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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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Election Meltdown, Part 4
Rhetoric and reality: When is it OK to say an election was “stolen”?
50 min
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Election Meltdown, Part 3
Delving into the big bag of dirty tricks ahead of the 2020 election.
54 min
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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
43 min
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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.
5 min
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Buckle Up, John Roberts
Looking ahead to a turbulent 2020 for the chief justice.
50 min
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Divided Realities
Lawyers on the crisis at the border, and a cacophony of bad faith in the Capitol.
66 min
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Slate Presents: Lockdown
Living through the era of school shootings, one drill at a time.
24 min
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Impeaching Other Presidents
History lessons and a constitutional law clinic at the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment.
61 min
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Bonus: A Conversation About Conversations With...
Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Rosen on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s jurisprudence—and her character.
66 min
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Your Move, Mitch
The next steps for impeachment, and deciphering the DACA arguments with Janet Napolitano.
64 min
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Live Bonus: Press Freedom
In partnership with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
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A Look at the Original Quid Pro Quo: Emoluments.
We’re talking fact patterns: impeachment, the federal courts, and emoluments.
67 min
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Bonus: Impeachment and the “Spy Stuff”
House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Jim Himes on the intersection of the law and national security.
35 min
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The Conservative Legal Resistance
Stuart Gerson on the case for impeachment from the right, plus Cyrus Habib on listening.
57 min
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Impeachment Primer
Answering all the questions you’ve had about the constitutional crisis but were afraid to ask.
66 min
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Get Ready for the Most Significant Supreme Cour...
The justices are tackling abortion, guns, DACA, and LGBTQ rights.
45 min
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How Donald Trump Weaponizes the Law
From his first real-estate suits all the way to Ukrainegate, Trump’s legal (and extralegal) bag of tricks.
79 min
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The Clerk’s Eye View of Justice John Paul Stevens
Remembering the late Supreme Court justice with Professors Sonja West and Jamal Greene.
65 min
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Redefining The Executive Power
Overturning the conventional wisdom on presidential powers with a radical reading of constitutional history.
55 min
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Lawyers, Who Needs 'Em?
What the lack of legal representation in the civil courts can teach us about justice.
39 min
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Let's Start with Race
Michele Goodwin on America’s defining issue, and on papering over the gaping holes in the constitution.
63 min
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The End of an Era, and the Cult of the Constitu...
What we lost with the passing of Justice John Paul Stevens, and Mary Anne Franks on what we lose when we unquestioningly revere the nation’s founding document.
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