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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 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.
76 min
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The Return of The Waves!
Re-introducing Slate's podcast about feminism and gender
34 min
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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.
72 min
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First Amendment Fallacies
When data-scraping is speech, but whistleblowing isn’t, we might need a new frame.
42 min
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Impeachment’s Message and Meaning
What we’re learning from the second Senate trial of Donald J Trump.
82 min
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Inside Impeachment
A key voice from Impeachment 1.0 on what’s happening with Impeachment 2.0
51 min
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The Domestic Terror Arm of MAGA
Counterterrorism should inform the response to Trumpism.
40 min
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The Predictability is Part of the Tragedy
Joshua Geltzer on what so many saw coming—and failed to prevent.
50 min
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Truth, Reconciliation, and Korematsu v. United ...
A lesson from history in finding the truth when the Justice Department has been complicit in the cover-up.
63 min
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Justice Breyer, In His Own Words
An Interview with the court’s eldest sitting justice on life and life’s lessons.
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