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A show about the law and the nine Supreme Court justices who interpret it for the rest of America.
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Behind the Scenes of "The Class of RBG"
Working's June Thomas talks with Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about the project.
28 min
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An Interview With Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Dahlia Lithwick talks to Justice Ginsburg about her time at Harvard Law School--and about her fellow female classmates.
8 min
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Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part Two
Ruth Bader Ginsburg and two of her classmates discuss their lives from Harvard Law School through today.
30 min
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Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG Part One
Who were the nine other women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Harvard Law Class? The justice remembers them all.
35 min
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Coming Soon
Amicus Presents: The Class of RBG
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Roberts vs. Trump
As the Supreme Court term comes to a close, the chief justice shows his political acuity.
50 min
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What’s Left of Roe v. Wade?
Exploring the division of opinion in June Medical Services LLC v Russo.
41 min
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Blockbusters: DACA and Title VII
Dissecting two huge decisions in one Supreme Court week.
82 min
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Race, Police, and The Law
Where is the justice and what is this Justice Department?
53 min
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Immunity, Impunity, and Justice by the Numbers
The financial records cases, who’s getting cut off on the all-new SCOTUS call-in show, and why the law is for suckers.
60 min
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Big Days for Justice
Bill Barr drops things, SCOTUS phones it in, and Little Sisters intervene.
61 min
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States’ Rights
Colorado State Attorney General Phil Weiser on cooperative federalism, COVID-19, and faithless electors.
42 min
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Why, Wisconsin?
Election lawyer Marc Elias on what this week’s election mess can teach us ahead of November.
51 min
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Protecting Democracy in a Pandemic
What we need to hold onto, especially during the COVID-19 crisis.
58 min
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The Law of Public Health
Professor Michele Goodwin on holding onto civil liberties when the world turns upside down.
53 min
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Have Progressives Lost the Courts for Good?
Big questions for the new president of the American Constitution Society, Russ Feingold.
45 min
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Election Meltdown, Professor Brendan Nyhan
How disinformation undermines elections.
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Election Meltdown, Part 5
Doomsday scenarios and hopeful actions in the final part of our voting-rights series.
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Election Meltdown, Part 4
Rhetoric and reality: When is it OK to say an election was “stolen”?
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Election Meltdown, Part 3
Delving into the big bag of dirty tricks ahead of the 2020 election.
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Election Meltdown, Part 2
Paper jams, lost forms, and lost boxes—incompetence and elections.
32 min
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Impeachment's Aftermath
Precedents for future presidents, and questions for current citizens
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Election Meltdown, Part 1
The voter fraud that wasn’t, the voter suppression that is.
40 min
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A Trial That's Not A Trial
As the Chief Justice and Senators swear in for Donald J Trump’s impeachment trial, a lawyer’s eye view of proceedings.
48 min
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What Is Impeachment For?
Live from the Aspen Institute, a conversation about the case against Donald Trump.
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