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| Date | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 2 | #92 |
About the show
“The Illegal News” is where law meets politics. Each week, Bulwark publisher Sarah Longwell (not a lawyer) sits down with a legal expert to unpack how the latest court filings, rulings, and procedural twists and turns of the Trump era are shaping American democracy. These are conversations about justice without the jargon, giving you context for the biggest developments and surfacing the legal (and illegal) moves not getting enough attention.
If you're looking for "George Conway Explains It All to Sarah Longwell," George is off on a new adventure, but Sarah will keep you covered.
Latest episodes
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Trump’s “Grand Conspiracy” Investigation Is Falling Apart From the Inside | Illegal News
October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 3 minSarah Longwell and Andrew Weissmann discuss Jack Smith’s latest Senate testimony, including the questions Republicans didn’t ask about the actual cases against Trump and the Eric Schmitt gotcha that blew up in spectacular fashion. They…
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Andrew Weissmann: Trump’s White House Press Ban Is Going to Lose in Court
September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 2 minSarah Longwell and Andrew Weissmann cover Trump’s escalating war with the press, from his White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico to the growing consolidation of major media companies. They also debate Zohran Mamdani’s approach to…
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Alex Wagner NUKES Alito’s Defense of the Trump Election Power Grab
September 19, 2026 · 58 minJVL is joined by Alex Wagner to trace how four conservative power brokers built the legal machine that would reshape the Supreme Court decades later, and how that project helped create the politics we’re living with today. Plus, they break…
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Sarah Longwell's Message for Everyone Who Thinks We’re Doomed (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
September 10, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minAndrew Weissmann turns the tables on Sarah Longwell for a conversation about her new book, How to Eat an Elephant: One Voter at a Time—and what a post-Trump political future could look like. They get into Trump’s unusual hold on his…
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Whistleblower Exposes Trump’s Election Chaos Machine (w/ George Conway)
September 3, 2026 · 54 minSarah Longwell and George Conway discuss Trump’s attempt to overhaul mail-in voting before the midterms—and why Conway thinks the administration’s chaotic new USPS system is likely to lose when it gets back to the Supreme Court. They also…
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Trump Is Racing to Build His Ballroom Before the Courts Stop Him (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
August 26, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minSarah Longwell and Andrew Weissmann discuss a pair of Supreme Court moves benefiting Trump, including John Roberts allowing construction on the White House ballroom to continue and a ruling affecting Trump’s plans for mail-in voting. They…
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Trump Just Ordered the Government to Delete the Receipts (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
August 20, 2026 · 1 hr 16 minAndrew Weissmann joins Sarah Longwell to discuss the Trump administration’s move to erase corporate ownership records, the latest developments in the Fauci investigation, how a bizarre election controversy in Alaska led to a DOJ…
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Career Prosecutors Wanted NO PART of What Trump’s DOJ Was Doing (w/ Andrew Weissmann)
August 12, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minSarah Longwell and Andrew Weissmann discuss the escalating campaign against Anthony Fauci, why his lawyers may see the congressional investigation as a perjury trap, and what happens now that his contempt referral is headed to Trump’s DOJ…