I need to quit listening to this guy, he’s such an awful smug pig.

Elie works so hard to constantly criticize the Justice Department that he finds it too hard to believe that the recent Supreme Court decision to hear and decide the Jan 6 Immunity case was a calculated decision by the Conservative members of the Court to prevent a trial before the 2024 election. Guess he hasn’t learned much from dealing with crooked people during his career.

Biden had his own notes-yes he kept his own notebooks willfully. Just like every other ex vp or potus.

Eli is not a reliable commentator. It’s all opinions based on very little research.

Don’t know what happened to this podcast. He started out great, covering a broad range of legal topics in the news and gave some great insight from a prosecutor’s perspective. But a few months ago, he seemed to become fixated on the Trump trials, and his commentary kept getting more and more political instead of legal analysis. The politics he was drifting to sounds an awful lot like what you hear MAGA commentators say, complete with ad hominem attacks on Jack Smith, Merrick Garland, and the judges on the case. Actually, it’s just certain judges. Judges holding the line or even ones bending over backwards to accommodate Trump get constant criticism, while he gives full-on MAGA judges like Aileen Cannon a complete pass. Don’t know what his motive is, whether it’s graft now or the promise of a future position in a potential Trump administration, or maybe to save himself from reprisals. Whatever it is, it has the stench of corruption all over it. He seems to be following the playbook of the person he wrote a book about, Bill Barr.

Your “highly partisan” smear of Jamie Raskin is disgraceful. Chris Licht is gone; whose Kool Aid are you drinking now? On Hunter Biden: Again, have to ask: Hunter Biden is the most newsworthy item on your agenda today? Where’s your outrage over Clarence/Ginni Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, and John Roberts? You have become such a Chris Licht tool that it is increasingly difficult to listen to you.

Thanks Elie for a great story!

Good grief, Cafe owners. Keep Elie for as long as you possibly can. In this day of seeking safe privacy from reader and listener threats, it’s so rejuvenating to hear something so personal from a commentator. (The details of a person’s life are most captivating—just ask Joan Didion, or Ernest Hemingway.) With his “My Name,” my respect for his outlook—and storytelling abilities—doubled.

As a 5th generation ‘Barbara’ (whose name has never felt right), I truly appreciate and enjoyed this particular episode…so beautifully written. Brought me a smile and touched my heart. Thank you for sharing

You don’t happen to work for Trump lol

Concise use of language with great experience and insight!

But minus 5 stars for always being a painfully arrogant contrarian. Unsubscribing from any project he darkens the door of. Is he being paid for by MAGA, cus his words sound like a good attorney but his message seems designed to deflate and demoralize his audience. I could never sound so confident if I was consistently proven wrong (his legal predictions) and so clearly not a person with real star power. Ignore the politics and just compare him to a seriously brilliant and entertaining lawyer like Andrew Torres on Opening Arguments and you will see that one can give good legal perspectives and find a way to te the audience bad or upsetting news without being self righteous and depressing.

Can you provide the artists’ names? PS your legal analysis ain’t too shabby either! Really enjoy your show…

Thank you Elie for sharing your knowledge with the public. When your new post comes out I go directly to it and often listen more than once. Thank you and please keep doing what you are doing.

Don’t agree with the premise for your argument re: recusal today. We all have opinions and judges are expected to set them aside regardless of +T/-T. So after the first 35$ for act blue I lost you.

…but its 8am Friday after The Indictment and I dont have this episode yet! I’m impatient! 🙃

So very informative!!

Elie states the facts & explains calmly, clearly & in layman terms. Love listening to his podcasts as they help me understand the events.

I like Ellie’s legal analysis of the topics he discusses. I look for to each Fridays episode. Highly recommend.

A Republican makes me now sick to my blindness now….. I just can’t vote at all I wish for better days when he is no more in our faces. Thanks for your words

Thank you for your insightful review and commentary!

I thoroughly enjoy Ellie’s brief analyses of important currents events related to the legal profession. He is also a thoughtful person, who’s comments about Michael Visconti and his passing were both touching and thought-provoking.

I look forward to Ellie’s short and concise podcast tidbit every Friday.

I have loved catching up with current events from the perspective of the law! I also have a lot of respect for Elie’s courage to speak his truth and for his mind which is fair and sharp.

I would gratefully pay for a podcast by you. You have a gift for presenting complex issues with clarity, insightfullness and humour. Love your weekly snippets.

I love Elie’s 10 minute podcasts. Would I like them to be longer? Yes, but he gives us the topic and explains everything perfectly. Happy holidays!

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I wouldnt be surprised to learn elie is a pedo based on his creepyass smirk

Please tell the other Elie. That Barr is cover up AG. you should have reminded him of the Iran contra affair. NJ republican did not concede yet

I looked all over for your podcast on the “thud” sound from the failures of the Mueller investigation. I was shocked and overwhelmed when I couldn’t find it. You’re just another partisan clown. You’ve got nothing to say about lying to FISA courts? Nothing to say about the concerning nature of the Russia scam? That’s it. The thing that stands out to you is that the Durham investigation has been a failure. Really? I must have missed the part where he concluded the investigation. Come to think of it, I didn’t miss that. He just issued new subpoenas and the investigation is very much ongoing. Unlike you had other partisan clowns that rush to judgement and look for every opportunity to spin and mislead….I just want the truth out. Whatever that truth is. EVERY SINGLE American should have been outraged by the FBI’s conduct. It’s frightening. We’re Americans. We are better than this. Try being honest. Just once. Investigate, get all the facts, and report on them. Americans will fairly criticize the investigation if they know the truth. That’s not this Podcast. This podcast isn’t interested in the truth. Because……Trump bad, mean tweets, blah blah blah.

Eli’s is a rock star! I love listening to him and Preet, of course. Feel smarter thanks to both of them. ❤️😊

I’m a former (and much to my dear Jewish mother's chagrin at the time!) USMC Infantry/Special Operations Officer. Thirty plus years intervening have me not remembering where in the Uniform Code of Military Justice (which I half joked was based on the highly efficient principle of "guilty until proven innocent"), or perhaps more likely as per the Non-Judicial Punishment alternative, it was allowed (perhaps only when on ship?) to sentence a Marine to bread and water. My wise commanding officer warned us not to do that because of the bragging rights cool factor. If obstructing an official act has the same punishment, I think this may be the same good reason not to charge the Jan 6th seditionists with sedition. And remember that the Nazi's comfortable time in Spandau prison after the abortive Munich beer hall putsch was part and parcel of the lore that brought them to power.

Love the longer podcasts... Thank You, Larry

Really enjoy expert analysis and interviews!

Elie is a great host. He brings balanced legal narrative to the table, steeped in a ton of experience.

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Really enjoyed the explanation of the impeachment trial & have continued enjoying this podcast. The Friday shows were really interesting also so I’m sorry I can no longer hear them without paying for them. I checked out Cafe Express & it doesn’t interest me enough to pay for it. Oh well......

One of my favorite people in the legal space right now. Love what Elie does to break down the particulars around a case for the listener who may or may not be familiar with the state law or federal law. Keep up the great work my friend!

I subscribed to hear Elie’s pod after hearing him on The Daily Beans. Now twice a week I wake up to hear Third Degree before anything else, it’s so interesting. I miss free access to Fridays’ law student interviews.

Guests need to be able to speak more.

Your law student guess suggested that one means to evaluate jurors is to obscure their picture, gender and voice in a video format, and this could be a means to anonymously evaluate them without prejudice regarding these factors. I agree with it all except the voice part as a determination regarding race. I’ll say that determination of a persons race based on their voice is racist itself. Just my personal experience is that it should not be used bc too often we can be wrong with that measure to determine someone’s race. I wish Elie would have pushed back on that. That said, I LOVE the podcast and find it insightful and in layman’s terms for those of us non lawyer types.

You neglected to mention that Mr. Vance had to return a political donation from the Trumps when he declined to prosecute Don Jr. and Ivanka. Why would he be motivated to do his job now?

Sickening to listen to a Trump loyalist Stephen Miller wanna be wax on about Barr’s “triumphs”. And you’re asking people to pay for this extra content?! Blech.

This guest was so slanted to the right with his opinion of Bill Barr he made me sick. Too right leaning to make fair judgements!

I look forward to listening to The Third Degree and have enjoyed the law student guests. As soon as this lesser Elie said he’d worked in the trump administration I quit listening. I have no interest in anything anyone who’d work for trump has to say. Working for trump says all I need to know about their judgment and the type of person they are. I didn’t find him interesting.

Thoroughly appreciate this fine presentation. Have long read Ellie’s Cafe Notes and find this podcast one of the best for relevant information and insightful comment.

Im a fan of Ellie and the cafe team from Preets podcast and their CNN appearances. But this podcast just misses the mark somewhat. I tried a couple episodes but it doesn’t add anything to my otherwise understanding of the news cycle/commentary.

There is no better expert regarding law in the media today! Elie presents things in a way that anyone can understand and ads insightful humor to the podcast. A must listen to any young law school student or anyone interested in following what’s going on in the real world!

Elie’s style is concise and engaging and his legal analyses are top-notch. Gives me hope in our legal system to hear his smart digest of current issues. I so look forward to his episodes that I queued Elie’s podcast to be my first listen of the day!

I just started listening to this great podcast and I LOVE it! Elie is quick on his feet, chock-full of knowledge, and puts on a jam-packed podcast. It’s a winner!