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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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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.
54 min
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PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at SCOTUS
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case.
7 min
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Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial
35 min
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The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
SCOTUS is about to decide whether being on the brink of death is the only way pregnant patients can qualify for emergency abortion care.
65 min
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When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Performance Ind...
What to do when a presidential campaign folds in the characteristics of terrorism.
36 min
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When RAGA Rhymes with MAGA
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is part of the conservative legal movement’s holy trinity, and all in for Trump.
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How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Will this Supreme Court reward three decades of activism against abortion pills and ban the safest, most popular abortion method in the United States?
54 min
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Who Gets to Lie Online?
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears a case about the government’s ability to combat online misinformation about COVID and elections.
41 min
85
The Lies Destroying America
American democracy is losing the battle against disinformation, but all is not lost.
51 min
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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
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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
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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
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Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
What the E. Jean Carroll Trials Tell Us About Republicans’ Devolving Views on Women
32 min
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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
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Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War
Stop waiting for the next insurrection—we’re already in it.
55 min
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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
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The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump needs the courts to work for him in 2024. Will they?
42 min
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Texas Abortion Laws’ Cruel Outcomes
The results of overturning Roe have reached their awful, logical conclusion.
57 min
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Billionaires Had a Bad Week at the Supreme Court
Are oligarchs getting the return they deserve on their SCOTUS investments?
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