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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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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.
13 min
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Election Meltdown, Part 5
Doomsday scenarios and hopeful actions in the final part of our voting-rights series.
69 min
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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.
2 min
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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