America On Trial with Josh Hammer

In this special episode of "America on Trial with Josh Hammer," Josh explains how in the world we arrived at this horrible moment—the first-ever criminal conviction of a former president of the United States. Josh then explains what needs to happen from here to try to restore sanity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

America On Trial host Josh Hammer appeared on The First TV immediately following the verdict delivered by a New York City jury find Former President Donald Trump Guilty on 34 charges. Josh shares his instant reaction. Subscribe now so you don't miss Josh's full analysis of the decision in Friday's episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert De Niro just teamed up with the Biden campaign for a press conference outside of Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York City. Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer calls this a move of desperation and a huge unforced error. Hear Spicer's reasoning in this interview with America On Trial's Josh Hammer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer provides updates on the disgraced Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) during today's "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the jury instructions and all the other huge climaxing drama surrounding the trial of the century: People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. Will we finally get a verdict today? Today's "closing argument" then analyzes Justice Samuel Alito's righteous response yesterday to Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A New York City jury is deliberating the fate of former and potential future president Donald Trump. Will they find him guilty? Top Trump Legal ally Mike Davis thinks so and if they don't, they'll try him again. Listen to Davis explain himself to Josh Hammer, host of America on Trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's "around the horn" segment is followed by a must-listen-to "deep dive," in which Josh unpacks everything you need to know about the closing arguments, jury instructions, and jury deliberations in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president of the United States, People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump. Today's "closing argument' then provides an important update in Trump's separate classified-documents criminal case in Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment is followed by Josh's "deep dive" on closing arguments and jury instructions in the first-ever criminal trial of a former president of the United States, Donald Trump. The prosecution has not come anywhere close to meeting its legal burden, but will it matter? Today's "closing argument" then analyzes Joe Biden's unexpected trip to visit daughter-in-law Hallie ahead of prodigal son Hunter's imminently forthcoming federal gun trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we'd like to direct your attention to another podcast, The Erick Erickson Show.  Erick Erickson hosts the Erick Erickson Show across the United States live every weekday from 12pm to 3pm ET. In this episode, Erick covers a variety of trending topics in the news, including the Trump raid by the FBI and how almost no Gaza aide has made its way to the Palestinians.  Want more of the Erick Erickson Show? You can listen live at erickericksonshow.com or find it anywhere you listen to podcasts. Stream — Erick Erickson Show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" explains why, as a matter of international law, Norway, Spain, and Ireland are so grievously wrong to conclude that Israel is a nefarious "occupier" of the Palestinian-Arabs, which led all three countries to unilaterally recognize an independent "Palestinian" state earlier this week. Today's "closing argument" then delivers Josh's Memorial Day message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer updates us on Joe Biden's latest student loan "cancelation" boondoggle in today's "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks The New York Times' disgraceful smearing of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito as being somehow ethically compromised for flying certain flags on his properties. How ludicrous! Today's "closing argument" then provides an important update on Hunter Biden's California tax probe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks the beginning of the end of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's utterly shambolic case against former President Trump in NYC. The defense has rested, and closing arguments are now set for Tuesday. What in the world will the jury instructions possibly be? Finally, today's "closing argument" also addresses an interesting new development in Hunter Biden's own legal drama. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer updates us on the corruption legal proceedings of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.) before today's "deep dive" unpacks another bombshell day in Juan Merchan's NYC courtroom, in which Michael Cohen yet again beclowned himself on the witness stand. Is this the single most outrageous prosecution of our lifetimes? Today's "closing argument" then explains why the Left is once again disingenuously attacking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" as usual before today's "deep dive" takes us back to the ongoing criminal trial of President Doanld Trump in NYC. Can the prosecution somehow reestablish any credibility for so-called "star witness" Michael Cohen? Is Trump going to take the stand himself? Today's "closing argument" then unpacks the International Criminal Court's outrageous pursuit of the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's "around the horn" segment explains Michael Cohen's epic flop on the witness stand yesterday in Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial, as well as the latest in the corruption trial for Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.). Today's "deep dive" then unpacks a very disappointing decision yesterday from the U.S. Supreme Court, in which a seven-justice majority (led by the great Clarence Thomas, no less) upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's "around the horn" segment updates us on Michael Cohen's ongoing anti-Trump testimony in NYC and the separate legal troubles of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Tex.). Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the high-profile separation-of-powers clash underway between the Biden administration and the U.S. House, pertaining to the audio recording of former Special Counsel Robert Hur's interview of POTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains why neither Stormy Daniels nor Michael Cohen has helped Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg and his assistant Matthew Colangelo prove their actual legal case against former President Donald Trump. Today's "closing argument" then provides important updates on Hunter Biden's own legal troubles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer dives into Sen. Bob Menendez's (D-N.J.) corruption trial before unpacking the ramifications of prosecutorial "star witness" Michael Cohen's testimony this week in the ongoing NYC criminal trial of former President Donald Trump. Today's closing argument then explains the forthcoming separation-of-powers clash, in which the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees apparently plan to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer takes us around the horn, as always, before today's deep dive previews prosecutorial "star witness" Michael Cohen's testimony later today (and perhaps also later this week) in the first-ever criminal prosecution of a former president of the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer explains a crucial update in Hunter Biden's federal gun charge prosecution before today's deep dive unpacks the latest updates in the first-ever prosecution of a former president of the United States, now unfolding before our very eyes in NYC. Given their setbacks everywhere else, the Democrat-Lawfare Complex is now all-in in NYC. But have they really thought this through? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer updates you on what you need to know about Trump's ongoing criminal trial in NYC before today's "deep dive" takes us back to Georgia, where the state Court of Appeals has formally agreed to hear an appeal as to whether Fulton County DA Fani Willis must be disqualified from her own prosecution of Trump. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Joe Biden's treasonous behavior toward American hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer updates us on Trump's Florida trial before today's deep dive analyzes porn star Stormy Daniels' tawdry and salacious testimony yesterday in Trump's NYC trial. How did America fall so far and reach this point, where a former president and current leading presidential candidate is being subjected to courtroom testimony from a discredited porn star—while being deprived of both his free speech rights and right to hit the campaign trail? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer provides an update on Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial before today's deep dive unpacks the latest on-campus stand-off between police and mini-jihadis, this time at no less a free speech bastion than the University of Chicago. Josh explains why so many are wrong about what is and what is not "free speech" under our constitutional and moral order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer breaks through the latest insane illegal alien headlines in today's "around the horn" segment, while also breaking down the terrible misinformation and mischaracterizations swirling about the House-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act. Today's "deep dive" then explains why former Trump White House aide Hope Hicks' Friday testimony in former President Trump's NYC criminal trial is not nearly as damaging as the media is telling you it is. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" unpacks the law, politics, and morality of the internal debates Republicans and pro-lifers are now having all across the country. Were Arizona Senate Republicans morally correct to join forces with Democrats to repeal the state's strong pro-life law? And what can we expect in Florida this year, with another big abortion ballot initiative looming? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rebuts misguided critics of the House's just-passed Antisemitism Awareness Act before today's "deep dive" then unpacks the myriad legal strategies for fighting back against the pro-Hamas anarchy now tearing American university campuses apart. Today's "closing argument" then weighs in on MTG's plan to file a motion to vacate Mike Johnson's House speaker chair next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates us on some pressing transgender-related legal matters during today's "around the horn" segment, and today's "deep dive" then attempts to understand what exactly Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is thinking by prosecuting Donald Trump in the hush-money case the bizarre way he presently is. Finally, today's "closing argument" unpacks some possible legal remedies to the pro-Hamas insanity now tearing American universities apart. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive centers on yesterday's blockbuster SCOTUS oral argument in Trump v. United States. It's looking like Donald Trump could be in good shape in Special Counsel Jack Smith's crown jewel D.C. criminal probe. Today's closing argument then checks in on Alvin Bragg's farcical criminal trial of Trump in NYC, which is now at the end of its second week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh first tears through a wild, jam-packed "around the horn" segment, which includes updates on Trump's NYC criminal trial, preliminary analysis of wild new 2020 election-related indictments in Arizona, and much more. Today's "deep dive" then discusses today's massive oral argument at the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Trump v. United States. Will Trump's claim of full presidential immunity from criminal prosecution prevail at SCOTUS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" focuses on today's opening arguments in Donald Trump's NYC criminal trial. Today's "closing argument" then tackles the shocking and appalling rise of anti-Semitism on Ivy League university campuses, which coincides with the beginning of the Passover holiday tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rips through a timely "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" unpacks everything you need to know about the emerging juror pool for Donald Trump's criminal trial now unfolding in NYC. Today's "closing argument" then looks at Israel's retaliatory strikes last night against the Iranian regime. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer goes "around the horn" through Trump's various prosecutions before today's "deep dive" focuses on Senate Democrats' appalling and disgraceful undermining yesterday of the very political "norms" they often claim to cherish—in this case, when it comes to the impeachment of DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas. Today's "closing argument" then takes us back to NY Attorney General Tish James' woeful "fraud" case against The Trump Organization.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," with a special focus on yesterday's big Supreme Court oral argument involving January 6 defendants. Today's "deep dive" then analyzes the seven jurors already selected for Trump's criminal trial in NYC and presents one theory for how Trump might be able to secure an acquittal. Finally, today's "closing argument" provides an update on yesterday's thuggery in Brussels, wherein Belgian police threatened to shut down the National Conservatism Conference currently being held there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" brings us to Justice Juan Merchan's NYC courtroom, where the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president commenced yesterday. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks some disturbing new developments this morning from across the pond, in Brussels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer blazes through a jam-packed "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" gives you all you need to know about today's historic commencement of the first criminal trial of an ex-president in U.S. history. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks this weekend's huge news in the Middle East, where Iran launched an unprecedented attack against Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer goes around the horn before spending today's deep dive recapping and explaining the significance of his debate last night in Cambridge, Mass., hosted by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, on the proper limits of speech (or, more accurately, so-called "speech") on university campuses in the aftermath of the horrific Hamas pogrom of Oct. 7, 2023. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rips through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" focuses on the Arizona Supreme Court's much-discussed, controversial decision this week to uphold an 1864 pro-life law that would outlaw most abortions in the state. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer rips through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns us to Trump's impending criminal prosecution in NYC, where DA Alvin Bragg is about to cross the Rubicon and take us to a harrowing point of no return in these United States. Today's "closing argument" then highlights an interesting and potentially very important gun rights ruling out in Washington State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an absolutely jam-packed "around the horn" segment, filled with many pressing Trump updates from all across the country. Today's "deep dive" segment then unpacks the still-percolating debate, partially sparked by Trump himself yesterday, over whether abortion is properly a "states' rights" issue or whether it instead must be ultimately resolved at the national level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" highlights an important Wall Street Journal op-ed today from constitutional stalwarts Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), which correctly argues that the Senate must hold an expeditious impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas now that he has been impeached by the House. Today's "closing argument" then unpacks Donald Trump's newly announced abortion stance for the 2024 general election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's jam-packed "around the horn" segment covers an interesting Electoral College debate in Nebraska, Jeffrey Clark's possible disbarment in Washington, D.C., an unfortunate setback for Donald Trump in Fani Willis' Georgia prosecution, and more. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks yesterday's Presidential Records Act ruling in Judge Aileen Cannon's Florida courtroom, and what it means for Trump moving forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's "around the horn" covers a ton of terrain, including an expected massive Trump fundraiser in Palm Beach this weekend and yesterday's high-profile Fifth Circuit oral argument for Texas's S.B. 4 immigration law. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks what's going on in the NYC courtroom of Justice Juan Merchan, who is now facing calls to recuse himself from the Alvin Bragg-led Trump prosecution there due to his daughter's heavy involvement in Democratic Party fundraising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through an action-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" explains the controversy over Judge Reggie Walton's recent highly inappropriate on-air comments to CNN. Today's "closing argument" then analyzes whether Florida will be a swing state once again, in light of the forthcoming ballot initiatives this November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today's jam-packed "around the horn" brings you everything you need to know about President Trump's latest, from an extended gag order in Alvin Bragg's NYC prosecution to his posted bond payment in Tish James's NYC fraud trial and much more. Today's "deep dive" then explains everything you need to know about yesterday's big day at the Florida Supreme Court, where the justices permitted sweeping pro-life legislation to take effect while simultaneously green-lighting two troubling ballot initiatives to go before the people of Florida this fall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before today's "deep dive" returns to the U.S. Supreme Court, the site of the massive showdown later this month on the scope of former President Donald Trump's immunity from Special Counsel Jack Smith's prosecution in Washington, D.C. Josh's "closing argument" then addresses the painful loss yesterday by his beloved Duke Blue Devils basketball team in the Elite 8 round of the NCAA Tournament. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer navigates us through another jam-packed "around the horn" segment before today's "deep dive" returns to Fulton County, Georgia to discuss the latest twists and turns in the ongoing saga of far-left District Attorney Fani Willis. Today's "closing argument" then borrows from Josh's syndicated column out today to urge a simple message: Put down your phones and go touch some grass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us through a jam-packed "around the horn" segment, with updates on Texas's ongoing S.B. 4 immigration litigation and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's big victory over The Walt Disney Company. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the war against John Eastman, the long-time legal scholar who legally represented President Trump after the 2020 presidential election, which is now culminating in the California Bar's seemingly impending disbarment of him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's disappointing U.S. Supreme Court oral argument in the abortion pill case, FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. Josh then describes his night out at the Miami Open tennis tournament and the importance of "touching grass" amidst our raucous 24/7 news cycle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive analyzes yesterday's big news out of New York City, where President Trump's outrageous bond payment in AG Tish James' "fraud" trial was reduced by an appellate judicial panel. Today's closing argument then unloads on the Biden administration for its disgraceful abstention yesterday at the UN Security Council. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive returns to Trump's civil fraud case in New York City—will Attorney General Tish James really start seizing assets potentially as soon as today? Today's closing argument discusses yesterday's "Meet the Press" controversy, wherein former host Chuck Todd threw NBC News' own brand-new contributor under the bus on national TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes you around the horn before today's deep dive returns us to New York Attorney General Tish James' Orwellian "fraud" case in New York. The chief prosecutor of the Empire State is now formally preparing to seize the former president's assets in suburban Westchester County. Today's closing argument segment then discusses the return of everyone's favorite sports craziness: March Madness! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates you on yesterday's big news in Fulton County, Georgia and much more before today's deep dive then unpacks the roiling litigation pertaining to Texas's S.B. 4 immigration statute. Today's closing argument then analyzes an interesting op-ed today from Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, pertaining to the Trump immunity case at SCOTUS. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive thoroughly unpacks the long and winding saga of Donald Trump's "fraud" litigation in New York State. The way Trump is being treated by NY Attorney General Tish James and the state's judiciary is patently un-American. Finally, today's closing argument analyzes last night's big GOP Senate primary in Ohio, won by Bernie Moreno. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates you on an assortment of Trump trial news and interesting SCOTUS orders before today's deep dive unpacks yesterday's huge SCOTUS oral argument in the case of Murthy v. Missouri, pertaining to the government's bone-chilling attempts to work with Big Tech to crack down on "dissident" speech. Today's closing argument then analyzes Trump's legally dicey situation in NYC, where he has thus far been unable to secure a $454 million surety bond in NY Attorney General Tish James' outrageous "fraud" case there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates you on Trump's New York "fraud" case and Washington, D.C. prosecution before today's deep dive unpacks Friday's huge ruling by Judge Scott McAfee in Fulton County, Georgia, in which the judge concocted a bespoke (and bizarre) remedy in the Fani Willis disqualification saga. Today's closing argument then previews today's massive SCOTUS oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates us on Trump's Florida and Georgia prosecutions before today's deep dive analyzes a stunning filing in NYC, where Alvin Bragg is now seeking a delay of his own prosecution of the embattled former president on hush money payment grounds. Today's deep dive then unpacks Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's disgraceful Senate floor speech yesterday, in which he called for regime change in Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer updates you on a big development in Judge Scott McAfee's Fulton County, Georgia courtroom before today's deep dive unpacks Hunter Biden's forthcoming trial in Delaware for his firearms charges, now that there is finally a trial date set. Then, today's closing argument explains the fallacy of the "free speech" objectors to the House's common-sense TikTok bill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn to Trump's prosecutions in Florida and Georgia before today's deep dive unpacks former Special Counsel Robert Hur's big day testifying yesterday at the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. Today's closing argument then focuses on the forthcoming Trump-Biden presidential rematch this fall, now that both men have officially secured the delegates to be their parties' presumptive nominees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Josh Hammer takes us around the horn before today's deep dive, which unpacks former DOJ Special Counsel Robert Hur's big day testifying before the House Judiciary Committee about his damning report on President Biden's illicit classified documents retention. Today's closing argument then explains the roiling fight over whether America should ban TikTok—at least with its current Chinese Communist Party-affiliated corporate ownership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn before today's deep dive takes us back to the Fulton County courtroom of Judge Scott McAfee, who is now facing a far-left judicial primary challenger as he prepares to issue his much-anticipated ruling on whether District Attorney Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade are disqualified. Will McAfee still do the right thing? Today's closing argument then breaks through the corporate media noise on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's visit to Mar-a-Lago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn, focusing on updates in Trump's multiple New York-based legal cases, before today's deep dive brings us to the Sunshine State and the big forthcoming showdown in Judge Aileen Cannon's courtroom over the extent to which the Presidential Records Act shields Trump from Jack Smith's classified documents probe there. Finally, today's closing argument analyzes President Biden's nakedly partisan State of the Union Address. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this special bonus episode, Josh Hammer previews tonight's State of The Union Address with First TV host Mike Slater. Is Joe Biden planning to lean into January 6th as an attempt to convince America that Donald Trump is a threat to Democracy? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to the latest Trump lega drama in Florida and Georgia, Trump's latest funding struggles, and more. Today's deep dive then takes us back to Alabama, where Josh argues state Republicans have markedly overcorrected when it comes to their state supreme court's much-discussed recent decision on embryonic human life. Finally, today's closing argument previews President Biden's State of the Union Address tonight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Host Josh Hammer takes us around the horn to check in on a few of Trump's criminal prosecutions, as well as the state of his finances when it comes to both legal fees and assessed damages. Today's deep dive then takes us back to Monday's unanimous Trump v. Anderson victory at SCOTUS, after which America's liberal commentariat and liberal legal academia really need to eat some very rich humble pie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Your host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to Trump's prosecutions in Florida and Georgia, as well as former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg's guilty plea yesterday in New York City. Today's deep dive then unpacks and explains everything you need to know about yesterday's outstanding unanimous SCOTUS opinion in Trump v. Anderson. March 4, 2024 will be remembered as a great day for American republican self-governance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer reviews Friday's busy legal day for Trump in both Florida and Georgia before today's deep dive then centers on the all-important question of "who decides"—is it "We the People" of which the Constitution speaks, or is it a patchwork system of unelected actors all across the country? The U.S. Supreme Court should indicate a partial response today, when it decides the Trump v. Anderson case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host takes us around the horn, focusing on the SCOTUS drama in Donald Trump's ballot-access and presidential immunity cases. Today's deep dive then returns to Texas to dissect a deeply misguided immigration ruling from a rogue federal judge, which could have grave implications for the Lone Star State. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn, focusing on Hunter Biden's big day yesterday on Capitol Hill, a reckless Illinois judge deeming Donald Trump ineligible for the ballot, Trump's "fraud" appeal in New York, and more. Today's deep dive then analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court's massive, election-altering decision to expedite a hearing on the question of the existence and scope of Trump's presidential immunity, which could have the effect of foreclosing Jack Smith's D.C. prosecution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn from Trump's ballot-access case at SCOTUS to Alvin Bragg's request for a gag order in NYC to Hunter Biden's potentially explosive closed-door testimony in Congress today, and more. Today's deep dive then explains why DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith is very, very confused when it comes to Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and retaining classified documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us around the horn to discuss the latest in former President Trump's legal cases in Washington, D.C., New York, and Georgia. Today's deep dive then unpacks yesterday's high-profile SCOTUS showdown between the states of Texas and Florida, which each passed recent laws reining in social media censorship, and the Big Tech titans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss former President Trump's pending ballot-access case (Trump v. Anderson) at SCOTUS, the continued fallout from his outrageous "fraud" verdict in Justice Arthur Engoron's New York City courtroom, and more. Today's "deep dive" then takes us back to Fulton County, Georgia, where new bombshell revelations cast even more doubt on embattled DA Fani Willis and her illicit lover, special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss Trump's two SCOTUS-pending cases, the Ohio v. EPA case that was argued at SCOTUS this week, and more. Today's "deep dive" then unpacks the roiling debate over Florida's controversial defamation bill, which just passed the state's House Judiciary Committee and has already greatly divided conservatives (both in Florida and nationally). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss the continued fallout from last Friday's bonkers "fraud" ruling against Donald Trump and The Trump Organization, Joe Biden's new executive order "canceling" over $1 billion of student debt, and more. Today's "deep dive" then analyzes a legally straightforward recent decision of the Alabama Supreme Court that has nonetheless engendered great controversy due to the fact it involves protecting unborn human life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to discuss the state of play in Trump's two SCOTUS-pending cases, Alvin Bragg's sham prosecution in NYC, the curious case of the indicted ex-FBI source Alexander Smirnov, and more. Today's "deep dive" then brings us back to Georgia, where it is increasingly likely that the case against Trump and his co-defendants will have to be moved out of deep-blue Fulton County. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to recap the state of play in Trump's criminal cases, discuss the continued fallout of Friday's Stalin-esque civil "fraud" ruling in New York, preview the possible upcoming Senate impeachment trial for DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and more. Today's "deep dive" then brings us back to Trump's insane defamation case with the unhinged E. Jean Carroll, whose lawyer had some choice words Monday evening for Jen Psaki on MSNBC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this Presidents' Day special episode of "America on Trial," your host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn" to recap the state of play in Doanld Trump's Washington, D.C. cases and the state of play in Fulton County, Georgia after last week's wild two-day evidentiary hearing on codefendant Michael Roman's motion to dismiss DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade. Then, today's "deep dive" is on Friday afternoon's bombshell (and totally bonkers) verdict of massive liability for Trump and The Trump Organization in New York AG Tish James' Stalin-esque fishing expedition of a civil fraud case. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," focusing on the now-official start date of Alvin Bragg's anti-Trump prosecution in New York City, the imminently forthcoming verdict in Tish James' anti-Trump civil fraud case in New York State, and Special Counsel Robert Hur's forthcoming congressional testimony about President Biden's mental state. Today's "deep dive" is then on yesterday's absolutely explosive evidentiary hearing (which continues today) in Fulton County, Georgia, where DA Fani Willis melted down on the stand and the prosecution's entire case is collapsing in real time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer first takes us "around the horn," focusing on Special Counsel Jack Smith's SCOTUS reply to former President Trump in the sprawling D.C. Circuit case, the imminently forthcoming verdict in Trump's New York State civil fraud case, and the explosive evidentiary hearing today and tomorrow in Fulton County, Georgia as to whether DA Fani Willis and special prosecutor Nathan Wade are fit to bring charges against Trump and his co-defendants. Today's "deep dive" is then on Alvin Bragg's prosecution of Trump in New York City, where the former president is attending a hearing today that will finalize the trial start date there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on Donald Trump's request for a SCOTUS stay of his D.C. Circuit finding of no presidential immunity in the Jack Smith probe and the continued political fallout of Special Counsel Robert Hur's damning report last week about Joe Biden. Today's "deep dive" then previews tomorrow's blockbuster evidentiary hearing in the Fulton County, Georgia courtroom of Judge Scott McAfee, pertaining to the possible disqualification of DA Fani Willis from pursuing her case against Trump. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

"America on Trial" host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on yesterday's pretrial hearings in Florida federal court and Thursday's big evidentiary hearing in Georgia state court, before doing a "deep dive" on former President Trump's formal request that the U.S. Supreme Court stay last week's D.C. Circuit panel denial of his claim of sweeping presidential immunity, which if accepted would preclude Special Counsel Jack Smith's 2020 election-related criminal probe there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we start our third week of "America on Trial," your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on today's major deadline at SCOTUS for Donald Trump to seek a stay of last week's D.C. Circuit ruling against his sweeping claim of presidential immunity from prosecution. Josh then does a "deep dive" on the continued political fallout of Special Counsel Robert Hur's blistering report last Thursday on President Joe Biden's mishandling of classified documents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this 10th episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from the Trump's D.C. Circuit "immunity" appeal timeline to N.Y. Attorney General Tish James' "fraud" trial timeline to Special Counsel Robert Hur's utterly damning report about President Joe Biden's precipitously declining mental state to the Hawaii Supreme Court's anarchic rejection of SCOTUS's recent Second Amendment jurisprudence. Josh then does a "deep dive" on Thursday's big SCOTUS oral argument, the Colorado ballot access case of Trump v. Anderson, where the former president is poised for a massive—and potentially unanimous—victory. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this ninth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before doing a deep dive on the huge oral argument today at the U.S. Supreme Court: the case of Trump v. Anderson, which pertains to the attempt to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot this fall on specious 14th Amendment "Insurrection Clause" grounds. Josh breaks down everything you need to know about this momentous oral argument and makes a prediction for how the Court will rule. Ultimately, this case implicates the most foundational questions in all of our politics: "Who decides?" Is it We the People, or is it unelected judges and bureaucrats? Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this eighth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" before doing a deep dive on yesterday's big D.C. Circuit ruling that President Donald Trump is NOT immune from Special Counsel Jack Smith's federal prosecution pertaining to the events of the 2020 presidential election. What will be next in this complex litigation? What would Josh advise if he were one of Trump's lawyers? Tune in to find out. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode of "America on Trial," Josh teases the huge ruling from the D.C. Circuit today that President Trump is NOT immune from federal prosecution for his actions pertaining to the 2020 election and January 6, 2021. Tune into tomorrow's show to hear Josh's full analysis! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this seventh episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" to reset where all of Trump's prosecutions stand before then doing a deep dive on the crucial case, being argued at the U.S. Supreme Court this Thursday, on President Donald Trump's ability to access the ballot this fall. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this sixth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from a now-formal delay in Special Counsel Jack Smith's much-hyped D.C. prosecution to a delay in NY Attorney General Tish James' "fraud" fishing expedition against The Trump Organization to this week's huge SCOTUS argument on the crucial question of Trump's ballot access. Josh then does a deep dive on the seeming implosion of the case against Trump in Georgia, where DA Fani Willis has now formally admitted to a scandalous affair and where House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan is now subpoenaing her for possible misuse of taxpayer funds. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fifth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on the now-formally delayed trial start date in Washington, D.C. and the possible plea deal in NYC for longtime Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg. Josh then does a deep dive on the recurring, and now once again roiling, constitutional debate over the 1973 War Powers Resolution and the interplay of congressional and executive powers in foreign affairs and warmaking—sparked by President Biden's latest military strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this fourth episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn," focusing on the big upcoming hearing in Georgia to possibly dismiss DA Fani Willis and Special Prosecutor Nathan Wade. Josh then does a deep dive on the huge victory yesterday in federal court yesterday for Gov. Ron DeSantis and the State of Florida over The Walt Disney Company, which had alleged unconstitutional retaliation in violation of its First Amendment rights. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this third episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from Nathan Wade's divorce settlement in Georgia to the latest ham-handed attempts to disqualify former President Donald Trump from the ballot, and more. Josh then does a deep dive on the constitutional debate surrounding House Republicans' new attempt to impeach Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this second episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer takes us "around the horn" from E. Jean Carroll's latest idiotic comments to New York Attorney General Letitia James' "fraud" fishing expedition against The Trump Organization. Josh then does a deep dive on the tense standoff at the U.S.-Mexico border between the state of Texas and the Biden administration, which reached the U.S. Supreme Court last week. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this pilot episode of America on Trial, your host Josh Hammer introduces the show and takes us "around the horn" from Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis' scandalous corruption to New York Attorney General Letitia James' misplaced "fraud" vendetta, and elsewhere. Josh then does a deep dive on Friday's outrageous and likely unconstitutional award of $83.3 million in defamation damages, including $65 million in punitive damages, levied against President Donald Trump. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of America on Trial with Josh Hammer! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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