Sidebar by Courthouse News

About Sidebar by Courthouse News

Sidebar by Courthouse News tackles the stories you need to know from the legal world. Join reporters Hillel Aron, Kirk McDaniel, Amanda Pampuro, Kelsey Reichmann and Josh Russell as they take you in and out of courtrooms in the U.S. and beyond and break down all the developments that had them talking.

Publisher

Courthouse News

Category

news · news · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 May 2021

Latest episode

18 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

82 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   18 Aug 2026

   The Data Center Gold Rush

   The latest gold rush isn’t buried in the dirt. It’s powered by servers. As tech giants race to build hyperscale data centers for the artificial intelligence boom, the promise of economic growth is colliding with growing resistance from rural communities. In our eighth episode this season, we take you to rural Texas, where Paluxy River Valley residents are determined to protect their water, land and way of life. Why has Texas become a new frontier for this rapidly expanding industry? Tech advo...

2. 

   2 Jun 2026

   Abandoning Hartman

   Editor’s note: This episode contains some explicit language. Listener discretion is advised. A town with no mayor, no trustees, no clerk, and no publicly funded water system. In our seventh episode this season, we travel four hours east of Denver to Hartman, Colorado, where a modern-day "Hatfields and McCoys" feud drove the entire town board to quit. After years of bitter infighting, contested elections, financial disputes, and a physical altercation at a town meeting, the tiny plains c...

3. 

   12 May 2026

   The Self-Driving Dilemma

   Hold on to your butts as we take a ride through the self-driving car revolution to see if the future of transportation is a techno-utopia or another way for Big Tech to grab the wheel of our lives. While some see a world where you can nap through a traffic jam, others see a data-hungry machine poised to replace human workers. In our sixth episode this season, we ride along in a Waymo through the streets of Austin, Texas, to explore how "the law of the newly possible" is struggling to keep up ...

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

222,101

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100

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

Quality

28

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

82

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