00:00 - Intro

00:25 - Trent McCotter Joins the Show

01:16 - Todd Blanche’s Promotion While Filming

01:57 - Who Are You and What Do You Do?

02:33 - The Cases Big Firms Wouldn't Touch

04:19 - What Gets You Up Every Day?

05:15 - Fighting DEI at Boyden Gray

05:51 - Learning to Let Criticism Slide

06:37 - Where Did Your Principles Come From?

07:33 - Small-C Conservatism from North Carolina

08:05 - Roles in the First Trump DOJ

08:55 - Working on the Kavanaugh Confirmation

10:00 - Tracing the Dominoes Back

10:56 - Do the Menial Work

13:00 - Life Isn't Linear

13:50 - Six Months Without a Job

14:20 - Taking the Risk on a Tiny Firm

15:44 - Arguing Before the Supreme Court

17:04 - Up Against the Acting SG and Paul Clement

17:53 - Treating It Like a Conversation

19:52 - Twenty More Minutes with Justice Jackson

20:25 - What Surprised You Coming Back?

21:49 - Everything Moves Faster Now

24:00 - Unwinding TPS

26:15 - Guests With the Shield of TPS

27:15 - How Do You Handle the Flack?

28:34 - Putting My Name on It

30:37 - We Have the Judicial Momentum

31:08 - Swearing In 36 Immigration Judges

33:19 - Clearing the Immigration Backlog

34:23 - Addition Through Subtraction

35:39 - How Aliens Game the Appeals System

36:56 - The Second and Ninth Circuit Stay Racket

39:25 - Alien Living His Best Life on a 1996 Removal Order

41:59 - Everybody Gets a Stay!

44:15 - Delay Is the Whole Strategy

45:02 - The 12-Hour Deadline Game

46:47 - Unfair to Those Who Play by the Rules

47:57 - The Minority Report Problem

50:33 - Crimes That Never Should Have Happened

51:57 - Honoring the 115,000 at DOJ

53:41 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:57 - Meet the SG Leadership Team

04:01 - How Each of You Got Here

04:28 - "The Least Experienced SG in History"

05:41 - Sarah's Appellate Nerd Path

06:28 - Hashim's Path Back to the SG's Office

07:16 - What a Day in the Office Looks Like

08:50 - Is This a Today Problem?

10:06 - The Office's Hidden Centralizing Power

10:50 - How Much Caffeine Gets Consumed?

11:37 - Who Decides Whether to Appeal?

14:10 - Balancing an Agency's Interests

16:42 - What Is a CVSG?

18:15 - John On Getting Slaughtered in His First CVSG

21:48 - How Do You Prep for the Supreme Court?

25:09 - Two Pages of Handwritten Notes

28:30 - Slaughter and the Removal Power

31:38 - You're Fired: Teeing Up the Case

33:16 - Nationwide Injunctions and CASA

35:41 - 40 Injunctions, 5 Districts

38:57 - TPS and Stripping the Courts' Jurisdiction

41:57 - The So-Called “Scary Shadow Docket”

44:46 - Who Decides the Status Quo?

46:49 - Favorite Memory of this Past Court Term

48:47 - Callais and the Voting Rights Act

49:56 - When Can Race Be Considered?

50:54 - The President in the Courtroom

52:46 - Why Start Your Career in the Solicitor General's Office?

53:49 - Advice to Your 26-Year-Old Self

55:05 - Be Not Afraid

58:15 - What People Don't Understand About the Office

59:01 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:36 - Colin McDonald Joins the Show

00:59 - Who Are You and What Do You Do?

02:22 - Why Public Service?

03:25 - Why Be a Prosecutor?

05:50 - What Does a Prosecutor Actually Do?

09:21 - No Prosecution Without Law Enforcement

11:08 - Relentless: Cases That Last Years

12:02 - Turning to Fraud Enforcement

13:06 - Why No One Tackled Fraud Before

13:41 - The Binary Choice: Violent Crime vs. Fraud

15:21 - Tallying the True Cost of Fraud

17:10 - Wasteful Spending vs. Outright Theft

19:17 - The Goal Is Deterrence

21:25 - Building Roots, Not a Potted Plant

23:18 - No Fraud Too Big, No Fraud Too Small

25:28 - Fraud Wounds the Soul, Not Just the Wallet

27:36 - Quarterbacking the Fight

28:26 - One Front Door to the DOJ

29:38 - A 500-Person Division in Two Weeks

31:13 - A Career Home for Young Lawyers

33:26 - The Ripple Effects of Unchecked Crime

34:24 - Changing the Incentive Structure

35:23 - Which Statutes Do You Enforce?

36:05 - Healthcare Fraud: The Biggest Target

37:00 - The Student Athlete Who Died

38:03 - The Skin Graft Scheme

39:28 - Fraud Robs Dignity, Too

40:49 - Benefit Programs and the Public Trust Section

42:06 - Global Trade and Commerce Enforcement

43:43 - The Many Inspectors General Offices

45:05 - The Most Shocking Cases

45:56 - “Everybody's Doing This”

46:48 - The Home Care Scam

48:25 - Billing Medicaid From Egypt and Prison

50:22 - Minnesota's Looted Housing Program

51:27 - Clearing the Decks for the Truly Needy

52:44 - The DOJ Is Here to Help54:14 -Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:58 - This Episode Is for Parents

02:47 - Meet the AFL Panel

03:22 - Is Any of This Shocking?

03:59 - Schools Defying the Supreme Court

04:52 - Do Parents Have a Role?

05:14 - The Woke Education Pipeline

06:35 - Invasive School Surveys

07:41 - Teachers Who Want to Be Friends

08:44 - Where Did These Policies Come From?

10:28 - The Contraception Question

13:07 - Blackstone's Three Parental Duties

14:16 - FERPA and the Two-Book System

15:25 - What Are Schools Afraid Of?

16:27 - Title IX Means Biological Sex

17:30 - Do Boys Have a Right to Girls' Bathrooms?

19:43 - The Loving v. Virginia Parallel

20:49 - Hypothetical: A Boy in Your Daughter's Bathroom

22:00 - Mahmoud v. Taylor and the Right to Opt Out

24:41 - The Privacy Excuse

25:21 - Situations Parents Are Facing

26:22 - Notice Would Break the System

29:49 - Making a Paper Trail

30:11 - Parents Aren't Afraid Anymore

31:39 - California's AB 1955

32:27 - The Spiritual Scales Are Falling

33:50 - Suing Individual Teachers

35:18 - States Can Strip Qualified Immunity

37:06 - The Future of Grimm v. Gloucester

39:30 - BPJ, Sports, and Locker Rooms

40:59 - You Are Not Alone

42:41 - Bad Legal Take: A Boy Is a Boy

46:02 - Bad Legal Take: The Privacy Argument

47:43 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:24 - Ryan Newman Joins the Show

01:57 - Who Are You and What Do You Do?

02:47 - Why Change Happens Faster in the States

04:28 - From Senate Staffer to the Trump DOJ

05:55 - Can You Be Too Conservative to Win?

06:40 - Going All In on the Culture War

07:13 - The Truth About the “Don’t Say Gay” Bill

08:29 - Winning the Lawsuit on Standing

09:16 - “Where Woke Goes to Die”

11:51 - Covid Woke Parents Up

13:02 - The Fight with Disney

14:40 - Ending Disney’s Special District

16:55 - Corporate America Backs Off Woke

17:29 - From West Point to the Law

21:46 - Clerking for Justice Alito

23:00 - Advice for Young Lawyers

28:06 - Relationships Over Ambition

30:51 - The Legal Fights That Matter Now

31:22 - Immigration Beyond the Gang of Eight

33:15 - Assimilation Takes Time and Space

34:20 - The 1965 Act and Birthright Citizenship

36:37 - The NGO Money Behind the Border

38:35 - What It Means to Be an American

40:07 - Florida’s 287(g) Model

42:36 - Alligator Alcatraz and Lottery Cops

44:21 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:26 - AAG Elliot Gaiser Joins the Show

01:15 - What Is the Office of Legal Counsel?

01:49 - Why Courts Don't Give Legal Advice

02:49 - OLC Opinions That Bind the Executive Branch

04:03 - Advocate vs. Counselor: A Lawyer's Two Roles

05:58 - OLC: The Boutique Firm for Thorny Questions

07:08 - Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

07:40 - How Big Is OLC? A Typical Day

08:38 - OLC vs. the Solicitor General

10:03 - Reviewing Executive Orders: Form and Legality

11:18 - How OLC Opinions Set Precedent

13:00 - How an OLC Opinion Gets Written

14:13 - The 1996 Welfare Reform Opinion

16:58 - Overturning Chevron After Loper Bright

18:37 - When Agencies Ignore the Plain Text

22:56 - The Obama Phone Program (FCC Lifeline)

25:28 - Lawyers Who Think They're the Decision-Maker

30:00 - DOJ's Ultimate Client Is the American People

31:00 - Advice for Aspiring OLC Lawyers

34:24 - Finding the Path to “Yes”

38:30 - Disparate Impact, Title VII, and the EEOC

42:37 - In a Different Life

45:10 - Bad Legal Takes!

45:38 - New Jersey's Voter Roll Claim

1:00:37 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:17 - AAG Brett Shumate Joins the Show

00:56 - Running the DOJ Civil Division

02:39 - Main Justice vs. the U.S. Attorney's Offices

04:36 - DOJ: The Law Firm for America

06:15 - The False Claims Act and Fraud Enforcement

10:23 - How Whistleblowers Can Fight Fraud

13:37 - Using the False Claims Act Against Corporate DEI

14:34 - Suing Hospitals Over “Gender-Affirming Care'”

19:31 - What's Changed Since the First Trump Term

22:40 - Managing a Hostile Bureaucracy

24:25 - Reviving Denaturalization Cases

27:41 - The Marriage Analogy for Citizenship Fraud

29:30 - Judges and the “Presumption of Regularity”

33:24 - When Judges Overreach

36:19 - Zealous Advocacy: DOJ's Duty to Defend

40:07 - Career Advice: Don't Be Afraid to Take Risks

44:02 - Why Join the DOJ Civil Division

47:23 - Bad Legal Takes!

47:32 - Matthew Colangelo and the Trump Prosecutions

52:49 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:32 - Advice From Todd Blanche, Acting Attorney General of theUnited States

02:06 - Advice From Harmeet K. Dhillon, Assistant Attorney Generalfor the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice

06:24 - Advice From James H. Percival II, General Counsel of theUnited States Department of Homeland Security

09:24 – Advice From Tom Homan, White House Border Czar

13:31 – Advice From Andrea Lucas, Chair of the U.S. EqualEmployment Opportunity Commission

14:34 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:45 - The Garland Memo: Weaponizing DOJ Against Parents

02:35 - Inside Ian's DOJ Roundtable

05:01 - A Panic Move to Save Virginia

05:31 - Internal Pushback at DOJ and the FBI

06:03 - A Local Issue the Feds Had No Business In

07:53 - Gender Ideology and the WPATH Scandal

09:01 - FTC Action and the FDA Cover-Up

10:04 - The Founders, Federalism, and Your Rights

11:26 - Who Decides Your Rights — Washington or You?

13:05 - Federalist Warnings and the Slow Federal Creep

15:26 - The Constitution and the Proper Role of Government

17:11 - Bad Legal Takes!

17:29 - Idaho's Bathroom Law Struck Down for “Vagueness”

19:16 - How Did Idaho Get a Biden Judge?

23:00 - “Can You Define a Woman?”

24:04 - Judge Ross: Misconduct in Chambers

25:58 - Good Behavior and the Impeachment Power

28:04 - Clerks Deciding Cases: An Abdication of Duty

30:17 - Restoring Confidence in Article 3

33:28 - Judges Who Don't Fear Reversal

35:39 - The Case for Impeaching Bad Judges

37:47 - Outro

00:00 - Intro

00:35 - DHS General Counsel James Percival Joins the Show

01:55 - What Does a DHS General Counsel Do?

04:00 - Cracking Down on Immigration Attorney Fraud

08:26 - Frivolous vs. Fraudulent: The “Hockey Stick” Story

09:47 - Fraud in the Special Immigrant Juvenile Program

12:29 - How Cartels Exploit Unaccompanied Minors

15:00 - The Border Is Closed: The Humane Truth

16:30 - Using the Tools Congress Already Gave Us

19:18 - Third-Country Removals Explained

21:52 - “The Kidnappers Who Drive You Home”

23:18 - Lawfare and Running Out the Clock

28:40 - Why Civil Enforcement Still Matters

30:38 - Why Young Lawyers Should Join DHS

33:20 - Enforcing the Laws of 42 Agencies

33:55 - What's Surprised James Most on the Job

36:20 - What Gets You Up in the Morning?

38:00 - The DVD Case: A Judge Reroutes a Deportation Flight

40:34 - Jurisdiction Stripping vs. Channeling

43:38 - Bad Legal Takes!

43:55 - Judge Pitts: “No Arrests at Immigration Courthouses”

52:18 - Outro