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Live From SXSW, With Sen. Jeff Merkley
Democracy reform, voting rights, and the legislation he hopes will ensure both.
11 min
227
“An Injury To Their Electoral Prospects”
Inside the arguments in a case that could gut voting rights even further.
72 min
228
First Amendment Fallacies
When data-scraping is speech, but whistleblowing isn’t, we might need a new frame.
42 min
229
Impeachment’s Message and Meaning
What we’re learning from the second Senate trial of Donald J Trump.
82 min
230
Inside Impeachment
A key voice from Impeachment 1.0 on what’s happening with Impeachment 2.0
51 min
231
The Domestic Terror Arm of MAGA
Counterterrorism should inform the response to Trumpism.
40 min
232
The Predictability is Part of the Tragedy
Joshua Geltzer on what so many saw coming—and failed to prevent.
50 min
233
Truth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United ...
A lesson from history in finding the truth when the Justice Department has been complicit in the cover-up.
63 min
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Justice Breyer, In His Own Words
An Interview with the court’s eldest sitting justice on life and life’s lessons.
6 min
235
How Amy Coney Barrett is Already Making a Mark ...
Plus Michigan’s secretary of state and the real bellwethers for defending democracy.
54 min
236
Trump’s Pardonpalooza
Amnesty and clemency under an unprecedented president.
55 min
237
“How Does This End Well?”
Stumbling in courtrooms and sweating in press conferences, Trump’s election fraud fever dream spreads.
57 min
238
Empty Suits
Do Trump’s lawyers have the goods?
51 min
239
The Canaries in the Coal Mine of Justice
Sherrilyn Ifill on the early warnings the legal establishment ignored.
64 min
240
The American Contest
Historical context for the conservative project to capture the courts.
48 min
241
The Litmus Test
What hostility to abortion rights really predicts.
46 min
242
What Progressives Got Wrong About the Judiciary
Politics, power, and the Supreme Court.
65 min
243
Testing the Election
Votes are already being cast. Will chaos be the winner?
59 min
244
The Senate Judiciary Committee and Boxing Kanga...
Dahlia Lithwick, Elie Mystal, and Mark Joseph Stern on girding for a fight and choosing your battles.
49 min
245
Quiet Words That Remain
The cases, opinions, and dissents you may have missed from Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s decades in court.
38 min
246
A Conversation about Conversations with RBG
Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Rosen on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jurisprudence—and her character.
65 min
247
An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dahlia Lithwick’s complete January interview with Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.
43 min
248
Bill Barr’s American Carnage
The attorney general is not just a Trump enabler, he has his own agenda.
62 min
249
Dozens of Baby Bush v Gores
The new fronts of voting rights battles.
62 min
250
Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"
Working's June Thomas talks with Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about the project.
28 min