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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 2 hours 26 minutes
A Monumental SCOTUS Term Begins: Our Reluctant Curtain-Raiser
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.
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.
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”
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.
Citizen Justice: The Environmental Legacy of William O. Douglas
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.