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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 3 hours 5 minutes
Twelve Jurors and One Angry Ex-President
What the first week of Trump’s hush money trial tells us about how the former President is handling his first criminal trial
The Jurisprudence of Bleeding Out
SCOTUS is about to decide whether being on the brink of death is the only way pregnant patients can qualify for emergency abortion care.
When Gag Orders Become Campaign-Performance Indicators
What to do when a presidential campaign folds in the characteristics of terrorism.
When RAGA Rhymes with MAGA
The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is part of the conservative legal movement’s holy trinity, and all in for Trump.
How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Will this Supreme Court reward three decades of activism against abortion pills and ban the safest, most popular abortion method in the United States?
Who Gets to Lie Online?
On Monday, the Supreme Court hears a case about the government’s ability to combat online misinformation about COVID and elections.
The Lies Destroying America
American democracy is losing the battle against disinformation, but all is not lost.
Yes, You Can Vote for an Insurrectionist
The Supreme Court unanimously restored Trump to the Colorado primary ballot, but a clutch of conservative justices went further - neutering 14th amendment’s insurrection clause.
The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Coming
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
A Series of Lawsuits That We Call an Election
How to fix the laws, and the gaps in the law, that are breaking American democracy.