Gathered around one table in New York are Ed Hayes, the famous lawyer who has inspired books and had a Robert de Niro-endorsed cameo in Goodfellas; Barry Scheck, the co-founder of The Innocence Project and a potential candidate for a Nobel prize; Des Bishop, the Irish-American multilingual comedian; and Sam Smyth. Over an hour of conversation, an unlikely match of lawyers and personalities talk about Donald Trump, Robert F Kennedy Junior and their personal connections to a Republican party that is no longer recognisable from a decade ago. It is a raucous exchange of stories and ideas and is definitely…

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