...

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This is highly unusual from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

So Long-Suffering Federal Judge Emmet Sullivan didn’t just simply approve the Department of Justice’s motion to drop the charges against Michael Flynn. Remember: Flynn, the president’s for...

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Is overturning the election results even the goal anymore? from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393

This week Ken takes the reins of the show while Josh is away. Special guest Franita Tolson of USC’s Gould School of Law joins the conversation to delve into what’s left of the Trump campai...

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Is it actually a problem to charge everyone who illegally entered the Capitol? from 2021-01-28T00:26:09


One week since he took office, President Biden’s got a legal problem. Josh Barro and Ken White talk about the Texas judge who ordered a temporary stop to Biden’s executive order for a ...

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Last call for pardons from 2021-01-20T23:39:36


As President Trump was about to walk out of the White House for the last time, he made some final pardons. Ken White and Josh Barro talk about who got one in the final days of the Trum...

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Insurrection and impeachment from 2021-01-14T02:11:49


One week after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, interrupting the congressional proceeding that affirmed Joe Biden’s defeat of President Trump, officials from the FBI and the D...

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The phone call to Georgia from 2021-01-06T23:39:41


On Saturday, President Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and urged him to revise Georgia’s presidential election result so he would be the winner. He told Raff...

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The Show To End 2020 from 2020-12-22T04:41:32


The Trump administration has been a remarkable time for lawyers. Often, not remarkable in a good way.

Ken and Josh talk about a completely nuts meeting at the White House on F...

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Bye Barr from 2020-12-16T23:38:05


Attorney General Bill Barr is leaving the administration a few days before Christmas. Is he being fired for doing the job he was supposed to do? And who is Jeffrey Rosen, who will serv...

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Knocking at the Supreme Court’s door from 2020-12-10T01:01:10


We’ve reached the stage in the legal efforts by President Trump’s allies to contest the election results where the Supreme Court could opt to get involved, but they’re not getting invo...

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Pardon season from 2020-12-02T23:57:15


It’s pardon season. Last week, President Trump pardoned Michael Flynn, his former national security adviser, for the false statements charge to which he pleaded guilty, and he’s been p...

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Practicing law on her own from 2020-11-23T23:10:53


This week, there’s been some tension among President Trump’s lawyers. Sidney Powell appeared at press conferences with Rudy Giuliani and made wild claims about voter fraud and other ra...

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The president and the president-elect from 2020-11-11T23:26:48


Josh Barro and Ken White are back! A few interesting things have happened in the past two weeks — first of all, Joe Biden is the president-elect with narrow but clear leads in states t...

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Bad cases make bad law from 2020-10-28T23:03:39


Last week, the Justice Department made their case for why they should step in and defend in the defamation lawsuit E. Jean Carroll filed against President Trump. A federal judge just r...

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What is an official act? from 2020-10-21T23:17:13


Jean Carroll accused President Trump of raping her in the 1990s. The president crassly denied her allegation, and she sued him for defamation, saying that he defamed her by calling her...

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A loan, a payment, a trail from 2020-10-15T01:41:58


The New York Times has continued its series based on nearly two decades of President Trump’s tax records. Late last week, the New York Times traced a $20 million payment that one of Tr...

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Does the president have immunity if he is sued for being contagious? from 2020-10-08T01:06:34


President Trump has COVID-19. He was hospitalized Friday, but he took a little joyride around Bethesda on Sunday and then on Monday, he checked himself out and returned to the White Ho...

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Tuesday’s other sh*t show from 2020-10-01T01:37:44


Long-suffering federal judge Emmet Sullivan finally got to hold that hearing about whether he should grant the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the false statements charge to wh...

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Fraud Guarantee from 2020-09-24T00:26:23


Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance continues to push for financial records from President Trump’s businesses, and he’s filed a brief with the court of appeals ahead of oral arguments...

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‘A corrupt and politically motivated favor’ from 2020-09-17T02:30:02


Long-suffering federal judge Emmet Sullivan is still presiding over the Michael Flynn case, which isn’t yet dismissed. The DC Circuit declined to force him to promptly dismiss the case...

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Was President Trump on the job when he called E. Jean Carroll a liar? from 2020-09-10T02:12:04


The Justice Department has filed a motion to take over the defense of E. Jean Carroll’s defamation lawsuit against President Trump. Carroll, a longtime advice columnist, alleged the pr...

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Did Antifa and BLM do the RICO? from 2020-09-03T00:34:22


Chad Wolf, the acting head of the Department of Homeland Security, appeared Monday on Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Carlson asked why the heads of Antifa and Black Lives Matter hadn’t be...

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Bannon arrested at sea from 2020-08-26T23:22:37


We’re a few days into the Republican National Convention, and there have already been a number of apparent Hatch Act violations. The Hatch Act isn’t a criminal law — does it actually p...

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