Will No-Abortion States Start Imprisoning Women?
On Today's Show:Shefali Luthra, a healthcare reporter at the 19th, discusses new FDA rules allowing pharmacies to distribute abortion pills, how red states are responding to underground pill movements,...
View ArticleSCOTUS To Decide Student Loan Forgiveness
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard two arguments over whether President Biden has the authority to forgive millions of dollars in federal student loan debt. These legal challenges come after Biden...
View ArticleLegal Affairs: SCOTUS, Abortion Pills and Rupert Murdoch
Mark Joseph Stern, senior writer at Slate covering courts and the law, has reported that a single federal judge in Texas could outlaw abortion pills nationwide. And, in other legal news, Fox News owner...
View ArticleHow A Texas Judge Could Rule On Abortion Access Nationwide
A federal judge in Texas could rule soon on the FDA's approval of an abortion drugs that could impact access around the country.On Today's Show:Sarah McCammon, national correspondent for NPR, reports...
View ArticleMifepristone On Trial: Elie Mystal On The New Abortion Access Emergency In...
With the medication abortion drug mifepristone currently going through a pair of legal challenges, we explore the courts' role in regulating medicine.On Today's Show:Elie Mystal, justice correspondent...
View ArticleAbortion Rights Update: Mifepristone In Court, And Florida's New 6-Week Ban
In the wake of SCOTUS's Dobbs decision, new questions about legislative and judicial barriers to abortion access have recently come to the forefront of our national conversation.On Today's Show:Jessica...
View ArticleEmily Bazelon On Clarence Thomas’ Ethics And The SCOTUS Abortion Pill Test
As the news develops on the mifepristone court cases, and on Justice Clarence Thomas's financial involvement with an influential GOP donor, a court watcher breaks down the stories.On Today's Show:Emily...
View ArticleThe Latest on the Abortion Pill Case
Jennifer Rodgers, adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law, lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School and CNN Legal Analyst, breaks down the latest on the abortion pill mifepristone case and...
View ArticleMonday Morning Politics; Shoring Up the Free Press; New York Bans Native...
Coming up on today's show:Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of, most recently, Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018),...
View ArticleThe Preamble: Introducing More Perfect Season 4
To kick off the new season, host Julia Longoria returns to high school, where she first fell in love with the Supreme Court. She was a star on her high school’s nationally-ranked “Constitution team”...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court v. Peyote
More than 30 years ago, a Native American man named Al Smith was fired for ingesting peyote at a religious ceremony. When his battle made it to the Supreme Court, the decision set off a thorny debate...
View ArticleThe Experiment Introduces More Perfect
Host Julia Longoria is back with a new season of More Perfect, from WNYC Studios.We’re taught the Supreme Court was designed to be above the fray of politics. But at a time when partisanship seeps into...
View ArticleClarence X
To many Americans, Clarence Thomas makes no sense. For more than 30 years on the Court, he seems to have been on a mission — to take away rights that benefit Black people. As a young man, though,...
View ArticleWNYC's Supreme Court Pod More Perfect's New Season
Julia Longoria, host of WNYC's More Perfect, talks about the new season of More Perfect, which examines history to help us understand how the Supreme Court of today came to be, including this week's...
View ArticleA 'More Perfect' Look At Justice Clarence Thomas And Race
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas knows that often, his legal philosophies put him at odds with wide swaths of Black political thought. On Today's Show:Julia Longoria, host of WNYC's More Perfect,...
View ArticleThe Court’s Reporters
Unlike other branches of government, the Supreme Court operates with almost no oversight. No cameras are allowed in the courtroom, no binding code of ethics, and records of their activities are...
View ArticleThe Shadow Docket
The Supreme Court has increasingly made decisions by way of the "shadow docket," emergency rulings that remain outside the public view. Stephen Vladeck, University of Texas School of Law professor and...
View ArticleReal World Debt Ceiling Consequences; NYC's Right to Shelter; SCOTUS Shadow...
On today's show:Jeff Stein, White House economics reporter for The Washington Post, explains what will actually happen in the U.S. if the government hits the debt ceiling and shares her analysis of how...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Surgeon General Vivek Murthy; The Brooklyn Bridge at...
Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issues a warning about the lack of data on social media's effects on developing brains (First) |...
View ArticleThe Political Thicket Reprise
This week, we revisit one of the most important Supreme Court cases you’ve probably never heard of: Baker v. Carr, a redistricting case from the 1960s, which challenged the justices to consider what...
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