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Episodes · 12 months
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Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Nov 2025
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 4 of 3,584, 0 of 3,862, 1 of 4,115, 2 of 4,226, 0 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
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Where they standLast discussed
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Jun 10, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp6 people
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- Protect Judicial Independence3 people · 50%
- Assert Legal Accountability3 people · 50%
Protect Judicial Independence
The US judicial system is threatened by political interference and external hostility directed at judges and legal institutions.
3 people · 3 episodes
Using the Department of Justice as a tool for political retribution is detrimental to the institution, regardless of which party is doing it.
“For America, it is not in fact a very good thing for the DOJ to be widely perceived and indeed used as a political tool.”
The Ben Shapiro Show · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 575K views on this topicKA
Karen Friedman AgnifiloUnrated
The Trump administration's attacks on federal judges are unprecedented and dangerous for the judicial system.
“I've never seen Again, this is just so unprecedented. You don't attack judges. You don't go out and especially if you're one of especially if you have the microphone that Donald Trump has, right? Nobody does that. He invented this.”
MeidasTouch · Mar 2026 · 4 episodes · 1.2M views on this topic
John E. Jones IIIUnrated
Politically motivated and personally directed hostility toward judges is a dangerous development that threatens the judiciary.
“I think this is resonating now with the Supreme Court. And while I know that the chief was being cautious, although his statements were pretty pretty strong, pretty profound, that it has to stop.”
Bloomberg Law · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 360 views on this topicAssert Legal Accountability
The legal system must be used to prosecute crimes and uphold the rule of law against illegal actions or systemic corruption.
3 people · 3 episodes
The host expresses concern that political actors use the legal system to undermine democracy and believes there is a moral obligation to fight back against these efforts.
“contending with a party that has shown so much utter disdain and contempt for democracy itself that they're willing to subvert the election results if they're inconvenient to them, um we have a duty, an obligation to fight back as hard as we can.”
Brian Tyler Cohen · Jun 2026 · 1 episode · 370K views on this topicMD
He asserts that Don Lemon and other protesters committed federal crimes under the FACE Act and the KKK Act by intentionally disrupting a church service.
“This is a slam dunk Facebook act violation. It's also a violation of the Ku Klux Clan statute”
Megyn Kelly · Jan 2026 · 2 episodes · 391K views on this topic
She argues that the American legal system should not be a tool for selective prosecution and that laws must apply to everyone equally.
“you don't want somebody just saying oh i know he's guilty because you need to have standards of evidence and you need to actually have laws that apply to everybody and and when i said big caveats obviously we're in this horrible place right now where the laws don't apply equally to everybody”
Heather Cox Richardson · Jun 2021 · 1 episode · 12K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Jun 2021