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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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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.
47 min
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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?
40 min
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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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How To Steal A Presidential Election
You asked, we answered. Can republicans use the law to subvert this year’s election? What can be done to stop that?
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27 Years On Death Row
Richard Glossip’s case shines a light on the gross inadequacies of American justice, will the Supreme Court look away?
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What We’re Watching This New Supreme Court Term
It’s not the cases, it’s the mayhem.
48 min
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Sneak Preview: The RFK Jr Ballot Mess in North ...
A dissenting Justice explains why it was a sad day for the court and the state.
11 min
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The Next Supreme Court Gun Fight
This case has even more deadly implications than last term’s bumpstocks decision.
40 min
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The Chief Justice Tips His Hand
Why did John Roberts help Trump delay criminal accountability?
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Why Ron DeSantis Hates Direct Democracy
Florida Republicans’ new anti-abortion playbook is an anti-democracy playbook
47 min
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Subvert the Election, But Make It Legal
MAGA learned a lot about election law in 2020 so they’re changing the rules for 2024
55 min
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The Legal Fallout of Trump’s Immunity
How SCOTUS’ Trump v. United States decision is impacting all the Trump cases two months later
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The Forgotten Jan 6th Case Against Trump
Meet the “private attorneys general” using the KKK act to hold Trump accountable in civil court.
3 min
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Don’t Pardon Trump’s Pardons
Why the former president’s use of the pardon is something to be very worried about.
2 min
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Michael Cohen and the Trump Lawyers Who Get Burned
Why are lawyers willing to risk it all to serve the former president?
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Why Donald Trump Sues Everyone
“All lawsuits, all the time” was Trump’s business model. Now it’s his campaign strategy.
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Judge David Tatel and a New Perspective on the ...
David S. Tatel explains how SCOTUS went astray, and the lessons he learned during his time on the bench.
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SCOTUS Doesn’t Have To Be This Way
One of the world’s most respected jurists compares the US Supreme Court to the most widely cited western democratic high court - Canada’s
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Judge Aileen Cannon Closes Trump Mar-a-Lago Cla...
Ruling Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment unconstitutional was a big swing, but could it actually revive the case?
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