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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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The Neglected Constitutional History That Disqu...
But will the Supreme Court’s originalists stick to their guns in next week’s Colorado ballot case?
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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
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Greg Abbott and the Battle for the Texas Border
What a constitutional crisis looks like up close and personal.
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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.
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Deja Coup: Donald Trump and the Slow Civil War
Stop waiting for the next insurrection—we’re already in it.
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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.
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The Many Trials of Donald J. Trump
Donald Trump needs the courts to work for him in 2024. Will they?
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Texas Abortion Laws’ Cruel Outcomes
The results of overturning Roe have reached their awful, logical conclusion.
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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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Remembering Sandra Day O’Connor
Reflections from Justice O’Connor’s former clerk on the woman who bore the burden of “first” at SCOTUS
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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?
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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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