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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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The Constitutional Truth At The Heart Of The DO...
Elon Musk cannot, as a legal matter, be simultaneously leading DOGE and also not leading DOGE.
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Sneak Preview: What Trump’s First Big Loss At S...
While Justices Roberts and Barrett agree the administration should pay $2 billion it owes in foreign aid, four justices are apparently cool with a bit of contempt of court.
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When the Lawyers are Lawless
We’re now a country where you don’t know if you’re being arrested or kidnapped (and that’s the point).
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Long Live The King?
Spotting the difference between “muscular unitary executive” and “monarchy” is getting tougher by the day.
52 min
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The Gangster Presidency
The DoJ’s Eric Adams shakedown sets off a series of defiant and courageous resignations.
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Trying To Undo A Coup, In The Courts
This week saw an unbroken string of legal losses for Trump and Musk. But will losing in court slow their roll?
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Trump’s American Takeover
Autocracy doesn’t always start with tanks in the streets.
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Extra: The Federal Funding Freeze
Trump’s chaotic and illegal order to freeze agency funding usurps Congress’s power and sets up a dangerous game of constitutional chicken at SCOTUS.
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Trump’s Unconstitutional Rampage Against Immigr...
What’s a red flag, what’s a false alarm and what’s already a five alarm fire.
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Preview: Deciphering The Lawlessness of Trump’s...
The first salvo of presidential pronouncements feature a litany of sloppy lawyering and unconstitutional wishlists
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The New Constitutional (dis)Order
The law as we have known it is fundamentally shifting. Just look at the TikTok ban, or the presumptive attorney general.
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TikTok Is Cooked, Trump Is Sentenced
The Supreme Court had a very busy end of week, what comes next is anyone's guess
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Preview: Trump’s Racking Up Supreme Court Loyal...
Trump’s accountability evasion litigation enters a new era: erasing the record.
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John Roberts’ New Year Blame Game
The Chief chose to misappropriate some civil rights history for his end-of-year victimhood claiming.
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Dead Amendment Walking
We answer your smart, incisive, sometimes panicked, questions about the courts, the law, and the constitution, as we slide into Trump 2.0
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Defamation Stations!
Journalism will need to lawyer up and build up courage if it’s going to survive Trump’s blizzard of litigation against the fourth estate.
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Chris Wray Just Made Way For Something Even Wor...
Understanding the dire consequences of the FBI Director’s decision to roll out a welcome mat for the new MAGA FBI.
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Meet Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s New Roy Cohn
Why Trump’s pick for the non-vacant position to lead the FBI is a seriously scary proposition.
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The Right’s About-Turn on Parental Rights
Next week’s trans healthcare ban case at SCOTUS reveals the conservative legal movement’s deepest hypocrisies.
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Can The Senate Save Us?
From Cabinet confirmations to judicial vacancies, will the Senate supercharge Trump’s lawlessness, or curb it?
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Matt Gaetz And The Clown Car Crash Into The Jus...
Justice and free speech are getting crushed in the name of “justice” and “free speech.”
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Trump’s Back, This Time Without Guardrails.
Can anything be done to mitigate MAGA’s harms the second time around?
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Deep Breath, Here We Go
Democracy has delivered the lightning bolt that can bring the Supreme Court’s vision of executive power to life.
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The Great Big Pre-Election Freedom and Democrac...
We have to think big if we’re going to get through this.
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The 1798 Law Inspiring Trump’s Mass Deportation...
America has left a loaded anti immigrant gun lying around. A future administration could pick it up and use it against millions of people.
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