not moderate, lukewarm, nothing.

I'm not talking about that.

That doesn't do anything.

We're all agreed there.

Getting a bunch of Democrats in power, that is going to do something.

If no lawyer with an earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice,

you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool or enough of a coward to file your motion.

But it was never going to be me, Hagen Scott.

Hello and welcome to opening arguments.

This is episode 1214. I'm Thomas Smith. That over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron. How are you doing? I'm feeling pretty good, Thomas. I was just spending some time going over all the different places where we have been winning in court, which is quite a lot of places, actually. You and I? I'm sure when it comes down to it, we can defend ourselves. There's only one court I've prevailed in,

although, you know, settlement-wise. That was a big one. This is the right-thinking folks of the country versus Trump. Yeah, there's not a single plaintiff here that I don't like. Well, maybe one. We'll get to them. But for the most part, these are people we can agree with, and they're fighting policies we don't like. Quite a few of them have been blocked. And I think it's just worth remembering that the courts really are holding for the most part. I know there's a lot to say about the Supreme Court, but the fact is the Supreme Court can't interfere with everything. They just don't have the time. But I am having a hard time not yelling about what they can interfere with. Sure. Because they just decided they just gave a mulligan to the Texas Republicans who effed up so badly. I loved

Janessa's coverage of that. They tried to gerrymander in the only remaining way you couldn't

gerrymander, like the one way. And they messed it up. And a Trump judge told them no. After extensive

proceedings. Yeah. After a very long trial with lots of evidence. And then Alito's like,

nah, they're kids.

They're so young. Give them another chance to racially gerrymitted. Come on. You can't just count this against them for the rest of their lives. That's bad news. I don't want to talk about it. We're talking about good news. We're talking about victories today. Yeah, you're making a good point, though, that we do cover, obviously, the shocking stuff, the stuff that's bad. There's a lot of good stuff

that's been happening. We're getting closer to the end of 2025 here. And January is even around the corner. We'll be able to talk about a full year of this. And one thing that's really stuck out to me as I'm doing this review is how many of the executive orders have not survived. Several have, no doubt. We'll get to it. There's a lot to talk about here. We're not naive. I'm not insane. I do watch the news and talk about it all the time. I know what's going on. We're not going to pretend that everything's fine. I just want to push back.

I think everyone's on the same page now. We've gone through enough of this where it's like, I think we all know how bad it is. Yeah.

Well, okay.

I don't know that we fully grasp it, but I think we all are of that opinion.

And now I feel like these ones that are kind of the good news episodes are received in the spirit

in which they're intended, which is like, well, everything's f***ed. But here's this, you know, it's like it's nice. There are some nice things. This is a drive by it. We're going to hit a lot of them. Yeah. It's also the rule of law is holding. That's kind of the theme here.

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