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How Democracies Collapse from Within
Episode 178
Professor Kim Scheppele has spent much of her career watching democracies rise and fall. She went to Hungary in the early 1990s expecting to study de…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Flexing U.S. Power in Venezuela
Episode 177
Can the United States arrest a foreign head of state by sending FBI agents—and military troops—into another country? On the latest episode of Stanfor…
4 months ago
Best of Stanford Legal: Trump's Pardons
Episode 154
What are the legal implications of the unprecedented mass pardoning of the January 6th rioters? What does it say about American rule of law?
Presiden…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Best of Stanford Legal: Suing DOGE
Episode 155
A coalition of privacy defenders led by Lex Lumina and the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit on February 11 asking a federal court to st…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Nationwide Injunctions After CASA
Episode 176
When a single federal judge can freeze a president’s policy nationwide, it raises big questions about checks and balances and democratic accountabili…
5 months ago
Crime, Justice, and Trump’s DOJ
Episode 175
Over a 35-year career at the Department of Justice, Jonathan Wroblewski, JD ’86, watched the country’s stance on criminal sentencing harden, soften, …
6 months ago
Navigating Uncertainty and Unprecedented Shifts in Federal Health Policy
Episode 174
“The amount of chaos that’s been introduced into the federal health policy landscape is unprecedented,” says Michelle Mello, professor at Stanford La…
6 months, 1 week ago
National Guard or Political Weapon?
Episode 173
When the National Guard shows up in American cities, it’s usually after hurricanes, fires, or floods, not political fights. But recent federal deploy…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Political Enemies and the Weaponization of the DOJ
Episode 172
When politics drives prosecutions, what happens to the rule of law? Are we in uncharted waters? Stanford Legal host Professor Pamela Karlan sits down…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
President Trump’s Tariffs and the Separation of Powers at the Supreme Court
Episode 171
In April, President Trump declared a national emergency and assumed the power to levy tariffs, introducing uncertainty into global trading by renegin…
7 months, 1 week ago