It’s been more than three years since Josh Barro and Ken White started All The President’s Lawyers (the first name of this show) to explore the legal problems of then-President Donald Trump, and wow, did he have legal problems. He still has leg

Summer’s over

Nov 17th, 2021 34m 2s

Just 22 days after Steve Bannon was referred to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress, we have an indictment. Is that a long time? No, very much not. Ken says that’s the speed you’d expect for someone who’s robbed a break or someth

Another indictment from Durham

Nov 10th, 2021 29m 54s

There’s been another indictment in special prosecutor John Durham’s investigation of the investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia. It’s another indictment for false statements to federal officials, this t

Low-hanging fruit

Nov 3rd, 2021 30m 29s

We now know which documents former President Trump is seeking to block from the January 6 select committee: the White House daily diary, which would show his movements and meetings; phone records and records of his senior staff, and a few other

Guilty. Appealing. Talking. Referred for contempt.

Oct 27th, 2021 33m 39s

This week, Josh Barro and Ken White catch up on a few familiar characters and tie up some loose threads.Lev Parnas, former associate of Rudy Giuliani: convicted of six counts of charges related to funneling and concealing political contributi

Testing the boundaries of executive privilege

Oct 20th, 2021 29m 20s

Former President Trump has sued the National Archives and the chairman of the January 6 investigating committee, Congressman Bennie Thompson, to try to prevent the disclosure of White House papers, records and communications up to and during th

Is a plea bargain a good deal?

Oct 13th, 2021 28m 28s

This is a special episode of All the Presidents’ Lawyers with Carissa Byrne Hessick, professor of law at the University of North Carolina. As we’ve discussed previously on the show, some federal judges have been wondering (sometimes aloud, in t

What is a state actor?

Oct 6th, 2021 32m 7s

Former President Donald Trump has sued Twitter trying to get back on the platform. His suit says Twitter violated his First Amendment rights and that they broke a new Florida law that purports to prohibit social media companies from being banne

Trump Derangement Syndrome with David Lat

Sep 29th, 2021 33m 14s

What is ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’? It’s a condition that afflicts conservatives and liberals alike – and lawyers in particular. This week, Ken White and special guest David Lat discuss the attorneys that, uh, have gone astray defending Donal

An unusual indictment, an unusual memo

Sep 23rd, 2021 35m 30s

John Durham, the former US attorney who was appointed special counsel to investigate the origins of the investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign and its alleged connections to Russia, has turned an indictment. A grand jury has indicted Michae

Fate of the Henchman

Sep 15th, 2021 30m 48s

There’s been a lack of thumb-headed henchmen news on the show for a bit… so this week, Ken and Josh check in on one. Igor Fruman, a sometime associate of Rudy Giuliani, has pleaded guilty to one count of soliciting foreign campaign contribution

Juniors

Sep 9th, 2021 34m 26s

Trump Organization employee Matthew Calamari Jr. testified last week before the New York grand jury that’s looking into the financial practices of the Trump Organization. It’s the same grand jury that indicted then-Trump Organization CFO Allen

What happens when your lawyer is MIA

Sep 1st, 2021 35m 16s

What happens when you’re facing federal charges connected to the Jan. 6 insurrection and your lawyer….goes missing? And their associate, who has been showing up in court, is not a licensed attorney and is facing felony indictments? Yikes. That’

Mistrial!

Aug 25th, 2021 33m 59s

It’s a big week for Michael Avenatti. A mistrial! Judge Selna ruled that the government had withheld financial evidence they should’ve made available to Avenatti as he defended himself in the case where he was being tried for embezzling funds f

Jeffrey Rosen and Jeffrey Clark

Aug 18th, 2021 30m 46s

Former acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen testified about what happened between him, Donald Trump, and former acting head of DOJ Civil Division Jeffrey Clark in a closed session with the DOJ Inspector General and the Senate Judiciary Committ

Seven months and 600+ people charged

Aug 11th, 2021 34m 20s

This week, we’re bringing on special guest Ryan J. Reilly, senior justice reporter at HuffPost, while Ken enjoys a deserved vacation. We’ve followed and referenced Ryan’s reporting on prosecutions related to the Capitol riot for the past seven

Tax returns return

1 Aug 5th, 2021 28m 29s

The Biden administration said this week that the House Ways and Means Committee can have access to former President Trump’s tax returns. The committee says it wants the returns as part of an ongoing investigation into how the IRS audits preside

DOJ threads the needle

Jul 28th, 2021 34m 19s

Michael Avenatti is one week into representing himself in federal court in Southern California, where he is accused of stealing funds from his client. Is he doing a good job lawyering for himself? And is a juror in the trial secretly posing as

A pro se pro?

Jul 21st, 2021 35m 25s

This week, Michael Avenatti told a federal district judge in California that he would like to represent himself in his second of three criminal trials, in which he is charged with stealing millions from his clients’ settlements. There are a lot

An expensive defense

Jul 14th, 2021 31m 12s

Allen Weisselberg is no longer in executive positions with the Trump Organization and its subsidiaries. Does this signal anything about the relationship between the former CFO and the company? Weisselberg’s defense is going to be very, very exp

BONUS: Josh and Ken talk about the criminal indictments against Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization

Jul 2nd, 2021 22m 16s

Surprise episode! Josh Barro and Ken White talk about the unsealed indictments of the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg. They’re alleged to have engaged in a fifteen-year tax fraud scheme that protected Weiss

The ATPL XL Ask Us Anything Show

Jul 1st, 2021 57m 40s

As of Wednesday morning, there have been no charges yet against the Trump Organization or any of its senior officials. The Wall Street Journal reported that charges for tax related crimes are expected Thursday for the organization and its CFO,

"What the Fuks?"

Jun 24th, 2021 32m 35s

The first Capitol riot defendant received her sentence today, more than six months after the insurrection. Ken White and Josh Barro analyze the sentencing memos from the woman’s lawyer and the government. Both agreed that a lenient sentence wit

“Pure insanity”

Jun 16th, 2021 31m 43s

It’s been an interesting week for Donald Trump’s Department of Justice, despite the fact that Donald Trump isn’t president anymore. This week, we saw communications from Trump administration officials pressuring people in the Department of Just

A Trump legal problem becomes a Biden administration problem

Jun 10th, 2021 26m 39s

Before the election, the Department of Justice under President Trump was at work defending him in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit, arguing that when Trump denied Carroll’s accusation that he had raped her, he did so in his official capacity a