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Let's Get Excited About The Supreme Court

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Curated by
Emily.boda

Created November 20, 2018

Updated May 03, 2022

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  1. The Essentials

  2. More Perfect

    Sex Appeal

    1Nov 23rd, 201756m 4s
    “Equal protection of the laws” was granted to all persons by the 14th Amendment in 1868. But for nearly a century after that, women had a hard time convincing the courts that they should be allowed to be jurors, lawyers, and bartenders, just th
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  3. More Perfect

    Justice, Interrupted

    1Dec 19th, 201724m 19s
    The rules of oral argument at the Supreme Court are strict: when a justice speaks, the advocate has to shut up.  But a law student noticed that the rules were getting broken again and again — by men.  He and his professor set out to chart an ep
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  4. These Are Also Super Good

  5. More Perfect

    The Architect

    1Dec 7th, 201734m 27s
    On this episode, we revisit Edward Blum, a self-described “legal entrepreneur” and former stockbroker who has become something of a Supreme Court matchmaker: he takes an issue, finds the perfect plaintiff, matches them with lawyers, and helps t
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  6. More Perfect

    The Political Thicket

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    2Jun 10th, 201642m 37s
    The question of how much power the Supreme Court should possess has divided justices over time. But the issue was perhaps never more hotly debated than in Baker v. Carr. On this episode of More Perfect, we talk about the case that pushed one Su

  7. The Expansion Pack

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    The Heist

    1Oct 16th, 201721m 14s
    The Supreme Court may not have been conceptualized as a co-equal branch of the federal government, but it became one as a result of the political maneuvering of Chief Justice John Marshall. The fourth (and longest-serving) chief justice was "a
  9. More Perfect

    Citizens United

    1Nov 2nd, 20171h
    Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission is one of the most polarizing Supreme Court cases of all time. So what is it actually about, and why did the Justices decide the way they did? Justice Anthony Kennedy, often called the “most power
  10. More Perfect

    The Gun Show

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    12Oct 12th, 20171h 10m
    For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers and a recently-repositioned NRA — that insis
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    Kittens Kick The Giggly Blue Robot All Summer

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    1Jul 1st, 201636m 44s
    With the recent passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, there's been a lot of debate about how much power the Supreme Court should really have.We think of the Supreme Court justices as all-powerful beings, issuing momentous rulings from on high. But t

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