Bloomberg Law

Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the Justice Department's unusual move to take over the defense of President Trump in a defamation suit tied to a rape claim. Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses why state prosecutors dropped the murder indictment against Curtis Flowers, a Black man tried six times in Mississippi for a quadruple murder. June Grasso hosts.

Campaign finance law expert Meredith McGehee, the executive director of Issue One, which advocates for stronger campaign finance laws, discusses the allegations that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy pressured his former employees to donate money to Republican political candidates and then reimbursed them using company money. Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses a federal judge ordering the U.S. Census Bureau to stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September. June Grasso hosts. 

Employment law expert Anthony Oncidi, a partner at Proskauer Rose, discusses an Ohio Supreme Court ruling that employees required to take an employer-watched urine test, didn't have a claim for invasion of privacy. Erin Mulvaney, Bloomberg Law Senior Reporter, discusses employees filing suits over denial of Covid-19 leaves. June Grasso hosts. 

Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses the third ruling by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals over the House of Representatives lawsuit seeking to subpoena former White House Counsel Don McGahn. Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the Vermont Law School, discusses California's 100th lawsuit against the Trump administration. June Grasso hosts. 

Eric Talley, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the lawsuit against McDonald's by more than 50 Black former franchisees who say they were driven out of business after being pushed by the company to set up shop in crime-ridden areas. Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz, a partner at McCarter & English, discusses the continuing legal saga of former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, after a federal appeals court declined to order the dismissal of the case against him. June Grasso hosts. 

Mark Ramseyer, a professor at Harvard Law School, discusses the fight against extradition to Japan of two American men who are wanted there on charges that they smuggled former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of the country in a box last year in his daring escape. Bloomberg's David McLaughlin discusses the decision by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to fight charges by the U.S. of conspiring with competitors to raise prices for generic drugs. June Grasso hosts. 

First Amendment expert Eugene Volokh, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the Justice Department asking the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling prohibiting President Donald Trump from blocking users from his personal Twitter account. June Grasso hosts. 

Elections law expert Nathaniel Persily, a professor at Stanford Law School, discusses the third multistate lawsuit against President Donald Trump and his Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over major changes to postal service operations that the states fear will hinder mail-in voting during the November election. June Grasso hosts. 

James Dempsey, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses TikTok filing a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from enacting a ban on the fast-growing social media network, as it negotiates a sale of its U.S. assets. June Grasso hosts.

Professor John Blume of Cornell Law School, the Director of the Cornell Death Penalty Project, discusses why the California Supreme Court overturned Scott Peterson's 2005 death sentence for the murder of his wife and unborn child. June Grasso hosts. 

Jordan Rubin, Bloomberg Law Editor, discusses the many issues criminal trial lawyers are having during the pandemic, from not being able to confer adequately with their clients to potentially skewed jury pools. Harold Krent, a professor at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses Democrat's win in a court fight over the testimony of former White House counsel Donald McGahn. June Grasso hosts. 

Elections law expert Richard Briffault, a professor at Columbia Law School, discusses the challenges ahead in the 2020 election and what states are trying to do now to ensure mail-in balloting is successful. Erik Larson, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses the skeptical en banc panel former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn faced at the D.C Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. 

Second Amendment expert, Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School, discusses the New York Attorney General's lawsuit to dissolve the NRA. Jennifer Rie, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Litigation Analyst, discusses Qualcomm's victory at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. June Grasso hosts. 

John Coffee, a professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book, “Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Crisis of Underenforcement,” discusses how the prosecution of white collar crime has dropped 30% under President Trump, as well as a drop in fines on corporations. Matt Dallek, a professor at Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management, discusses whether Trump’s pandemic relief orders are likely to face legal challenges. June Grasso hosts. 

Stephen Vladeck, a professor of constitutional law at the University of Texas Law School, discusses an extraordinary breach of the Supreme Court's rules of confidentiality and what it revealed about the inner workings of the court. Neil Kinkopf, a professor at the Georgia State University College of Law, discusses why the Supreme Court hasn’t shown much willingness during the Covid pandemic to second-guess emergency orders issued by public officials. June Grasso hosts. 

Election law expert Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses why the 2020 election is on track to be the most litigated in U.S. history, with lawsuits pending in 42 states and D.C. June Grasso hosts. 

Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses new concerns about the 2020 Census. Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School, discusses President Trump's upcoming list of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. Christopher Dolmetsch, Bloomberg Legal Reporter, discusses how a bail hearing for the teenager accused in the Twitter hack, got hacked. June Grasso hosts. 

Former federal prosecutor Jessica Roth, a professor at Cardozo Law School, discusses Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. suggesting his office may be investigating potential bank and insurance fraud by President Trump and the Trump Organization, as it seeks access to the president’s tax returns and other financial records. Bloomberg Law Reporter Madison Alder discusses Judge Esther Salas calling for more security for federal judges after a shooter killed her son and wounded her husband at their New Jersey home. June Grasso hosts.

Bloomberg Legal Reporter Patricia Hurtado discusses some revelations in newly unsealed documents in the Ghislaine Maxwell case and her attempts to block her deposition from 2016 from being revealed. Robert Bloom, a professor at Boston College Law School, discusses a federal appeals court throwing out Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. June Grasso hosts. 

Former federal prosecutor Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School, discusses why prosecutors and judges are resisting a proposal working its way through the California Legislature to require transparency around juror strikes in the nation’s largest state justice system, to address concerns of racial, gender, and other bias. June Grasso hosts.