Supreme Court Expands Power and FTC Sues...

Antitrust law expert Harry First, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses the landmark verdict against Live Nation. Then constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law discusses Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s apology and the shadow docket. And former federal pro ... Show More

Alison Dreizen, General Counsel of the American Historical Association, discusses its suit, filed along with American Oversight, to get a court to declare the Presidential Records Act constitutional and to stop President Trump from destroying White House records. Then Erik Larson ... Show More

Constitutional law expert David Super, a professor at Georgetown Law, discusses appellate court judges trading barbs over the weight to give Supreme Court emergency orders and the rumors that Justice Samuel Alito will retire. June Grasso hosts.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv ... Show More

Last term, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, limited the EPA’s ability to regulate carbon emissions, and kicked gun issues back to the state level, overruling years of precedent and going against public opinion. Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show supervising producer ... Show More

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas made headlines when it was revealed that he had not disclosed his luxury vacations with Republican donor Harlan Crow. But this is just the tip of the conflict of interest iceberg for the Supreme Court. Nicole breaks down the truly shocking et ... Show More

In a hearing today, the Senate Judiciary Committee took on the Supreme Court’s lack of ethics standards. ProPublica’s Joshua Kaplan explains how his reporting on Justice Clarence Thomas’s history of accepting gifts from a conservative megadonor led to increased scrutiny of the co ... Show More

An in-depth, but somewhat snarky, look at the Trump administration’s success in packing the courts with right-wing, Federalist Society judges. Gertner, a Harvard Law professor, and Toobin, CNN chief legal analyst, discuss some of the most cynical, activist decisions by the Robert ... Show More

<p>The latest term of the U.S. Supreme Court will include blockbuster cases on two of the most contentious topics in American life: abortion and gun rights.</p><p>The cases come at a time when the court has a majority of Republican appointees and as it battles accusations of poli ... Show More

Your morning briefing. The news you need in just 15 minutes. On today's podcast: 1) Government Shutdown Nears as Lawmakers Make Incremental Gains 2) Trump Found Liable for Fraud in NY Attorney General’s Case 3) Interview with FTC Chief Suing Amazon  See omnystudio.com/listener fo ... Show More

Sean Illing talks with Harvard Law professor Nikolas Bowie about the U.S. Supreme Court's recently-concluded term, which produced landmark opinions restricting the power of the EPA, expanding gun rights, and overturning Roe v. Wade. They discuss how the conservative court's argum ... Show More

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor discusses her children's book "Just Ask!" and the reality of being a member of the Supreme Court. Originally aired September 2019. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for priv ... Show More