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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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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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Opinionpalooza: This SCOTUS Decision Is Actuall...
While we were worrying about the blockbuster decision to overturn Chevron, the Court decided a clutch of other cases that will supercharge the dismantling of government as we know it.
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Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court End-of-Term B...
As we look back on a Supreme Court term that still has us reeling, some really surprising new trends have emerged from the justices.
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Opinionpalooza: The Supreme Court Puts Preside...
The Supreme Court says, if you’re the President, we’ll let you do it.
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Opinionpalooza: The Day SCOTUS Became President
The Supreme Court has decided they know more than everyone else about everything ever
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Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS and MAGA’s Shared Vision...
Cases aimed at dismantling the administrative state mean clean air and functioning government take a big hit at the high court.
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Opinionpalooza: The Vanishing Emergency Abortio...
Why timing is everything in opinion season; Justice Barrett bench-slaps the ‘Fightin’ Fifth’; and Justice Kavanaugh lends his hand to the Court’s federal corruption deregulation spree.
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Rahimi and The Roberts Court’s All New, Also Ol...
A (mostly) embarrassed Supreme Court majority tries to clean up sloppy (and deadly) Bruen with vague Rahimi. Justice Thomas is not embarrassed.
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Opinionpalooza: SCOTUS Says Yes to Bump Stocks,...
Justice Clarence Thomas overturns the bump stock ban in his deadly Garland v Cargill majority opinion.
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Opinionpalooza: Don’t Call the Mifepristone Cas...
SCOTUS's first big abortion decision of the term is a case of anti-abortionists winning while they're losing
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The Supreme Court’s Appeal to Heaven
The religious right’s influence goes far beyond a flag. A deep dive on Christian Nationalism and the US Supreme Court
53 min
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Will the Supreme Court Step Into Trump’s Hush M...
There are some alarmingly unconstitutional calls for the High Court to step in, will the conservative Justices take the bait?
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Opinionpalooza: The Court of King Alito
In case after case and in his now infamous flag response - Justice Samuel Alito is bending facts to fit his narrative, crowning himself this monarchic court’s sovereign.
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SPECIAL: Trump Guilty on All 34 Counts
A New York City jury voted to convict former President Donald J Trump of falsifying records to cover up the story of an affair with a porn star that threatened his chances in the 2016 presidential election.
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Opinionpalooza: A Bad June Rising At SCOTUS
The Supreme Court’s end-of-term is going to be chaos. It doesn’t have to be.
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Opinionpalooza: Justice Alito Flies the Flag fo...
The Supreme Court’s June rampage begins in May with a very bad racial gerrymander decision
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How Originalism Ate The Law: What We Can Do Abo...
Part three of our Originalism series examines how SCOTUS became captive and what we can do about it, in a live edition with Hawaii State Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins, Madiba Dennie, and Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern.
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Alito’s Stars and Gripes
What the Justice’s upside down American flag tells us about SCOTUS’ declining legitimacy.
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How Originalism Ate The Law: The Trap
Part two of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.
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How Originalism Ate the Law: The Trick
Part one of a series examining the theory of constitutional interpretation that has eaten the law and gobbled up a bunch of your rights with it.
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Democracy Dies at SCOTUS
Justice Alito suggests it’s better for democracy to let Presidents commit crime with impunity. Cool.
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