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Best Of BPR 5/14: Shaleen Title Goes Behind The Marijuana Rescheduling Headlines & Trump’s Election Interference Mishegoss With Nancy Gertner…
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The decision by Judge Aileen M. Cannon to avoid picking a date yet for former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents trial is the latest…
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‘Where were you?’ Trump lawyers reprimanded for not objecting to Stormy Daniels’ testimony
May 8, 2024
Adult film star Stormy Daniels testified in Donald Trump’s criminal trial on Tuesday about her brief encounter and the hush money scheme that followed years…
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Keith Davidson, the former attorney of Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, continued his testimony walking the jury through the $130,000 hush money deal he negotiated…
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An article by Nancy Gertner: In Donald J. Trump v. United States the Supreme Court will answer one simple question: Is the president immune from…
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Should evidence that someone other than Karen Read committed murder be allowed at her trial?
April 16, 2024
Karen Read didn’t do it. At least three other men could have done it, perhaps with help from a dog. Mission accomplished. Read’s lawyers have…
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Special counsel Jack Smith is palpably frustrated with Judge Aileen Cannon after several confounding rulings — and lengthy bouts of judicial indecision — have threatened…
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BPR Full Show 3/29: Pink Bunnies
April 1, 2024
We opened the lines to talk about the rising costs of higher education. Nancy Gertner on the latest in Trump legal drama. Callie Crossley discussed…
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The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s classified documents case was accused Thursday of captaining a boat that she is intentionally rowing in slow motion, despite…
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An article co-written by Nancy Gertner: It is said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different…
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Former federal judge speculates Supreme Court could be split on Trump immunity case
February 27, 2024
Former President Donald Trump’s legal team asked the Supreme Court to find that presidents are immune from prosecution for their actions in office amid criminal…
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In the case of SJC nominee, questions of recusal are material
February 27, 2024
A letter by Nancy Gertner: In the Feb. 25 editorial, “SJC nominee should offer clear answers on when she’d recuse herself,” the Globe criticizes Appeals…
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Considering The Logical Extremes Of Your Legal Argument
February 20, 2024
At oral argument last month before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on the matter of former President Donald Trump’s request for…
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When former President Donald Trump filed a request for the Supreme Court to stay the D.C. Circuit’s ruling against his immunity claim from the federal…
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BPR Full Show 2/2: When Whales Could Walk
February 5, 2024
Newton School Committee Chair Christopher Brezski joined on Day 11 of the Newton teachers’ strike. Then we opened the lines for listener reactions to Brezski’s…
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The Campus Wars Aren’t About Gender … Are They?
January 29, 2024
In the first weeks of the war between Israel and Hamas, Nancy Andrews read about American college presidents under fire and something nagged at her.
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The Legal Question at the Center of the Alec Baldwin Criminal Case
January 22, 2024
Now that a grand jury has indicted Alec Baldwin on a charge of involuntary manslaughter for the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set…
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After pause, this Texas city is set to reconsider banning travel to access an abortion
December 14, 2023
Near the tip of the top of the state, Amarillo is far from the Capitol in Austin, Dallas’ busy downtown, and Houston’s congested highways. The…
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As Donald Trump faces 91 criminal charges including 17 for his multifaceted drive to overturn his 2020 election loss, and a high-stakes civil trial, he…
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Retired Federal Judge Nancy Gertner and legal scholar Larry Tribe discussed the latest Trump news on Boston Public Radio, and weighed in on whether the…
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If convicted in any of the three criminal cases he is now facing, Donald Trump may be able to influence whether he goes to prison…