OA1251 - We begin with a rare Friday appearance from OA democracy correspondent Jenessa Seymour, who stops in to provide some unequivocal good news from this week’s elections.  Then: a temperature check on how mad should we be that the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Steve Bannon’s conviction to be reversed, an appropriately respectful review of former Attorney General Pam Bondi’s career, and a footnote involving an extremely litigious German tourist who made the most of his short time in New York City in the most American way possible. <ol> <li> <a href= "https://tyler-mcbrien.github.io/government-contempt-tracker/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Lawfare’s Contempt Tracker</a> </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-453/395803/20260209141144273_25-453_Bannon_cert_resp_file.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Brief for the United States</a> in U.S. v. Bannon (filed 2/6/2026) </li> <li> <a href= "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.241102/gov.uscourts.dcd.241102.33.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Amicus brief in U.S. v. Bannon</a> filed by state of Iowa (12/10/2025) </li> <li> <a href= "https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-immigration-bondi-declinations-criminal-investigations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">“Trump’s Justice Department Dropped 23,000 Criminal Investigations in Shift to Immigration,”</a> ProPublica (3/31/2026) </li> <li> <a href= "https://ldad.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Pamela-Bondi-Ethics-Complaint-6.5.25-1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Ethics complaint against former AG Pam Bondi</a> filed by a coalition of progressive attorneys (June 5, 2025) </li> <li> <a href= "https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca3/25-2480/25-2480-2026-02-27.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Manz v. Walmart Supercenter</a>, (3rd Cir., 2/27/2026) </li> </ol> Check out the OA <a href= "https://linktr.ee/openingarguments" target="_blank" rel= "noopener noreferrer nofollow">Linktree</a> for all the places to go and things to do! To support the show (and lose the ads!), please pledge at <a href= "https://patreon.com/law"></a><a href= "http://patreon.com/law">patreon.com/law</a>!

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