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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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Yes, You Can Vote for an Insurrectionist
The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to the Colorado primary ballot, but a clutch of conservative justices went further - neutering 14th amendment’s insurrection clause.
8 min
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The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
58 min
53
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy.
51 min
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Fani Willis and a Tale of Two Ethics Violations
Ethics for thee but not for me in the many trials of Donald Trump
50 min
55
Is SCOTUS Afraid of Holding Trump to Account?
The Justices were so obsessed with finding off-ramps in the Trump disqualification case, they may have set a dangerous trap for the future.
50 min
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The Trump Trials Doomsday Clock Just Ticked a S...
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals invites the US Supreme Court to join another game of chicken with the 2024 election.
6 min
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The Neglected Constitutional History That Disqu...
But will the Supreme Court’s originalists stick to their guns in next week’s Colorado ballot case?
50 min
58
Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
What the E. Jean Carroll Trials Tell Us About Republicans’ Devolving Views on Women
32 min
59
Greg Abbott and the Battle for the Texas Border
What a constitutional crisis looks like up close and personal.
48 min
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The Supreme Court Gave Itself Huge Extra Powers...
Next week’s Loper Bright case could change the way the government works. It also highlights the danger of the Supreme Court picking questions to suit its politics.
60 min
61
Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War
Stop waiting for the next insurrection—we’re already in it.
55 min
62
The Very Worst of SCOTUS 2023
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Stern join forces for their second annual barrel-scraping rundown of the Supreme Court’s worst moments of the past year.
53 min
63
The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump needs the courts to work for him in 2024. Will they?
42 min
64
Texas Abortion Laws’ Cruel Outcomes
The results of overturning Roe have reached their awful, logical conclusion.
57 min
65
Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
Are oligarchs getting the return they deserve on their SCOTUS investments?
45 min
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Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor
Reflections from Justice O’Connor’s former clerk on the woman who bore the burden of “first” at SCOTUS
59 min
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From "The Political Scene": Trump's Vindictive...
From our friends at The New Yorker's “The Political Scene” podcast, what would a second Trump Administration look like in comparison to the first, and how would America’s democratic institutions fare?
35 min
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Is The Federalist Society Over?
What’s next for the conservative legal movement after its “dog catches car” moment.
43 min
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Dunking On Trump's Lawyers Might Not Be The Win...
The lawyering may be bad and the dunking may be fun, but both things miss the point.
60 min
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The Right to Bear Arms and Terrorize Your Partner
Gun safety advocate Shannon Watts on why the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment absolutism is particularly deadly for women
43 min
71
Watching Trump Shrink in Court
As a slew of flipping alleged co-conspirators reveal, inside a courtroom may be the only place where the Venn diagram between LOL hilarious and actual meaningful democratic accountability overlaps.
50 min
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Donald Trump's John Gotti Moment
Sidney Powell could be the former President’s “Sammy the Bull”, but that won’t necessarily protect democracy.
52 min
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Justice Samuel Alito Got Out Of Bed on The Per...
SCOTUS turned into a trial court this week as conservatives sought to refute evidence of a racial gerrymander in South Carolina
46 min
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Senator Elizabeth Warren is Deeply Worried Abou...
Government is in the crosshairs this Supreme Court term. Senator Elizabeth Warren’s argument for saving the administrative state is also a closing argument in defense of democracy.
63 min
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A Monumental SCOTUS Term Begins: Our Reluctant ...
On the brink of a new term, with plunging public trust and swirling ethics scandals, the Supreme Court eyes dismantling the regulatory state and arming domestic abusers.
55 min