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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
258 episodes
6 days ago
If the thought of a legal podcast makes you shy away and you’re tired of so-called “legal” experts talking in confusing legal jargon, you’ve come to the right place. The Heritage Foundation’s “Case in Point” talks about the hottest cases affecting politics, culture, and everyone’s daily lives in a way that lawyers and non-lawyers alike can understand. Host Hans von Spakovsky may work in Washington, D.C., but he grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He hasn’t lost touch with his roots and hasn’t been captured by the Beltway Insiders. He understands the heart and soul of America, the everyday fol
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If the thought of a legal podcast makes you shy away and you’re tired of so-called “legal” experts talking in confusing legal jargon, you’ve come to the right place. The Heritage Foundation’s “Case in Point” talks about the hottest cases affecting politics, culture, and everyone’s daily lives in a way that lawyers and non-lawyers alike can understand. Host Hans von Spakovsky may work in Washington, D.C., but he grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He hasn’t lost touch with his roots and hasn’t been captured by the Beltway Insiders. He understands the heart and soul of America, the everyday fol
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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Last Line of Defense – How to Beat the Left in Court

Guest is Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt whose new book, “The Last Line of Defense – How to Beat the Left in Court,”

is about his fierce fights as the state’s attorney general against mask and Covid vaccine mandates, the student loan forgiveness scam, and the censorship machine put in place by the Biden administration and Silicon Valley.

 

Classic Movie Review of “The Far Horizons,” the 1955 movie about the Lewis & Clark Expedition that started in St. Louis, Missouri.

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6 days ago
27 minutes 55 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Democrats Run Away from the Alamo

Hans von Spakovsky and his Heritage colleague, Cully Stimson, switch rolls, with Cully hosting the show and Hans answering questions about the ongoing redistricting battle in the Lone Star State.

 

Classic movie review of “The Alamo,” the 1960 film directed, produced, funded, and starred in by John Wayne.

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1 week ago
18 minutes 2 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
All Taxpayer Dollars Considered: National Peoples Radio

Guest is Mike Gonzalez, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former journalist, to discuss the cut off of funding to NPR and PBS, and the bias of its news coverage.

 

Classic Movie Review of “Absence of Malice” (1981), a film about unethical reporters and government lawyers.

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2 weeks ago
26 minutes 39 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Wyoming’s Best Man

Guest is Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray, who discusses a recent court win against opponents of election reform, changes in the state’s election laws that have just become effective, and how the business climate has changed in the past six months.

 

Classic movie review of “The Best Man,” the 1964 movie about a presidential nomination fight at a political party convention.

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3 weeks ago
29 minutes 57 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Nebraska and the States Keep on Truckin’

Guest is Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, to discuss the lawsuits he filed against California over its electric truck mandate, GM over misuse of customer vehicle information, and Temu for siphoning phone data from customers for the Chinese Communist Party.

 

Classic movie review of “Smokey and the Bandit.”

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1 month ago
32 minutes 34 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The War Between the States and the Federal Government

Guest is South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, who discusses the legal battles the state has waged against the federal government, starting with his successful fight to defend a voter ID law.

Classic movie review of the 1959 “Anatomy of a Murder,” one of the most realistic legal movies produced by Hollywood.

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1 month ago
27 minutes 58 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Fake News You Can Trust – Deadline at the Babylon Bee

Guest Seth Dillon, CEO of The Babylon Bee, discusses winning the Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship, the creation of its satires and parodies that expose corruption, and the censorship it faces over its work.

 

Movie review of “Deadline – U.S.A,” the 1942 classic film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a crusading newspaper editor who works on a story exposing a gangster’s crimes at the risk of his life.

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1 month ago
30 minutes 56 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Indispensable Right – Free Speech in an Age of Rage

Hans' guest is Prof Jonathan Turley, constitutional scholar, law professor, and well-known legal analyst on Fox News, to talk about censorship, attacks on the First Amendment, and his new book, “The Indispensable Right – Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”

 

The classic movie review is of the 1940 screwball comedy about the newspaper business, “His Girl Friday.”

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1 month ago
27 minutes 23 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Real West Wing: High Noon at the White House

Special guest May Mailman, Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Analyst, talks about the formulation of policy at the White House and the lawfare against the president being waged by outlaw judges.

A film review is provided of a movie about a similar confrontation, the classic 1952 western, “High Noon.”

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2 months ago
28 minutes 11 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Supremes Act to Protect America’s Children

Guest is Matthew Rice, the Solicitor General of Tennessee, who argued U.S. v. Skrmetti before the Supreme Court, to discuss the implications of the decision protecting children from surgical mutilation and abusive drug treatments.

Review of the three horror movies made by Hollywood based on the 1896 book by H.G. Wells, “The Island of Dr. Moreau.”

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2 months ago
16 minutes 49 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Whittling Down the Truth: Politics and Humor with Bill Whittle

My guest is Bill Whittle, political writer and commentator, cohost of the Right Angle, and producer of multiple documentaries on important topics like the Russian Revolution and the Apollo program. Bill talks about the revolution that seems to be going on right now in Washington.

 Instead of the usual classic movie review, a recommendation on a new museum in Washington worth visiting.

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2 months ago
27 minutes 48 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Philadelphia Story: Votes and Violence in the Keystone State

Special guest Christian Adams, President of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, discusses dire threats made in Pennsylvania against Trump voters in the 2024 election and refusal of law enforcement to take any action.

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2 months ago
30 minutes 40 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Mortal Storm: Anti-Semitism Invades America’s Universities

Guest Ken Marcus of the Louis Brandeis Center for Human Rights discuss the plague of anti-Semitism that has arisen at American universities, the private lawsuits filed to stop it, and the actions taken by the Trump administration to remedy the infestation.

A classic movie review of “The Mortal Storm,” the 1940 movie about the similar harassment of a Jewish professor and his family in a university town in Nazi Germany in 1933.

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2 months ago
28 minutes 10 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Censorship Woes: I Guess I’d Rather Not Be in Colorado

Guest Sarah Parshall Perry discusses a lawsuit just filed in Colorado against the state’s new draconian censorship and government propaganda law. 

A classic movie review is provided of the film version of George Orwell’s book on government censorship and thought control, “1984.”

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3 months ago
26 minutes 29 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Birth in a Nation: One Injunction to Rule Them All

Professor John Eastman discusses the oral arguments made on May 15 in the birthright citizenship cases before the Supreme Court and the problem of nationwide injunctions.

A classic film review relevant to arrogant judges is provided of the 1940 movie, “The Westerner.”

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3 months ago
29 minutes 6 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Radicals’ Newest Heroes: Gangsters, Human Traffickers, and Terrorists

Special Guest Lora Ries, one of the country’s leading experts on illegal immigration and DHS operations, discusses the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, the rules governing deportation, and the work being done by the Trump administration to stop illegal immigration.  There is a classic film review of two movies relevant to illegal aliens: “Illegal Entry” and “Panic in the Streets.

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3 months ago
27 minutes 46 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Pride Comes Before the Fall – Kindergarteners, Sex, and the Supremes

Attorney Eric Baxter of the Becket Fund, who represents parents in their lawsuit against the Montgomery County, Maryland School Board for indoctrinating their kindergartners and elementary school kids with unacceptable sexual propaganda, talks about what happened when he argued the case before the Supreme Court.

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3 months ago
26 minutes 25 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Rogue Judges and Nationwide Injunctions

This week’s special guest is former Speaker of the House, historian, and author Newt Gingrich. We discuss his recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “Judicial Overreach” as well as his historical perspective on the battles we are seeing in the nation’s courts.  With a classic movie review of “Seven Days in May,” the 1964 Frankenheimer film about a secret plan to take over the government and depose the president during the Cold War.

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4 months ago
26 minutes 58 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Game of Risk: When Judges Think They’re Admirals

Hans von Spakovsky talks with lawyer and  Navy veteran Cully Stimson about the “abominable” decision of a federal judge barring the Defense Department from revising its military standards on gender dysphoria.

He also provides a classic movie review of “Judgment at Nuremberg,” the 1961 movie about the military and the courts and the prosecution after the end of WWII of Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity.

Cully's Daily Signal article:

 https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/03/25/judge-reyes-abominable-transgender-opinion/

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4 months ago
30 minutes 2 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
Aliens, Enemies, and Judges Gone Wild

Case in Point Host Sarah Parshall Perry talks with fellow Senior Legal Fellow Hans Von Spakovsky about deportation orders under the Alien Enemies Act, oral arguments in Medina v. Planned Parenthood, and some wild judicial decisions that strain a plain reading of the law. Plus, some big changes ahead for Case in Point. All that and more on this week's episode!

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4 months ago
28 minutes 47 seconds

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
If the thought of a legal podcast makes you shy away and you’re tired of so-called “legal” experts talking in confusing legal jargon, you’ve come to the right place. The Heritage Foundation’s “Case in Point” talks about the hottest cases affecting politics, culture, and everyone’s daily lives in a way that lawyers and non-lawyers alike can understand. Host Hans von Spakovsky may work in Washington, D.C., but he grew up in Huntsville, Alabama. He hasn’t lost touch with his roots and hasn’t been captured by the Beltway Insiders. He understands the heart and soul of America, the everyday fol