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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 Anti-Trump Cases That Have Changed The Game
Key legal takeaways from 100 days of lawlessness.
68 min
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Playing Chicken With the Constitution
Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are revving up for a face off between the president and the courts.
71 min
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A Lawyer’s Guide to Not Caving to the President
55 min
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Sneak Preview: The Supreme Court Just Gave The ...
Five justices used an emergency ruling to reward Trump’s DOJ and severely restrict hundreds of detainees’ access to justice.
6 min
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He Was Deported by Administrative Error. We Tal...
Will the Trump administration follow a federal judge’s orders and bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia home?
48 min
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Trump’s Plan To Put A Chokehold On Voting
The SAVE act plus this week’s executive order targeting voting are the biggest proposed restrictions on the right to vote in Congress’ history.
69 min
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The Rule of Law Took A Very Dark Turn This Week
From rendition flights to El Salvador, to USAID workers left stranded in dangerous places, the courts are tackling Trump’s wildest lawless acts, but meeting with denial and defiance.
73 min
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Sneak Preview: An Escalating Constitutional Crisis
9 min
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Big Law Stands Up
After an initial shock, signs of big firms fighting back against Trump. Will it be enough?
35 min
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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.
58 min
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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.
7 min
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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).
44 min
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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.
72 min
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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?
56 min
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Trump’s American Takeover
Autocracy doesn’t always start with tanks in the streets.
52 min
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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.
38 min
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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.
59 min
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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
12 min
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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.
54 min
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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
56 min
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Preview: Trump’s Racking Up Supreme Court Loyal...
Trump’s accountability evasion litigation enters a new era: erasing the record.
6 min
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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.
60 min
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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
47 min
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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.
43 min