SCOTUS, Senate Screwed Us. What’s Next? We’ll talk with the LawDork – Nicole Sandler Show 7-1-25

After more than 24 hours of "debate" (it wasn't a debate) and the so-called vote-a-rama (including bullshit backroom deals, we're looking at you Murkowski), the Opposite World fittingly-named "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (though according to Schumer, he got the name changed to something else) passed the Senate today with the tightest possible margin. It was a 50-50 vote with VP JD Vance breaking the tie. All Democrats voted NO. Three Republicans --Thom Tillis, Rand Paul and Susan Collins stepped up. But it was Alaska's Lisa Murkowski who betrayed the nation and caved in to the pressure and more [...]

Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 6-27-26

    It was a week that, once again, felt like a year... or more! There was a war. More accurately, the moron in the White House inserted us into a war between Israel and Iran. The Supreme/Extreme Court finished it's term by handing down the final opinions in the regular term, though a handful of shadow docket cases will be handed down next week). It was an ugly day for the future of our democracy. The Big Ugly Bill is racing toward the MAGAts self-imposed 4th of July deadline. And a whole lot more happened, much of which Marcy [...]

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Catching Up on the News – Nicole Sandler Show 6-26-26

Cartoons by Ann Telnaes and Barry Blitt I read a ridiculous amount of news in preparation for this show every day, much of which I never get to during the hour I'm on the air with this show. So today we'll play catch up on a bunch of news that transpired so far this week. The Supreme Court today handed down four of their 10 remaining decisions, and announced they'll finish them off tomorrow! Of course, that doesn't count the outstanding shadow docket cases, or does it? (That's a gift link to a NY Times article "The [...]

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The Courts, Rule of Law and Lisa Graves – Nicole Sandler Show 6-25-25

    While we await the final rulings of this term from the Supreme Extreme Court, we're still getting decisions from them along with rulings from lower courts which may, or may not, apply nationally... depending on what SCOTUS rules when they finally get around to announcing their final decisions of the term. It's not only tedious but unnerving, frightening and based on their recent records, potentially (and probably) sickening. There's also a confirmation hearing for Judge Emil Bove, a person wholly unsuitable for a federal, lifetime appointment to the bench, this morning. And the orange wannabe dick-tator held [...]

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WTF Wednesday on the Nicole Sandler Show 6-18-25

  This is one of those days in the middle of one of those weeks during one of those months in the inconceivable, unbelievable second term of an imbecile. There's an avalanche of news, precious little of it good. We don't have a guest today, so our pal Spocko joined in to talk about much of the day's news. We cover a lot of ground, share a lot of video - especially from a contentious hearing today in the Senate Armed Services Committee where the completely in-over-his-head Defense Sec (sic) Whiskey Pete Hegseth and the also unqualified and wrong person [...]

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Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 5-23-25

      There was no shortage of real news this week, almost none of it good! But the media is still set on telling us that Joe Biden is old. And you wonder why I call it Opposite World?! It’s another Emptywheel Friday, when we get together with the seemingly indefatigable Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net to take a look back at what happened in this years-long week! From action in the courts, to the flying bribe palace and presidential corruption on a scale never seen before, we have a lot to talk about today. Before I sign off [...]

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Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 5-16-25

        It was another eventful week in this surreal world. The idiot-in-chief went to the Middle East, SCOTUS held a special hearing yesterday, and what was thought to be a very old copy of the Magna Carta housed at Harvard is discovered to be an authentic 7th original copy dating back to 1300! Marcy Wheeler thinks it's an auspicious sign, especially when the administration is talking about suspending habeas corpus. And, oh yeah, they're likely arresting a sitting member of Congress today. It's Emptywheel Friday, where Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net joins Nicole Sandler to discuss some of [...]

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Ethics, Hearings, Hypocrisy & Lisa Graves on the Nicole Sandler Show 5-14-25

     Ethics are important to Republicans ONLY when it's a Democrat engaging in questionable behaviors. That's more evident every day. But it cuts much deeper... they're quick to call out anything a Democrat does, like nodding off in an all-night hearing. But they have no problem with it's a Republican. It seemed like all we heard from them during the Biden administration was "the Biden 'crime family' is capitalizing on the president's office." But they're notoriously silent about the massive grift by Trump and his spawn -- from a luxury flying palace to golf courses and Trump Towers [...]

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Emptywheel Fridays on the Nicole Sandler Show 5-8-25

  It's Friday, so we made it to the end of another action-packed week. Marcy Wheeler of emptywheel.net and I review some of the crap that Dump and his gang flung at us this week and try to make sense of it all. This week we got a new pope - one from the United States for the first time ever- and it seems he's "woke" and MAGAt heads are exploding. The tariff fiasco is ramping up in full swing, as some people are finally beginning to realize what this will mean for our economy, and Dump pretends he signed [...]

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SCOTUS, DOGE & a Visit with Lisa Graves on the Nicole Sandler Show 4-23-25

 After a break yesterday for a fun show about music and reliving the good old days, it's back to the real world today. The news is insane, from the orange one playing games with the world's economies, tariff roulette, SCOTUS & judicial uncertainty and more questions than we can reasonably answer. But we'll try. Today, we'll catch up with Lisa Graves, the Nicole Sandler Show's legal expert, who joins us in her personal capacity as a concerned citizen who's got the legal bona fides to back up her information and opinions. A big welcome to Randi Rhodes listeners [...]

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