Broken Law
By American Constitution Society
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Ever feel like the law is stacked against you? It probably is. Broken Law speaks truth to power in discussing how our laws and legal system serve the few at the expense of the many. This is where law meets real life. Hosted by the staff of the American Constitution Society, we reckon with the origins of our legal system, interview people on the frontlines of the progressive legal movement, and chat about necessary legal reforms to restore our democratic legitimacy and improve the lives of all people.
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Episode 202: SCOTUS Term Refresher
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Episode 201: Corruption of and Through the Pardon Power
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May 26, 2026 |
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Episode 200: Never Give Up
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May 12, 2026 |
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Episode 199: Democracy Needs Heroes
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Episode 198: The Fight to Free DC
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Episode 197: People v. The Court
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Episode 196: Politicized Mergers as a Threat to the Rule of Law
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Episode 195: Bringing the Constitution to the Classroom
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Episode 194: How Close to Autocracy Are We?
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Episode 193: Navigating The Maze of Our Immigration System
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Episode 192: One Year of Trump's Chokehold on Free Speech
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Episode 191: New Year, New Leadership at ACS
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Episode 190: Defending Immigrant Speech
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Episode 189: 'Stand Up Now': Lessons Learned on the Ground in Chicago
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Episode 188: Carrying the Day: Reordering Legal Values Toward Indigenous Rights in Sacred Sites
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Episode 187: Trump's Threats of a Third Term and the 22nd Amendment
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Episode 186: DEI and the First Amendment
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Episode 185: So You're Thinking of Running for Office...
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Episode 184: On the Merits - A Preview of the 2025-2026 SCOTUS Term
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Episode 183: Circling Back
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Episode 182: Waging Lawfare Against Democracy
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Episode 181: AI and Health Equity
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Episode 180: The Voting Rights Act at 60
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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Episode 179: "Active Participants in Our Own Liberation"
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Episode 178: 'Irreparable Harm': A Supreme Court Term Review
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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Episode 177: The Legal System's Role in Political Violence
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Episode 176: Checks and Balances Upside Down
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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Episode 175: Defending Academic Freedom
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May 27, 2025 |
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Episode 174: The New Civil War Over Reproduction
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May 13, 2025 |
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Episode 173: The First 100 Days
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Episode 172: A "Bloodless Coup" Underway in North Carolina
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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Episode 171: Taking DOGE to Court
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Episode 170: Public Policy and Religious Exemptions Collide Again, and Again, at SCOTUS
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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Episode 169: We Are in a Constitutional Crisis
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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Episode 168: Confronting the War on Immigrants
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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Episode 167: TikTok, Adult Content, and the First Amendment's Big Month at the Court
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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Episode 166: What's Next for DEI?
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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Episode 165: Judging the Failure of Constitutional Theory
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Episode 164: Holiday Reading Wishlist
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Episode 163: Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: How Trump Will Move To Roll Back Protections Under Federal Law
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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Episode 162: The Threat of a National Abortion Ban in All but Name
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Episode 161: Can’t Stop. Won’t Stop. Judicial Confirmations Post-Election
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Episode 160: What to Expect When You're Expecting Election Results
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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Episode 159: The Relationship Between Guns and Democracy
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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Episode 158: The Start of a New SCOTUS Term and the End of the 2024 Election
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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Episode 157: The Case for Court Reform
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Episode 156: Protecting Workers on Labor Day and Every Day
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Episode 155: Livin' On a Prayer As States Push Church Into Classrooms
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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Episode 154: The Court's Breaking Point
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Episode 153: Powering the Polls
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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Episode 152: The Impact of AI on Elections and Multiracial Democracy
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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Episode 151: The Fraud of Originalism and a Progressive Alternative
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Episode 150: What’s All the Fuss About Antitrust?
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Episode 149: The Promise of Title IX
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May 28, 2024 |
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Episode 148: Uncovering the Truth About Discrimination in Jury Selection
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May 14, 2024 |
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Episode 147: "Rightfully Complicit"
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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Episode 146: Abortion, Courts, Elections, and You
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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Episode 145: Insurrection on the Docket
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Episode 144: Protecting Performers in a New Age of AI
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Episode 143: Misogyny and the Law
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Episode 142: Radical Reparations
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Episode 141: The Electoral College's Past, Present, and Future (Part II of Episode 137 - Is the ECA Prepared for 2024?)
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Episode 140: The Relentless Attack on Government as We Know It
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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Episode 139: Will SCOTUS Close the Courthouse Door to Immigrants?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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Episode 138: Two Big Ticket Items for 2024
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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Episode 137: Is the ECA Prepared for 2024? Part I
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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Episode 136: 2023 Wrap Up
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Episode 135: What a Year for Labor!
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Episode 134: Red Courts, Blue Courts, and AI
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Episode 133: Taking Up Section 3 of the 14th Amendment
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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Episode 132: Optional Ethics
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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Episode 131: How to Advance Workplace DEI Post SFFA
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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Episode 130: SCOTUS Confronts a Mess of Its Own Making
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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Episode 129: One Year Out from Election Day 2024
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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Episode 128: How Campaign Funding Affects Judicial Decision Making
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Episode 127: The Persecution of a State Supreme Court Justice
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Episode 126: Why We Should All Be Space Lawyers
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Episode 125: The Psychological Torture of the Death Penalty
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Episode 124: Previewing the New SCOTUS Term
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Episode 123: Are Our Elections Ready for AI?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Episode 122: Lessons from FDR's Court
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Episode 121: The Strife Over a Single State Supreme Court Seat
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Episode 120: Hot Labor Summer!
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Episode 119: Can the Law Keep Up with Climate Science?
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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Episode 118: When Does Criticism Become Witness Tampering?
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Episode 117: Where Is the Free Speech Breaking Point?
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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Episode 116: Watch These Spaces
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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Episode 115: They Are Practicing Rewriting the Constitution
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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Episode 114: Are You Being Surveilled at Work?
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Episode 113: Packed, Partisan, and Supremely Powerful
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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Episode 112: SCOTUS Greenlights Discrimination
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Episode 111: What Comes After Affirmative Action?
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Episode 110: SCOTUS Keeps the Innocent Incarcerated
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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Episode 109: A Win for Tribal Sovereignty
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Episode 108: Part Indictment, Part Voting Rights
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Episode 107: SCOTUS Strikes a Blow to Workers' Rights
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Episode 106: SCOTUS Trashes the Clean Water Act
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Episode 105: TN Rep. Pearson and Our 2023 Mid-Year Review
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May 30, 2023 |
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Episode 104: BONUS EPISODE - Debt Crisis
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May 26, 2023 |
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Episode 103: Bradley Whitford Talks Courts
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May 23, 2023 |
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Episode 102: Shadow Docket Power Grab
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May 16, 2023 |
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Episode 101: Is the Law Ready for ChatGPT?
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May 09, 2023 |
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Episode 100: The Making of These Nine Black Robes
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May 02, 2023 |
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Episode 99: Mifepristone and Judicial Whiplash
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Episode 98: Unpacking the Child Labor Crisis
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Episode 97: Countering Florida's War on CRT
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Episode 96: The Campaign to Erase Trans People from Public Life
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Episode 95: Why The ERA Is More Important Than Ever
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Episode 94: When Forced Birth Becomes a Banality
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Episode 93: How Powerful Should America's Chief Executive Be?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Episode 92: Student Loans, SCOTUS, and All that Talk of Standing
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Episode 91: The Supreme Court Has an Ethics Problem
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Episode 90: Pulling the Curtain Back on the Anti-Abortion Movement
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Episode 89: Section 230 Goes to the Supreme Court
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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Episode 88: Closing the Justice Gap
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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Episode 87: Is Dobbs a Canary in the Coal Mine?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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Episode 86: Building an Equitable Economy
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Episode 85: Pedal to the Metal on Judicial Confirmations
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Episode 84: All Eyes on DOJ
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Episode 83: The Jan. 6th Select Committee Is Done. Now What?
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Episode 82: Dobbs and Judges, Summing Up 2022
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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Episode 81: Pitting the First Amendment Against LGBTQ+ Rights
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Episode 80: A Radical Legal Fiction
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Episode 79: What the Crypto?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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Episode 78: Election Debrief, Part II
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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Episode 77: Post Election Debrief, Part I
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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Episode 76: SCOTUS Threatens Much of Indian Law
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Episode 75: Packed SCOTUS Takes Aim at Race-Conscious Laws, Again
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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Episode 74: Health Justice after Covid
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Episode 73: Dear Voters, Don't Sleep on These Races
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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Episode 72: Cutting Through the Noise on Election Law
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Episode 71: The Voting Rights Act Is on Life Support
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Episode 70: Bracing for the Supreme Court's New Term
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Episode 69: An Unjust Bargain
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Episode 68: The Constitution Is in Jeopardy
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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Episode 67: Sex, Gender Identity, and the Constitution
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Episode 66: Dear Senate, Please Prioritize Judges
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Episode 65: The Intentional Effort to Toxify Public Education
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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Episode 64: Dobbs, Kansas, and Emerging Abortion Trends
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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Episode 63: The ADA Takes on Voter Suppression
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Episode 62: Lessons Learned from Elections Abroad
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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Episode 61: Catching Up on All Things January 6th
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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Episode 60: Yet Another Supreme Court Power Grab
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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Episode 59: 2022 Supreme Court Wrap-Up
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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Episode 58: The Supreme Court's Religious Agenda
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Jul 12, 2022 |
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Episode 57: The Chaos of a Post-Roe America
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Episode 56: Takeaways from the January 6th Select Committee's Public Hearings
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Jun 28, 2022 |
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Episode 55: What Is Happening? 2022 Mid-Year Check-in
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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Episode 54: Preparing for Abortion Surveillance in a Post-Roe World
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Episode 53: Two Years After George Floyd's Murder - What Gives?
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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Episode 52: A Guide to Reforming the Supreme Court
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May 31, 2022 |
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Episode 51: The Domino Effect of Dobbs
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May 24, 2022 |
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Episode 50: Young People vs The Government
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May 17, 2022 |
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Episode 49: Reproductive Rights in Crisis
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May 10, 2022 |
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Episode 48: SCOTUS Just Reinforced Puerto Rico's Separate and Unequal Status
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May 03, 2022 |
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Episode 47: What's Next for the January 6th Select Committee?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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Episode 46: What Did Justice Thomas Know and When?
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Episode 45: Celebrating Judge Jackson's Confirmation
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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Episode 44: Pay Attention to State Courts - and Their Elections
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Episode 43: Just How Broken Is Our Immigration System?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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Episode 42: When Legislatures Race to the Bottom
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Mar 22, 2022 |
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Episode 41: A State Attorney General Does What Exactly?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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Episode 40: How the Law Views the Ukraine Crisis
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Mar 08, 2022 |
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Episode 39: Michigan's Secretary of State Sounds off on Democracy
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Episode 38: Climate Change Goes to Court
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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Episode 37: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Senate Confirmation Process
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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Episode 36: Money, Corruption and Government, Oh My
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Episode 35: The Case for Reparations in the United States
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Episode 34: "You Control the Supreme Court or You Control Nothing"
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Episode 33: The Gun Lobby's Courtship of the Supreme Court
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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Episode 32: We Need to Talk Elections
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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Episode 31: January 6th, One Year Later
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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Episode 30: What Just Happened? Summing up 2021
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Episode 29: State of Democracy, Part III
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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Episode 28: State of Democracy, Part II
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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Episode 27: Roe on the Brink
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Episode 26: State of Democracy, Part I
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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Episode 25: Courts Matter
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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Episode 24: On Native American Land
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Nov 16, 2021 |
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Episode 23: How the World Views the Death Penalty
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Episode 22: Disability Law Is Broken
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Nov 02, 2021 |
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Episode 21: The Case for Supreme Court Reform
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Episode 20: Confronting Harassment within the Federal Judiciary
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Oct 19, 2021 |
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Episode 19: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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Episode 18: Black, Innocent, and Convicted
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Oct 05, 2021 |
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Episode 17: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part III
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Episode 16: Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part II
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Episode 15: The Legal Legacy of 9/11, Part I
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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Episode 14: Can We Save Reproductive Rights?
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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Episode 13: How New Hampshire Abolished the Death Penalty
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Episode 12: Preparing for Redistricting, Bracing for Gerrymandering
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Episode 11: Protecting Workers' Rights in 2021
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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Episode 10: Four Years After Charlottesville
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Episode 9: Why We Need Truth, Racial Healing, and Legal Transformation
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Episode 8: In Pursuit of Trans Liberation
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Jul 27, 2021 |
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Episode 7: Supreme Court Wrap Up
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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Episode 6: The Supreme Court vs Voting Rights
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Episode 5: The Threat of "Originalism"
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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Episode 4: The Separation of Powers versus DOJ Subpoenas
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Episode 3: In Pursuit of Death Penalty Abolition
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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Episode 2: The Impact of Citizens United on Our Democracy
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Episode 1: What is ACS?
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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Episode 0: Welcome to Broken Law
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Jun 01, 2021 |