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Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

By: The Heritage Foundation
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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 folThe Heritage Foundation Political Science Politics & Government
Episodes
  • A Harrowing Christmas Tale from 1944!
    Dec 18 2025

    Hans is joined by Robert Greenway, military veteran and Director of the Allison Center for National Security at Heritage, to discuss the German siege of American forces in Bastogne, which occurred over Christmas in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge.

    The Classic Movie Review is of "Battleground," the 1949 film about the battle, directed by veteran William Wellman, and the winner of multiple academy awards

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    25 mins
  • Slaughtering Humphrey’s Executor
    Dec 11 2025

    Guest is Mark Chenoweth, president and chief legal officer of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, to discuss the oral arguments at the Supreme Court on Monday, Dec. 8, in Trump v. Slaughter, an important case about the constitutional authority of the president over the so-called “independent” agencies like the Federal Trade Commission set up by Congress.

    For the Christmas season, classic movie review of the 1945 film, “Christmas in Connecticut,” a romantic comedy starring Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, and Sydney Greenstreet.

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    27 mins
  • Rogue Justice – The Rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel
    Dec 4 2025

    Guest is Yonatan Green, a Fellow at the Georgetown Center for the Constitution, author of a new book about the seizure of political power by the Israeli Supreme Court, a foreshadowing of what is happening in America with our partisan rogue judges.

    Classic movie review of the 1966 film, “Cast a Giant Shadow,” directed by Otto Preminger and starring Kirk Douglas as the real life American Army veteran who went to Israel to help train the fledgling Israeli Defense Force to defend the new nation in the 1948 Arab Israeli War.

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    33 mins
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