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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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A Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmation-Hearing Pr...
An absence of substantive opposition and a surfeit of partisan posturing.
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Anita Hill on the Supreme Court’s Future
The upcoming confirmation, and what it means for the court’s future—and for America’s future.
55 min
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Why “Cheap Speech” Threatens Democracy
Rick Hasen on the speech that’s undermining elections, and what to do about it.
28 min
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And the Nominee Is … Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson
President Biden’s Supreme Court pick is unprecedented.
52 min
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Politics Masquerading as Law
Rep. Adam Schiff on the Jan. 6 investigation, and the end of Section II of the Voting Rights Act comes not with a bang but a shadow docket order.
65 min
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Justice Breyer to Retire
The apolitical pragmatist makes the pragmatic political choice.
55 min
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COVID in the Courtroom
When public health and the Supreme Court collide.
35 min
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2021 Was a Direct Response to 2020
The NAACP LDF’s Sherrilyn Ifill on what happens when you win the culture but lose the courts.
49 min
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Jan. 6: The Coup That Wasn’t, but Still Could Be
Accounting for the accountability gap in Washington.
54 min
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The Purported Right to Abortion
Texas’ bounty scheme worries the chief justice, but his conservative colleagues think it’s just fine.
27 min
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Inside the Arguments in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s...
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority eyes overturning Roe v Wade.
83 min
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Everybody Wants to Be Scalia
A significant jurisprudential theme is emerging at the Supreme Court, with big implications for the climate and the environment.
57 min
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Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas
The Supreme Court grapples with the Second Amendment and abortion
61 min
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The Supreme Court’s Role in Police Violence
Analysing decades of jurisprudence that prop up racist police practices and block reform.
62 min
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The Trump Court and the Roberts Court
What the data about decisions can tell us about the new Supreme Court term
46 min
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The Supreme Court’s Charm Offensive
Three out of nine justices really want you to know they are not partisan.
36 min
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The Legal Repercussions of the War on Terror
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, Baher Azmy reflects on how our legal and constitutional axes shifted.
52 min
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Abortion, Surveillance, and Vigilantism : An Am...
SB 8 is unconstitutional and good to go in Texas (and probably a bunch of other states too).
60 min
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Pauli Murray: Lawyer, Poet, Priest, Trailblazer
We’re only just catching up to Pauli Murray.
60 min
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The Lawlessness of Property and Ownership
Property law isn’t what you think it is, and it doesn’t do what you think it does.
59 min
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“Braided In”: The Second Amendment and Anti-Bla...
Tracking the Second Amendment through a history rooted in slavery to a present of persistent asymmetry.
52 min
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A To-Do List for Senate Democrats
Is it too late to tackle the filibuster, voting rights, and the judiciary?
49 min
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An Elegy for the Voting Rights Act
Democracy is not what this Supreme Court is all about.
64 min
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Fulton: Bigger Than We Thought?
Religion gains “most favored nation status” at the Supreme Court.
42 min
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From the Snapchat Cheerleader to Katie Porter’s...
Decision time at the Supreme Court, and Rep. Porter on why corruption is a national security issue.
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