Podcast Episodes

SCOTUS Is About to Turbocharge Presidential Power

Season 7

Leah, Kate, and Melissa recap the oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter, a case that could nuke the administrative state as we know it by giving Trump broad leeway to fire heads of independent agencies…

Published on 2 hours ago

We Need To Talk About Trump’s Maritime Murders

Season 7

Kate, Melissa, and Leah are joined by Professor Rebecca Ingber of Cardozo Law to break down the blatant illegality of the administration’s murders of alleged “narcoterrorists” in the waters off South…

Published on 1 week ago

SCOTUS Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering in Texas

Season 7

In this emergency episode, Leah, Melissa and Kate break down the Supreme Court’s shadow docket order allowing Texas to use racist and Republican-skewed district maps in next year’s midterms.

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Published on 1 week, 2 days ago

December Preview: SCOTUS Doubles Down on Its BS

Season 7

Kate, Leah, and Melissa kick off the show by speaking with New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin about First Choice Women’s Resource Centers  v. Platkin, whose wonky exterior masks an under-the…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Boy Math, Boy Law, Man Problems

Season 7

Leah, Melissa, and Kate dive into the raging legal battles over redistricting ahead of next year’s midterms, Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan’s massive oopsies in her prosecution of James Comey…

Published on 3 weeks ago

The Agonies of Brett Kavanaugh

Season 7

Kate and Leah run through the latest legal news, including updates on the SNAP benefits case, the email dump that revealed Jeffrey Epstein's deep ties to the establishment, and the political persecut…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Will SCOTUS Say No to Trump’s Tariffs?

Season 7

Live from Crooked Con in Washington, Leah, Kate, and Melissa unpack the surprisingly not-awful oral arguments for Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump, which put the president's tariffs in the hot seat.…

Published on 1 month ago

The Legal Battles Over Trump’s War on Blue Cities

Season 7

Kate, Leah, and Melissa dive into the legal pushback over ICE and the National Guard in Chicago and Portland, anti-marriage equality goblin Kim Davis’s unwelcome return to the courts, the administrat…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Trump’s DOJ Shakedown

Season 7

Kate and Leah dig into a very busy week of legal news as Trump wields his SCOTUS-enabled executive power in increasingly unhinged ways. They also discuss continuing challenges to the president’s depl…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Will the Voting Rights Act Survive SCOTUS?

Season 7

Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down last week’s agonizing two-and-a-half-hour oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could see the already weakened Voting Rights Act gutted even further. T…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago