Supreme Inequality
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English - June 24, 2020 09:00 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsNews Government politics voting campaignfinance democracy justice law massincarceration privacy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In recent years, the Supreme Court has empowered moneyed interests to wield disproportionate influence in elections, gutted the Voting Rights Act, and upheld President Trump’s travel ban. These decisions fit a troubling, decades-long pattern, argues journalist Adam Cohen. He talks with NYU Law professor Melissa Murray about his new book, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America, and his finding that since the Nixon era, the Court has done little to protect the rights of the poor and disadvantaged.