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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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Is The Federalist Society Over?
What’s next for the conservative legal movement after its “dog catches car” moment.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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SCOTUS Is Not Done With Guns and Abortion
The excesses of the 2021 term bleed into a new SCOTUS term with the possibility of gun rights for abusers post-Bruen, and the impossible tension between medicine and the law post-Dobbs.
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The Supreme Court We Deserve?
Award-winning documentarian and lawyer Dawn Porter grapples with the Supreme Court’s path to this perilous moment in “Deadlocked”
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Alabama Double-Dares SCOTUS Over Voting Maps
Litigator Marc Elias on fighting for voting rights in the courts against Republicans who increasingly fetishize lawlessness and losing.
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Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of Wi...
Judge Margaret M. McKeown of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on her book about a Supreme Court Justice, public advocate and conservation champion.
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The Family Roe
Joshua Prager on his epic investigation of “An American Story”: the complex life and family background of Norma McCorvey (AKA Jane Roe in Roe v Wade).
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The Fear of Too Much Justice
Stephen Bright on all the ways America condemns people of color, the poor, and the sick, to a second class justice system from the Supreme Court in down.
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Zero-Sum Justice
Joel Anderson on Justice Clarence Thomas’ journey to his worldview, and Heather McGhee on what her work in The Sum of Us can tell us about the Supreme Court.
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Supreme Arrogance
Sherrilyn Ifill, Jamelle Bouie and Steve Vladeck join Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern for an end-of-term roundup, taking a close look at SCOTUS’ opinions and the Justices who issued them.
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MAGA SCOTUS Is Back
The Supreme Court’s conservatives return to form, stripping protections for same-sex couples, striking down student loan relief, and ending race-conscious college admissions.
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The End of Affirmative Action
The six conservative justices say no more race-conscious college admissions, proffering irrational carve-outs and no clear path forward.
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Moore v Harper Was a Win for Democracy, A Big L...
Chief Justice John Roberts steps in again to defend US democracy’s status quo, with an added bonus of sticking it to federal defendant and former President Donald J Trump.
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Supreme Court Politics One Year On From Dobbs
A year after SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade and wrought suffering and death, Democrats are still really bad at talking about Supreme Court politics.
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Samuel Alito and The Billionaire
Pre-butting his bought-and-paid-for Alaskan fishing adventure story in the Wall Street Journal is… A choice!
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SCOTUS Wants To Drain The Swamp, Too
Justice Alito’s opinion in Sackett clears the way for filling in. paving over, and otherwise threatening millions of acres of wetlands.
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Is A New Supreme Court Emerging?
What week two of not getting punched in the face by SCOTUS tells us about what’s going on at the High Court.
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Can Trump Outrun The Law?
The case against the former President is “airtight”, but is that enough?
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The Trump Indictment
Jack Smith lays out the charges against former President Donald J Trump
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