"Not That Bad" is Still Bad!

In the third installment of our Hot Supreme Court Reform September series, Leah sits down with Daphna Renan and Nikolas Bowie to discuss how judicial supremacy became the default operating system of the federal government, and how limiting the Supreme Court’s power to decline to ... Show More

Kate, Leah and Melissa hop on to break down the Supreme Court’s decision to block the Trump administration’s Postal Service regulation announcing it would not deliver mail-in ballots unless states adopted a bunch of last-minute, unnecessary, burdensome, and impossible policies go ... Show More

Melissa is joined by guest co-host Rashad Robinson, political strategist, media advocate, and former president of Color Of Change, to run through last week’s legal news, which involves SCOTUS’s latest shadow docket shenanigans, campaign finance fights, and Missouri Republican eff ... Show More

Late spring/early summer is always a busy time for the Supreme Court, but this year, it’s not just the controversial decisions that are making news. The justices themselves have been in headlines — for all the wrong reasons. Kara and an expert panel discuss the ethical lapses, re ... Show More

Professor Katherine Franke, Director of the Center for Gender & Sexuality Law at Columbia Law School, discusses the implications of the Supreme Court’s ruling that a Christian website designer has a free-speech right to refuse to create wedding pages for same-sex couples. Labor & ... Show More

This week on Monday’s premium Bad Faith podcast, I spoke to two constitutional law professors about what’s really going on with the leaked Dobbs draft overturning Roe and Casey. Tonight, let’s talk about 1) the protest in front of Justice Kavanaugh’s house (are they ethical?), 2) ... Show More

Tim, Ian, and Lydia join former congressional candidate and leader of the Red Renaissance PAC Kimberly Klacik to discuss Chauvin's attempt to get a fair trial, the unjust freedom of Portland rioters, the Louisville diner who took the law into his own hands when BLM interrupted hi ... Show More

Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Elizabeth Wydra, President of the Constitutional Accountability Center, a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to the project of using the original text, purpose and history of the Constitution to achieve progressive outcomes. Together, t ... Show More

This week Erin Ryan and Alyssa Mastromonaco talk about the latest whiplash with Texas’s abortion ban, Wisconsin breweries helping parents sue schools over anti-mask mandates, CA Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia pioneering women’s rights in the state and the chaos in Idaho politics. ... Show More

Emily, John and David discuss Russia’s war crimes; Disney’s reaction to “don’t say gay”; and Amazon’s first union.Here are some notes and references from this week’s show:Andrew Exum for The Atlantic: “The Russian Military Has Descended Into Inhumanity”Noam Scheiber for The New Y ... Show More

Dara Lind is joined by Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) to discuss the major decisions handed down by the Supreme Court this term. They talk about the Court’s emphasis on historical narrative, its move away from settled legal doctrine, and the politicization o ... Show More