Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchExpand the Courts (Without Overthinking It)
Episode 106
As Boom! Lawyered returns for its fifth season, #TeamLegal has come to the inexorable conclusion that it's time to expand the courts. But is there a …
5 years, 7 months ago
The Wild Resume of Amy Coney Barrett
Episode 105
Trump's newest Supreme Court nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, has challenged marriage equality, opposed abortion rights, misgendered transgender people, a…
5 years, 7 months ago
Tonight, We Lost a Giant
Episode 104
RIP, Justice Ginsburg. Nothing will be the same.
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5 years, 7 months ago
Rapid Reaction: A Good Day for Theocracy at SCOTUS
Episode 103
Employers who love to wield religious freedom as a cudgel scored a couple big wins at the U.S. Supreme Court today, including a decision allowing emp…
5 years, 9 months ago
What It's Like to Argue—and Win—at the Supreme Court
Episode 102
Julie Rikelman of the Center for Reproductive Rights did the unthinkable in 2020: As the lead attorney representing June Medical in June Medical Serv…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rapid Reaction: A Great Decision (Plus a Roberts Time Bomb) on Abortion Access
Episode 101
The June Medical Services v. Russo decision is in, and it's 5-4 in favor of the very obvious truth: Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt already decid…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rapid Reaction: Supreme Court Protects DREAMers
Episode 100
For the second time in a week, the Supreme Court came down on the side of justice! On Thursday morning, it blocked the Trump administration's efforts…
5 years, 10 months ago
Rapid Reaction: Supreme Court Protects LGBTQ Employees
Episode 99
A big Supreme Court decision just arrived, and it's comprehensively awesome. In a 6-3 ruling, the Court confirmed that "an employer who fires an indi…
5 years, 10 months ago
How to Defund the Police
Episode 98
Racism is baked into the U.S. model of policing. More and more people are starting to believe that no amount of "reform" will help; a full tear-down …
5 years, 10 months ago
This School Keeps Fighting to Discriminate Against Trans Kids
Episode 97
Gavin Grimm has been challenging a policy at his former high school that requires transgender students to use separate bathroom facilities. On Tuesda…
5 years, 11 months ago