Early Returns - Law and Politics with Jan Baran

About Early Returns - Law and Politics with Jan Baran

Elections, lobbying, voting, and campaigning today are intense and filled with increasingly complex rules and resulting legal disputes. “Early Returns: Law and Politics with Jan Baran” spotlights players on the field, including political professionals, activists, election officials, lawyers, and journalists, eliciting their insights and personal experiences. Join Jan and his guests as they tackle current controversies in law and politics. Jan Baran is a partner at Holtzman Vogel Baran Torchinsky & Josefiak PLLC.

Publisher

Jan Baran

Category

news

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

22 Feb 2022

Latest episode

26 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

32 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Aug 2026

   Bob Bauer - A White House Counsel Explains Where Law Ends and Politics Begins

   The hardest question in political law isn’t a case cite or a filing deadline. It’s “Who is the client?” We sit down with Bob Bauer, longtime election lawyer, former Obama White House counsel, and author of The Unraveling, to unpack how that single question drives ethics, privilege, and decision-making at the highest levels of government. We start with the post-Watergate world that built modern campaign finance regulation: contribution limits, disclosure, the creation of the Federal Election ...

2. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Inside the New Redistricting Wars with Richard Pildes and Jason Torchinsky

   Congressional maps are being redrawn in the middle of the decade, the Supreme Court has sharply narrowed a core piece of the Voting Rights Act, and both parties are racing to squeeze out every seat they can before 2028. On this episode of Early Returns, host Jan Baran sorts through what is actually happening with two lawyers who have argued these cases: Richard Pildes, professor of law at NYU and former legal advisor to the Obama and Biden campaigns, and Jason Torchinsky, partner at Holtzman ...

3. 

   19 May 2026

   Sarah Isgur - Last Branch Standing: Inside the Court That Everyone Gets Wrong

   Jan Baran sits down with Sarah Isgur, author of the New York Times bestseller Last Branch Standing, for a wide-ranging conversation about law, campaigns, and the Supreme Court. Sarah draws on her experience in opposition research, Election Day legal operations for Romney 2012, and her role as deputy campaign manager of the Carly Fiorina campaign to explore what it really means to be a lawyer in politics. She makes the case that a good campaign lawyer's job isn't to say no. It’s to find ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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