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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 Purported Right to Abortion
Texas’ bounty scheme worries the chief justice, but his conservative colleagues think it’s just fine.
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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
154
Guns on the Subway and Vigilantes in Texas
The Supreme Court grapples with the Second Amendment and abortion
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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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The Return of The Waves!
Re-introducing Slate's podcast about feminism and gender
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The Conservative Legal Project Comes Home to Roost
Roe-endangering SCOTUS grants, Texas laws, and how we got here.
75 min
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Rudy and the Death of Truth
Preet Bharara on prosecutions, accountability, and what we can’t move on from in the post-Trump era.
54 min
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The Verdict, the Video, and the Unreasonable Bu...
George Floyd’s murder and the history of bearing witness while Black in America.
58 min
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Why Are Republicans Upset About Corporate Free ...
Corporate money in politics, and the right to boycott.
54 min
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Woulda, Coulda SCOTUS
The modern history of the Supreme Court’s trampling of equality, and the decisions that might have changed all that.
51 min
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Live From SXSW, With Sen. Jeff Merkley
Democracy reform, voting rights, and the legislation he hopes will ensure both.
11 min
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“An Injury To Their Electoral Prospects”
Inside the arguments in a case that could gut voting rights even further.
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First Amendment Fallacies
When data-scraping is speech, but whistleblowing isn’t, we might need a new frame.
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