Lev Menand

speaker

1,295 appearances 6 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 17 Jul

Lev Menand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 1.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

Odd Lots · The Fight Over Fed Independence Just Got Taken To a Whole New Level · 12 Jan 2026 podcast

And like not everybody can do that.

And that's part of the issue here is when the US federal government, you know, throws its full weight against an individual, very few people can afford personally, financially, to you know, to fight back.

And so a lot of people.

are frightened and and and a lot of people don't stand up.

And and so part of the story here is all of the sort of bullying that doesn't have to happen because people, you know, on their own change their behavior to avoid drawing the ire of the White House.

Yeah, absolutely.

There's a lot of elite lawyers that are scared to represent people who the administration perceives to be enemies because the administration has made clear that they will go after the lawyers who represent those people.

It's not even like uh wink, wink, nod, nod.

It's it's pretty explicit.

There are a number of firms that are representing clients who are in litigation with the administration, and they tend

To be firms that specialize in litigation and specialize in litigation against the government.

So like a Wilmer Hale is a firm that represents routinely clients that are in litigation with the government.

So it's a natural posture for them to take on, you know, the case of, say, an individual who's in litigation with the government.

But firms

that aren't otherwise, you know, in litigation with the government, um, you know, may decline to represent clients like this altogether.

And um that is also a big problem that goes that yeah, goes beyond this specific case.

afford it.

I think that the way the market prices, this sort of

potential

nonlinearity sort of regime change in our

Showing 381–400 of 1,295 · page 20 of 65